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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 2812 times as history)
avg rating 3.98 — 155,426 ratings — published 1997
1776 (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 2247 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,233 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 — 217,310 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 — 96,641 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 2149 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,104,418 ratings — published 1947
John Adams (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 1650 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 118,815 ratings — published 2001
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by Doris Kearns Goodwin (shelved 1441 times as history)
avg rating 4.40 — 77,209 ratings — published 2005
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 1401 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 414,502 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 1374 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 101,006 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 1300 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 136,587 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 — 59,002 ratings — published 1995
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by Charles C. Mann (shelved 1191 times as history)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,077 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover)
by Laura Hillenbrand (shelved 1110 times as history)
avg rating 4.45 — 214,256 ratings — published 2010
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by Dee Brown (shelved 1101 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,669 ratings — published 1970
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by William L. Shirer (shelved 1081 times as history)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,730 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 1079 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 63,997 ratings — published 1998
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 961 times as history)
avg rating 3.90 — 53,809 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 947 times as history)
avg rating 4.41 — 38,289 ratings — published 1992
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 931 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,474 ratings — published 1978
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by Joseph J. Ellis (shelved 894 times as history)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,208 ratings — published 2000
The Histories (Paperback)
by Herodotus (shelved 883 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,853 ratings — published -440
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky (shelved 867 times as history)
avg rating 3.70 — 46,791 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 — 24,830 ratings — published 1996
The Guns of August (Mass Market Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 836 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,108 ratings — published 1962
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 827 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 235,296 ratings — published 2010
How the Irish Saved Civilization (Paperback)
by Thomas Cahill (shelved 809 times as history)
avg rating 3.79 — 27,814 ratings — published 1994
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 778 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,890 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 — 27,900 ratings — published 1995
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Hardcover)
by Nathaniel Philbrick (shelved 726 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 21,096 ratings — published 2006
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by Alison Weir (shelved 725 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,591 ratings — published 1991
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Paperback)
by Timothy Egan (shelved 690 times as history)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,323 ratings — published 2005
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by Edward Gibbon (shelved 650 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,967 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 — 25,552 ratings — published 2006
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) (shelved 647 times as history)
avg rating 3.57 — 95,290 ratings — published 2010
Assassination Vacation (Paperback)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 636 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,409 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 — 13,537 ratings — published 1988
The Wordy Shipmates (Hardcover)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 628 times as history)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,242 ratings — published 2008
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by Thucydides (shelved 623 times as history)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,807 ratings — published -411
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 — 17,257 ratings — published 1998
Maus, Vol. 1: My Father Bleeds History (Hardcover)
by Art Spiegelman (shelved 588 times as history)
avg rating 4.34 — 108,040 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 — 30,422 ratings — published 1999
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by Robert K. Massie (shelved 566 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 72,384 ratings — published 2011
Hiroshima (Paperback)
by John Hersey (shelved 561 times as history)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,987 ratings — published 1946
The Prince (Paperback)
by Niccolò Machiavelli (shelved 541 times as history)
avg rating 3.67 — 106,286 ratings — published 1513
The Killer Angels (Mass Market Paperback)
by Michael Shaara (shelved 534 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 40,196 ratings — published 1974
The Art of War (Paperback)
by Sun Tzu (shelved 531 times as history)
avg rating 3.91 — 111,475 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 — 38,235 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 — 14,320 ratings — published 2004
Truman (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 509 times as history)
avg rating 4.29 — 40,409 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 — 32,204 ratings — published 2010
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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