Book Riot 2022 #22: Read a history about a period you know little about
100. 
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
by:
Jean Manco
3.95 avg rating — 714 ratings 102. 
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics 3.81 avg rating — 1,641 ratings
102. 
Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age
by:
Michael Pye
3.17 avg rating — 756 ratings 104. 
A Sister of Marie Antionette; The Life-Story of Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
104. 
Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 234 ratings
106. 
Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
by:
Donovan Campbell
4.14 avg rating — 4,436 ratings 
108. 
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
by:
Robert Kurson
4.53 avg rating — 11,266 ratings 108. 
The Third Rome: Holy Russia, Tsarism and Orthodoxy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
110. 
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by:
Greg Mortenson
3.85 avg rating — 17,061 ratings 
112. 
The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions.
by:
Arno J. Mayer
3.88 avg rating — 97 ratings 114. 
114. 
Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History 3.69 avg rating — 235 ratings
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117. 
Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520
by:
Christopher Dyer
3.68 avg rating — 74 ratings 118. 
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History
by:
Kate Schatz
4.38 avg rating — 1,689 ratings 
120. 
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
by:
Kara Cooney
3.65 avg rating — 7,514 ratings 
122. 
Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden
by:
Andrew Collins
3.70 avg rating — 624 ratings 123. 
Denisovan Origins: Hybrid Humans, Göbekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America
by:
Andrew Collins
3.81 avg rating — 122 ratings 
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126. 
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
by:
Tracy Borman
3.90 avg rating — 1,659 ratings 
130. 
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
by:
Peter Stark
4.09 avg rating — 12,327 ratings 131. 
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
by:
Anthony Adolph
3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings 132. 
135. 
Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
by:
Bob Thompson
3.56 avg rating — 250 ratings 136. 
Traditions of Glastonbury: The Biblical Missing Years of Christ - Answered
by:
E. Raymond Capt
4.26 avg rating — 58 ratings 137. 
Stonehenge and Druidism - Did a Divine Hand guide the building of Stonehenge?
by:
E. Raymond Capt
3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings 138. 
139. 
A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England
by:
Frances Gies
3.81 avg rating — 253 ratings 140. 
The Lost Worlds of Ancient America: Compelling Evidence of Ancient Immigrants, Lost Technologies, and Places of Power
by:
Frank Joseph
3.78 avg rating — 93 ratings 141. 
A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent
by:
Mark Derr
3.51 avg rating — 95 ratings 
147. 
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
by:
Alexander Rose
3.82 avg rating — 6,005 ratings 
150. 
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
by:
Bob Drury
4.05 avg rating — 3,603 ratings 151. 
Templar Sanctuaries in North America: Sacred Bloodlines and Secret Treasures
by:
William F. Mann
3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings 152. 
The Lost Colony of the Templars: Verrazano's Secret Mission to America
by:
Steven Sora
3.71 avg rating — 55 ratings 153. 
Cryptic Code: The Templars in America and the Origins of the Hooked X
by:
Scott F. Wolter
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings 154. 
The Templar Meridians: The Secret Mapping of the New World
by:
William F. Mann
3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings 155. 
Jesse James and the Lost Templar Treasure: Secret Diaries, Coded Maps, and the Knights of the Golden Circle
by:
Daniel J. Duke
3.50 avg rating — 32 ratings 156. 
The Knights of the Holy Grail: The Secret History of The Knights Templar 3.92 avg rating — 79 ratings
157. 
Pirates and the Lost Templar Fleet: The Secret Naval War Between the Templars & the Vatican 3.34 avg rating — 87 ratings
158. 
Templars in America: The Secret Legacy of Voyages to America Before Columbus 3.66 avg rating — 114 ratings
159. 
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live 3.87 avg rating — 2,189 ratings
160. 
Parthia: The Forgotten Ancient "Superpower" and Its Role in Biblical History (The Lost Tribes of Israel, 3) 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
163. 
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
by:
Jack Weatherford
3.93 avg rating — 4,563 ratings 165. 
The Growth of America 1878-1928 (A Basic History of the United States, Volume 4) 3.55 avg rating — 62 ratings
166. 
The Sections and the Civil War (A basic history of the united states, Voulme 3) 3.64 avg rating — 61 ratings
168. 
A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1774 3.43 avg rating — 127 ratings
170. 
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
by:
Robert Palmer
4.22 avg rating — 1,994 ratings 