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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 — 784,568 ratings — published 2003
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,247 ratings — published 2015
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,360 ratings — published 2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,019,747 ratings — published 2010
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,639 ratings — published 2000
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 372,386 ratings — published 2013
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 472,515 ratings — published 2017
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 144,802 ratings — published 2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 197,971 ratings — published 2018
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 116,103 ratings — published 2009
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 122,707 ratings — published 2010
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 82,684 ratings — published 2005
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,730 ratings — published 2011
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 30,140 ratings — published 2003
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 242,732 ratings — published 2023
1776 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 257,977 ratings — published 2005
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 53,902 ratings — published 2023
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 25,890 ratings — published 2012
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 18,351 ratings — published 2016
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,928 ratings — published 1962
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 — 124,708 ratings — published 1998
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 75,629 ratings — published 1999
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 64,468 ratings — published 2024
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 57,887 ratings — published 2006
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
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avg rating 4.20 — 73,564 ratings — published 1998
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 21,507 ratings — published 2006
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 45,660 ratings — published 1978
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 88,083 ratings — published 2004
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 592,328 ratings — published 1997
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 13,307 ratings — published 2017
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 98,635 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 88,200 ratings — published 2015
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 306,732 ratings — published 1994
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 101,531 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 181,000 ratings — published 1959
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 119,538 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 830,594 ratings — published 2010
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 12,539 ratings — published 2005
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 52,609 ratings — published 2015
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 126,126 ratings — published 2023
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 27,039 ratings — published 2024
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 — 16,860 ratings — published 2014
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 24,058 ratings — published 1977
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 11,374 ratings — published 2014
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 18,107 ratings — published 2022
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 4,735 ratings — published 2002
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 27,337 ratings — published 2014
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 15,007 ratings — published 2012
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,098 ratings — published 1941
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 14,286 ratings — published 2005