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The Histories (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 55,753 ratings — published -430
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 266,848 ratings — published 1980
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 139,333 ratings — published 1992
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 236,188 ratings — published 1962
1776 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 249,013 ratings — published 2005
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 44,258 ratings — published 1978
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 761,080 ratings — published 2003
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 84,982 ratings — published 1962
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 459,008 ratings — published 1997
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 73,022 ratings — published 1992
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,267,759 ratings — published 2011
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 117,353 ratings — published 2010
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 76,968 ratings — published 2002
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 423,768 ratings — published 2003
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 40,679 ratings — published -411
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 102,707 ratings — published 1970
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 148,794 ratings — published 1960
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,204,536 ratings — published 1947
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 95,477 ratings — published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 448,552 ratings — published 2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 806,765 ratings — published 2010
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 24,103 ratings — published 2012
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 121,964 ratings — published 1998
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 999,752 ratings — published 2010
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 84,270 ratings — published 2004
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 82,021 ratings — published 2015
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 200,819 ratings — published 2004
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 15,506 ratings — published 1776
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 75,053 ratings — published 1995
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 200,530 ratings — published 2005
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
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avg rating 4.19 — 69,358 ratings — published 1998
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as histories)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,734 ratings — published 2019
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 20,616 ratings — published 2014
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9,948 ratings — published -400
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 76,505 ratings — published 1995
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 98,706 ratings — published 2010
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 32,810 ratings — published 1998
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,901 ratings — published -29
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 56,418 ratings — published 2006
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 211,440 ratings — published 2023
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 15,514 ratings — published 2014
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 41,484 ratings — published 1998
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 11,715 ratings — published 2005
The Campaigns of Alexander (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 5,358 ratings — published 150
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 34,048 ratings — published 1988
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
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avg rating 3.52 — 34,240 ratings — published 2009
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 112,238 ratings — published 2006
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 46,913 ratings — published 1995
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 12,882 ratings — published 1992
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 21,904 ratings — published 2003
“Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowerings.”
― Birds of Heaven
― Birds of Heaven
“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist











