Best History Books
103. 
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
by:
Noam Chomsky
4.34 avg rating β 1,603 ratings 
108. 
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
by:
Russell Shorto
4.17 avg rating β 11,143 ratings 109. 
Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
by:
Yuan Yang
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,320 ratings 110. 
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
by:
Susan Wise Bauer
4.11 avg rating β 6,406 ratings 111. 
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
by:
Peter Watson
4.18 avg rating β 1,435 ratings 
113. 
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by:
David McCullough
4.25 avg rating β 18,112 ratings 114. 
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating β 27,075 ratings 
116. 
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by:
Tom Holland
4.17 avg rating β 11,230 ratings 
118. 
119. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating β 215,185 ratings 120. 
121. 
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
by:
Robert M. Edsel
3.80 avg rating β 51,853 ratings 
130. 
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating β 8,810 ratings
131. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,255 ratings 
133. 
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
3.94 avg rating β 28,832 ratings 
135. 
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire
by:
John Newsinger
4.26 avg rating β 737 ratings 
137. 
138. 
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn 4.04 avg rating β 11,913 ratings
139. 
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by:
Barbara Demick
4.45 avg rating β 96,061 ratings 140. 
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 4.18 avg rating β 18,438 ratings
142. 
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
by:
Eamon Duffy
4.26 avg rating β 1,242 ratings 
145. 
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.36 avg rating β 36,106 ratings 
149. 
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
by:
Richard J. Evans
4.35 avg rating β 7,084 ratings 
152. 
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
by:
David Halberstam
4.22 avg rating β 9,183 ratings 
154. 
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
by:
Richard J. Evans
4.39 avg rating β 5,926 ratings 155. 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating β 220,440 ratings 156. 
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by:
Candice Millard
4.21 avg rating β 74,673 ratings 157. 
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age 3.83 avg rating β 12,692 ratings
158. 
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating β 3,469 ratings
158. 
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by:
Erik Larson
4.05 avg rating β 70,018 ratings 
161. 
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II 4.18 avg rating β 961 ratings
163. 
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by:
Tony Horwitz
4.10 avg rating β 24,892 ratings 164. 
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I
by:
Fernand Braudel
4.34 avg rating β 1,282 ratings 
166. 
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.12 avg rating β 20,586 ratings 
168. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating β 42,018 ratings 
170. 
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
by:
Hampton Sides
4.29 avg rating β 19,126 ratings 171. 
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating β 21,501 ratings 172. 
173. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating β 28,866 ratings 174. 
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 4.16 avg rating β 8,618 ratings
177. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating β 113,286 ratings 178. 
Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins
by:
Onyeka
4.36 avg rating β 107 ratings 179. 
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.28 avg rating β 27,106 ratings 180. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating β 425,977 ratings 181. 
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
by:
Robert Hughes
4.09 avg rating β 10,199 ratings 182. 
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
by:
Dan Jones
4.25 avg rating β 22,360 ratings 
185. 
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by:
Anthony Everitt
3.89 avg rating β 8,070 ratings 
187. 
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by:
H.W. Brands
4.11 avg rating β 22,671 ratings 188. 
190. 
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by:
Kai Bird
4.31 avg rating β 55,185 ratings 191. 
192. 
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by:
Greg King
4.04 avg rating β 1,652 ratings 
194. 
All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To
by:
Stuart Laycock
3.74 avg rating β 725 ratings 195. 
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
by:
Tamim Ansary
4.40 avg rating β 11,838 ratings 
197. 
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
by:
Peter Hopkirk
4.33 avg rating β 8,764 ratings 198. 
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
by:
Thomas Asbridge
4.22 avg rating β 6,682 ratings 199. 
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself 4.11 avg rating β 11,776 ratings
200. 
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.03 avg rating β 22,519 ratings