Books for History Geeks
1. 
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
by:
Widad Akreyi
4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings 
2. 
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
by:
Widad Akreyi
4.70 avg rating — 115 ratings 4. 
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
by:
Tim Butcher
3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings 
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium : An Englishman's World
by:
Robert Lacey
3.87 avg rating — 5,818 ratings 7. 
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
by:
Robert K. Massie
4.23 avg rating — 29,465 ratings 8. 
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by:
Erik Larson
4.05 avg rating — 70,018 ratings 9. 
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
by:
Founding Fathers
4.52 avg rating — 27,061 ratings 
11. 
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
by:
Helen Castor
4.04 avg rating — 8,384 ratings 
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,193 ratings
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating — 132,003 ratings 
19. 
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,333 ratings
21. 
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating — 8,259 ratings 22. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,024 ratings 23. 
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
by:
Jason Porath
4.39 avg rating — 3,444 ratings 24. 
Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
by:
Tim Bouverie
4.36 avg rating — 1,503 ratings 
26. 
The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955)
by:
Robert Lacey
4.06 avg rating — 3,300 ratings 
28. 
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
by:
Norman Davies
3.88 avg rating — 3,313 ratings 30. 
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Antilliaans verhaal : geschiedenis van Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, St. Eustatius en St. Maarten
by:
Luis H. Daal
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
37. 
Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530-1603
by:
Anne Chambers
3.48 avg rating — 1,079 ratings 
39. 
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
by:
Deborah Cadbury
4.04 avg rating — 2,146 ratings 40. 
England in the Late Middle Ages (The Pelican History of England: 4)
by:
A.R. Myers
3.56 avg rating — 50 ratings 41. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,286 ratings 
45. 
Het verhaal van een taal: negen eeuwen Nederlands
by:
Jan W. de Vries
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings 
50. 
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.89 avg rating — 5,178 ratings 51. 
Samuel Pallache : koopman, kaper en diplomaat tussen Marrakesh en Amsterdam 3.69 avg rating — 54 ratings
52. 
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,079 ratings 
54. 
Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
by:
Jon Meacham
3.77 avg rating — 1,698 ratings 
58. 
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,181 ratings 
63. 
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by:
David Cordingly
3.68 avg rating — 10,102 ratings 
66. 
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
67. 
On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser
by:
Fred Litwin
4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings 
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
by:
Edmund Wilson
4.09 avg rating — 282 ratings 
73. 
The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints
by:
Tim Severin
4.25 avg rating — 1,868 ratings 
73. 
Forging Modernity: Why and How Britain Got the Industrial Revolution it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
83. 
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
by:
John H. Halpern
3.70 avg rating — 626 ratings 83. 
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,223 ratings 83. 
Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3)
by:
Widad Akreyi
4.71 avg rating — 55 ratings 83. 
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
by:
Eric Foner
4.21 avg rating — 6,119 ratings 83. 
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
by:
Siddharth Kara
4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings 88. 
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by:
John G. Neihardt
4.12 avg rating — 18,419 ratings 88. 
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by:
Irin Carmon
4.18 avg rating — 63,000 ratings 88. 
Es geschah an der Mauer - It happened at the Wall - Cela sést passé au Mur - É accaduto al Muro - Sucedio en el Muro 4.18 avg rating — 61 ratings
88. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,286 ratings 
95. 
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
by:
Violet Moller
3.88 avg rating — 2,141 ratings 95. 
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.56 avg rating — 10,760 ratings 
98. 
Moresnet: opkomst en ondergang van een vergeten buurlandje
by:
Philip Dröge
4.09 avg rating — 686 ratings 