History Published in Year: 2020
101. 
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
by:
Annalee Newitz
3.78 avg rating — 7,116 ratings 102. 
Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump
by:
Tevi Troy
3.65 avg rating — 91 ratings 103. 
Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World
by:
Andrew Phillips
3.73 avg rating — 59 ratings 103. 
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
by:
Katherine Eban
4.42 avg rating — 7,196 ratings 105. 
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
by:
Liam Vaughan
4.20 avg rating — 3,071 ratings 106. 
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
by:
Jia Lynn Yang
4.14 avg rating — 795 ratings 107. 
108. 
They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans 4.21 avg rating — 66 ratings
112. 
Post Office Women at War, 1939–45: Gender, Conflict and Public Service Employment
by:
Mark J. Crowley
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 113. 
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 — 1,447 ratings
113. 
Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326
by:
Kathryn Warner
3.55 avg rating — 86 ratings 113. 
The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland 1306 - 1328
by:
Colm McNamee
3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings 116. 
Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art 4.43 avg rating — 113 ratings
116. 
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
by:
Laurence Rees
4.53 avg rating — 1,526 ratings 118. 
The Holy Shroud: A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death
by:
Gary Vikan
3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings 119. 
The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution
by:
Tom Shachtman
3.75 avg rating — 67 ratings 120. 
120. 
The House of Godwin: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Saxon Dynasty
by:
Michael John Key
4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings 
123. 
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
by:
Seb Falk
3.67 avg rating — 1,456 ratings 124. 
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War
by:
Archie Brown
3.99 avg rating — 86 ratings 124. 
124. 
The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
by:
Stephen R. Bown
4.15 avg rating — 1,713 ratings 127. 
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance 3.68 avg rating — 504 ratings
127. 
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 4,316 ratings 
127. 
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
by:
Toby Wilkinson
3.96 avg rating — 998 ratings 127. 
Race and Culture: writings on race, racial differences, and the effect of race upon culture
by:
Gustave Le Bon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 132. 
Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News
by:
Lisa Napoli
3.80 avg rating — 281 ratings 132. 
France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime
by:
Jon Elster
3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings 132. 
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 — 58,207 ratings 
136. 
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
by:
David Nasaw
4.08 avg rating — 552 ratings 137. 
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America 4.23 avg rating — 2,133 ratings
140. 
Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics
by:
Zoltan L Hajnal
3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings 141. 
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 4.32 avg rating — 332 ratings
142. 
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
by:
H.W. Brands
4.18 avg rating — 1,450 ratings 143. 
The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World
by:
Barry Gewen
4.03 avg rating — 469 ratings 144. 
RAAF Black Cats: The Secret History of the Covert Catalina Mine-Laying Operations to Cripple Japan's War Machine
by:
Robert Cleworth
4.03 avg rating — 103 ratings 145. 
The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
by:
Andrew Whitby
3.76 avg rating — 218 ratings 145. 
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
by:
John Gooch
3.72 avg rating — 295 ratings 147. 
In the Path of Conquest: Resistance to Alexander the Great
by:
Waldemar Heckel
3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings 148. 
The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statistics
by:
Boris Starling
3.54 avg rating — 204 ratings 149. 
D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France
by:
Jonathan Trigg
4.20 avg rating — 251 ratings 149. 
Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815 3.75 avg rating — 101 ratings
151. 
This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
by:
Jon Mooallem
3.77 avg rating — 1,628 ratings 151. 
154. 
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
by:
Ben Wilson
4.14 avg rating — 2,498 ratings 156. 
158. 
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
by:
Christina Lamb
4.64 avg rating — 4,091 ratings 158. 
The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power
by:
Peter Ross Range
4.17 avg rating — 211 ratings 
161. 
Island Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain
by:
David Reynolds
3.67 avg rating — 121 ratings 163. 
Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy
by:
Ann L. Tucker
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 164. 
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
by:
Carolyn Forché
4.42 avg rating — 3,266 ratings 
167. 
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
by:
Marc Morris
4.32 avg rating — 5,417 ratings 169. 
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
by:
Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings 
171. 
We Remember the Coming of the White Man: Dene Elders Tell the History of Their Times 4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings
172. 
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World 4.09 avg rating — 2,779 ratings
174. 
Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
174. 
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution 4.17 avg rating — 410 ratings
176. 
177. 
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
by:
Richard Ovenden
3.72 avg rating — 1,661 ratings 
179. 
Maps from Extinct Countries: Or Fifty Obituaries for Countries that Died in Strange and Ridiculous Ways
by:
Gideon Defoe
3.58 avg rating — 3,145 ratings 
180. 
Figuring Out The Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History
by:
Peter Turchin
3.01 avg rating — 111 ratings 
183. 
The Lesson of this Century: With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State
by:
Karl Popper
3.55 avg rating — 239 ratings 183. 
Nobody Does it Better: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond
by:
Edward Gross
4.03 avg rating — 236 ratings 183. 
Silent Cities New York: Hidden Histories of the Region’s Cemeteries
by:
Jessica Ferri
4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings 
188. 
Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo
by:
Louise Callaghan
4.09 avg rating — 1,026 ratings 188. 
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1734 - 1861
by:
Louis Mendola
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
190. 
1652: The Cardinal, the Prince, and the Crisis of the 'Fronde'
by:
David Parrott
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 190. 
Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
193. 
Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts
by:
Jeff Forret
4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings 193. 
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
by:
Greg Jenner
3.80 avg rating — 3,273 ratings 193. 
The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London
by:
Simon Jenkins
3.67 avg rating — 63 ratings 196. 
196. 
The Fall of Empires: A Brief History of Imperial Collapse
by:
Chad Denton
3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings 196. 
Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
by:
Bill O'Reilly
4.19 avg rating — 10,849 ratings 
200. 
Still Winning: Why America Went All In on Donald Trump-And Why We Must Do It Again
by:
Charles Hurt
4.27 avg rating — 157 ratings