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Historical Narrative Books
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.00 — 760,889 ratings — published 2003
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.05 — 72,650 ratings — published 1999
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.14 — 448,316 ratings — published 2017
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.39 — 362,522 ratings — published 2013
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.13 — 162,171 ratings — published 2015
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.39 — 999,563 ratings — published 2010
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.90 — 220,567 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,219 ratings — published 2000
أم سعد
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,697 ratings — published 1969
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.35 — 48,401 ratings — published 2023
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 211,146 ratings — published 2023
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 137,847 ratings — published 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,314 ratings — published 2010
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.10 — 248,963 ratings — published 2005
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.24 — 85,493 ratings — published 2011
Thunderstruck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.78 — 56,727 ratings — published 2006
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,947 ratings — published 1998
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.23 — 168,612 ratings — published 1999
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.09 — 731,593 ratings — published 1966
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,149 ratings — published 2009
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.43 — 389,434 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,741,789 ratings — published 2007
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.25 — 309,174 ratings — published 2019
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,584,399 ratings — published 1988
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.49 — 91,907 ratings — published 2007
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,171,104 ratings — published 2018
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.16 — 186,951 ratings — published 2016
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.08 — 378,332 ratings — published 2001
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,551 ratings — published 2016
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.44 — 139,292 ratings — published 1992
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,401 ratings — published 2006
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.45 — 164,931 ratings — published 1976
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.33 — 92,073 ratings — published 1974
To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,690 ratings — published 2004
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,195,203 ratings — published 1996
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,935,706 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,821,380 ratings — published 1813
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.18 — 98,880 ratings — published 2015
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.89 — 46,268 ratings — published 2006
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,027,993 ratings — published 2009
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,913 ratings — published 1906
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,487,582 ratings — published 2020
The Silmarillion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.04 — 336,900 ratings — published 1977
تلك العتمة الباهرة (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.26 — 13,599 ratings — published 2001
How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,435 ratings — published 2025
The Old Lion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,889 ratings — published
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.47 — 168,440 ratings — published 2018
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,714 ratings — published 2015
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-narrative)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,788 ratings — published 2011
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-narrative)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,709 ratings — published 2005
“All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances, spring narratives… The photograph… is only the most peremptory of a huge modern accumulation of documentary evidence… which simultaneously records a certain apparent continuity and emphasizes its loss from memory. Out of this estrangement comes a conception of personhood, identity… which, because it cannot be “remembered”, must be narrated.”
― Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
― Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
“For Zen Buddhism, historical narratives do matter; stories of the "transmission of the lamp" of the awakened mind down through the ages constitute the narrative thread that holds the history of Zen together, supporting the continuity and authority of its institutional tradition. But what matters most to many sincere Zen practitioners, especially today, is how the teachings and practices embedded in those stories can illuminate and change our lives—not when, where, and by whom they were first taught and written down.”
― Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
― Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
