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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13645 times as history)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,062,513 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11887 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 417,343 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8439 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 246,623 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7887 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 694,740 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7365 times as history)
avg rating 4.09 — 232,802 ratings — published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 6703 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 391,813 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6327 times as history)
avg rating 4.21 — 135,812 ratings — published 1960
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 6286 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 66,429 ratings — published 2015
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6078 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,337 ratings — published 2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5383 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 188,394 ratings — published 2005
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5330 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 94,094 ratings — published 1970
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 5314 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 368,089 ratings — published 2017
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5285 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 952,137 ratings — published 2010
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4917 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 77,639 ratings — published 1962
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4797 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 363,646 ratings — published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4630 times as history)
avg rating 3.88 — 204,455 ratings — published 2011
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4609 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 74,945 ratings — published 2004
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4503 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 183,781 ratings — published 2004
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4157 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 104,290 ratings — published 2010
Silk Roads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4132 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 40,674 ratings — published 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3956 times as history)
avg rating 4.12 — 147,192 ratings — published 2015
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3887 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 41,504 ratings — published 1978
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3881 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,836 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3831 times as history)
avg rating 4.12 — 746,454 ratings — published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3810 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,028 ratings — published -430
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3618 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 70,077 ratings — published 1995
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3610 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 255,936 ratings — published 2015
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3519 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 117,770 ratings — published 1998
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3453 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 72,392 ratings — published 2002
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3381 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 119,808 ratings — published 2020
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3307 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,366 ratings — published 1997
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3225 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 153,025 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3155 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 71,887 ratings — published 2004
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3109 times as history)
avg rating 4.43 — 128,452 ratings — published 1992
Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 3067 times as history)
avg rating 4.03 — 81,764 ratings — published 1946
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3010 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 38,395 ratings — published -411
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2960 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 — 136,374 ratings — published 1959
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2931 times as history)
avg rating 4.21 — 76,009 ratings — published 2011
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2887 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 110,755 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2883 times as history)
avg rating 4.53 — 142,136 ratings — published 2020
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2879 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 109,829 ratings — published 2000
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2871 times as history)
avg rating 3.96 — 501,016 ratings — published -400
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2838 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 325,107 ratings — published 2013
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2742 times as history)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,037 ratings — published 1995
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2733 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 53,281 ratings — published 2006
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2671 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 121,237 ratings — published 2023
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 2661 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 63,204 ratings — published 1996
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2652 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,850 ratings — published 2003
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2620 times as history)
avg rating 3.99 — 94,688 ratings — published 2010
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2584 times as history)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,755 ratings — published 1776
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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