The most popular history books of 2026

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history books published in 2026, most popular first.

Diplomacy Ends at Midnight The Last Years of British Hong Kong

Dalena Wright

Published 2026

448 pages

Diplomacy Ends at Midnight The Long Return of Hong Kong to China

Dalena Wright

Published 2026

448 pages

The Expansion of International Society

Hedley Bull, Adam Watson

Published 2026

490 pages

Texas Experiment

Christina Hughes, Anita Chadha, Gene B. Preuss, William Vincent Flores

Published 2026

We Have Ways of Making You Talk Everything You Wanted to Know about the Second World War from the Podcast Experts

James

Published 2026

320 pages

The Logic of Rain A Unique Collection of Japanese Katagami Stencils for Dyeing Kimono Fabrics

Wolfgang Scheppe

Published 2026

320 pages

Paradise of Thorns

Aidan Hartley

Published 2026

336 pages

Eyes of the Fleet Sea Planes in Argentine Navy Service

Ricardo Martin Lezon

Published 2026

124 pages

The Prison Diaries The Rebel Who Founded a Nation

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Published 2026

256 pages

Journey to the Western Front Twenty Years After

R. H. Mottram

Published 2026

304 pages

The Mansion House Fund 1880

David O'Regan

Published 2026

150 pages

Transcending Shadows Transforming Generational Wounds Through Three Generations

Yao Lin

Published 2026

284 pages

Picklemania The Silly Sport that Got Us All Obsessed

Hannah Johns

Published 2026

150 pages

Masculinity, Violence and Power in Modern Russia Men, Guns and Identity

David Gillespie

Published 2026

256 pages

Riverine and Helicopter Warfare in the Vietnam War

David Doyle

Published 2026

248 pages

Henry Wessel

Published 2026

80 pages

Boughton The House, Its People and Its Collections

Richard Buccleuch

Published 2026

264 pages

The Art of the Book Seventy-Five Years of Thames and Hudson

Anna Nyburg

Published 2026

400 pages

Excavations at Tell Brak Uruk & 'Ubaid Periods

David Oates

Published 2026

Invasion 1169

Sean Duffy, Peter Crooks

Published 2026

336 pages

Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future

Laurence Bergreen

Published 2026

464 pages

Russia and Iran Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine

Nicole Grajewski

Published 2026

368 pages

The Sceptic Isle How the British Government Sold the Second World War

Steven Casey

Published 2026

400 pages

Weeping Women La Llorona in Modern Latina and Chicana Lore

Norma E. Cantú, Kathleen Alcala

Published 2026

Diplomacy Ends at Midnight The Last Years of British Hong Kong

Diplomacy Ends at Midnight The Long Return of Hong Kong to China

The Expansion of International Society

Texas Experiment

We Have Ways of Making You Talk Everything You Wanted to Know about the Second World War from the Podcast Experts

The Logic of Rain A Unique Collection of Japanese Katagami Stencils for Dyeing Kimono Fabrics

Paradise of Thorns

Eyes of the Fleet Sea Planes in Argentine Navy Service

The Prison Diaries The Rebel Who Founded a Nation

Journey to the Western Front Twenty Years After

The Mansion House Fund 1880

Transcending Shadows Transforming Generational Wounds Through Three Generations

Picklemania The Silly Sport that Got Us All Obsessed

Masculinity, Violence and Power in Modern Russia Men, Guns and Identity

Riverine and Helicopter Warfare in the Vietnam War

Henry Wessel

Boughton The House, Its People and Its Collections

The Art of the Book Seventy-Five Years of Thames and Hudson

Excavations at Tell Brak Uruk & 'Ubaid Periods

Invasion 1169

Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future

Russia and Iran Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine

The Sceptic Isle How the British Government Sold the Second World War

Weeping Women La Llorona in Modern Latina and Chicana Lore

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