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108 voters
Popular History Books
Popular History Books
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 2798 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 154,915 ratings — published 1997
1776 (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 2240 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,992 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 2230 times as history)
avg rating 3.96 — 216,628 ratings — published 2002
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Paperback)
by Howard Zinn (shelved 2192 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 96,388 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 2139 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,101,552 ratings — published 1947
John Adams (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 1649 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 118,446 ratings — published 2001
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by Doris Kearns Goodwin (shelved 1435 times as history)
avg rating 4.40 — 76,939 ratings — published 2005
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 1395 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 413,284 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 1369 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 100,694 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 1299 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 136,148 ratings — published 2003
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by James W. Loewen (shelved 1206 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 58,790 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 — 40,908 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover)
by Laura Hillenbrand (shelved 1106 times as history)
avg rating 4.45 — 213,531 ratings — published 2010
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by Dee Brown (shelved 1095 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,491 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 — 51,505 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 1077 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 63,840 ratings — published 1998
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 960 times as history)
avg rating 3.90 — 53,639 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 943 times as history)
avg rating 4.41 — 38,165 ratings — published 1992
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 931 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,416 ratings — published 1978
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by Joseph J. Ellis (shelved 891 times as history)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,126 ratings — published 2000
The Histories (Paperback)
by Herodotus (shelved 879 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,751 ratings — published -440
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky (shelved 866 times as history)
avg rating 3.70 — 46,745 ratings — published 2002
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by Stephen E. Ambrose (shelved 840 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,746 ratings — published 1996
The Guns of August (Mass Market Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 836 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,037 ratings — published 1962
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 826 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 234,589 ratings — published 2010
How the Irish Saved Civilization (Paperback)
by Thomas Cahill (shelved 808 times as history)
avg rating 3.79 — 27,750 ratings — published 1994
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 778 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,801 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 758 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 27,826 ratings — published 1995
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Hardcover)
by Nathaniel Philbrick (shelved 725 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 21,034 ratings — published 2006
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by Alison Weir (shelved 723 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,473 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 4.04 — 32,233 ratings — published 2005
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by Edward Gibbon (shelved 648 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,919 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 — 25,462 ratings — published 2006
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) (shelved 645 times as history)
avg rating 3.57 — 94,925 ratings — published 2010
Assassination Vacation (Paperback)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 636 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,345 ratings — published 2005
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Paperback)
by James M. McPherson (shelved 633 times as history)
avg rating 4.36 — 13,495 ratings — published 1988
The Wordy Shipmates (Hardcover)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 625 times as history)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,194 ratings — published 2008
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Paperback)
by Adam Hochschild (shelved 612 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,205 ratings — published 1998
Maus, Vol. 1: My Father Bleeds History (Hardcover)
by Art Spiegelman (shelved 586 times as history)
avg rating 4.34 — 107,674 ratings — published 1986
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by Nathaniel Philbrick (shelved 574 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 30,326 ratings — published 1999
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by Robert K. Massie (shelved 566 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 72,139 ratings — published 2011
Hiroshima (Paperback)
by John Hersey (shelved 559 times as history)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,912 ratings — published 1946
The Prince (Paperback)
by Niccolò Machiavelli (shelved 539 times as history)
avg rating 3.67 — 105,882 ratings — published 1513
The Killer Angels (Mass Market Paperback)
by Michael Shaara (shelved 533 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 40,104 ratings — published 1974
The Art of War (Paperback)
by Sun Tzu (shelved 528 times as history)
avg rating 3.91 — 110,998 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 — 38,170 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 — 14,257 ratings — published 2004
Truman (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 508 times as history)
avg rating 4.29 — 40,282 ratings — published 1992
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 492 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,091 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 — 87,799 ratings — published 2003
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― José Martí
― José Martí
“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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