Rediscovered history
2. 
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Liza Mundy
3.96 avg rating β 29,155 ratings 3. 
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating β 64,219 ratings 4. 
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
by:
Tim Butcher
3.81 avg rating β 4,036 ratings 
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George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
by:
Brian Kilmeade
3.85 avg rating β 20,616 ratings 
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
by:
Scott Weidensaul
4.07 avg rating β 1,013 ratings 9. 
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
by:
Norman Davies
3.88 avg rating β 3,313 ratings 10. 
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
by:
SiΓ’n Evans
3.74 avg rating β 1,068 ratings 11. 
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,063 ratings
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
by:
Lars Brownworth
4.12 avg rating β 5,370 ratings 13. 
Granuaile: Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen
by:
Anne Chambers
3.48 avg rating β 1,079 ratings 
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,256 ratings 15. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating β 113,283 ratings 17. 
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
by:
Cokie Roberts
3.64 avg rating β 8,822 ratings 18. 
The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels 4.09 avg rating β 915 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating β 75,022 ratings 20. 
The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
by:
Deborah Cadbury
4.20 avg rating β 2,414 ratings 21. 
Raw Deal: Horrible and Ironic Stories of Forgotten Americans
by:
Ken Smith
4.17 avg rating β 70 ratings 22. 
The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
by:
Tim Severin
4.25 avg rating β 1,868 ratings 23. 
Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America)
by:
Wayne Flynt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 19 ratings 24. 
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by:
Tony Horwitz
3.96 avg rating β 9,298 ratings 25. 
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
by:
Violet Moller
3.88 avg rating β 2,141 ratings 26. 
I Love it When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech
by:
Ralph Keyes
3.47 avg rating β 285 ratings 27. 
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
by:
Alexander Rose
3.82 avg rating β 6,004 ratings 28. 
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
by:
Eric B. Schultz
3.68 avg rating β 422 ratings 
30. 
Nobody Knows: The Forgotten Story of One of the Most Influential Figures in American Music
by:
Craig von Buseck
4.23 avg rating β 53 ratings 
32. 
America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
by:
Kenneth C. Davis
3.56 avg rating β 2,597 ratings 33. 
We the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States
by:
Anneke Campbell
4.15 avg rating β 13 ratings 
35. 
Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
by:
Lesley Adkins
3.78 avg rating β 115 ratings 35. 
We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement
by:
Urmila Pawar
4.40 avg rating β 35 ratings 35. 
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
by:
Wendy L. Rouse
3.82 avg rating β 101 ratings 35. 
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation 4.06 avg rating β 384 ratings
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Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
by:
Sarah Prager
4.13 avg rating β 3,204 ratings 40. 
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
by:
Bart D. Ehrman
4.07 avg rating β 6,119 ratings 40. 
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
by:
Heather Sheard
3.84 avg rating β 51 ratings 40. 
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty 3.81 avg rating β 1,341 ratings
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
by:
Sam Maggs
3.98 avg rating β 2,136 ratings 46. 
The Home Brewer's Guide to Vintage Beer: Rediscovered Recipes for Classic Brews Dating from 1800 to 1965
by:
Ronald Pattinson
3.92 avg rating β 62 ratings 46. 
D DAY Through German Eyes: Book One and Book Two
by:
Holger Eckhertz
4.40 avg rating β 959 ratings 46. 
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest
by:
Ed Caesar
3.79 avg rating β 3,224 ratings 46. 
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
by:
Mona Chollet
4.06 avg rating β 21,523 ratings 51. 
At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England 3.73 avg rating β 814 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating β 44,181 ratings
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
by:
Tamim Ansary
4.40 avg rating β 11,838 ratings 
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating β 10,180 ratings
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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War
by:
Matti Friedman
4.05 avg rating β 1,818 ratings 55. 
A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australiaβs Only All-Girl Garage
by:
Loretta Smith
4.13 avg rating β 159 ratings 58. 
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married 3.61 avg rating β 390 ratings
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The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics 3.83 avg rating β 418 ratings
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Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
by:
Lynne Olson
4.36 avg rating β 398 ratings 58. 
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by:
Erik Larson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 739,791 ratings 62. 
Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business
by:
Jane R. Plitt
3.83 avg rating β 30 ratings 62. 
30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
by:
Bill Steigerwald
3.91 avg rating β 232 ratings 62. 
Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
by:
Gordon Thomas
4.07 avg rating β 1,145 ratings 65. 
Dr. MΓΌtter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine 4.01 avg rating β 8,184 ratings
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Rescue Warriors: The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes
by:
David Helvarg
3.93 avg rating β 221 ratings 67. 
Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk
by:
Don Lattin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 96 ratings 68. 
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
by:
Eric Metaxas
4.20 avg rating β 8,996 ratings 69. 
Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge
by:
Thomas Fleming
4.06 avg rating β 1,795 ratings 71. 
The Quality Companion: Celebrating the Forgotten Publisher of Plastic Man
by:
Mike Kooiman
4.16 avg rating β 25 ratings 
72. 
The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae: The Complete Story of Reggae Told Through Its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten
by:
Michael Garnice
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 74. 
Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There
by:
Roderick Bailey
4.38 avg rating β 222 ratings 
76. 
The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
by:
Jesse J. Holland
3.72 avg rating β 490 ratings 78. 
In the Fields and the Trenches: The Famous and the Forgotten on the Battlefields of World War I 3.66 avg rating β 38 ratings
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JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
by:
Bruce Riedel
4.16 avg rating β 426 ratings 80. 
Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
by:
Rebecca Lemov
3.55 avg rating β 20 ratings 80. 
Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks 4.15 avg rating β 836 ratings
82. 
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
by:
Lisa Goff
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 82. 
The Forgotten Tudor Women: Anne Seymour, Jane Dudley & Elisabeth Parr 3.88 avg rating β 362 ratings
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Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens 3.80 avg rating β 613 ratings
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Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
by:
John D. Lukacs
4.23 avg rating β 1,268 ratings 87. 
Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army
by:
Barnaby Phillips
4.24 avg rating β 105 ratings 87. 
Vintage True Crime Stories Vol I: An Illustrated Anthology of Forgotten Cases of Murder & Mayhem 3.74 avg rating β 390 ratings
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
by:
Linda Hervieux
4.15 avg rating β 625 ratings 89. 
The Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America
by:
Ben Bradlee Jr.
3.68 avg rating β 247 ratings 
92. 
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
by:
Lynne Olson
4.48 avg rating β 1,243 ratings 92. 
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Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
by:
Kate Cooper
3.79 avg rating β 144 ratings 94. 
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific 4.53 avg rating β 5,332 ratings
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White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
by:
Don Jordan
3.97 avg rating β 824 ratings 97. 
A Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History
by:
Kenneth C. Davis
3.63 avg rating β 672 ratings 97. 
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The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty and America's Forgotten Military Disaster 3.76 avg rating β 123 ratings
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Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future
by:
Robert M. Schoch
4.02 avg rating β 450 ratings