History Challenge

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21 participants (170 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read as many non-fiction history books as you can through the year.

Challenge Books

All books added
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

How to Hide an Empire

Daniel Immerwahr

528 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
Night by Elie Wiesel

Night

The Night Trilogy #1

Elie Wiesel

4 hours, 22 minutes • audio • 1958

nonfiction history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced
Stories of America's National Parks by Megan Kate Nelson

Stories of America's National Parks

The Great Courses #80730

Megan Kate Nelson

5 hours, 52 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction nature travel
Pertinax: The Son of a Slave Who Became Roman Emperor by Simon Elliott

Pertinax: The Son of a Slave Who Became Roman Emperor

Simon Elliott

7 hours, 11 minutes • audio • 2020 user-added

nonfiction biography history challenging informative tense slow-paced
Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan by Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Friedrich Meinecke-Institut Stefan Rinke, Stefan Rinke

Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan

Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Friedrich Meinecke-Institut Stefan Rinke, Stefan Rinke

12 hours, 43 minutes • audio • 2021 user-added

nonfiction history
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Emma Southon

11 hours, 12 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction history dark funny informative medium-paced
The Second World War by Antony Beevor

The Second World War

Antony Beevor

880 pages • digital • 2012

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
Prevail Until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II by Alexandra Lohse

Prevail Until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II

Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History

Alexandra Lohse

7 hours, 31 minutes • audio • 2021 user-added

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
Origins: The Search for Our Prehistoric Past by Frank H. T. Rhodes

Origins: The Search for Our Prehistoric Past

Frank H. T. Rhodes

10 hours, 7 minutes • audio

nonfiction science informative reflective medium-paced
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade by Anthony Kaldellis

Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade

Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture

Anthony Kaldellis

15 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2017 user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced