Best-Selling New Civil War Books of 2025

According to Civil War Monitor are best-selling books on the Civil War published in 2025 through October:

  1. Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster, by Gerri Willis (Harper) $28.99
  2. Midnight on the Potomac, by Scott Ellsworth (Dutton) $32
  3. Somewhere Toward Freedom, by Bennett Parten (Simon & Schuster) $29.99
  4. 1861: The Lost Peace, by Jay Winik (Grand Central Publishing) $35
  5. Lincoln’s Peace, by Michael Vorenberg (Knopf) $35
  6. Righteous Strife, by Richard Carwardine (Knopf) $35
  7. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Volume Two, by A. Wilson Greene (UNC Press) $45
  8. Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery, by Richard Kreitner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $32
  9. The Rialto in Richmond, by Joseph P. Farrell (Adventures Unlimited Press) $19.95
  10. The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign, by Jon M. Nese and Jeffrey J. Harding (The History Press) $24.99
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Author: Patrick Young