Cundill Recognition of Excellence Recipients

1.
Betsy Ross and the Making of America
Betsy Ross and the Making of America 3.59 avg rating — 415 ratings
2.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin 4.39 avg rating — 18,869 ratings
3.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined 4.16 avg rating — 29,271 ratings
4.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 4.23 avg rating — 13,399 ratings
5.
Congo: The Epic History of a People
Congo: The Epic History of a People 4.39 avg rating — 8,072 ratings
6.
The Bombers and The Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe 1940-1945
The Bombers and The Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe 1940-1945 3.88 avg rating — 323 ratings
7.
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer 4.02 avg rating — 497 ratings
8.
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age 3.81 avg rating — 53 ratings
9.
Life and Death in the Third Reich
Life and Death in the Third Reich 4.07 avg rating — 396 ratings
10.
Champlain's Dream
Champlain's Dream 4.29 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
11.
The Comanche Empire
The Comanche Empire 4.17 avg rating — 1,797 ratings
12.
The Ottoman Age of Exploration
The Ottoman Age of Exploration 3.92 avg rating — 296 ratings
13.
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World 3.97 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
14.
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy 3.98 avg rating — 137 ratings
15.
Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam 4.43 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
16.
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Empire of Cotton: A Global History 3.89 avg rating — 3,595 ratings
17.
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution 3.88 avg rating — 884 ratings
18.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,489 ratings
19.
Vietnam: A New History
Vietnam: A New History 4.03 avg rating — 736 ratings
20.
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 3.81 avg rating — 1,582 ratings
21.
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder 3.94 avg rating — 19,455 ratings
22.
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
by: Sam White
3.96 avg rating — 140 ratings
23.
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution 4.37 avg rating — 103 ratings
24.
These Truths: A History of the United States
These Truths: A History of the United States 4.39 avg rating — 12,496 ratings