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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 14918 times as history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,215,565 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12590 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 447,773 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 9030 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 261,147 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8532 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,099,970 ratings — published 1947
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8317 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,270 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7729 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 244,564 ratings — published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7212 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 414,935 ratings — published 2003
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 7211 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,061 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6991 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 145,441 ratings — published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6483 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,627 ratings — published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 5944 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 430,700 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5900 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,340,670 ratings — published 1956
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5676 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,253 ratings — published 1970
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5661 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,242 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5509 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 992,916 ratings — published 2010
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5313 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,131 ratings — published 1962
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5190 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,713 ratings — published 2004
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4964 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 374,284 ratings — published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4850 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 216,324 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4741 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 196,146 ratings — published 2004
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4707 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 46,727 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4510 times as history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,145 ratings — published 2010
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4397 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,877 ratings — published 1998
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4175 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 158,289 ratings — published 2015
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4161 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,434 ratings — published 1978
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4048 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,243 ratings — published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3982 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,912 ratings — published -430
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 3904 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,053 ratings — published 2015
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3807 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 190,736 ratings — published 2023
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3806 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,402 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 — 73,008 ratings — published 1995
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3647 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 133,206 ratings — published 2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3610 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 153,235 ratings — published 2018
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3600 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 75,526 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 — 120,917 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 — 178,699 ratings — published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3365 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 157,782 ratings — published
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3338 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,058 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 — 136,682 ratings — published 1992
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3271 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,077 ratings — published 2004
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3254 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,277 ratings — published 1946
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3194 times as history)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,316 ratings — published 2020
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3160 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 — 555,371 ratings — published -500
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3152 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,843 ratings — published 2011
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3106 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,944 ratings — published 2003
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3086 times as history)
avg rating 4.37 — 842,056 ratings — published 1946
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3071 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 116,705 ratings — published 2000
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3030 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 354,954 ratings — published 2013
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2880 times as history)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,387 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2864 times as history)
avg rating 4.27 — 92,724 ratings — published 2017
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
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“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― The Inheritance of Loss
― The Inheritance of Loss
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