History & Biography Published in Decade: 2000s
4. 
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
by:
Gillian Gill
3.85 avg rating — 8,726 ratings 
7. 
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 — 739,871 ratings 
8. 
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
by:
Lyndall Gordon
3.85 avg rating — 1,182 ratings 
8. 
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by:
Veronica Buckley
3.45 avg rating — 502 ratings 8. 
The Pied Piper Of South Shore: Toys and Tragedy in Chicago
by:
Caryn Amster
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings 
13. 
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
by:
Taylor Branch
4.43 avg rating — 1,899 ratings 13. 
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope 4.07 avg rating — 31,882 ratings
13. 
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
by:
David Edgerton
3.58 avg rating — 493 ratings 
19. 
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.36 avg rating — 36,108 ratings 19. 
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
by:
Elaine Showalter
4.10 avg rating — 326 ratings 19. 
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by:
Candice Millard
4.21 avg rating — 74,681 ratings 
19. 
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
by:
Jon Meacham
3.86 avg rating — 3,137 ratings 
19. 
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World 4.11 avg rating — 915 ratings
26. 
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
by:
Gerard Jones
4.07 avg rating — 1,660 ratings 26. 
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
by:
Adrienne Mayor
3.95 avg rating — 2,198 ratings 26. 
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
by:
Rob Sheffield
3.87 avg rating — 41,528 ratings 
30. 
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
by:
Judith Flanders
4.18 avg rating — 2,690 ratings 
30. 
The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany'S Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
by:
David Olusoga
4.30 avg rating — 517 ratings 30. 
The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story
by:
Emily Gibson
3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings 30. 
All Those Mornings . . . At the Post: The 20th Century in Sports from Famed Washington Post: Columnist Shirley Povich
by:
Shirley Povich
3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings 
36. 
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
by:
M.J. Carter
4.03 avg rating — 4,254 ratings 36. 
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children 4.26 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
42. 
The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
by:
Ian Mortimer
4.20 avg rating — 2,534 ratings 42. 
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.42 avg rating — 23,638 ratings 42. 
In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
by:
Andrea Weiss
4.22 avg rating — 87 ratings 42. 
The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
by:
Greg King
4.16 avg rating — 448 ratings 
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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
by:
Helen Rappaport
4.05 avg rating — 6,113 ratings 
48. 
54. 
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
54. 
The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era
by:
Helen Reddington
3.70 avg rating — 43 ratings 54. 
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by:
Jim Dwyer
4.30 avg rating — 12,181 ratings 60. 
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by:
Richard Holmes
3.97 avg rating — 9,816 ratings 60. 
Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics
by:
Julius Schwartz
3.65 avg rating — 55 ratings 60. 
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
by:
Linwood Custalow
3.99 avg rating — 624 ratings 
65. 
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
by:
Liza Picard
3.97 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 65. 
65. 
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
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70. 
Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
70. 
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
by:
Kim Todd
3.88 avg rating — 444 ratings 70. 
Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
by:
Barbara Leaming
4.04 avg rating — 1,103 ratings 
75. 
Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
by:
Jill Jonnes
3.78 avg rating — 3,318 ratings 
75. 
Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist, 1914-1949
by:
Nikolai Tolstoy
3.67 avg rating — 39 ratings 
80. 
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by:
Raicho Hiratsuka
3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings 80. 
Lost Voices From the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History
by:
Nick Barratt
3.81 avg rating — 368 ratings 84. 
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
by:
Eric Jager
3.97 avg rating — 6,851 ratings 
88. 
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
by:
Adam Nicolson
3.78 avg rating — 2,086 ratings 
95. 
The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
by:
Afua Cooper
3.80 avg rating — 650 ratings 98. 
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,754 ratings
98. 
The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Child of the Fifties Looks Back
by:
Robert Klein
3.55 avg rating — 110 ratings 