History Published in Decade: 2010s
2. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 426,026 ratings 
4. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,223 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,277 ratings 9. 
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,232 ratings 10. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,194 ratings 
13. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,515 ratings 14. 
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.44 avg rating — 7,768 ratings 15. 
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
by:
Helen Castor
4.04 avg rating — 8,385 ratings 
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
by:
Candice Millard
4.11 avg rating — 16,990 ratings 18. 
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,796 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,623 ratings
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by:
Tom Reiss
4.02 avg rating — 21,033 ratings 
23. 
The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
by:
Violet Moller
3.88 avg rating — 2,142 ratings 
24. 
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
by:
Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings 26. 
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
by:
Jon Meacham
4.26 avg rating — 15,724 ratings 
28. 
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by:
Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,827 ratings 28. 
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
by:
Brad Meltzer
3.82 avg rating — 13,575 ratings 30. 
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by:
John Vaillant
4.07 avg rating — 18,590 ratings 
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The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion
by:
Des Ekin
4.08 avg rating — 179 ratings 
34. 
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II 4.27 avg rating — 11,421 ratings
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
by:
John Heilemann
4.13 avg rating — 22,714 ratings 38. 
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
by:
Dan Jones
4.25 avg rating — 22,365 ratings 39. 
The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
by:
Jim Marrs
3.91 avg rating — 735 ratings 40. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,291 ratings 41. 
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,079 ratings 42. 
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by:
Scott Anderson
4.08 avg rating — 16,527 ratings 42. 
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
by:
Nina Willner
4.37 avg rating — 12,282 ratings 
46. 
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
by:
Elaine F. Weiss
4.02 avg rating — 4,042 ratings 46. 
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
by:
Neil Irwin
4.05 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 49. 
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 — 11,267 ratings 49. 
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
by:
Deborah Cadbury
4.04 avg rating — 2,146 ratings 
49. 
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II 4.20 avg rating — 46,352 ratings
54. 
Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
by:
Greg King
3.98 avg rating — 858 ratings 54. 
¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
54. 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by:
Brian Alexander
3.91 avg rating — 1,852 ratings 
59. 
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
by:
Anne Harrington
4.15 avg rating — 998 ratings 59. 
Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
by:
Tucker Carlson
4.28 avg rating — 6,201 ratings 62. 
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean 3.64 avg rating — 600 ratings
62. 
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 
62. 
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
by:
Kevin M. Kruse
4.06 avg rating — 1,237 ratings 62. 
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by:
Steven Levitsky
4.16 avg rating — 30,328 ratings 67. 
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 67. 
69. 
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II 3.92 avg rating — 8,412 ratings
69. 
The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World (3) (Politics of Place)
by:
Tim Marshall
4.01 avg rating — 6,457 ratings 69. 
74. 
Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
by:
Heather Sheard
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings 74. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,953 ratings 77. 
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
by:
Dava Sobel
3.66 avg rating — 2,109 ratings 77. 
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
by:
Giles Milton
4.36 avg rating — 1,133 ratings 77. 
77. 
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,563 ratings
81. 
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice 4.30 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
by:
Edith Sheffer
3.81 avg rating — 1,853 ratings 
88. 
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
by:
Simon Winchester
3.86 avg rating — 4,252 ratings 88. 
Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11
by:
Lindsay Palmer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
91. 
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.12 avg rating — 39,124 ratings 
91. 
Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe
by:
Tom Doyle
4.59 avg rating — 1,030 ratings 
95. 
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
by:
Ian W. Toll
4.62 avg rating — 6,743 ratings 98. 
Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth 3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
by:
Franck Prévot
4.27 avg rating — 700 ratings