Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

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Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonFounding Brothers by Joseph J. EllisAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonWhat Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker HoweNo Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Winners: History
106 books — 110 voters
Blood & Beauty by Sarah DunantThe Borgia Bride by Jeanne KalogridisThe Family by Mario PuzoPoison by Sara PooleMadonna of the Seven Hills by Jean Plaidy
Best Books about the Borgia Family
69 books — 170 voters

The Chronicle of Theophanes by Harry TurtledoveFourteen Byzantine Rulers by Michael PsellusThe Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos (Translated Texts f... by SebeosMaurice's Strategikon by MauriceGenesios, On the Reigns of the Emperors by Joseph Genesius
Byzantine / Medieval Roman Primary Sources in Translation
104 books — 9 voters
Istanbul by Orhan PamukCrescent and Star by Stephen KinzerMy Name Is Red by Orhan PamukThe Ottoman Empire by Halil İnalcıkModernleşen Türkiye'nin Tarihi by Erik-Jan Zürcher
Best Books On Turkey (Turkish Society, History, and Culture)
178 books — 51 voters

Between Two Worlds by Cemal KafadarAn Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1600 - ... by Suraiya FaroqhiAn Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1600 by Halil İnalcıkThe Ottoman Empire by Halil İnalcıkThe Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale
Ottoman history
69 books — 14 voters
The Secret History by ProcopiusFourteen Byzantine Rulers by Michael PsellusByzantium by Judith HerrinThe Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven RuncimanThe Alexiad by Anna Comnena
Medieval Roman Empire
251 books — 30 voters

Confessions by Augustine of HippoCity of God by Augustine of HippoThe Later Roman Empire by Ammianus MarcellinusThe History of the Church by EusebiusShakuntala by Kālidāsa
Best Books 4th Century
56 books — 104 voters
White Eagle, Red Star by Norman DaviesThe Battle for Spain by Antony BeevorThe Twilight of the U.S. Cavalry by Lucian K. Truscott Jr.Phoenix Triumphant by E.R. HootonAfrican Assignment by Francis Wilfred de Guingand
Between the Wars
104 books — 14 voters

1491 by Charles C. MannCollapse by Jared DiamondGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. AnthonyAfter the Ice by Steven Mithen
Popular Archaeology and Paleoanthropology
479 books — 171 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe Histories by HerodotusHow the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas CahillMayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Enemies of Rome by Philip Matyszak
History Books (Pre-1650)
58 books — 8 voters

History of the Peloponnesian War by ThucydidesThe Art of War by Sun TzuGhost on the Throne by James RommThe Greek and Macedonian Art of War by Frank E. AdcockThe Conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius Caesar
Ancient Warfare
48 books — 14 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesThe Twelve Caesars by SuetoniusPompeii by Robert Harris
Best Books About Ancient Rome
737 books — 1,081 voters


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