The most popular history books of 2024

History books explain how the world came to be the way it is. Empires, revolutions, wars, inventions and everyday lives are all here, from the ancient world to recent decades. Whether you want a sweeping overview or one remarkable year in detail, you will find narrative history that reads like a story. This list shows the ones first published in 2024.

Cover of Maurice and Maralyn

Maurice and Maralyn

Sophie Elmhirst

Published 2024

254 pages

Cover of An Unfinished Love Story A Personal History of the 1960s

An Unfinished Love Story A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Published 2024

480 pages

Cover of Patriot A Memoir

Patriot A Memoir

Alexei Navalny, Alexéi Navalni

Published 2024

496 pages

Cover of We Will Be Jaguars

We Will Be Jaguars

Nemonte Nenquimo, Mitch Anderson

2024 · 2026 edition

384 pages

Cover of Filterworld How Algorithms Flattened Culture

Filterworld How Algorithms Flattened Culture

Kyle Chayka

2024 · 2025 edition

304 pages

Cover of The Unclaimed

The Unclaimed

Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans

Published 2024

336 pages

Cover of Tripped

Tripped

Norman Ohler

2024 · 2026 edition

240 pages

Cover of The Long and Winding Road

The Long and Winding Road

Lesley Pearse

Published 2024

351 pages

Cover of I Seek a Kind Person My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

I Seek a Kind Person My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

Julian Borger

Published 2024

285 pages

Cover of Dead Weight

Dead Weight

Emmeline Clein

2024 · 2025 edition

288 pages

Cover of How the World Made the West A 4,000-year History

How the World Made the West A 4,000-year History

Josephine Quinn

Published 2024

562 pages

Cover of Unstoppable Us, Volume 2

Unstoppable Us, Volume 2

Yuval Noah Harari

Published 2024

208 pages

Cover of Ebury Press The Other Olympians.

Ebury Press The Other Olympians.

Michael Waters

Published 2024

368 pages

Cover of The Shortest History of Italy

The Shortest History of Italy

Ross King

Published 2024

272 pages

Cover of How They Broke Britain

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

Published 2024

416 pages

Cover of Carrie Carolyn Coco

Carrie Carolyn Coco

Sarah Gerard

Published 2024

368 pages

Cover of Get It Together

Get It Together

Jesse Watters

Published 2024

336 pages

Cover of Kubrick

Kubrick

Robert P. Kolker

Published 2024

656 pages

Cover of Sister Viv

Sister Viv

Grantlee Kieza

2024 · 2026 edition

352 pages

Cover of Missing Persons Or, My Grandmother's Secrets

Missing Persons Or, My Grandmother's Secrets

Clair Wills

2024 · 2025 edition

208 pages

Cover of The Bluestockings

The Bluestockings

Susannah Gibson

Published 2024

352 pages

Cover of Tripping on Utopia

Tripping on Utopia

Benjamin Breen

2024 · 2025 edition

384 pages

Cover of The Invention of Good and Evil A World History of Morality

The Invention of Good and Evil A World History of Morality

Hanno Sauer

Published 2024

406 pages

Cover of LatinoLand A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

LatinoLand A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

Marie Arana

2024 · 2025 edition

576 pages

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