History Published in Year: 2021
3. 
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
by:
Janice P. Nimura
3.59 avg rating — 5,902 ratings 
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
by:
Julian Sancton
4.27 avg rating — 16,930 ratings 6. 
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
by:
Olivia Campbell
3.71 avg rating — 5,522 ratings 7. 
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.56 avg rating — 10,759 ratings 8. 
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
by:
Judy Batalion
4.07 avg rating — 9,480 ratings 
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
by:
Siân Evans
3.74 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 11. 
Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
by:
Kim Todd
3.85 avg rating — 664 ratings 12. 
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
by:
Simon Winchester
3.79 avg rating — 2,983 ratings 13. 
When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
by:
Susan H. Kamei
4.34 avg rating — 169 ratings 14. 
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
by:
Ty Seidule
4.41 avg rating — 5,502 ratings 15. 
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
by:
Annalee Newitz
3.78 avg rating — 7,116 ratings 16. 
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
by:
Kate Moore
4.29 avg rating — 37,577 ratings 17. 
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
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Mike Duncan
4.51 avg rating — 6,820 ratings 18. 
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
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Egill Bjarnason
4.09 avg rating — 4,179 ratings 19. 
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
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Mark Synnott
4.13 avg rating — 4,206 ratings 20. 
The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History 4.24 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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Clint Smith
4.70 avg rating — 38,093 ratings 22. 
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City 4.09 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
by:
Marc Morris
4.32 avg rating — 5,415 ratings 24. 
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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
by:
Lizzie Johnson
4.33 avg rating — 2,605 ratings 26. 
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
by:
Bill O'Reilly
4.25 avg rating — 13,864 ratings 28. 
Titanic: Why She Collided, Why She Sank, Why She Should Never Have Sailed
by:
Senan Molony
4.22 avg rating — 64 ratings 29. 
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
by:
Harold Schechter
3.76 avg rating — 3,456 ratings 30. 
The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
by:
David Roberts
3.96 avg rating — 410 ratings 31. 
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
by:
Rebecca Donner
4.32 avg rating — 5,198 ratings 
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The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
by:
Bradford Pearson
3.82 avg rating — 757 ratings 33. 
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
by:
Bryan Burrough
4.26 avg rating — 5,654 ratings 35. 
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt 3.64 avg rating — 1,750 ratings
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Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
by:
Alison Weir
3.96 avg rating — 1,663 ratings 37. 
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
by:
Bruce Levine
3.99 avg rating — 401 ratings 38. 
Lincoln In Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President
by:
Ronald C. White
4.13 avg rating — 389 ratings 
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The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
by:
Alex Tresniowski
3.93 avg rating — 682 ratings 42. 
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
by:
James Oakes
3.87 avg rating — 436 ratings 
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Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
by:
Aviva Chomsky
4.10 avg rating — 458 ratings 46. 
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
by:
Wendy Lower
4.16 avg rating — 1,241 ratings 
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Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution 4.07 avg rating — 211 ratings
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On Our Doorstep: When Australia Faced the Threat of Invasion by the Japanese
by:
Craig Collie
3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings 50. 
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
by:
Curtis Bunn
4.20 avg rating — 107 ratings 52. 
Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World
by:
Joby Warrick
4.34 avg rating — 855 ratings 
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Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother
by:
Marga Vicedo
3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings 
56. 
The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist
by:
Luciana Cimino
3.63 avg rating — 850 ratings 57. 
Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
by:
Lauren Burke
4.01 avg rating — 1,058 ratings 
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
by:
Katja Hoyer
4.15 avg rating — 3,116 ratings 60. 
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
by:
Michelle Nijhuis
4.06 avg rating — 1,442 ratings 61. 
You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
by:
Amanda Frost
4.31 avg rating — 127 ratings 62. 
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
by:
Margalit Fox
3.69 avg rating — 2,800 ratings 63. 
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness 4.02 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
by:
Andrew H. Knoll
3.94 avg rating — 4,217 ratings 70. 
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen
by:
Don Hollway
4.06 avg rating — 652 ratings 71. 
Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
by:
Stephen Robinson
4.14 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation
by:
Patrick Parr
4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings 75. 
Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
by:
Julia Cooke
3.65 avg rating — 13,837 ratings 75. 
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
by:
Giles Milton
4.43 avg rating — 1,503 ratings 77. 
Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
by:
Carol Leonnig
4.23 avg rating — 9,815 ratings 78. 
Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers
by:
Garry Linnell
3.85 avg rating — 141 ratings 79. 
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
by:
Thomas Healy
4.16 avg rating — 504 ratings 80. 
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
by:
Elon Green
3.84 avg rating — 10,126 ratings 81. 
Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
by:
Li Juan
3.95 avg rating — 623 ratings 82. 
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
by:
Emma Southon
4.08 avg rating — 5,629 ratings 
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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
by:
Arthur Herman
3.67 avg rating — 889 ratings 
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The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice 4.06 avg rating — 3,403 ratings
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The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
by:
Nick Lloyd
4.31 avg rating — 899 ratings 90. 
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
by:
Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 9,589 ratings 92. 
Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa
by:
Steven Press
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings 93. 
Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature (Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures, 9)
by:
Albrecht Classen
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 94. 
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
by:
Ross King
3.99 avg rating — 2,188 ratings 
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Violet & Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins
by:
Sarah Miller
3.64 avg rating — 382 ratings 97. 
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
by:
Nicole Eustace
3.61 avg rating — 1,127 ratings 
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Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
by:
Tom Beaujour
4.08 avg rating — 3,025 ratings 100. 
A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
by:
Jeanne E. Abrams
3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings