History Published in Year: 2024
1. 
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by:
Erik Larson
4.18 avg rating β 50,514 ratings 2. 
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
by:
Alan Taylor
4.40 avg rating β 246 ratings 3. 
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
by:
Richard Munson
4.05 avg rating β 366 ratings 4. 
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
by:
Dava Sobel
3.96 avg rating β 2,727 ratings 5. 
Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
by:
Anne Higonnet
4.33 avg rating β 195 ratings 
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space 4.52 avg rating β 14,497 ratings
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Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
by:
Dan Jones
4.42 avg rating β 5,210 ratings 10. 
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by:
Yaroslav Hrytsak
4.57 avg rating β 759 ratings 11. 
Women of Power: Formidable Queens of the Medieval World
by:
Teresa Cole
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 10 ratings 12. 
Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
by:
Estelle Paranque
3.73 avg rating β 427 ratings 12. 
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
by:
Will Cockrell
3.98 avg rating β 1,343 ratings 14. 
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
by:
Daisy Dunn
3.71 avg rating β 489 ratings 15. 
The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds that Made Them
by:
Stefan Bachmann
3.70 avg rating β 254 ratings 
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
by:
Adam Smyth
3.78 avg rating β 361 ratings 18. 
The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War
by:
Robert Cowley
4.64 avg rating β 11 ratings 18. 
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
by:
Nicola Clark
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,129 ratings 
21. 
The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
by:
Toby Wilkinson
4.11 avg rating β 176 ratings 22. 
Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown
by:
Nicola Tallis
4.33 avg rating β 329 ratings 23. 
Queen Catherine's Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England
by:
Sophie Shorland
4.02 avg rating β 138 ratings 24. 
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence 4.40 avg rating β 947 ratings
25. 
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages
by:
Sara J. Charles
4.40 avg rating β 50 ratings 25. 
Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland
by:
Alistair Moffat
3.76 avg rating β 38 ratings 28. 
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
by:
Susannah Gibson
3.94 avg rating β 399 ratings 30. 
Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
by:
Ramie Targoff
3.85 avg rating β 643 ratings 31. 
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by:
Jason Roberts
4.20 avg rating β 874 ratings 32. 
Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
by:
Dali L. Yang
4.33 avg rating β 30 ratings 33. 
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lostβand Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating β 159 ratings 
36. 
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between 3.92 avg rating β 374 ratings
37. 
24 Hours in the Viking World: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
by:
Kirsten Wolf
3.61 avg rating β 135 ratings 38. 
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by:
Hampton Sides
4.46 avg rating β 15,120 ratings 
40. 
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
by:
Stein Ringen
3.69 avg rating β 212 ratings 
44. 
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
by:
Steven Johnson
4.02 avg rating β 1,446 ratings 
47. 
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
by:
Helen Castor
4.39 avg rating β 778 ratings 48. 
Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
by:
Tyler Anbinder
3.79 avg rating β 205 ratings 49. 
50. 
Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition
by:
Mick Conefrey
4.32 avg rating β 182 ratings 
52. 
The Lost Chapel of Westminster: How a Royal Chapel Became the House of Commons
by:
John Cooper
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 17 ratings 53. 
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
by:
Sunil Amrith
4.01 avg rating β 314 ratings 54. 
54. 
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
by:
Hamilton Nolan
4.22 avg rating β 392 ratings 56. 
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler 4.10 avg rating β 1,198 ratings
59. 
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
by:
Antonia Hylton
4.23 avg rating β 6,031 ratings 59. 
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
by:
Garrett M. Graff
4.50 avg rating β 2,806 ratings 61. 
Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West
by:
Tom Clavin
3.81 avg rating β 575 ratings 
65. 
Edward I's Neglected Conflict: The Anglo-French War of 1294β1303
by:
David Pilling
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
67. 
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
by:
Steve Coll
4.37 avg rating β 2,540 ratings 69. 
Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
by:
David Bellos
3.76 avg rating β 295 ratings 
70. 
The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
by:
James L. Swanson
3.39 avg rating β 840 ratings 72. 
The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy
by:
Robert Hardman
3.89 avg rating β 1,257 ratings 
74. 
Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World 3.92 avg rating β 564 ratings
75. 
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
by:
Rachel Kousser
4.18 avg rating β 775 ratings 75. 
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
by:
Paul Strathern
3.78 avg rating β 79 ratings 
75. 
Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
by:
Iryna Vushko
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings 
81. 
Life Lessons From Historical Women: Stories of bravery, wit, and rebellion for modern times
by:
Eleanor Morton
4.18 avg rating β 213 ratings 84. 
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
by:
Stephen Puleo
4.52 avg rating β 157 ratings 
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Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
by:
Alexander Larman
4.06 avg rating β 206 ratings 88. 
Plague Ship: The Untold Story of Captain Cook and His Legacy
by:
Kirstin Downey
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 89. 
Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
by:
Vanessa Taylor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 89. 
A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany 4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings
89. 
The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
by:
Annie Reed
3.80 avg rating β 293 ratings 92. 
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
by:
Paula Yoo
4.21 avg rating β 326 ratings 92. 
The Other Ancient Civilisations: Decoding Archaeologyβs Less Celebrated Cultures 4.02 avg rating β 194 ratings
92. 
The Men Who Killed the News: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy
by:
Eric Beecher
4.04 avg rating β 238 ratings 95. 
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins 3.74 avg rating β 402 ratings
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Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London
by:
Lynn Hamilton
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings 95. 
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They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million Years
by:
Eyal Halfon
3.93 avg rating β 124 ratings 