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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,912 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,315,429 ratings — published 2011
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 266 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,604 ratings — published 2015
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 211 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,047 ratings — published 2004
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 179 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 72,453 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,736 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,449 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 152,312 ratings — published 1960
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,978 ratings — published 2002
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 123 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,122 ratings — published 1962
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,356 ratings — published 2015
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,507 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 433,207 ratings — published 2003
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,494 ratings — published 2011
A Little History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,239 ratings — published 1936
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,832 ratings — published 2007
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 99 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,514 ratings — published 2009
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,354 ratings — published 2021
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,277 ratings — published 1978
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 57,317 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 69,897 ratings — published 2019
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,304,347 ratings — published 1947
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,528 ratings — published 1946
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,270 ratings — published 2004
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,396,556 ratings — published 1956
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 225,268 ratings — published 2011
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,831 ratings — published 1962
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,116 ratings — published 1994
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 34,919 ratings — published 2005
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 234,015 ratings — published 2023
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 189,099 ratings — published 2018
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,627 ratings — published 1987
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,040 ratings — published 1989
The Full Circle for Mick (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,400 ratings — published
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,393 ratings — published 2001
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,163 ratings — published 2014
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,286 ratings — published 2003
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,776 ratings — published 2003
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,155 ratings — published 2005
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,642 ratings — published 2017
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 166,725 ratings — published 2015
The New Penguin History of The World (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,583 ratings — published 1976
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,044 ratings — published 2010
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,627 ratings — published 1987
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 142,942 ratings — published 2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,757 ratings — published 2019
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,617 ratings — published 2010
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,329 ratings — published 2010
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 25,384 ratings — published 2024
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,708 ratings — published 1776
“. . . I've learned over the years that if more people knew more about history, our world would be a better place. History is constantly speaking to us. Travelers enjoy a privileged way to hear it—and sometimes an up-close chance to witness history in the making.”
― For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
― For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories
“... the official history of this world is not necessarily to be believed.”
― House of Sky and Breath
― House of Sky and Breath
