Staff Picks: History (100 books)

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1	The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry 3.98 avg rating — 42,905 ratings score: 179, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 768,807 ratings score: 177, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 814,947 ratings score: 164, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Library Book by Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 126,040 ratings score: 155, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen 3.97 avg rating — 75,637 ratings score: 150, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 456,585 ratings score: 141, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown 4.26 avg rating — 103,908 ratings score: 135, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky 3.75 avg rating — 77,827 ratings score: 135, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild 4.20 avg rating — 5,206 ratings score: 132, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 2,996 ratings score: 109, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones 4.61 avg rating — 25,027 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Tailspin by John Armbruster 4.67 avg rating — 1,446 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore 4.40 avg rating — 13,662 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand 4.39 avg rating — 1,006,285 ratings score: 98, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 184,158 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 4.62 avg rating — 266,455 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 80,497 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth 4.19 avg rating — 1,388 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution by H.W. Brands 3.90 avg rating — 1,299 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe 4.54 avg rating — 141,261 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation by Elizabeth Letts (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 14,948 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started by Gail MacColl 3.59 avg rating — 5,859 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock 4.25 avg rating — 6,803 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee 4.62 avg rating — 21,934 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes 4.19 avg rating — 5,160 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff 4.06 avg rating — 3,087 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 51,037 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) 4.52 avg rating — 164,531 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union by Richard Kreitner 3.94 avg rating — 427 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 2,009 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America's Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich 3.49 avg rating — 7,062 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 463 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 115,851 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr 4.46 avg rating — 22,791 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border by Francisco Cantú 3.97 avg rating — 15,654 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan 4.17 avg rating — 50,138 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents from Kennedy to Obama by David Priess (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 635 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1) by Tim Marshall 4.19 avg rating — 120,332 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 4.33 avg rating — 1,289,137 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind by David Vandermeulen (Adapter) 4.31 avg rating — 22,360 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 119,233 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester 3.79 avg rating — 3,213 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 180 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3) by Jared Diamond 3.90 avg rating — 11,794 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 1,196 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 365,967 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor 4.02 avg rating — 997 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 3,327 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney 3.68 avg rating — 9,332 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Impeachment: An American History by Jeffrey A. Engel 4.15 avg rating — 958 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow 4.14 avg rating — 8,629 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 5,158 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 9,549 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham 4.26 avg rating — 16,343 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft by Edward Jay Epstein 3.78 avg rating — 527 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents by Mark Perry 3.69 avg rating — 74 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 19,182 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer 4.18 avg rating — 4,663 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall by Amy Chua (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 1,000 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer 4.31 avg rating — 27,471 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn by Charles A. Kupchan 3.66 avg rating — 151 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order by G. John Ikenberry 3.60 avg rating — 210 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan 4.12 avg rating — 19,022 ratings score: 43, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 6,190 ratings score: 40, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien 3.92 avg rating — 9,490 ratings score: 39, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 9,468 ratings score: 38, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Rocket Girl by George D. Morgan 3.86 avg rating — 1,181 ratings score: 37, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Nicola Twilley 3.93 avg rating — 884 ratings score: 36, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey (Goodreads Author) 3.55 avg rating — 5,803 ratings score: 35, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan 3.67 avg rating — 2,416 ratings score: 34, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.28 avg rating — 15,748 ratings score: 33, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick 4.36 avg rating — 3,161 ratings score: 31, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M. Scott 4.42 avg rating — 982 ratings score: 30, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America by Joan Donovan 3.98 avg rating — 487 ratings score: 29, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 2,112 ratings score: 28, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 by Max Hastings 4.38 avg rating — 2,609 ratings score: 27, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks 4.45 avg rating — 513 ratings score: 26, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham 4.45 avg rating — 10,427 ratings score: 25, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix by Howard Markel 4.14 avg rating — 826 ratings score: 24, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff 3.44 avg rating — 1,984 ratings score: 23, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	The End of Everything by Katie Mack (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 13,240 ratings score: 22, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells 3.48 avg rating — 868 ratings score: 21, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer 4.58 avg rating — 13,584 ratings score: 20, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Moiya McTier 3.52 avg rating — 1,549 ratings score: 19, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth by Adam Frank 3.95 avg rating — 1,197 ratings score: 18, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 41,900 ratings score: 16, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 4.48 avg rating — 108,243 ratings score: 15, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon 4.18 avg rating — 63,994 ratings score: 14, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 3,816 ratings score: 13, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 234 ratings score: 12, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum 4.29 avg rating — 14,043 ratings score: 11, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt 3.73 avg rating — 2,343 ratings score: 10, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics by John Pollack 3.68 avg rating — 1,942 ratings score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 72,703 ratings score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: ... and Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason 3.29 avg rating — 3,117 ratings score: 6, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	The Library: An Illustrated History by Stuart A.P. Murray 3.90 avg rating — 564 ratings score: 5, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Failures of the Presidents: from the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq by Thomas J. Craughwell 3.52 avg rating — 204 ratings score: 4, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	American Gothic: A Life Of America's Most Famous Painting by Steven Biel 3.23 avg rating — 120 ratings score: 3, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke 4.27 avg rating — 15,508 ratings score: 2, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	Smithsonian Book of National Wildlife Refuges by Eric Jay Dolin (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 1, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars