History Published in Year: 2019
1. 
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 4.37 avg rating β 60,990 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating β 148,965 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating β 64,207 ratings 4. 
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by:
Daniel Immerwahr
4.46 avg rating β 19,103 ratings 5. 
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
by:
Larry Loftis
3.99 avg rating β 11,602 ratings 
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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
by:
Matti Friedman
3.94 avg rating β 2,465 ratings 8. 
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
by:
Mallory O'Meara
3.96 avg rating β 6,505 ratings 
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
by:
Shawn Levy
3.67 avg rating β 4,466 ratings 11. 
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
by:
Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating β 752 ratings 12. 
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.40 avg rating β 101,056 ratings 13. 
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
by:
Rick Atkinson
4.44 avg rating β 7,759 ratings 14. 
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
by:
DaMaris B. Hill
4.03 avg rating β 792 ratings 
16. 
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating β 25,706 ratings 17. 
No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Man-Eater in History 3.84 avg rating β 2,161 ratings
18. 
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
by:
Andrew G. McCabe
4.17 avg rating β 7,358 ratings 
20. 
The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home 3.91 avg rating β 1,447 ratings
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23. 
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by:
Andy Greenberg
4.35 avg rating β 9,505 ratings 24. 
The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War 3.93 avg rating β 3,180 ratings
25. 
The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
by:
Michael Malice
4.24 avg rating β 2,198 ratings 26. 
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Sonia Purnell
4.15 avg rating β 58,195 ratings 27. 
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
by:
Rachel Monroe
3.70 avg rating β 6,047 ratings 28. 
The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
by:
Sarah Miller
4.01 avg rating β 2,477 ratings 28. 
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
by:
Jared Cohen
4.12 avg rating β 3,163 ratings 30. 
24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
by:
Donald P. Ryan
3.80 avg rating β 1,768 ratings 31. 
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
by:
Richard Gergel
4.42 avg rating β 648 ratings 32. 
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
by:
Violet Moller
3.88 avg rating β 2,140 ratings 33. 
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
by:
James Donovan
4.36 avg rating β 1,672 ratings 34. 
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
by:
Tony Horwitz
3.99 avg rating β 4,136 ratings 35. 
The Last Refuge: A True Story of War, Survival and Life Under Siege in Srebrenica
by:
Hasan NuhanoviΔ
4.32 avg rating β 336 ratings 36. 
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
by:
Lynne Olson
4.22 avg rating β 8,385 ratings 36. 
The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
by:
Gareth Russell
4.02 avg rating β 1,745 ratings 38. 
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II 4.20 avg rating β 2,267 ratings
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by:
Sarah Rose
3.77 avg rating β 6,236 ratings 
42. 
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire 4.20 avg rating β 17,360 ratings
43. 
When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
by:
Susan H. Kamei
4.34 avg rating β 169 ratings 44. 
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 4.29 avg rating β 4,913 ratings
45. 
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
by:
Jack Fairweather
4.33 avg rating β 8,358 ratings 
47. 
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
by:
Don Kulick
4.16 avg rating β 1,008 ratings 48. 
Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
by:
Atul Kohli
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 10 ratings 49. 
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
by:
Elaine F. Weiss
4.02 avg rating β 4,042 ratings 49. 
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History
by:
Brian Kilmeade
4.15 avg rating β 4,217 ratings 51. 
The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
by:
Mira Ptacin
3.70 avg rating β 717 ratings 52. 
Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
by:
Lara Maiklem
4.14 avg rating β 5,390 ratings 53. 
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires
by:
Sara Cockerill
4.15 avg rating β 89 ratings 54. 
Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
by:
Sam Dagher
4.32 avg rating β 1,278 ratings 55. 
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
by:
Pamela S. Nadell
3.88 avg rating β 182 ratings 56. 
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
by:
Garrett M. Graff
4.72 avg rating β 41,748 ratings 57. 
Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now
by:
Helen Pankhurst
4.09 avg rating β 284 ratings 58. 
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
by:
Cecelia Watson
3.68 avg rating β 2,329 ratings 59. 
A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World 4.09 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
by:
Dan Jones
4.13 avg rating β 4,841 ratings 61. 
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
by:
Peter Hessler
4.36 avg rating β 2,744 ratings 
63. 
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
by:
David McCullough
3.82 avg rating β 26,709 ratings 65. 
The Gospel of War: A SEAL Team Six Operator's Battles in the Fight for Good over Evil it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
66. 
Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
by:
Donald L. Miller
4.42 avg rating β 977 ratings 67. 
Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzerβs Historic Boston Marathon
by:
Kim Chaffee
4.50 avg rating β 389 ratings 67. 
The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
by:
Rich Cohen
3.63 avg rating β 2,776 ratings 
71. 
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
by:
S.C. Gwynne
4.35 avg rating β 1,825 ratings 72. 
This Book Changed Everything: The Bible's Amazing Impact On Our World 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
73. 
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.32 avg rating β 6,435 ratings 74. 
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by:
Will Hunt
3.81 avg rating β 2,620 ratings 75. 
No Visible Bruises: What We Donβt Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us 4.50 avg rating β 8,098 ratings
76. 
An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer
by:
Julie Salamon
3.98 avg rating β 143 ratings 77. 
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II 4.50 avg rating β 9,389 ratings
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Arnhem: The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944 4.36 avg rating β 25 ratings
81. 
Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
by:
Colin Asher
4.52 avg rating β 135 ratings 
83. 
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
by:
Peter Houlahan
3.93 avg rating β 2,638 ratings 84. 
Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu
by:
Les Standiford
3.87 avg rating β 212 ratings 85. 
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World
by:
Simon Garfield
3.60 avg rating β 400 ratings 85. 
Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
by:
Iain MacGregor
3.91 avg rating β 1,014 ratings 87. 
The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle 4.33 avg rating β 76 ratings
87. 
The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
by:
Julie Satow
3.81 avg rating β 2,426 ratings 89. 
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
by:
Leo Damrosch
3.92 avg rating β 1,381 ratings 90. 
Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
by:
Jon Meacham
3.77 avg rating β 1,698 ratings 
92. 
Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
by:
Kim A. Wagner
4.24 avg rating β 196 ratings 
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
by:
Gene Weingarten
3.94 avg rating β 3,759 ratings 97. 
The Wars of the Roses: The Bloody Struggle for England's Throne
by:
Hugh Bicheno
3.61 avg rating β 31 ratings 98. 
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
by:
Brad Meltzer
3.82 avg rating β 13,572 ratings 98. 
Soldiers, Scouts and Spies: A military history of the New Zealand Wars 1845β1864
by:
Cliff Simons
4.67 avg rating β 9 ratings 100. 
Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children
by:
Therese Oneill
3.64 avg rating β 1,129 ratings