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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 15097 times as history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,241,001 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12722 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 453,345 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 9185 times as history)
avg rating 4.09 — 263,956 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8624 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,148,086 ratings — published 1947
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8409 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 752,554 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7812 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 246,728 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 7363 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 80,107 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7284 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 419,184 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7095 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 147,131 ratings — published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6575 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,539 ratings — published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 6043 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 439,737 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5960 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,352,365 ratings — published 1956
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5760 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,519 ratings — published 1970
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5707 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 198,876 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5498 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 992,104 ratings — published 2010
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5416 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,038 ratings — published 1962
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5289 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,991 ratings — published 2004
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5017 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 376,351 ratings — published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4885 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 218,485 ratings — published 2011
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4808 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 47,873 ratings — published 2015
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4804 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 198,499 ratings — published 2004
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4565 times as history)
avg rating 4.48 — 115,781 ratings — published 2010
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4492 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,148 ratings — published 1998
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4227 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 160,273 ratings — published 2015
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4225 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,904 ratings — published 1978
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4092 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 798,742 ratings — published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4015 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,269 ratings — published -430
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3978 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 200,764 ratings — published 2023
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 3957 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 284,992 ratings — published 2015
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3897 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,815 ratings — published 1997
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3820 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 74,543 ratings — published 1995
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3726 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 161,195 ratings — published 2018
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3702 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 135,577 ratings — published 2020
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3639 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 76,231 ratings — published 2002
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3613 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 182,926 ratings — published 2016
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3610 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,453 ratings — published 1998
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3445 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 161,989 ratings — published 1959
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3322 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 — 137,965 ratings — published 1992
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3310 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,576 ratings — published 1946
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3300 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,363 ratings — published -411
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3290 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,441 ratings — published 2004
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3245 times as history)
avg rating 4.52 — 159,693 ratings — published 2020
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3222 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 83,453 ratings — published 2011
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3213 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,122 ratings — published -500
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3181 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,798 ratings — published 2003
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3144 times as history)
avg rating 4.37 — 861,701 ratings — published 1946
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3095 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,010 ratings — published 2000
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3056 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 358,796 ratings — published 2013
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2947 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 98,083 ratings — published 2017
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2916 times as history)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,974 ratings — published 1995
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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past and storia
