Historical Nonfiction 2018
101. 
Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
by:
Linda Carroll
4.22 avg rating — 430 ratings 102. 
The Audacity of Inez Burns: Dreams, Desire, Treachery & Ruin in the City of Gold
by:
Stephen G. Bloom
4.02 avg rating — 454 ratings 
104. 
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century 4.01 avg rating — 33,625 ratings
105. 
Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe
by:
John Ferling
3.81 avg rating — 63 ratings 107. 
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.80 avg rating — 1,979 ratings 108. 
The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras 4.30 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
109. 
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
by:
Robin Waterfield
3.91 avg rating — 380 ratings 109. 
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From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation
by:
Steve Ross
4.58 avg rating — 1,272 ratings 112. 
The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
by:
Joseph Rodota
3.79 avg rating — 153 ratings 113. 
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More Than a Doctrine: The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East
by:
Randall Fowler
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 115. 
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
by:
Graham Robb
3.63 avg rating — 566 ratings 116. 
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
by:
Daniel Kalder
3.63 avg rating — 477 ratings 
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118. 
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era
by:
Joseph Vogel
4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings 
123. 
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation 4.23 avg rating — 834 ratings
124. 
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy 4.09 avg rating — 504 ratings
124. 
Working for the Man, Playing in the Band: My Years with James Brown
by:
Damon Wood
3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings 
128. 
Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever
by:
Peter Rader
3.86 avg rating — 227 ratings 130. 
The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis 3.74 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre: Murder, Arson and the Crime of the Century
by:
Geoff Plunkett
4.39 avg rating — 66 ratings 131. 
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
by:
John Strausbaugh
3.92 avg rating — 145 ratings 131. 
The Ailing Nation: Lessons From the Bedside for America's Leaders
by:
Nate Link
4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 
135. 
The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal: the Ill-Fated British and Russian Royal Alliance
by:
Frances Welch
3.75 avg rating — 145 ratings 137. ![RSS: A View to the Inside [Hardcover] Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1532697600i/40959589._SX100_.jpg)
RSS: A View to the Inside [Hardcover] Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle 3.86 avg rating — 218 ratings
138. 
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 138. 
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.52 avg rating — 83,083 ratings 
141. 
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
by:
Derek Leebaert
4.13 avg rating — 89 ratings 141. 
Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill 3.85 avg rating — 3,436 ratings
143. 
An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business
by:
Gerard Helferich
3.61 avg rating — 77 ratings 143. 
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
by:
Patricia Miller
4.02 avg rating — 705 ratings 
147. 
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by:
Victoria Johnson
4.03 avg rating — 1,191 ratings 147. 
Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
by:
James Miller
3.54 avg rating — 174 ratings 149. 
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by:
Eliza Griswold
4.26 avg rating — 4,531 ratings 150. 
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
by:
Gilbert King
4.13 avg rating — 2,303 ratings 
152. 
Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical
by:
Kevin Winkler
4.04 avg rating — 49 ratings 152. 
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
by:
Jay Cost
3.70 avg rating — 234 ratings 154. 
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu
by:
Anshel Pfeffer
4.15 avg rating — 433 ratings 155. 
The Murderer of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary
by:
Marc Mulholland
3.45 avg rating — 38 ratings 156. 
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
by:
Yunte Huang
3.60 avg rating — 641 ratings 157. 
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
by:
Harold Schechter
3.47 avg rating — 14,869 ratings 158. 
A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
158. 
Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
160. 
The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
by:
Richard L. Hasen
3.90 avg rating — 52 ratings 161. 
Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk
by:
John Lingan
3.60 avg rating — 144 ratings 162. 
A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign Relations
by:
Warren I. Cohen
3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings 163. 
Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America
by:
John Loughery
3.99 avg rating — 81 ratings 
165. 
Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution 3.57 avg rating — 218 ratings
166. 
Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
by:
Catherine Hewitt
3.91 avg rating — 456 ratings 167. 
168. 
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by:
James Forman Jr.
4.37 avg rating — 4,460 ratings 168. 
The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport 3.17 avg rating — 42 ratings
170. 
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law
by:
Jill Norgren
3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings 
171. 
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
by:
Michelle Dean
3.42 avg rating — 1,502 ratings 173. 
Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion
by:
Steve Fraser
3.28 avg rating — 25 ratings 174. 
The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality
by:
Anna-Lisa Cox
3.88 avg rating — 315 ratings 175. 
Doctor Benjamin Franklin's Dream America: A Novel of the Digital Revolution 3.51 avg rating — 70 ratings
176. 
The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
177. 
Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music 4.20 avg rating — 315 ratings
177. 
Our Country: Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era (The North's Civil War) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
179. 
Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
by:
Joshua Zeitz
4.03 avg rating — 224 ratings 
181. 
The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858
by:
Edwin G. Burrows
3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings 182. 
Operation Medusa: The Furious Battle That Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban
by:
David Fraser
3.79 avg rating — 149 ratings 182. 
184. 
Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love 3.81 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
184. 
The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind 3.87 avg rating — 810 ratings
186. 
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
by:
Scott W. Stern
3.79 avg rating — 377 ratings 186. 
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
by:
H.W. Brands
4.13 avg rating — 2,327 ratings 188. 
The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
by:
John Branch
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,533 ratings 188. 
Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It
by:
Brian Murphy
3.96 avg rating — 609 ratings 190. 
Full Battle Rattle: My Story as the Longest-Serving Special Forces A-Team Soldier in American History
by:
Changiz Lahidji
4.11 avg rating — 312 ratings 190. 
The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
by:
John Reeves
3.83 avg rating — 102 ratings 192. 
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
by:
Beate Klarsfeld
4.09 avg rating — 219 ratings 193. 
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation 4.06 avg rating — 384 ratings
194. 
Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
by:
Ethan J. Kytle
4.40 avg rating — 487 ratings 194. 
A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
by:
Monte Reel
4.26 avg rating — 392 ratings 
197. 
The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder
by:
Nikki Meredith
3.23 avg rating — 1,750 ratings 198. 
With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice
by:
Dorothy Marcic
3.06 avg rating — 353 ratings 
