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Guns, Germs, and Steel (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 606 times as history)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,735 ratings — published 1997
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn (shelved 595 times as history)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,765 ratings — published 1980
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1776 (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 565 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 14,261 ratings — published 2005
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (shelved 517 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 31,948 ratings — published 2003
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John Adams (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 423 times as history)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,114 ratings — published 2001
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 423 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 152,386 ratings — published 1947
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by James W. Loewen (shelved 334 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,078 ratings — published 1992
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 297 times as history)
avg rating 3.74 — 9,861 ratings — published 1998
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Night
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 288 times as history)
avg rating 4.27 — 59,303 ratings — published 1958
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by Doris Kearns Goodwin (shelved 277 times as history)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,555 ratings — published 2005
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by Joseph J. Ellis (shelved 269 times as history)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,232 ratings — published 2000
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 258 times as history)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,976 ratings — published 2003
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by Thomas Cahill (shelved 233 times as history)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,224 ratings — published 1995
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 230 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,945 ratings — published 2004
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by Dee Brown (shelved 230 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,410 ratings — published 1970
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The Histories (Penguin Classics)
by Herodotus (shelved 219 times as history)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,073 ratings — published 1922
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Assassination Vacation (Paperback)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 200 times as history)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,732 ratings — published 2005
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The Wordy Shipmates (Hardcover)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 198 times as history)
avg rating 3.48 — 5,626 ratings — published 2008
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by Charles C. Mann (shelved 198 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,785 ratings — published 2005
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Mass Market Paperback)
by Stephen E. Ambrose (shelved 198 times as history)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,244 ratings — published 1992
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Undaunted Courage (Paperback)
by Stephen E. Ambrose (shelved 192 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,080 ratings — published 1996
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Paperback)
by William L. Shirer (shelved 192 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,424 ratings — published 1960
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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky (shelved 187 times as history)
avg rating 3.60 — 6,306 ratings — published 2003
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 178 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,656 ratings — published 1979
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Hardcover)
by Nathaniel Philbrick (shelved 177 times as history)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,763 ratings — published 2006
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Hardcover)
by Art Spiegelman (shelved 153 times as history)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,569 ratings — published 1986
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time (Hardcover)
by Dava Sobel (shelved 150 times as history)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,338 ratings — published 1994
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Paperback)
by Thucydides (shelved 148 times as history)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,555 ratings — published 411
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by Alison Weir (shelved 147 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,760 ratings — published 1991
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His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by Joseph J. Ellis (shelved 145 times as history)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,496 ratings — published 2004
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The Guns of August (Mass Market Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 145 times as history)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,791 ratings — published 1962
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Under the Banner of Heaven (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 144 times as history)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,209 ratings — published 2003
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by Steven Johnson (shelved 142 times as history)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,077 ratings — published 2006
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Paperback)
by Timothy Egan (shelved 141 times as history)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,642 ratings — published 2006
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The Killer Angels (Mass Market Paperback)
by Michael Shaara (shelved 140 times as history)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,536 ratings — published 1974
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Paperback)
by Adam Hochschild (shelved 135 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,330 ratings — published 1998
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Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by John Hersey (shelved 126 times as history)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,405 ratings — published 1946
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Thunderstruck (Hardcover)
by Erik Larson (shelved 123 times as history)
avg rating 3.45 — 4,424 ratings — published 2006
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged)
by Edward Gibbon (shelved 121 times as history)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,124 ratings — published 1789
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley (Mass Market Paperback)
by Malcolm X (shelved 115 times as history)
avg rating 4.33 — 10,816 ratings — published 1965
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Paperback)
by John M. Barry (shelved 114 times as history)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,469 ratings — published 2005
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Paperback)
by Art Spiegelman (shelved 113 times as history)
avg rating 4.48 — 8,784 ratings — published 1991
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (Paperback)
by James L. Swanson (shelved 110 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,225 ratings — published 2006
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Truman (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 110 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,459 ratings — published 1992
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by Nathaniel Philbrick (shelved 110 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,217 ratings — published 2000
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The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
by Alexander Hamilton (shelved 110 times as history)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,955 ratings — published 1788
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
by James M. McPherson (shelved 109 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,262 ratings — published 1988
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The Prince (Paperback)
by Niccolò Machiavelli (shelved 109 times as history)
avg rating 3.56 — 10,621 ratings — published 1532
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (Paperback)
by Dava Sobel (shelved 106 times as history)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,573 ratings — published 1999
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Hardcover)
by Diane Ackerman (shelved 102 times as history)
avg rating 3.47 — 8,249 ratings — published 2007
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