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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 15365 times as history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,278,990 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12885 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,434 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 9327 times as history)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,112 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8733 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,227,439 ratings — published 1947
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8496 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 765,083 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7903 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 250,074 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 7562 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,993 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7366 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 425,923 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7179 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 149,366 ratings — published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6646 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,935 ratings — published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 6185 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 452,838 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6078 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,374,852 ratings — published 1956
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5872 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 — 103,269 ratings — published 1970
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5760 times as history)
avg rating 4.29 — 201,254 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5541 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,003,184 ratings — published 2010
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5502 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 85,434 ratings — published 1962
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5385 times as history)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,922 ratings — published 2004
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5062 times as history)
avg rating 4.09 — 379,312 ratings — published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4940 times as history)
avg rating 3.90 — 221,825 ratings — published 2011
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4920 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,531 ratings — published 2015
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4854 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 201,748 ratings — published 2004
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4632 times as history)
avg rating 4.48 — 118,338 ratings — published 2010
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4599 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,999 ratings — published 1998
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4280 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 163,286 ratings — published 2015
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4273 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,447 ratings — published 1978
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4230 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 216,806 ratings — published 2023
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4151 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 810,820 ratings — published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4073 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,011 ratings — published -430
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 4018 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 289,885 ratings — published 2015
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3978 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,862 ratings — published 1997
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3910 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 172,913 ratings — published 2018
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3850 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 75,338 ratings — published 1995
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3764 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 139,151 ratings — published 2020
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3711 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,506 ratings — published 2016
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3683 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 77,377 ratings — published 2002
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3623 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,250 ratings — published 1998
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3571 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 169,577 ratings — published 1959
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3423 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 — 40,835 ratings — published -411
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3386 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 90,520 ratings — published 1946
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3359 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 — 140,015 ratings — published 1992
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3326 times as history)
avg rating 4.24 — 86,524 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3314 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,981 ratings — published 2004
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3296 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,997 ratings — published 2003
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3296 times as history)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,481 ratings — published 2020
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3278 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 578,238 ratings — published -500
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3248 times as history)
avg rating 4.29 — 111,304 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3221 times as history)
avg rating 4.37 — 893,619 ratings — published 1946
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3127 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,932 ratings — published 2000
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3084 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 364,450 ratings — published 2013
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2962 times as history)
avg rating 4.36 — 66,293 ratings — published 2019
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
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“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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