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Popular History Books
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 2806 times as history)
avg rating 3.98 — 155,233 ratings — published 1997
1776 (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 2244 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,140 ratings — published 2005
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 2232 times as history)
avg rating 3.96 — 217,060 ratings — published 2002
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Paperback)
by Howard Zinn (shelved 2194 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 96,553 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 2147 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,103,386 ratings — published 1947
John Adams (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 1650 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 118,686 ratings — published 2001
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by Doris Kearns Goodwin (shelved 1440 times as history)
avg rating 4.40 — 77,111 ratings — published 2005
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 1399 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 414,066 ratings — published 1955
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1373 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 100,912 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 1300 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 136,435 ratings — published 2003
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by James W. Loewen (shelved 1209 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 58,942 ratings — published 1995
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by Charles C. Mann (shelved 1190 times as history)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,018 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover)
by Laura Hillenbrand (shelved 1108 times as history)
avg rating 4.45 — 214,027 ratings — published 2010
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by Dee Brown (shelved 1097 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,601 ratings — published 1970
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by William L. Shirer (shelved 1080 times as history)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,649 ratings — published 1960
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 1078 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 63,955 ratings — published 1998
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 961 times as history)
avg rating 3.90 — 53,765 ratings — published 2005
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 945 times as history)
avg rating 4.41 — 38,257 ratings — published 1992
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 932 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,453 ratings — published 1978
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by Joseph J. Ellis (shelved 893 times as history)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,169 ratings — published 2000
The Histories (Paperback)
by Herodotus (shelved 882 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,809 ratings — published -440
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky (shelved 866 times as history)
avg rating 3.70 — 46,774 ratings — published 2002
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by Stephen E. Ambrose (shelved 841 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,797 ratings — published 1996
The Guns of August (Mass Market Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 835 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,077 ratings — published 1962
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 827 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 235,046 ratings — published 2010
How the Irish Saved Civilization (Paperback)
by Thomas Cahill (shelved 809 times as history)
avg rating 3.79 — 27,809 ratings — published 1994
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 779 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,869 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time (Hardcover)
by Dava Sobel (shelved 759 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 27,875 ratings — published 1995
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Hardcover)
by Nathaniel Philbrick (shelved 725 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 21,072 ratings — published 2006
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by Alison Weir (shelved 724 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,561 ratings — published 1991
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Paperback)
by Timothy Egan (shelved 688 times as history)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,286 ratings — published 2005
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by Edward Gibbon (shelved 648 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,948 ratings — published 1776
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 647 times as history)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,531 ratings — published 2006
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) (shelved 647 times as history)
avg rating 3.57 — 95,153 ratings — published 2010
Assassination Vacation (Paperback)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 636 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,388 ratings — published 2005
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
by James M. McPherson (shelved 634 times as history)
avg rating 4.36 — 13,528 ratings — published 1988
The Wordy Shipmates (Hardcover)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 625 times as history)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,213 ratings — published 2008
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Paperback)
by Adam Hochschild (shelved 614 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,241 ratings — published 1998
Maus, Vol. 1: My Father Bleeds History (Hardcover)
by Art Spiegelman (shelved 588 times as history)
avg rating 4.34 — 107,896 ratings — published 1986
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by Nathaniel Philbrick (shelved 575 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 30,354 ratings — published 1999
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by Robert K. Massie (shelved 565 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 72,297 ratings — published 2011
Hiroshima (Paperback)
by John Hersey (shelved 559 times as history)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,960 ratings — published 1946
The Prince (Paperback)
by Niccolò Machiavelli (shelved 539 times as history)
avg rating 3.67 — 106,133 ratings — published 1513
The Killer Angels (Mass Market Paperback)
by Michael Shaara (shelved 533 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 40,169 ratings — published 1974
The Art of War (Paperback)
by Sun Tzu (shelved 530 times as history)
avg rating 3.91 — 111,307 ratings — published -400
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
by David Grann (shelved 518 times as history)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,214 ratings — published 2009
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
by Jack Weatherford (shelved 512 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,300 ratings — published 2004
Truman (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 509 times as history)
avg rating 4.29 — 40,362 ratings — published 1992
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 493 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,178 ratings — published 2010
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 490 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,912 ratings — published 2003
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
― Napoleon Bonaparte
The Polar Poems (not a true title... more of a gesture)
5 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm — 4 people liked it
5 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm — 4 people liked it
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