History Published in Year: 2018
102. 
Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
103. 
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America 4.10 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
104. 
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 105. 
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
by:
Imani Perry
4.27 avg rating — 1,502 ratings 
107. 
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
by:
Shomari Wills
3.93 avg rating — 3,773 ratings 107. 
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A Gift From Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram 4.23 avg rating — 364 ratings
109. 
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
by:
Anders Walker
3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings 109. 
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
by:
Robert Kurson
4.53 avg rating — 11,265 ratings 112. 
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
by:
Jay Cost
3.70 avg rating — 234 ratings 113. 
The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple
by:
Corey Mead
3.82 avg rating — 185 ratings 114. 
What Is China?: Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History
by:
Zhaoguang Ge
3.92 avg rating — 40 ratings 114. 
117. 
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
by:
Kathryn Harkup
3.90 avg rating — 610 ratings 
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119. 
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
by:
Bill O'Reilly
4.09 avg rating — 14,988 ratings 
122. 
A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia
by:
Sandy Allen
3.55 avg rating — 705 ratings 122. 
Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
by:
Gregory Pardlo
3.54 avg rating — 373 ratings 
124. 
After Jutland: The Naval War in Northern European Waters, June 1916-November 1918
by:
James Goldrick
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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127. 
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
by:
Ronen Bergman
4.41 avg rating — 9,239 ratings 127. 
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 130. 
Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
by:
Fred Pearce
4.03 avg rating — 225 ratings 
132. 
Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
by:
Alfredo Corchado
4.01 avg rating — 283 ratings 132. 
A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
134. 
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
by:
W. Scott Poole
3.91 avg rating — 956 ratings 134. 
Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill 3.85 avg rating — 3,434 ratings
137. 
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
by:
Fiona Sampson
3.63 avg rating — 850 ratings 137. 
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 — 4,391 ratings 137. 
The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945
by:
N.A.M. Rodger
4.52 avg rating — 31 ratings 140. 
It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America 4.05 avg rating — 1,734 ratings
140. 
A Star Is Born: Judy Garland and the Film that Got Away
by:
Lorna Luft
4.04 avg rating — 257 ratings 
144. 
Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man: Fame, Fashion, Art really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
144. 
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 146. 
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 146. 
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
by:
Vince Beiser
4.06 avg rating — 2,156 ratings 148. 
148. 
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World 3.55 avg rating — 280 ratings
151. 
Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt
by:
Philip Walker
4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings 151. 
Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
by:
Roseann Lake
3.81 avg rating — 676 ratings 153. 
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation 4.06 avg rating — 384 ratings
153. 
Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance 3.72 avg rating — 151 ratings
153. 
The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons: Decoding the Ancestry of the English
by:
Jean Manco
3.82 avg rating — 164 ratings 157. 
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy 4.09 avg rating — 504 ratings
157. 
The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis 3.74 avg rating — 108 ratings
159. 
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
by:
Cait Flanders
3.46 avg rating — 65,668 ratings 159. 
Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
by:
Dan Abrams
3.88 avg rating — 5,421 ratings 161. 
162. 
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
by:
Howard Bryant
4.39 avg rating — 743 ratings 162. 
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
by:
Yunte Huang
3.60 avg rating — 641 ratings 164. 
The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City 4.14 avg rating — 71 ratings
165. 
Claire Trevor: The Life and Films of the Queen of Noir
by:
Derek Sculthorpe
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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166. 
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 
171. 
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
by:
Priya Satia
3.42 avg rating — 192 ratings 
172. 
The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression
by:
Ben Montgomery
3.75 avg rating — 219 ratings 
175. 
Suez Deconstructed: An Interactive Study in Crisis, War, and Peacemaking 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
175. 
Leaflets of the Russian Revolution: Socialist Organizing in 1917
by:
Barbara C. Allen
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings 
178. 
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
by:
Jeanne Theoharis
4.32 avg rating — 757 ratings 180. 
First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power 3.97 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
182. 
Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
183. 
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 185. 
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 186. 
Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever
by:
Peter Rader
3.86 avg rating — 227 ratings 186. 
Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
by:
Ethan J. Kytle
4.40 avg rating — 487 ratings 186. 
Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921–1931
by:
Nathan Marcus
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 189. 
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 189. 
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by:
Tim Mohr
4.03 avg rating — 1,151 ratings 191. 
Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
by:
Fawaz A. Gerges
3.73 avg rating — 262 ratings 192. 
The Final Race: The Incredible World War II Story of the Olympian Who Inspired Chariots of Fire 4.08 avg rating — 241 ratings
193. 
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
by:
Sam Kashner
3.69 avg rating — 3,070 ratings 
194. 
Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling
by:
Amy Chozick
3.73 avg rating — 2,167 ratings 197. 
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
by:
Amy Chua
4.20 avg rating — 4,007 ratings 200. 
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
by:
Karina Longworth
4.08 avg rating — 2,179 ratings