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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,842,813 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 990,548 ratings — published 2010
Lifeboat 12 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,220 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,137,231 ratings — published 1947
Minor Detail (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.18 — 40,054 ratings — published 2017
Korea: A New History of South and North (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,305 ratings — published 2023
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,174 ratings — published 2023
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.19 — 803,389 ratings — published 2008
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,916 ratings — published 2018
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.88 — 122,859 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,201 ratings — published 2016
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 82,830 ratings — published 2011
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.89 — 217,983 ratings — published 2011
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,406 ratings — published 1972
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912 (Dear America)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 11,407 ratings — published 1998
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,415 ratings — published 2016
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,020 ratings — published 1997
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.72 — 43,561 ratings — published 2019
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,285 ratings — published 1994
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,458 ratings — published 1997
Finding Someplace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.86 — 540 ratings — published 2015
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 53,895 ratings — published 2020
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 34,527 ratings — published 2006
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,268 ratings — published 1984
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 182,042 ratings — published 2016
Women & Children First (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,483 ratings — published 2012
Baseball Saved Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,988 ratings — published 1993
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,356 ratings — published 2014
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,622 ratings — published 2007
Sylvia & Aki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,483 ratings — published 2011
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.49 — 793,119 ratings — published 2016
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,988 ratings — published 2017
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,995 ratings — published 2016
The Waiting Hours (Cliffehaven #13)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 772 ratings — published
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,176 ratings — published 2009
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,289 ratings — published 2017
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 750,601 ratings — published 2003
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,373 ratings — published 1955
The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 87,225 ratings — published 2009
Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,616 ratings — published 2011
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 159,817 ratings — published 2015
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.10 — 246,176 ratings — published 2005
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,092 ratings — published 2005
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,349,536 ratings — published 1956
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 952,876 ratings — published 2006
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-events)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,250 ratings — published 2000
Lost Voices From the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-events)
avg rating 3.81 — 373 ratings — published 2009
The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-events)
avg rating 3.78 — 631 ratings — published 2019
Workhouse Girl (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 78 ratings — published
Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-events)
avg rating 3.73 — 112 ratings — published 2006
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