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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 746,464 ratings — published 2003
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 994,684 ratings — published 2010
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 158,848 ratings — published 2015
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 82,131 ratings — published 2011
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,592 ratings — published 2005
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 355,975 ratings — published 2013
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 117,052 ratings — published 2000
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 108,250 ratings — published 2009
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 216,894 ratings — published 2011
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 133,835 ratings — published 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,598 ratings — published 2010
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,157 ratings — published 2003
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 433,062 ratings — published 2017
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 155,351 ratings — published 2018
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 17,194 ratings — published 2016
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 19,487 ratings — published 2006
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,048 ratings — published 1998
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 70,956 ratings — published 1999
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 193,533 ratings — published 2023
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 245,108 ratings — published 2005
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,564 ratings — published 2006
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,245 ratings — published 1998
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,365 ratings — published 1962
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 52,942 ratings — published 2024
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,953 ratings — published 2012
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 291,503 ratings — published 1994
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 716,637 ratings — published 1966
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,576 ratings — published 1978
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,579 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,231 ratings — published 2010
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,441 ratings — published 2005
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,554 ratings — published 1977
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 45,111 ratings — published 2023
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 16,348 ratings — published 2022
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,317 ratings — published 2002
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 11,726 ratings — published 2017
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,868 ratings — published 2005
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 25,111 ratings — published 2014
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,627 ratings — published 2012
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 78,616 ratings — published 2015
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 97,602 ratings — published 2015
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 34,405 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,046 ratings — published 2001
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,238 ratings — published 2012
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,064 ratings — published 2004
Thunderstruck (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 55,583 ratings — published 2006
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 14,616 ratings — published 2014
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,590 ratings — published 2024
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 137,001 ratings — published 1992
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 100,778 ratings — published 2009
