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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 746,351 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,223 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,222,244 ratings — published 2011
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 432,958 ratings — published 2017
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 158,828 ratings — published 2015
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 179,842 ratings — published 2016
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 261,800 ratings — published 1980
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 994,602 ratings — published 2010
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,859 ratings — published 2005
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 216,871 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,131 ratings — published 2010
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 155,241 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,575 ratings — published 2010
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 193,412 ratings — published 2023
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 245,094 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,918 ratings — published 2020
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 62,303 ratings — published 2019
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,343,571 ratings — published 1956
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,597 ratings — published 2015
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,647 ratings — published 2005
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,044 ratings — published 1998
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 133,810 ratings — published 2020
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,112,771 ratings — published 1947
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 39 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,229 ratings — published 1998
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,536 ratings — published 1970
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 117,040 ratings — published 2000
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,943 ratings — published 2012
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 75,710 ratings — published 2002
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,555 ratings — published 2006
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.70 — 38,572 ratings — published 2021
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 65,334 ratings — published 2019
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,764 ratings — published 2014
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,078 ratings — published 2016
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,953 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 145,907 ratings — published 1960
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 19,935 ratings — published 2019
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 82,120 ratings — published 2011
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,655 ratings — published 2016
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.54 — 130,208 ratings — published 2021
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,128 ratings — published 2008
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,570 ratings — published 1978
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 355,919 ratings — published 2013
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 122,059 ratings — published 2018
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,047 ratings — published 2004
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,746 ratings — published 2005
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 70,942 ratings — published 1999
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,180 ratings — published 1995
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 59,317 ratings — published 2019
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 47,043 ratings — published 2015
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as nonfiction-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,785 ratings — published 2017
