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Guns, Germs, and Steel (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 11 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,577 ratings — published 1997
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (Paperback)
by Margaret MacMillan (shelved 5 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 899 ratings — published 2001
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 5 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.47 — 999 ratings — published 2001
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by Tony Horwitz (shelved 5 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,060 ratings — published 2002
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Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky (shelved 5 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.60 — 6,254 ratings — published 2003
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by Jared Diamond (shelved 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,887 ratings — published 2004
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (Paperback)
by Simon Schama (shelved 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 437 ratings — published 1990
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged)
by Edward Gibbon (shelved 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,113 ratings — published 1789
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (Paperback)
by Daniel Yergin (shelved 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 882 ratings — published 1991
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Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Paperback)
by Paul Bede Johnson (shelved 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 229 ratings — published 1983
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)
by Laurence Bergreen (shelved 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.52 — 301 ratings — published 2007
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The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (Paperback)
by Piers Brendon (shelved 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 74 ratings — published 2000
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by David Fromkin (shelved 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 656 ratings — published 1989
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (Paperback)
by Gavin Menzies (shelved 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,573 ratings — published 2002
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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 4 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,313 ratings — published 1994
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The Histories (Penguin Classics)
by Herodotus (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,060 ratings — published 1922
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by Charles C. Mann (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,749 ratings — published 2005
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From Beirut to Jerusalem (Paperback)
by Thomas L. Friedman (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,953 ratings — published 1989
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,643 ratings — published 1979
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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 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,043 ratings — published 2006
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The Second World War (Paperback)
by John Keegan (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 273 ratings — published 1989
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by Samantha Power (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,928 ratings — published 2002
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Night
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,779 ratings — published 1958
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The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died (Hardcover)
by Philip Jenkins (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 119 ratings — published 2008
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
by Jack Weatherford (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,329 ratings — published 2004
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
by Laurence Bergreen (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 850 ratings — published 2003
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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 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 9,801 ratings — published 1998
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The Guns of August (Mass Market Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,780 ratings — published 1962
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Cod (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,892 ratings — published 1997
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The Discoverers (Paperback)
by Daniel J. Boorstin (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 767 ratings — published 1983
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A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History (Paperback)
by Martin Gilbert (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 39 ratings — published 1997
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A History Of The Arab Peoples (Paperback)
by Albert Hourani (shelved 3 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 318 ratings — published 1991
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The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare (Paperback)
by John Keegan (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 101 ratings — published 1988
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First World War: An Illustrated History (Hardcover)
by John Keegan (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 33 ratings — published 2001
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The Odyssey (Hardcover)
by Homer (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 28 ratings — published -750
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The Armada (Paperback)
by Garrett Mattingly (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 79 ratings — published 1974
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In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb (Hardcover)
by Daniel Meyerson (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.32 — 58 ratings — published 2004
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World (Hardcover)
by Timothy Brook (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.58 — 126 ratings — published 2007
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,839 ratings — published 2003
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (Hardcover)
by Niall Ferguson (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 327 ratings — published 2006
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by David McCullough (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 947 ratings — published 1978
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History of the English Speaking Peoples: Birth of Britian Vol 1 (Paperback)
by Winston S. Churchill (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 276 ratings — published 1950
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Paperback)
by Thucydides (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,539 ratings — published 411
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta (Paperback)
by Danny Danziger (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 222 ratings — published 2003
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The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 881 ratings — published 121
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The Reformation (Story of Civilization 6)
by Will Durant (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 115 ratings — published 1368
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The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set)
by Will Durant (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 266 ratings — published 1935
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 (Paperback)
by Brian M. Fagan (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 221 ratings — published 2000
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Orientalism (Paperback)
by Edward W. Said (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,391 ratings — published 1978
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The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire (Hardcover)
by Joe Jackson (shelved 2 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.59 — 116 ratings — published 2008
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