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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 15491 times as history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,299,039 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12967 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,206 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 9406 times as history)
avg rating 4.09 — 270,626 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8803 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,269,036 ratings — published 1947
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8557 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 772,576 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7960 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 252,401 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 7672 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 84,958 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7420 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,076 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7270 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 151,129 ratings — published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6703 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 96,972 ratings — published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 6261 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 460,216 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6124 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,387,615 ratings — published 1956
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5937 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 — 104,556 ratings — published 1970
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5795 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 202,908 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5556 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,009,614 ratings — published 2010
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5532 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,410 ratings — published 1962
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5472 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,119 ratings — published 2004
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5089 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 381,428 ratings — published 2001
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5013 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,753 ratings — published 2015
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4972 times as history)
avg rating 3.90 — 223,805 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4886 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 203,923 ratings — published 2004
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4673 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,397 ratings — published 1998
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4671 times as history)
avg rating 4.48 — 120,047 ratings — published 2010
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4362 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 226,013 ratings — published 2023
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4312 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 165,249 ratings — published 2015
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4310 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,967 ratings — published 1978
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4184 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 818,661 ratings — published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4123 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,627 ratings — published -430
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 4032 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 56,292 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 4024 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,530 ratings — published 2015
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4015 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,518 ratings — published 2018
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3865 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 75,957 ratings — published 1995
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3794 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 141,285 ratings — published 2020
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3752 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,623 ratings — published 2016
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3719 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,260 ratings — published 2002
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3653 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 123,237 ratings — published 1998
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3629 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 173,925 ratings — published 1959
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3463 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,173 ratings — published -411
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3426 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,676 ratings — published 1946
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3377 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 — 141,220 ratings — published 1992
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3370 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,755 ratings — published 2003
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3363 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 88,071 ratings — published 2011
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3334 times as history)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,529 ratings — published 2020
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3330 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,319 ratings — published 2004
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3308 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 586,174 ratings — published -500
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3303 times as history)
avg rating 4.29 — 114,670 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3274 times as history)
avg rating 4.37 — 912,223 ratings — published 1946
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3153 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,316 ratings — published 2000
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3107 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 367,420 ratings — published 2013
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3017 times as history)
avg rating 4.36 — 68,241 ratings — published 2019
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
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“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
― Eragon
― Eragon
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