History Published in Year: 2015
1. 
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
by:
Ruth Goodman
4.06 avg rating — 4,692 ratings 
4. 
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
by:
Michael B. Oren
4.14 avg rating — 1,288 ratings 5. 
Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
by:
Dennis Ross
4.09 avg rating — 367 ratings 
7. 
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
by:
Roger Crowley
4.28 avg rating — 4,260 ratings 
8. 
The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan
by:
Dilip Hiro
3.69 avg rating — 188 ratings 10. 
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
by:
Eugene Rogan
4.17 avg rating — 4,536 ratings 
12. 
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
by:
Scott Shane
4.08 avg rating — 596 ratings 13. 
Buy Me the Sky: The remarkable truth of China's one-child generations
by:
Xinran
3.63 avg rating — 727 ratings 
14. 
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
by:
Andrew Lipman
3.89 avg rating — 167 ratings 14. 
Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945
by:
J. Andrew Ross
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings 17. 
In Search of Shiva: A Study of Folk Religious Practices in Pakistan
by:
Haroon Khalid
3.86 avg rating — 187 ratings 
19. 
Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians
by:
Anam Zakaria
4.06 avg rating — 207 ratings 
19. 
Art Ross: The Hockey Legend Who Built the Bruins
by:
Eric Zweig
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings 22. 
22. 
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics 3.98 avg rating — 284 ratings
25. 
The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority
by:
Andreas T. Rieck
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings 
26. 
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series)
by:
Ian Morris
3.69 avg rating — 324 ratings 
29. 
Monuments, Power and Poverty in India: From Ashoka to the Raj
by:
Ajit S. Bhalla
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 30. 
Issues in Pakistan's Economy: A Political Economy Perspective
by:
S. Akbar Zaidi
4.04 avg rating — 395 ratings 31. 
Neither a Hawk nor a Dove : An Insider’s Account Of Pakistan’s Foreign Policy 3.41 avg rating — 78 ratings
32. 
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World
by:
Christina Lamb
4.45 avg rating — 727 ratings 
36. 
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
by:
Ben Mezrich
3.85 avg rating — 4,808 ratings 37. 
Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism
by:
Charles Clover
4.04 avg rating — 337 ratings 38. 
The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
by:
Dominic Lieven
3.80 avg rating — 793 ratings 39. 
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva 3.97 avg rating — 5,051 ratings
40. 
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
by:
Garry Kasparov
4.04 avg rating — 3,437 ratings 41. 
The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
by:
Arkady Ostrovsky
4.02 avg rating — 1,863 ratings 
43. 
Iran's Deadly Ambition: The Islamic Republic s Quest for Global Power
by:
Ilan Berman
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings 44. 
The Case Against the Iran Deal: How Can We Now Stop Iran from Getting Nukes? 3.40 avg rating — 50 ratings
46. 
The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran
by:
Zackery M. Heern
4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings 47. 
Iran and Pakistan: Security, Diplomacy and American Influence
by:
Alex Vatanka
3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings 48. 
49. 
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
by:
Richard Reeves
4.01 avg rating — 1,024 ratings 
52. 
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
by:
Janice P. Nimura
3.90 avg rating — 2,063 ratings 53. 
Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan
by:
Michael Knapp
4.28 avg rating — 353 ratings 54. 
United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists
by:
Peter L. Bergen
4.07 avg rating — 896 ratings 55. 
Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth
by:
Avi Melamed
4.01 avg rating — 381 ratings 56. 
58. 
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
by:
Gertrude Bell
3.79 avg rating — 508 ratings 
62. 
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
by:
Dan Ephron
4.33 avg rating — 1,246 ratings 63. 
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
by:
Laura Secor
4.14 avg rating — 371 ratings 64. 
The Ottoman endgame. War, revolution, and the making of the modern Middle East, 1908-1923
by:
Sean McMeekin
4.08 avg rating — 957 ratings 65. 
The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
by:
William McCants
3.80 avg rating — 1,504 ratings 
69. 
The China Collectors: America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures
by:
Karl E. Meyer
3.82 avg rating — 91 ratings 
71. 
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
by:
Phyllis Birnbaum
3.25 avg rating — 137 ratings 
73. 
China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
by:
Wang Hui
3.57 avg rating — 58 ratings 
75. 
The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan
by:
Rafia Zakaria
3.77 avg rating — 1,191 ratings 76. 
India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in Our Time
by:
Shashi Tharoor
3.75 avg rating — 297 ratings 
80. 
Darjeeling: The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World's Greatest Tea
by:
Jeff Koehler
3.94 avg rating — 381 ratings 81. 
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905
by:
Ferdinand Mount
3.97 avg rating — 240 ratings 82. 
83. 
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
by:
Raghu Karnad
3.89 avg rating — 556 ratings 84. 
85. 
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
by:
Nisid Hajari
4.03 avg rating — 2,140 ratings 86. 
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.94 avg rating — 3,219 ratings 87. 
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
by:
Charlotte Gordon
4.22 avg rating — 7,200 ratings 
89. 
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
by:
M.T. Anderson
4.35 avg rating — 6,300 ratings 90. 
91. 
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.29 avg rating — 4,240 ratings