History Challenge

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18 participants (89 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

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

Challenge Books

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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

469 pages • hardcover • 2006

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program by Hal Gold, Yuma Totani

Japan's Infamous Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program

Hal Gold, Yuma Totani

6 hours, 29 minutes • audio • 2019 user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Everything is Tuberculosis

John Green

198 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction health history science hopeful informative reflective fast-paced
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Jeff Guinn

17 hours, 30 minutes • audio • 2017

nonfiction biography history religion true crime dark informative sad slow-paced
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason

How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island

Egill Bjarnason

272 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction essays history travel funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama

336 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction memoir self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

Amity Shlaes

390 pages • 2007

nonfiction economics history politics informative slow-paced
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch

355 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax

The Railway Man

Eric Lomax

294 pages • digital • 1995 user-added

nonfiction biography history emotional slow-paced