History Published in Year: 2020
1. 
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating — 131,997 ratings 
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
by:
Ariana Neumann
4.33 avg rating — 7,251 ratings 5. 
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JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956
by:
Fredrik Logevall
4.55 avg rating — 2,843 ratings 10. 
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
by:
Jon Billman
3.68 avg rating — 8,067 ratings 
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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War
by:
Steve Inskeep
3.88 avg rating — 1,535 ratings 13. 
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
by:
Ian W. Toll
4.76 avg rating — 4,716 ratings 14. 
Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
by:
Cody Cassidy
3.87 avg rating — 2,936 ratings 15. 
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories
by:
Mark Bowden
3.91 avg rating — 954 ratings 16. 
The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
by:
Greg King
3.95 avg rating — 522 ratings 
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Queen Victoria and The Romanovs: Sixty Years of Mutual Distrust
by:
Coryne Hall
4.11 avg rating — 175 ratings 19. 
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942
by:
Richard B. Frank
4.42 avg rating — 753 ratings 21. 
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
by:
Stephen Wertheim
3.83 avg rating — 345 ratings 22. 
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia 3.12 avg rating — 6,338 ratings
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Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 4.01 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
by:
Kim Ghattas
4.40 avg rating — 5,430 ratings 25. 
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by:
David Zucchino
4.43 avg rating — 4,087 ratings 25. 
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
by:
Diana Preston
4.20 avg rating — 448 ratings 27. 
Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
by:
Craig Fehrman
4.04 avg rating — 506 ratings 28. 
Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
by:
David Kamp
3.92 avg rating — 1,179 ratings 29. 
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by:
Thomas Rid
4.14 avg rating — 1,450 ratings 30. 
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
by:
Becky Cooper
3.73 avg rating — 12,814 ratings 31. 
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
by:
Philip Rucker
4.10 avg rating — 12,589 ratings 32. 
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II 4.20 avg rating — 2,267 ratings
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Killer Women: Chilling, Dark and Gripping True Crime Stories of Women Who Kill
by:
Nigel Cawthorne
3.29 avg rating — 120 ratings 36. 
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy 3.94 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
by:
Alexander Rose
4.33 avg rating — 583 ratings 37. 
Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
by:
Edward Onaci
4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings 39. 
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Jerry Mitchell
4.43 avg rating — 2,080 ratings 40. 
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
by:
Paul Farmer
4.04 avg rating — 1,199 ratings 41. 
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana 4.25 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World
by:
Duane W. Roller
3.54 avg rating — 204 ratings 44. 
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
by:
Mab Segrest
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings 45. 
The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945
by:
Sinclair McKay
4.18 avg rating — 1,199 ratings 46. 
They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty
by:
John G. Turner
3.92 avg rating — 143 ratings 46. 
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
by:
Richard Grant
4.03 avg rating — 3,727 ratings 
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The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
by:
Charles Goodhart
4.10 avg rating — 498 ratings 50. 
The History Makers: 2,500 Years of Shaping the Past
by:
Richard A. Cohen
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
52. 
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country 3.76 avg rating — 5,943 ratings
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
by:
Chris Wallace
4.26 avg rating — 9,536 ratings 54. 
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
by:
Michael Booth
3.90 avg rating — 2,043 ratings 55. 
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
by:
Alexis Coe
3.74 avg rating — 14,284 ratings 56. 
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
by:
John Connelly
4.18 avg rating — 187 ratings 57. 
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
by:
Larry Tye
3.95 avg rating — 842 ratings 
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Britain and the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire: British Diplomacy and the Birth of the Modern Middle East
by:
Warren Dockter
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
61. 
Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
by:
Michael Chabon
4.22 avg rating — 1,504 ratings 63. 
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
by:
Steve Olson
4.13 avg rating — 757 ratings 64. 
Warrior Saints: Four Centuries of Sikh Military History (Volume 2) (Warrior Saints, 2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by:
David Epstein
4.13 avg rating — 76,400 ratings 66. 
The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History
by:
Andy Greene
4.14 avg rating — 11,778 ratings 67. 
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design
by:
Roberto Bottazzi
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
by:
Emma Southon
4.08 avg rating — 5,630 ratings 70. 
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
by:
Edward Ball
3.76 avg rating — 986 ratings 71. 
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
by:
Fred Kaplan
4.07 avg rating — 986 ratings 71. 
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
by:
Eric Jay Dolin
4.07 avg rating — 1,643 ratings 73. 
The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
by:
Stephen Tomkins
3.73 avg rating — 84 ratings 
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
by:
Simon Parkin
3.89 avg rating — 1,817 ratings 76. 
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American Unemployment: Past, Present, and Future
by:
Frank Stricker
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 78. 
The Equivalents: The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution
by:
Maggie Doherty
4.05 avg rating — 629 ratings 79. 
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
by:
James Gardner
3.87 avg rating — 461 ratings 80. 
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
by:
Valerie Hansen
3.68 avg rating — 1,837 ratings 81. 
The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy
by:
Chris Murphy
4.39 avg rating — 550 ratings 82. 
Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest: A Red-Light History of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska 3.47 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945
by:
N.A.M. Rodger
4.52 avg rating — 31 ratings 86. 
Sacred Warriors: Shia Militias, the Future of Iraq, and Iran's Battle for the Middle East
by:
Ranj Alaaldin
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 87. 
Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
by:
Svenja O’Donnell
4.25 avg rating — 987 ratings 
88. 
November 1918: The German Revolution
by:
Robert Gerwarth
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 262 ratings 
92. 
Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
by:
Chris Gosden
3.60 avg rating — 1,129 ratings 
94. 
Neptune’s Admiral: The Life of Sir Bertram Ramsay, Commander of Dunkirk and D-Day
by:
Andrew Gordon
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 95. 
Franco and the Condor Legion: The Spanish Civil War in the Air
by:
Michael Alpert
3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings 95. 
Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
by:
Alison Weir
3.96 avg rating — 1,663 ratings 95. 
98. 
The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020
by:
Tim Weiner
4.07 avg rating — 656 ratings 98. 
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
by:
Douglas Boin
3.50 avg rating — 1,025 ratings 100. 