History & Biography Published in Decade: 2010s
103. 
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.19 avg rating — 6,915 ratings 
103. 
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth
by:
Paula Byrne
4.03 avg rating — 1,758 ratings 
106. 
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by:
Masha Gessen
3.82 avg rating — 11,845 ratings 106. 
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
106. 
Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
by:
Barbara Leaming
3.69 avg rating — 1,637 ratings 110. 
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Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins
by:
Onyeka
4.36 avg rating — 107 ratings 
113. 
Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.15 avg rating — 247 ratings 113. 
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II 4.24 avg rating — 101 ratings
117. 
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
by:
Steve Inskeep
3.93 avg rating — 1,829 ratings 117. 
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class 4.19 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
117. 
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de Janzé
by:
Paul Spicer
3.65 avg rating — 572 ratings 
121. 
The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
by:
Akbar Ahmed
4.20 avg rating — 125 ratings 124. 
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
by:
Joe Hagan
3.76 avg rating — 2,291 ratings 
124. 
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by:
Greg King
4.04 avg rating — 1,652 ratings 127. 
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
by:
Paul Collins
3.58 avg rating — 8,675 ratings 
127. 
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
by:
Jill Lepore
3.67 avg rating — 4,735 ratings 127. 
The Russian Court at Sea: The Voyage of HMS Marlborough
by:
Frances Welch
3.42 avg rating — 146 ratings 
131. 
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
by:
Thomas King
4.24 avg rating — 17,336 ratings 131. 
The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery
by:
Greg King
4.02 avg rating — 602 ratings 135. 
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
by:
Philip Zaleski
4.08 avg rating — 2,174 ratings 135. 
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series) 4.13 avg rating — 9,595 ratings
139. 
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
by:
Clay Risen
4.01 avg rating — 209 ratings 139. 
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn 4.04 avg rating — 11,913 ratings
139. 
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England
by:
Sarah Wise
3.81 avg rating — 506 ratings 139. 
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
by:
Susan Bordo
3.86 avg rating — 3,033 ratings 
143. 
Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music 4.20 avg rating — 315 ratings
146. 
146. 
Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe 3.95 avg rating — 171 ratings
146. 
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
by:
Pankaj Mishra
3.96 avg rating — 2,559 ratings 
150. 
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
by:
Sam White
3.96 avg rating — 140 ratings 150. 
The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930
by:
Jolie A. Sheffer
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 150. 
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by:
Bill Dedman
3.80 avg rating — 39,204 ratings 153. 
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
by:
Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating — 3,469 ratings 153. 
153. 
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
by:
Susan Dackerman
4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings 153. 
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
by:
Greg King
3.73 avg rating — 554 ratings 157. 
The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
by:
Thomas Levenson
4.05 avg rating — 2,109 ratings 157. 
Battle for the North Atlantic: The Strategic Naval Campaign that Won World War II in Europe
by:
John R. Bruning
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings 157. 
157. 
How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
by:
Frances Wilson
3.48 avg rating — 829 ratings 161. 
Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
by:
Charles Spencer
3.85 avg rating — 1,517 ratings 
161. 
164. 
Skull in the Ashes: Murder, a Gold Rush Manhunt, and the Birth of Circumstantial Evidence in America
by:
Peter Kaufman
3.58 avg rating — 88 ratings 164. 
Casting off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt's First Feminist 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
166. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,203 ratings 
166. 
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.82 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 169. 
Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe 4.25 avg rating — 546 ratings
169. 
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
by:
Alondra Nelson
4.30 avg rating — 486 ratings 169. 
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
by:
Laura Thompson
3.33 avg rating — 571 ratings 
172. 
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
by:
Alexandra Harris
4.15 avg rating — 207 ratings 
175. 
175. 
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
by:
Molly Peacock
3.87 avg rating — 1,283 ratings 175. 
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.16 avg rating — 3,929 ratings 178. 
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
by:
John B. Judis
3.74 avg rating — 1,565 ratings 178. 
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England (Indigenous Americas)
by:
Jean M. O'Brien
4.14 avg rating — 165 ratings 178. 
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
by:
Hugh Brewster
3.97 avg rating — 2,769 ratings 
181. 
Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
by:
Andrew Wilson
3.98 avg rating — 2,567 ratings 183. 
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
by:
Kara Cooney
3.65 avg rating — 7,515 ratings 
183. 
And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist & the Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss & Betrayal
by:
Christopher Ward
3.85 avg rating — 899 ratings 186. 
The Band That Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic
by:
Steve Turner
3.66 avg rating — 629 ratings 
188. 
190. 
Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality (Double Exposure, 2)
by:
John Lewis
4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings 
195. 
We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
by:
Joy-Ann Reid
4.34 avg rating — 552 ratings 
197. 
Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
by:
Jonathan Chait
3.87 avg rating — 649 ratings 
199. 
Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
by:
Greg King
3.98 avg rating — 858 ratings