History Published in Year: 2016
1. 
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
by:
Sue Klebold
4.14 avg rating — 44,121 ratings 2. 
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by:
Shashi Tharoor
4.17 avg rating — 12,326 ratings 3. 
The Promise of Canada: 150 Years--People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country
by:
Charlotte Gray
4.17 avg rating — 400 ratings 
4. 
Unholy Alliance: The Agenda Iran, Russia, and Jihadists Share for Conquering the World
by:
Jay Sekulow
3.66 avg rating — 199 ratings 4. 
Iran Without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation
by:
Hamid Dabashi
3.68 avg rating — 50 ratings 
9. 
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran 4.15 avg rating — 840 ratings
10. 
Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
by:
Michael Doran
3.80 avg rating — 204 ratings 11. 
The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East
by:
Marc Lynch
3.86 avg rating — 204 ratings 12. 
This Brave New World: India, China and the United States
by:
Anja Manuel
3.93 avg rating — 283 ratings 12. 
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
by:
John B. Judis
3.74 avg rating — 1,565 ratings 
15. 
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
by:
Shadi Hamid
3.79 avg rating — 487 ratings 16. 
My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
by:
Rick Bragg
4.22 avg rating — 4,839 ratings 
18. 
Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
by:
Josh Karp
3.94 avg rating — 379 ratings 
21. 
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings 22. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating — 488,790 ratings 23. 
In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
by:
Carol Burnett
3.84 avg rating — 7,622 ratings 24. 
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
by:
Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating — 3,470 ratings 
26. 
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
by:
Therese Oneill
3.82 avg rating — 9,083 ratings 26. 
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
by:
Bill O'Reilly
4.35 avg rating — 21,287 ratings 26. 
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
by:
Patrick Phillips
4.31 avg rating — 3,488 ratings 26. 
30. 
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.03 avg rating — 1,567 ratings 
32. 
America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State
by:
Osamah F. Khalil
3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings 
36. 
A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy
by:
Peter Kenez
3.91 avg rating — 77 ratings 
38. 
41. 
Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics
by:
Amritjit Singh
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 42. 
The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936–1965
by:
Elisabeth Leake
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 43. 
Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
by:
Walter Reid
3.77 avg rating — 106 ratings 44. 
47. 
Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada
by:
Chelsea Vowel
4.60 avg rating — 1,367 ratings 
49. 
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
by:
Simon Ings
3.67 avg rating — 498 ratings 50. 
Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War
by:
Nigel Cliff
4.14 avg rating — 571 ratings 51. 
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
by:
Simon Morrison
3.23 avg rating — 445 ratings 52. 
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
by:
Malcolm W. Nance
4.08 avg rating — 1,862 ratings 53. 
Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)
by:
Masha Gessen
3.78 avg rating — 662 ratings 54. 
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
by:
Igort
4.29 avg rating — 1,147 ratings 55. 
The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin
by:
David Satter
4.15 avg rating — 843 ratings 56. 
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
by:
Luke Harding
4.25 avg rating — 2,219 ratings 57. 
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
by:
Daniel Beer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 491 ratings 58. 
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
by:
Douglas Smith
3.91 avg rating — 1,990 ratings 
61. 
Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
62. 
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation 3.79 avg rating — 81 ratings
63. 
64. 
Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards
by:
Afshon Ostovar
4.13 avg rating — 97 ratings 
66. 
The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project 3.87 avg rating — 676 ratings
68. 
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds 4.30 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
69. 
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
by:
Pamela S. Turner
3.77 avg rating — 2,098 ratings 
71. 
The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
by:
Patrick Cockburn
4.31 avg rating — 438 ratings 
73. 
76. 
The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis
by:
Patrick Kingsley
4.43 avg rating — 1,583 ratings 77. 
The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East
by:
Roger Hardy
4.02 avg rating — 165 ratings 78. 
The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency 4.01 avg rating — 133 ratings
84. 
The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive?
by:
Rajiv Malhotra
4.34 avg rating — 277 ratings 
88. 
The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore
by:
Manu S. Pillai
4.28 avg rating — 2,066 ratings 89. 
India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Passions of Empire
by:
Jon Wilson
3.76 avg rating — 261 ratings 90. 
The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young
by:
Somini Sengupta
3.97 avg rating — 424 ratings 91. 
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
by:
Sanjeev Sanyal
4.27 avg rating — 1,906 ratings 
93. 
India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia
by:
Srinath Raghavan
4.10 avg rating — 287 ratings 
95. 
Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
by:
Pranay Lal
4.53 avg rating — 588 ratings 96. 
Half Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India
by:
Vinay Sitapati
4.43 avg rating — 2,314 ratings 
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99. 
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
by:
Sarah Glidden
4.02 avg rating — 2,085 ratings 