History & Biography Published in Decade: 2010s
1. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,292 ratings 
3. 
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
by:
Thomas Penn
3.83 avg rating — 4,168 ratings 
8. 
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
by:
Peter Guralnick
3.99 avg rating — 1,088 ratings 9. 
Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
by:
David Baldwin
3.50 avg rating — 113 ratings 10. 
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas 3.22 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
11. 
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
by:
Ruth Goodman
4.06 avg rating — 4,691 ratings 
13. 
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating — 10,182 ratings
14. 
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
by:
Ruth Goodman
4.25 avg rating — 7,473 ratings 
16. 
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
by:
Eric Jager
3.82 avg rating — 1,690 ratings 
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20. 
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
by:
Peter Ackroyd
3.46 avg rating — 3,285 ratings 
22. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,276 ratings 
25. 
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by:
Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating — 7,934 ratings 26. 
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
by:
Helen Castor
4.04 avg rating — 8,385 ratings 27. 
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
by:
Leslie P. Peirce
3.77 avg rating — 744 ratings 28. 
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,080 ratings 
32. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,512 ratings 33. 
34. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 426,036 ratings 35. 
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
by:
Blaine Harden
4.01 avg rating — 70,871 ratings 36. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,488 ratings 
39. 
To My Best Girl: Courage, Honor, and Love in the Civil War: The Inspiring Life Stories of Rufus Dawes and Mary Gates
by:
Steve Magnusen
4.53 avg rating — 30 ratings 42. 
Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
by:
Mary McAuliffe
4.05 avg rating — 690 ratings 
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I Am the Immaculate Conception: The Story of Bernadette of Lourdes (Marian Apparition Series)
by:
Paul F. Caranci
4.68 avg rating — 47 ratings 52. 
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
by:
Judith Flanders
4.01 avg rating — 1,762 ratings 52. 
The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
by:
Gavin Edwards
3.54 avg rating — 3,180 ratings 52. 
The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South
by:
John T. Edge
3.82 avg rating — 1,987 ratings 52. 
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 
56. 
Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor i
by:
Bill Schelly
4.37 avg rating — 116 ratings 
56. 
The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement
by:
José Orduña
4.25 avg rating — 97 ratings 
61. 
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
by:
Karen Abbott
3.76 avg rating — 16,837 ratings 
61. 
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
by:
Anne Sebba
3.44 avg rating — 4,656 ratings 61. 
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
by:
Mona Chollet
4.06 avg rating — 21,529 ratings 
65. 
The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
by:
Galawdewos
4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings 65. 
Wakool Crossing: a modern-day investigation into the mysterious death of a young woman in 1916
by:
Mike Richards
3.25 avg rating — 20 ratings 65. 
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
by:
Cary Elwes
4.18 avg rating — 73,027 ratings 
70. 
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
by:
Wendy Moore
3.65 avg rating — 977 ratings 70. 
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
by:
Raghu Karnad
3.89 avg rating — 556 ratings 70. 
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
by:
Fiona Carnarvon
3.64 avg rating — 20,493 ratings 70. 
Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
by:
Mark C. Carnes
4.10 avg rating — 97 ratings 75. 
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
by:
Richard White
4.17 avg rating — 1,574 ratings 75. 
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva 3.97 avg rating — 5,051 ratings
75. 
London's Labyrinth: The World Beneath the City's Streets
by:
Fiona Rule
3.86 avg rating — 80 ratings 78. 
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
by:
Susan Wise Bauer
4.11 avg rating — 5,120 ratings 78. 
America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation
by:
John Bicknell
3.93 avg rating — 101 ratings 78. 
Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
by:
Chandra Manning
4.14 avg rating — 100 ratings 
78. 
The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement 4.30 avg rating — 778 ratings
84. 
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by:
Judith Flanders
3.41 avg rating — 4,258 ratings 84. 
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
84. 
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM
by:
Breanne Fahs
3.95 avg rating — 210 ratings 84. 
The Emperors: How Europe's Greatest Rulers Were Destroyed by World War I
by:
Gareth Russell
4.09 avg rating — 111 ratings 
89. 
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.14 avg rating — 9,249 ratings 89. 
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
by:
Myra MacPherson
3.48 avg rating — 695 ratings 89. 
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
by:
Jacqueline Dinan
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 
93. 
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
by:
Annie Jacobsen
3.94 avg rating — 2,020 ratings 93. 
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
by:
Adrienne Mayor
4.13 avg rating — 1,245 ratings 93. 
A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War
by:
Sebastian Faulks
3.91 avg rating — 186 ratings 97. 
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
by:
Annie Jacobsen
3.99 avg rating — 4,723 ratings 97. 
The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s 4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings
100. 
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
by:
Annie Jacobsen
3.86 avg rating — 10,397 ratings