A History of Violence
1. 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating — 220,450 ratings 
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating — 149,085 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.19 avg rating — 66,217 ratings 5. 
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by:
Carol Anderson
4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings 5. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,063 ratings 
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War 4.09 avg rating — 2,491 ratings
12. 
War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.46 avg rating — 236 ratings 
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
by:
Karen Armstrong
3.92 avg rating — 2,778 ratings 18. 
The Historical Failure of Anarchism: Implications for the Future of the Revolutionary Project
by:
Christopher Day
3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings 
21. 
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
by:
Bryan Burrough
3.96 avg rating — 2,326 ratings 22. 
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
by:
Scott Miller
3.95 avg rating — 4,679 ratings 23. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,685 ratings 24. 
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by:
Greg King
4.04 avg rating — 1,652 ratings 25. 
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights 4.35 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
by:
Tony Horwitz
4.01 avg rating — 6,382 ratings 27. 
Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy
by:
James S. Hirsch
4.20 avg rating — 317 ratings 28. 
The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
by:
Tim Madigan
4.42 avg rating — 3,069 ratings 29. 
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
by:
Bruce Watson
3.90 avg rating — 429 ratings 31. 
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating — 35,956 ratings
32. 
A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
by:
Frances Hill
3.73 avg rating — 1,619 ratings 
34. 
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
by:
Emerson W. Baker
3.84 avg rating — 1,319 ratings 
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
by:
Charles Lane
4.09 avg rating — 431 ratings 37. 
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
by:
John Ehle
4.13 avg rating — 4,467 ratings 38. 
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn 4.04 avg rating — 11,913 ratings
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Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (The American Revolution Series) 4.06 avg rating — 10,149 ratings
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
by:
David Carter
4.08 avg rating — 1,295 ratings 42. 
Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
by:
Jefferson Morley
3.95 avg rating — 345 ratings 
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The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism
by:
Anthony Read
3.61 avg rating — 90 ratings 45. 
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
by:
Orlando Figes
4.37 avg rating — 5,696 ratings 46. 
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
by:
James R. Green
4.06 avg rating — 1,189 ratings 47. 
Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West
by:
Scott Martelle
3.82 avg rating — 93 ratings 48. 
The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
by:
Jack Kelly
4.09 avg rating — 417 ratings 49. 
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
by:
Nick Turse
4.23 avg rating — 4,960 ratings 50. 
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
by:
Jill Lepore
3.94 avg rating — 2,177 ratings 51. 
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
by:
Jill Lepore
3.69 avg rating — 929 ratings 
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
by:
Andrew Delbanco
4.33 avg rating — 1,070 ratings 54. 
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by:
David Zucchino
4.43 avg rating — 4,088 ratings 56. 
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Jerry Mitchell
4.43 avg rating — 2,081 ratings 57. 
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
by:
Tom Zoellner
4.14 avg rating — 228 ratings 58. 
The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage 4.11 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
by:
Claudio Saunt
4.22 avg rating — 1,842 ratings 60. 
America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
by:
Elizabeth Hinton
4.22 avg rating — 975 ratings 61. 
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
by:
Caroline Elkins
4.26 avg rating — 1,101 ratings 62. 
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction 4.20 avg rating — 329 ratings
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American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
by:
Wesley Lowery
4.18 avg rating — 1,351 ratings 65. 
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
by:
Michael Willrich
4.47 avg rating — 103 ratings 