John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,112 books — 2,474 voters
Longitude by Dava SobelThe Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Robert LomasHow to Invent Everything by Ryan NorthConnections by James  BurkeThe Way Things Work by David Macaulay
Inventions
206 books — 16 voters

Refuge by Terry Tempest WilliamsA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWalden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Biographies of Place
276 books — 51 voters
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian MortimerThe Plantagenets by Dan JonesEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir1453 by Roger Crowley
Best Medieval History Books
806 books — 316 voters

Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances GiesRoman Aqueducts and Water Supply by A. Trevor HodgeThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonMeltdown in Tibet by Michael  BuckleyThe Croton Dams and Aqueduct by Christopher R. Tompkins
Water Engineering
24 books — 11 voters
Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerThe Study of Language by George YuleAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
246 books — 220 voters

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering by Warren McCabeCoulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering by J.M. CoulsonCoulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering by Ray K. SinnottChemical Engineering by J.R. BackhurstShreve's Chemical Process Industries by George T. Austin
Wanna be a Chemical Engineer?
24 books — 25 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondMath Jokes by Ralph LaneThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellThe Lessons of History by Will Durant
Polymath's Library
257 books — 67 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,964 books — 1,234 voters

SPQR by Mary BeardRubicon by Tom HollandGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Histories by HerodotusGhost on the Throne by James Romm
Best Books About Ancient History
450 books — 134 voters


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