Amazon Editor's Best History Books of 2025

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20 books
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The Boys in the Light

An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood
Nina Willner, 2025

The Beast in the Clouds

The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
Nathalia Holt, 2025

1929

Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, 2025

We the People

A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore, 2025

The Gales of November

The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon, 2025

Spell Freedom

The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
Elaine Weiss, 2025

The Fate of the Day

The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Rick Atkinson, 2025

JFK: Public, Private, Secret

J. Randy Taraborrelli, 2025

Dark Renaissance

The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Stephen Greenblatt, 2025

History Matters

David McCullough, 2025

The Zorg

A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Siddharth Kara, 2025

The Traitors Circle

The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany—and the Spy Who Betrayed Them
Jonathan Freedland, 2025

Realm of Ice and Sky

Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
Buddy Levy, 2025

Miracles and Wonder

The Historical Mystery of Jesus
Elaine Pagels, 2025

Dinner with King Tut

How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Sam Kean, 2025

Medicine River

A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
Mary Annette Pember, 2025

Clodia of Rome

Champion of the Republic
Douglas Boin, 2025

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

Moudhy Al-Rashid, 2025

Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, 2025

Strangers in the Land

Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Michael Luo, 2025