Historical Nonfiction

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,861 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
The Life of Elizabeth I 4.03 avg rating — 32,632 ratings
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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History 3.75 avg rating — 75,181 ratings
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class 4.48 avg rating — 376 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,896 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,238 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,144 ratings
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1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,366 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,342 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,148 ratings
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In Search of the Trojan War
In Search of the Trojan War 4.09 avg rating — 847 ratings
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The Princes in the Tower
The Princes in the Tower 3.87 avg rating — 7,642 ratings
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Nicholas And Alexandra
Nicholas And Alexandra 4.23 avg rating — 29,466 ratings
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Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire 4.28 avg rating — 2,765 ratings
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 4.01 avg rating — 15,352 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
The Last Days of the Incas 4.20 avg rating — 6,887 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World 3.87 avg rating — 5,818 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West 4.23 avg rating — 66,340 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,188 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
The Wives of Henry VIII 4.11 avg rating — 18,970 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
The Weaker Vessel 3.92 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London 3.97 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood 4.13 avg rating — 24,633 ratings
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Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries 4.04 avg rating — 929 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,033 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast 4.02 avg rating — 14,412 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 3.98 avg rating — 42,022 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,614 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages 3.88 avg rating — 925 ratings
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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember 4.09 avg rating — 27,695 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
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
1215: The Year of Magna Carta 3.81 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 4.09 avg rating — 64,243 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings
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John Adams
John Adams 4.08 avg rating — 373,258 ratings
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870 4.03 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,087 ratings
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Dr Johnson's London
Dr Johnson's London 4.04 avg rating — 778 ratings
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The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1)
The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex 4.16 avg rating — 115,989 ratings
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The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)
The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 4.16 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
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Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero 4.13 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
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Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott 4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Einstein: His Life and Universe 4.17 avg rating — 197,588 ratings
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The Last Secret Agent
The Last Secret Agent 4.45 avg rating — 2,049 ratings
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The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)
The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)
The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4) 4.14 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare 3.87 avg rating — 10,656 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,888 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,327 ratings
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Mornings on Horseback
Mornings on Horseback 4.10 avg rating — 34,708 ratings
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India 4.17 avg rating — 12,328 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating — 1,201,981 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,178 ratings
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Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors
Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors 3.88 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 3.95 avg rating — 46,973 ratings
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Samuel Pallache : koopman, kaper en diplomaat tussen Marrakesh en Amsterdam
Samuel Pallache : koopman, kaper en diplomaat tussen Marrakesh en Amsterdam 3.69 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall 3.87 avg rating — 8,388 ratings
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 3.91 avg rating — 10,431 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World 4.06 avg rating — 81,021 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II 3.87 avg rating — 46,528 ratings
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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life 4.06 avg rating — 4,692 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,301 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,302 ratings
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England 4.18 avg rating — 2,690 ratings
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured 3.46 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings
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The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,683 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69 3.99 avg rating — 13,754 ratings
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Truman
Truman 4.17 avg rating — 90,312 ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic 4.23 avg rating — 25,522 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West 4.17 avg rating — 11,230 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
Life in a Medieval City 3.84 avg rating — 3,835 ratings
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A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
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Connections
Connections 4.25 avg rating — 2,480 ratings
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 3.81 avg rating — 46,388 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,876 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
The Year of Decision 1846 4.13 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Pompeii: The Living City
Pompeii: The Living City 3.90 avg rating — 305 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner 4.06 avg rating — 60,128 ratings
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All the President's Men
All the President's Men 4.18 avg rating — 56,979 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King 3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 4.33 avg rating — 33,413 ratings
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies 3.61 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America 4.07 avg rating — 5,293 ratings
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A History of Pagan Europe
A History of Pagan Europe 3.74 avg rating — 696 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled 3.92 avg rating — 2,613 ratings
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction 3.90 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute
Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Digging Dusky Diamonds
Digging Dusky Diamonds 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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This Republic: Illuminating Republican Government
This Republic: Illuminating Republican Government 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes 3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Bank Holiday Murders: The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders
The Bank Holiday Murders: The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders 3.81 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Unveiling the Mystic Ciphers: Thomas Anson and the Shepherd's Monument Inscription
Unveiling the Mystic Ciphers: Thomas Anson and the Shepherd's Monument Inscription 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Näher an die Ferne: Hologramm einer Reise (Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks)
Näher an die Ferne: Hologramm einer Reise (Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law
The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
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