History Published in Year: 2025
1. 
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization
by:
Tim Queeney
3.89 avg rating — 38 ratings 2. 
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools 4.02 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by:
John Green
4.43 avg rating — 83,639 ratings 4. 
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
by:
Buddy Levy
4.18 avg rating — 866 ratings 
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The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance
by:
Bernd Roeck
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 8. 
Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
by:
Vanessa Taylor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 9. 
Eric Bloodaxe The Viking: 'I Shall Die Laughing'
by:
John Sadler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 10. 
Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean
by:
Miranda Kaufmann
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 11. 
The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons: Three Kings and a History of Britain at the Dawn of the Viking Age
by:
Max Adams
3.41 avg rating — 29 ratings 11. 
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History
by:
Nicola Clark
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,131 ratings 13. 
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
by:
Paul E. Lovejoy
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 14. 
Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe's Medieval Monuments
by:
Diana Darke
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 14. 
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
by:
Nancy Goldstone
4.36 avg rating — 270 ratings 
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
by:
Moudhy Al-Rashid
4.17 avg rating — 196 ratings 18. 
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
by:
Toby Wilkinson
4.11 avg rating — 176 ratings 19. 
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
by:
Zeinab Badawi
4.03 avg rating — 1,642 ratings 
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 803 ratings
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Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict
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John Man
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Inside the President's Team: Family, Service, and the Gerald Ford Presidency
by:
Bob Barrett
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings 25. 
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Cities in the Roman Empire (Oxford Handbooks)
by:
Anna Heller
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 31. 
Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival
by:
Chris Horton
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 31. 
From Trenton to Yorktown: Turning Points of the Revolutionary War
by:
John R. Maass
3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings 31. 
King George's War and the Thirty Year Peace: The Third Contest for North America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
by:
James Romm
4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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When the World Closed Its Doors: The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders
by:
Edward Alden
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 31. 
The Four Georges: An Awfully British Kind of Monarchy, 1714-1830
by:
Jeremy Black
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 41. 
Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
by:
Josiah Osgood
3.99 avg rating — 77 ratings 41. 
Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet
by:
Catherine Hanley
4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings 41. 
Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea
by:
Luka Ivan Jukic
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 41. 
Survival From the Skies: Airmen who Fell, Floated, and Walked from Adversity in the Second World War
by:
Colin Pateman
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 41. 
Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War
by:
Minoo Dinshaw
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 41. 
What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife
by:
Robert Garland
3.65 avg rating — 75 ratings 
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The Wars of the Lord: The Puritan Conquest of America's First People 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
by:
Frank Close
4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers
by:
Dawn M. Hadley
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 56. 
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Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
by:
Paul Strathern
3.78 avg rating — 79 ratings 58. 
Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler
by:
Sinclair McKay
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings 60. 
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story
by:
J.P. Mallory
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 61. 
Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War
by:
John Ferling
4.52 avg rating — 64 ratings 62. 
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Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island
by:
Mike Pitts
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 68. 
Liberty's Double-Edged Sword: The Liberum Veto and the Destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Postal Paths: Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Routes – and the People Who Walked Them
by:
Alan Cleaver
4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings 74. 
The Mercian Chronicles: King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918
by:
Max Adams
4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings 
76. 
Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
by:
Mark Synnott
3.89 avg rating — 381 ratings 77. 
Maria Theresa: Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
by:
Richard Bassett
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 78. 
Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso
by:
Sue Roe
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings 
82. 
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
by:
Clay Risen
4.26 avg rating — 626 ratings 83. 
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The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain
by:
Anna Whitelock
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 85. 
The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future
by:
David Rooney
4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings 86. 
The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
88. 
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, 2)
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.67 avg rating — 1,226 ratings 88. 
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Gathering Storm: The Countdown to the Second World War
by:
Michael Jones
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 93. 
First Class Comrades: The Stasi in the Cold War, 1945-1961
by:
J. Boulter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 94. 
Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
by:
Deborah Dwork
3.66 avg rating — 35 ratings 
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Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
