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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 14925 times as history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,216,237 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12591 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 447,918 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 9038 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 261,224 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8534 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,101,145 ratings — published 1947
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8320 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,492 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7730 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 244,621 ratings — published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7219 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,040 ratings — published 2003
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 7213 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,115 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6990 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 145,499 ratings — published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6482 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,644 ratings — published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 5948 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 430,911 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5902 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,340,949 ratings — published 1956
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5677 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,275 ratings — published 1970
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5660 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,296 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5508 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,117 ratings — published 2010
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5314 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,157 ratings — published 1962
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5189 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,748 ratings — published 2004
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4963 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 374,365 ratings — published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4851 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 216,377 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4743 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 196,209 ratings — published 2004
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4707 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 46,752 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4509 times as history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,187 ratings — published 2010
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4399 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,924 ratings — published 1998
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4178 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 158,342 ratings — published 2015
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4162 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,444 ratings — published 1978
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4049 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,455 ratings — published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3981 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,929 ratings — published -430
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 3906 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,176 ratings — published 2015
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3813 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 190,999 ratings — published 2023
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3803 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,430 ratings — published 1997
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3737 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,023 ratings — published 1995
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3649 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 133,274 ratings — published 2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3611 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 153,439 ratings — published 2018
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3601 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 75,545 ratings — published 2002
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3585 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 120,938 ratings — published 1998
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3560 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 178,787 ratings — published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3367 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 157,895 ratings — published
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3341 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,063 ratings — published -411
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3295 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 — 136,719 ratings — published 1992
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3271 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,078 ratings — published 2004
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3255 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,320 ratings — published 1946
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3193 times as history)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,369 ratings — published 2020
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3161 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 — 555,597 ratings — published -500
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3151 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,881 ratings — published 2011
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3107 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,968 ratings — published 2003
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3088 times as history)
avg rating 4.37 — 842,541 ratings — published 1946
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3070 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 116,739 ratings — published 2000
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3031 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 355,068 ratings — published 2013
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2881 times as history)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,405 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2864 times as history)
avg rating 4.27 — 92,857 ratings — published 2017
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”
― City of Ashes
― City of Ashes
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