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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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 (Paperback)
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 (Paperback)
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7951 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 700,432 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7415 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 234,157 ratings — published 1975
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 6756 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 394,482 ratings — published 2003
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6327 times as history)
avg rating 4.21 — 136,778 ratings — published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5403 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 378,203 ratings — published 2017
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
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 (Paperback)
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5313 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 956,980 ratings — published 2010
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4975 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 78,196 ratings — published 1962
John Adams (Paperback)
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4662 times as history)
avg rating 3.88 — 205,814 ratings — published 2011
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4658 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 75,624 ratings — published 2004
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4530 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 185,058 ratings — published 2004
Silk Roads (Hardcover)
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4200 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 105,449 ratings — published 2010
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
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 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3930 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 61,353 ratings — published 1998
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3900 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 41,666 ratings — published 1978
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3871 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,722 ratings — published -430
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3846 times as history)
avg rating 4.12 — 751,387 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (Kindle Edition)
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 (Paperback)
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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3532 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 118,151 ratings — published 1998
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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 (ebook)
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 (Paperback)
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3269 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,730 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3135 times as history)
avg rating 4.43 — 129,413 ratings — published 1992
Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 3096 times as history)
avg rating 4.03 — 82,442 ratings — published 1946
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3054 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,598 ratings — published -411
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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 (Hardcover)
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2951 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 114,554 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2900 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 110,521 ratings — published 2000
The Art of War (Paperback)
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2871 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 330,344 ratings — published 2013
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
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 (Hardcover)
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2743 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 53,507 ratings — published 2006
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2678 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 63,556 ratings — published 1996
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2634 times as history)
avg rating 3.99 — 95,102 ratings — published 2010
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2605 times as history)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,811 ratings — published 1776
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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