Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is an Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University and a Professor of American History. She is also the host of The Last Archive a popular podcast and also a contributor at “The New Yorker.” She has written several books including the international bestseller “These Truths: A History of the United States” that she published in 2018. The novel would make the list of the top ten nonfiction works of the decade by “Time” magazine.

The best place to start is the Pages from History series, the earliest of Jill Lepore's multi-book series: it opens with Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (1999) and runs to 5 books across 1999–2013, ending with The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents (2013). Jill Lepore's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Jill Lepore has 47 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1998 and 2026. 15 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being The Public Square series with 10 books — and 32 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Jill Lepore's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Pages from History (1999–2013, 5 books) and The Public Square (2007–2021, 10 books).

This guide splits Jill Lepore's 47 books into 2 named series and 32 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Public Square (10 books, 2007–2021); Pages from History (5 books, 1999–2013).