What a year!

Nonfiction that tackles a single, momentous year examining its cultural, political and historical significance to help readers better understand our current lived experience.

Updated April 13, 2026
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1929 : The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
Sorkin, Andrew Ross.
Paper Book
A #1 international bestseller Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 in The Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times One of Barack Obama's favourite books of 2025'One of the best narrative histories I've read'...
Never a dull moment : 1971--the year that rock exploded
Hepworth, David.
Paper Book
*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER* As seen on Apple TV - 1971- The Year That Music Changed Everything The Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same again.
1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus
Mann, Charles C.
Paper Book
The first general and comprehensive history of all of Native America
1666
Rideal, Rebecca.
Paper Book
1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca...
1939 : a people's history of the coming of World War II
Taylor, Fred
Paper Book
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that...
One summer : America, 1927
Bryson, Bill
Paper Book
Bill Bryson travels back in time to summer 1927 in America, the year America stepped out onto the wold stage, and tells a gripping narrative featuring a handful of larger-than-life characters, including Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Herbert Hoover, Babe Ruth, Ernest Hemingway and Henry Ford.
The turning point : 1851-a year that changed Charles Dickens and the world
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert.
Paper Book
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a...
Pandemic 1918 : eyewitness accounts from the greatest medical holocaust in modern history
Arnold, Catharine
Audiobook

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