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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 417,353 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,062,610 ratings — published 2011
Silk Roads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 40,678 ratings — published 2015
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 176 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 74,946 ratings — published 2004
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 149 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,840 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,340 ratings — published 2005
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 135,818 ratings — published 1960
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 72,394 ratings — published 2002
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 66,437 ratings — published 2015
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 120 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 77,642 ratings — published 1962
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 71,892 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 391,833 ratings — published 2003
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,993 ratings — published 2001
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,689 ratings — published 2011
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 96,345 ratings — published 2015
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 44,380 ratings — published 1997
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 41,504 ratings — published 1978
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,801,043 ratings — published 1947
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 40,743 ratings — published 2004
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 52,126 ratings — published 2019
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 204,463 ratings — published 2011
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,315 ratings — published 2009
A Little History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 28,508 ratings — published 1936
Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 81,769 ratings — published 1946
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,264,461 ratings — published 1956
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,880 ratings — published 1987
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 30,199 ratings — published 2005
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 14,124 ratings — published 2001
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,125 ratings — published 1994
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,919 ratings — published 1989
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,766 ratings — published 2021
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,358 ratings — published 1962
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,001 ratings — published 1987
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 17,084 ratings — published 2003
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 147,198 ratings — published 2015
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 23,694 ratings — published 2014
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,536 ratings — published 2005
The New Penguin History of The World (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,397 ratings — published 1976
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (ebook)
by (shelved 62 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,599 ratings — published 2010
A History of the World in 100 Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,854 ratings — published 2010
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,755 ratings — published 1776
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,911 ratings — published 2019
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,767 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,039 ratings — published 1995
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 119,817 ratings — published 2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 110,783 ratings — published 2018
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,852 ratings — published 2003
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,241 ratings — published 1968
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,031 ratings — published -430
Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,337 ratings — published 2014
“The history of the world is a whitewashed history, where great many facts are distorted to maintain white supremacy – such as Columbus discovering America or Gandhi liberating India – Gandhi didn’t liberate India, Subhas Chandra Bose did and Columbus never even set foot on America.”
― When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
― When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“No other "civilized" people have done more damage to the world than the Europeans.”
― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
