Historical Nonfiction 2018
1. 
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,316 ratings 
4. 
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by:
Steven Pinker
4.20 avg rating — 31,748 ratings 5. 
Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others― Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy 3.84 avg rating — 2,077 ratings
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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.23 avg rating — 4,390 ratings 
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
by:
Mackenzi Lee
4.17 avg rating — 4,027 ratings 9. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,671 ratings 10. 
From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
by:
Michael McFaul
4.04 avg rating — 1,879 ratings 11. 
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
by:
Max Boot
4.22 avg rating — 1,098 ratings 12. 
Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
by:
John Sedgwick
3.88 avg rating — 415 ratings 
14. 
The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring 3.84 avg rating — 49 ratings
16. 
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by:
Claire L. Evans
3.93 avg rating — 2,438 ratings 17. 
In the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
by:
Howard Blum
4.14 avg rating — 2,036 ratings 18. 
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
by:
Stephen R. Platt
4.34 avg rating — 2,932 ratings 19. 
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America 3.59 avg rating — 3,021 ratings
20. 
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
by:
Kevin Dann
3.77 avg rating — 122 ratings 
22. 
Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World
by:
John Man
3.51 avg rating — 505 ratings 23. 
The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica 3.52 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets
by:
Patrick Desbois
4.48 avg rating — 438 ratings 25. 
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
by:
Mark Whitaker
4.29 avg rating — 551 ratings 26. 
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning History Book 4)
by:
Paul Ortiz
4.25 avg rating — 2,456 ratings 27. 
Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
by:
Fred Pearce
4.03 avg rating — 225 ratings 28. 
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
by:
Lynne Viola
4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings 29. 
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.65 avg rating — 802 ratings 
31. 
A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould
by:
Susan Ronald
3.32 avg rating — 215 ratings 32. 
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
by:
Niall Ferguson
3.65 avg rating — 4,222 ratings 33. 
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
by:
Omer Bartov
4.18 avg rating — 280 ratings 
35. 
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by:
Michael Isikoff
4.20 avg rating — 6,660 ratings 36. 
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A History of Now
by:
Michael Burleigh
3.65 avg rating — 145 ratings 
37. 
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
by:
Lucy Jones
4.13 avg rating — 1,704 ratings 
41. 
Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
by:
James F. Simon
4.14 avg rating — 182 ratings 42. 
West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express
by:
Jim DeFelice
3.41 avg rating — 614 ratings 
44. 
The Girl from Kathmandu: Twelve Dead Men and a Woman's Quest for Justice
by:
Cam Simpson
4.24 avg rating — 291 ratings 45. 
The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
by:
Simon Baatz
3.46 avg rating — 2,104 ratings 45. 
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World 3.82 avg rating — 841 ratings
47. 
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
by:
Sarah Weinman
3.41 avg rating — 7,422 ratings 48. 
Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
by:
Mark Bailey
3.83 avg rating — 94 ratings 49. 
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II
by:
Jeffrey R. Cox
4.38 avg rating — 259 ratings 50. 
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
by:
Tom Clavin
3.81 avg rating — 4,238 ratings 51. 
Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
by:
William R. Polk
4.15 avg rating — 99 ratings 52. 
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat 3.92 avg rating — 1,050 ratings
53. 
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by:
Andrea Barnet
4.28 avg rating — 564 ratings 54. 
The King's City: A History of London During The Restoration: The City that Transformed a Nation
by:
Don Jordan
3.61 avg rating — 59 ratings 54. 
The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
by:
David Margolick
4.12 avg rating — 215 ratings 
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.15 avg rating — 247 ratings 
60. 
The Queen's Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis
by:
Joan DeJean
3.64 avg rating — 85 ratings 
62. 
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
by:
Adam Winkler
4.17 avg rating — 1,388 ratings 
64. 
Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (Women’s Media History Now!)
by:
Jane M. Gaines
2.77 avg rating — 26 ratings 64. 
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings 3.64 avg rating — 7,016 ratings
64. 
Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
by:
Tristram Korten
4.19 avg rating — 1,098 ratings 
68. 
Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
by:
Alfredo Corchado
4.01 avg rating — 283 ratings 
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72. 
Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
by:
Steve Almond
4.15 avg rating — 554 ratings 73. 
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
by:
Howard Bryant
4.39 avg rating — 743 ratings 74. 
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
by:
Imani Perry
4.27 avg rating — 1,502 ratings 75. 
The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City 4.14 avg rating — 71 ratings
77. 
First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
by:
Jeanne E. Abrams
3.48 avg rating — 197 ratings 78. 
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.99 avg rating — 5,000 ratings 79. 
Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee's Book and America's Iconic Film Mean to Us Today
by:
Tom Santopietro
3.83 avg rating — 202 ratings 80. 
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
by:
Priya Satia
3.42 avg rating — 192 ratings 81. 
The Dogs that Made Australia: The fascinating untold story of the dog's role in building a nation
by:
Guy Hull
3.87 avg rating — 196 ratings 82. 
Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals 4.42 avg rating — 937 ratings
83. 
The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
by:
Denise Kiernan
3.73 avg rating — 12,856 ratings 83. 
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by:
Steven Levitsky
4.16 avg rating — 30,315 ratings 85. 
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
by:
Neal Bascomb
4.04 avg rating — 1,676 ratings 88. 
Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II
by:
Damien Lewis
4.13 avg rating — 306 ratings 
91. 
Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
by:
Fran Leadon
4.04 avg rating — 447 ratings 
94. 
A German-American Tale: Memoir of a German Immigrant
by:
Annika Romero
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 94. 
96. 
Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
by:
Stephen Duncombe
3.97 avg rating — 281 ratings 97. 
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America
by:
Isaac Butler
4.59 avg rating — 918 ratings 
98. 
A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium: Including: Jack the Ripper, The Beast of Chicago, Fatal Bullet
by:
Rick Geary
3.95 avg rating — 312 ratings 98. 
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
by:
Anders Walker
3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings