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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 15679 times as history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,327,818 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13083 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,624 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 9530 times as history)
avg rating 4.09 — 273,893 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8878 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,328,431 ratings — published 1947
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8633 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 782,363 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8116 times as history)
avg rating 4.11 — 257,151 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 7822 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,525 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7497 times as history)
avg rating 4.21 — 435,519 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7358 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 153,070 ratings — published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6773 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,233 ratings — published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 6378 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 470,312 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6178 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,402,069 ratings — published 1956
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6025 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,169 ratings — published 1970
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5844 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,850 ratings — published 2005
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5611 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,618 ratings — published 1962
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5598 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,017,567 ratings — published 2010
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5571 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,713 ratings — published 2004
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5147 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,227 ratings — published 2015
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5127 times as history)
avg rating 4.09 — 384,267 ratings — published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5013 times as history)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,217 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4939 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 206,751 ratings — published 2004
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4776 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 73,174 ratings — published 1998
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4741 times as history)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,203 ratings — published 2010
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4570 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 239,934 ratings — published 2023
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4375 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,512 ratings — published 1978
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4367 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 167,713 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4222 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 828,125 ratings — published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4204 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,249 ratings — published -430
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4184 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 194,964 ratings — published 2018
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 4102 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 — 57,988 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 4054 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 295,768 ratings — published 2015
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3898 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 76,772 ratings — published 1995
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3872 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 144,183 ratings — published 2020
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3843 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 80,595 ratings — published 2002
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3812 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 197,666 ratings — published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3720 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 179,633 ratings — published 1959
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3688 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 124,406 ratings — published 1998
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3543 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,558 ratings — published -411
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3497 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,858 ratings — published 2003
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3481 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,095 ratings — published 1946
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3404 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,894 ratings — published 2011
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3402 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 — 142,814 ratings — published 1992
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3390 times as history)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,943 ratings — published 2020
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3360 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,667 ratings — published 2004
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3354 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 597,237 ratings — published -500
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3331 times as history)
avg rating 4.37 — 937,291 ratings — published 1946
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3204 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 113,021 ratings — published 2017
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3200 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,124 ratings — published 2000
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3157 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 371,468 ratings — published 2013
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3104 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,806 ratings — published 2021
“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”
― City of Ashes
― City of Ashes
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
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