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Back to School History Reads: September 2025

Looking for your next history read? Need a book for back to school season? Check out some of our favorite new history books publishing in September 2025.

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

New York Times bestselling author of Les Parisiennes and That Woman: A Life of Wallis Simpson now examines how a disparate band of young girls struggled to overcome differences and little musical knowledge to please the often-sadistic Nazi overseers.

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The Eternal Forest

In the tradition of The Yellow House and Half Broke Horses, a memoir of the Cuban diaspora that follows one family’s exile from the island, through a lyrical exploration of memory, cultural mythology, and the history of Cuban-American relations.

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Wild for Austen

Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser.

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A Thousand Ways to Die

A deeply personal exploration of the generational impact of guns on the Black experience in America.

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The Stalin Affair

Now in paperback. From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin’s mercurial, explosive approach to diplomacy during four turbulent years of World War II.

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Confronting Evil

By the #1 bestselling history author in the world, Bill O’Reilly: A dramatic confrontation with good, evil, and the worst people who ever lived.

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Killing the SS

Now in paperback. Killing the SS is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled “Nazi hunters.” Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, tracking down the SS fugitives and bringing them to justice, which often meant death.

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Q

Now in paperback. Combining biography, essay, cultural history, dream diary, travelog, and satire, Craig Brown—the bestselling and award-winning author of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret and Hello Goodbye Hello—presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of this most public yet most private of sovereigns.

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The Black Utopians

Now in paperback. A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia—and sought to transform their lives.

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