Looking for your next history read? Check out our favorite new history books publishing in May 2025.
Melting Point
Longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, this dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long-lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas.
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American Bloods
Now in paperback: a history of a family spanning centuries and continents—one that unfolds into a new portrait of America.
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The Last Secret Agent
After decades of silence, the last surviving World War II spy operating in the deadly world of Nazi France, reveals the real, untold story of her time as a secret agent.
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Whack Job
A brilliant and bloody examination of the axe’s foundational role in human history, from prehistoric violence, to war and executions, to newspaper headlines and popular culture.
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By the Second Spring
An intimate, affecting account of life during wartime, told through the lives that have been shattered.
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Erased
The new book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers.
In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy.
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Project Mind Control
The inside story of the CIA’s secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.
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Peace Is a Shy Thing
The first literary biography of Tim O’Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original interviews.
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The Hamilton Scheme
Now in paperback—how Alexander Hamilton embraced American oligarchy to jumpstart American prosperity.
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When the Clock Broke
Now in paperback—a revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era, and their dark legacy today.
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