Best Narrative History/Non-fiction with a historical focus
2. 
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
by:
Tim Butcher
3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings 3. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,193 ratings
4. 
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by:
Erik Larson
4.05 avg rating — 70,018 ratings 5. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 425,977 ratings 
8. 
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by:
Erik Larson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,791 ratings 9. 
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West
by:
Jeff Guinn
3.97 avg rating — 2,791 ratings 10. 
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by:
Greg King
4.04 avg rating — 1,652 ratings 11. 
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 — 55,255 ratings 
14. 
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by:
Hampton Sides
4.29 avg rating — 24,755 ratings 
19. 
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,770 ratings
20. 
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
by:
Timothy Egan
4.06 avg rating — 60,121 ratings 21. 
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
by:
Robert K. Massie
4.23 avg rating — 29,465 ratings 
24. 
Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty
by:
Catherine Bailey
3.95 avg rating — 3,141 ratings 25. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,185 ratings 
28. 
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by:
Sebastian Junger
4.12 avg rating — 117,721 ratings 29. 
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by:
David McCullough
4.22 avg rating — 22,134 ratings 30. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,024 ratings 31. 
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.82 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 32. 
Stealing Sisi's Star: How a Master Thief Nearly Got Away with Austria's Most Famous Jewel 3.73 avg rating — 82 ratings
34. 
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
by:
Nina Willner
4.37 avg rating — 12,281 ratings 35. 
36. 
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.14 avg rating — 9,093 ratings 
38. 
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
by:
Hampton Sides
4.33 avg rating — 13,982 ratings 39. 
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
by:
Bart Ziino
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 39. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings 41. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,514 ratings 
42. 
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,079 ratings 
45. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,680 ratings 46. 
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by:
Peter Guralnick
4.17 avg rating — 9,895 ratings 47. 
30,000 Leagues Undersea: True Tales of a Submariner and Deep Submergence Pilot
by:
Tom Vetter
4.33 avg rating — 67 ratings 47. 
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
47. 
Cuba Open from the Inside: Travels in the Forbidden Land
by:
Chris Messner
3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings 
47. 
Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival
by:
Dania Rosa Nasca
4.03 avg rating — 70 ratings 
47. 
Stories of Elders: What the Greatest Generation Knows about Technology that You Don't
by:
Veronica Kirin
4.31 avg rating — 78 ratings 47. 
Mercedes Sosa - More than a Song, A tribute to "La Negra", the voice of Latin America, (1935-2009) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
47. 
Year 1 - Fur Babies in France: From Wage Slaves to Living the Dream (Adventure Caravanning with Dogs Book 1) 4.24 avg rating — 180 ratings
47. 
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
by:
Karen Abbott
3.70 avg rating — 6,825 ratings 47. 
The Radical Declaration: An Enlightened American Idea
by:
Byron Williams
4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 47. 
On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser
by:
Fred Litwin
4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings 
47. 
Jack Jackson's American History: Los Tejanos & Lost Cause
by:
Jack Jackson
4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings 47. 
Swift Sword: The True Story of the Marines of MIKE 3/5 in Vietnam, 4 September 1967
by:
Doyle D. Glass
4.51 avg rating — 1,257 ratings 47. 
No Soldier Left Behind: The Life and Times of Brigadier General John G Kulhavi, United States Army, Ret.
by:
Donald Steele
4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 67. 
The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
by:
Robert Whitaker
3.63 avg rating — 1,815 ratings 67. 
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
by:
Greg King
3.73 avg rating — 554 ratings 
67. 
Voyage of the Damned: A Shocking True Story of Hope, Betrayal, and Nazi Terror
by:
Gordon Thomas
4.07 avg rating — 1,145 ratings 67. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,286 ratings 67. 
Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530-1603
by:
Anne Chambers
3.48 avg rating — 1,079 ratings 67. 
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
by:
John Kelly
3.89 avg rating — 11,192 ratings 
75. 
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
by:
Tony Horwitz
3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings 75. 
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History
by:
Rebecca Fraser
3.97 avg rating — 648 ratings 75. 
75. 
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization
by:
Nicholson Baker
4.05 avg rating — 2,057 ratings 
80. 
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,513 ratings 80. 
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
by:
Elaine F. Weiss
4.02 avg rating — 4,042 ratings 80. 
Samuel Pallache : koopman, kaper en diplomaat tussen Marrakesh en Amsterdam 3.69 avg rating — 54 ratings
85. 
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
by:
Giles Milton
3.82 avg rating — 5,239 ratings 
85. 
One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
by:
Alan Paul
4.26 avg rating — 1,315 ratings 
89. 
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
by:
Mike Dash
3.66 avg rating — 2,884 ratings 
89. 
Moresnet: opkomst en ondergang van een vergeten buurlandje
by:
Philip Dröge
4.09 avg rating — 686 ratings 89. 
Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
by:
Edward J. Larson
3.93 avg rating — 647 ratings 94. 
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age 3.83 avg rating — 12,692 ratings
94. 
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
by:
Gavin Maxwell
3.70 avg rating — 285 ratings 94. 
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
by:
Norman Davies
3.88 avg rating — 3,313 ratings 
98. 
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
by:
Sheri Fink
3.93 avg rating — 39,330 ratings 98. 
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
by:
Helen Rappaport
4.05 avg rating — 6,113 ratings 98. 
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
by:
Gay Salisbury
4.19 avg rating — 3,530 ratings