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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 773,153 ratings — published 2003
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,010,096 ratings — published 2010
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 165,410 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 — 88,188 ratings — published 2011
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,442 ratings — published 2000
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 113,526 ratings — published 2009
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,317 ratings — published 2005
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 223,930 ratings — published 2011
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 367,671 ratings — published 2013
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 460,834 ratings — published 2017
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 141,438 ratings — published 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 120,159 ratings — published 2010
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,822 ratings — published 2003
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 182,265 ratings — published 2018
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,963 ratings — published 2016
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 20,912 ratings — published 2006
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,487 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 — 123,309 ratings — published 1998
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,243 ratings — published 1999
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 226,720 ratings — published 2023
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 51,271 ratings — published 2023
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 252,641 ratings — published 2005
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 25,046 ratings — published 2012
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 57,149 ratings — published 2006
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,516 ratings — published 1998
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,241 ratings — published 2004
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 61,388 ratings — published 2024
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 581,320 ratings — published 1997
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,043 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 85,142 ratings — published 2015
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 300,700 ratings — published 1994
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 745,452 ratings — published 1966
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 44,994 ratings — published 1978
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 118,420 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,237 ratings — published 2010
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,171 ratings — published 2005
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,844 ratings — published 2015
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,957 ratings — published 2024
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 23,619 ratings — published 1977
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,500 ratings — published 2022
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,591 ratings — published 2002
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,836 ratings — published 2017
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,666 ratings — published 2014
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 14,620 ratings — published 2012
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,138 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 174,279 ratings — published 1959
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 35,338 ratings — published 2006
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 69,902 ratings — published 2010
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 40,378 ratings — published 2001
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,219 ratings — published 2012
