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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 14942 times as history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,224 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12598 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,127 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 9044 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 261,325 ratings — published 1980
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8537 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,103,155 ratings — published 1947
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8327 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,779 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7737 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 — 244,698 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 7221 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,199 ratings — published 2015
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7219 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,200 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6980 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 145,562 ratings — published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6489 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,675 ratings — published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 5952 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 — 431,251 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5899 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,341,367 ratings — published 1956
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5679 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,319 ratings — published 1970
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5665 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,348 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5515 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,341 ratings — published 2010
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5315 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,186 ratings — published 1962
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5196 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,793 ratings — published 2004
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4969 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 374,455 ratings — published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4854 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 216,451 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4746 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 196,287 ratings — published 2004
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4727 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 46,806 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4510 times as history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,228 ratings — published 2010
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4410 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,977 ratings — published 1998
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4185 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 158,429 ratings — published 2015
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4164 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,465 ratings — published 1978
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4052 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,749 ratings — published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3987 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,952 ratings — published -430
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 3910 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,327 ratings — published 2015
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3819 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 191,398 ratings — published 2023
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3801 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,486 ratings — published 1997
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3741 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 73,049 ratings — published 1995
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3653 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 133,359 ratings — published 2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3616 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 153,729 ratings — published 2018
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3602 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 75,581 ratings — published 2002
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3586 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 120,950 ratings — published 1998
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3564 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 178,970 ratings — published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3370 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 158,043 ratings — published 1959
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3342 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,078 ratings — published -411
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3295 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 — 136,759 ratings — published 1992
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3271 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,090 ratings — published 2004
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3259 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,375 ratings — published 1946
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3198 times as history)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,452 ratings — published 2020
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3163 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 — 555,934 ratings — published -500
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3155 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 81,926 ratings — published 2011
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3112 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,986 ratings — published 2003
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3091 times as history)
avg rating 4.37 — 843,251 ratings — published 1946
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3069 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 116,786 ratings — published 2000
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3032 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 355,209 ratings — published 2013
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2884 times as history)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,440 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2869 times as history)
avg rating 4.27 — 93,040 ratings — published 2017
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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