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![Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1703329310l/23692271._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 13785 times as history)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,079,649 ratings — published 2011
![Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1453215833l/1842._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 11949 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 420,580 ratings — published 1997
![A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1494279423l/2767._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 8516 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 248,010 ratings — published 1980
![The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1583433024l/397483._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 7951 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 700,432 ratings — published 2003
![1776](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1306787560l/1067._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 7415 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 234,157 ratings — published 1975
![A Short History of Nearly Everything](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1433086293l/21._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 6756 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 394,482 ratings — published 2003
![SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1470421195l/28789711._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 6395 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 67,683 ratings — published 2015
![The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1331223772l/767171._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 6327 times as history)
avg rating 4.21 — 136,778 ratings — published 1960
![1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1545238592l/39020._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 6125 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,881 ratings — published 2005
![Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1696884539l/193388249._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 5403 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 378,203 ratings — published 2017
![Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1676201263l/2199._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 5396 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 189,295 ratings — published 2005
![Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1604058784l/76401._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 5367 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 94,794 ratings — published 1970
![Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327861115l/8664353._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 5313 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 956,980 ratings — published 2010
![The Guns of August](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1617037342l/40779082._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 4975 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 78,196 ratings — published 1962
![John Adams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1478144278l/2203._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 4813 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 364,670 ratings — published 2001
![In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327864303l/9938498._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 4662 times as history)
avg rating 3.88 — 205,814 ratings — published 2011
![Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1530716694l/40718726._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 4658 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 75,624 ratings — published 2004
![Alexander Hamilton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1436131915l/16130._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 4530 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 185,058 ratings — published 2004
![Silk Roads](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1472636067l/25812847._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 4202 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,359 ratings — published 2015
![The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1433354252l/8171378._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 4200 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 105,449 ratings — published 2010
![Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1408923747l/22551730._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3989 times as history)
avg rating 4.12 — 148,538 ratings — published 2015
![King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1532716127l/40961621._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3930 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 61,353 ratings — published 1998
![A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403200553l/568236._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 3900 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 41,666 ratings — published 1978
![The Histories](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1399225547l/1362._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3871 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,722 ratings — published -430
![The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327878144l/6493208._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3846 times as history)
avg rating 4.12 — 751,387 ratings — published 2010
![Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1468760805l/31138556._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3655 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 258,781 ratings — published 2015
![Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1255592395l/296662._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3605 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 70,200 ratings — published 1995
![The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1407110918l/25019._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3532 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 118,151 ratings — published 1998
![Salt: A World History](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414608893l/2715._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3488 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 72,800 ratings — published 2002
![The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1722528916l/51187948._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3415 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 121,506 ratings — published 2020
![The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348687411l/95784._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3367 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 45,176 ratings — published 1997
![The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1496007867l/31409135._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3269 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,730 ratings — published 2016
![Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1441419222l/475._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3167 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 72,173 ratings — published 2004
![Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388247701l/42389._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3135 times as history)
avg rating 4.43 — 129,413 ratings — published 1992
![Hiroshima](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1657555929l/27323._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3096 times as history)
avg rating 4.03 — 82,442 ratings — published 1946
![History of the Peloponnesian War](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1422072332l/261243._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3054 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,598 ratings — published -411
![Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1391329559l/139069._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 3005 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 — 138,406 ratings — published 1959
![Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1653156803l/10335318._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2954 times as history)
avg rating 4.21 — 76,486 ratings — published 2011
![Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1537315266l/40163119._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2951 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 114,554 ratings — published 2018
![Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1597267568l/51152447._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2924 times as history)
avg rating 4.53 — 144,125 ratings — published 2020
![In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1335902168l/17780._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2900 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 110,521 ratings — published 2000
![The Art of War](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630683326l/10534._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2884 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 — 507,257 ratings — published -400
![The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1354683116l/16158542._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2871 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 330,344 ratings — published 2013
![The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1659407155l/61714633._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2842 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 130,258 ratings — published 2023
![Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388462711l/4806._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2766 times as history)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,377 ratings — published 1995
![The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1430524696l/36086._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2743 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 53,507 ratings — published 2006
![Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320470983l/91017._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2720 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,283 ratings — published 2003
![Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1408925996l/45546._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2678 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 63,556 ratings — published 1996
![At Home: A Short History of Private Life](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1372727082l/7507825._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2634 times as history)
avg rating 3.99 — 95,102 ratings — published 2010
![The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1435759367l/19400._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2605 times as history)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,811 ratings — published 1776
![Chuck Palahniuk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
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