Best Books About Nineteenth Century History
4. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,673 ratings 5. 
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,599 ratings 6. 
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,329 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings 8. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,268 ratings 9. 
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,676 ratings 10. 
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 4.16 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by:
Edmund Morris
4.23 avg rating — 59,120 ratings 12. 
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by:
David McCullough
4.25 avg rating — 18,111 ratings 
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The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812
by:
Troy Bickham
4.34 avg rating — 119 ratings 
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 4.12 avg rating — 9,480 ratings
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by:
David McCullough
4.22 avg rating — 22,134 ratings 
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
by:
Judith Flanders
4.18 avg rating — 2,690 ratings 21. 
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
by:
H.W. Brands
4.05 avg rating — 1,629 ratings 
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,753 ratings
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
by:
Daniel Pool
3.85 avg rating — 5,733 ratings 
32. 
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn 4.04 avg rating — 11,912 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating — 21,501 ratings 
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by:
Tony Horwitz
4.10 avg rating — 24,890 ratings 36. 
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 4.33 avg rating — 15,702 ratings
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
by:
Wallace Stegner
4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings 41. 
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
by:
Arthur Herman
3.94 avg rating — 6,616 ratings 42. 
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
by:
Frederic Morton
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,546 ratings 43. 
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
by:
H.W. Brands
4.13 avg rating — 6,134 ratings 44. 
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
by:
Adam Zamoyski
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 778 ratings 
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An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm
by:
Hannah Pakula
4.18 avg rating — 1,115 ratings 48. 
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,483 ratings 49. 
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.19 avg rating — 66,205 ratings 
53. 
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by:
James L. Swanson
4.16 avg rating — 34,157 ratings 54. 
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century 4.25 avg rating — 609 ratings
56. 
Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857
by:
Andrew Ward
4.15 avg rating — 105 ratings 57. 
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by:
Tom Standage
3.95 avg rating — 3,526 ratings 
68. 
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
by:
Amanda Foreman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,278 ratings 69. 
Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
by:
Eugen Weber
4.27 avg rating — 381 ratings 
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,622 ratings
82. 
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
by:
Ross King
3.85 avg rating — 14,509 ratings 82. 
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
by:
Carl Sandburg
4.28 avg rating — 5,424 ratings 84. 
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness 3.92 avg rating — 6,578 ratings
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
by:
Paul Collins
3.58 avg rating — 8,672 ratings 87. 
The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War
by:
Bruce Catton
4.37 avg rating — 466 ratings 89. 
Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
by:
Jill Jonnes
3.78 avg rating — 3,318 ratings 
93. 
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by:
Jung Chang
3.91 avg rating — 10,431 ratings 94. 
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
by:
John Ehle
4.13 avg rating — 4,466 ratings 95. 
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
by:
Sean Wilentz
3.97 avg rating — 1,899 ratings 96. 
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
by:
Anthony Brandt
3.87 avg rating — 1,031 ratings 
