Best History Books – Page 2

Ranked 101–200 of 430 books by Goodreads ratings

#101Some People Need Killing cover
Some People Need Killing
Patricia Evangelista
★ 4.2 · 11.3K on Goodreads
#102A Peace to End All Peace cover
A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin
★ 4.2 · 10.1K on Goodreads
#103The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder cover
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
★ 4.2 · 244.7K on Goodreads
#104The Wager cover
The Wager
David Grann
★ 4.2 · 244.7K on Goodreads
#105Too Big to Fail cover
Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
★ 4.2 · 45.3K on Goodreads
#106The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind cover
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
★ 4.3 · 6.3K on Goodreads
#107Forget the Alamo cover
Forget the Alamo
Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford
★ 4.2 · 6.6K on Goodreads
#108Americana cover
Americana
Bhu Srinivasan
★ 4.4 · 2.2K on Goodreads
#109The Demon of Unrest cover
The Demon of Unrest
Erik Larson
★ 4.2 · 64.8K on Goodreads
#110The Silk Roads cover
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
★ 4.2 · 52.9K on Goodreads
#111The Idea Factory cover
The Idea Factory
Jon Gertner
★ 4.2 · 9.3K on Goodreads
#112The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee cover
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer
★ 4.2 · 7K on Goodreads
#113Israel cover
Israel
Daniel Gordis
★ 4.3 · 4K on Goodreads
#11421 Lessons for the 21st Century cover
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
★ 4.2 · 183.1K on Goodreads
#115The Immortality Key cover
The Immortality Key
Brian C. Muraresku
★ 4.2 · 6.6K on Goodreads
#116The True Believer cover
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
★ 4.2 · 12.5K on Goodreads
#117In a Different Key cover
In a Different Key
John Donvan and Caren Zucker
★ 4.3 · 3.3K on Goodreads
#118Brown Girl Dreaming cover
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
★ 4.2 · 95.3K on Goodreads
#119Faith Still Moves Mountains cover
Faith Still Moves Mountains
Harris Faulkner
★ 4.3 · 2.6K on Goodreads
#120A Woman of No Importance cover
A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell
★ 4.2 · 66.3K on Goodreads
#121The End of the Myth cover
The End of the Myth
Greg Grandin
★ 4.3 · 3.4K on Goodreads
#122What’s Our Problem? cover
What’s Our Problem?
Tim Urban
★ 4.2 · 5.7K on Goodreads
#123Agent Sonya cover
Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre
★ 4.2 · 19.3K on Goodreads
#124The Better Angels of Our Nature cover
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
★ 4.2 · 30.1K on Goodreads
#125Killing the Killers cover
Killing the Killers
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
★ 4.2 · 8K on Goodreads
#1261929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation cover
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin
★ 4.1 · 37.1K on Goodreads
#127Capital and Ideology cover
Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty
★ 4.3 · 3.3K on Goodreads
#128Destined for War cover
Destined for War
Graham Allison
★ 4.2 · 7.7K on Goodreads
#129Autocracy, Inc. cover
Autocracy, Inc.
Anne Applebaum
★ 4.2 · 20.1K on Goodreads
#130Orientalism cover
Orientalism
Edward W. Said
★ 4.1 · 31.7K on Goodreads
#131The Future Is History cover
The Future Is History
Masha Gessen
★ 4.2 · 7.2K on Goodreads
#132Putin's People cover
Putin's People
Catherine Belton
★ 4.2 · 10K on Goodreads
#133The End of the World Is Just the Beginning cover
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Peter Zeihan
★ 4.2 · 14.1K on Goodreads
#134Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust cover
Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
Hédi Fried
★ 4.3 · 2.7K on Goodreads
#135Mark Twain cover
Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
★ 4.2 · 8.3K on Goodreads
#136Shoot for the Moon cover
Shoot for the Moon
James Donovan
★ 4.4 · 1.8K on Goodreads
#137The Dying Citizen cover
The Dying Citizen
Victor Davis Hanson
★ 4.3 · 2K on Goodreads
#138The Go-Getter cover
The Go-Getter
Peter B. Kyne
★ 4.2 · 9.5K on Goodreads
#139Letter to the American Church  cover
Letter to the American Church
Eric Metaxas
★ 4.2 · 3.6K on Goodreads
#140Presidents of War cover
Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss
★ 4.2 · 3.6K on Goodreads
#141The Nazi Conspiracy cover
The Nazi Conspiracy
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
★ 4.1 · 10.8K on Goodreads
#142New Cold Wars cover
New Cold Wars
David E. Sanger
★ 4.3 · 2.1K on Goodreads
#143Strangers in Their Own Land cover
Strangers in Their Own Land
Arlie Russell Hochschild
★ 4.1 · 18.4K on Goodreads
#144The Doomsday Machine cover
The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg
★ 4.2 · 3.4K on Goodreads
#145She Has Her Mother’s Laugh cover
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
Carl Zimmer
★ 4.2 · 7.7K on Goodreads
#146Ordinary Men cover
Ordinary Men
Christopher R. Browning
★ 4.1 · 25.2K on Goodreads
#147Evil Geniuses cover
Evil Geniuses
Kurt Andersen
★ 4.2 · 3.8K on Goodreads
#148Children of Ash and Elm cover
Children of Ash and Elm
Neil Price
★ 4.1 · 10.8K on Goodreads
#149One Summer cover
One Summer
Bill Bryson
★ 4.1 · 56.7K on Goodreads
#150The Pope at War cover
The Pope at War
David I. Kertzer
★ 4.3 · 2.4K on Goodreads
#151Gods of the Upper Air cover
Gods of the Upper Air
Charles King
★ 4.3 · 2.5K on Goodreads
#152The Federalist Papers cover
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
★ 4.1 · 42.8K on Goodreads
#153In Cold Blood cover
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
★ 4.1 · 759.9K on Goodreads
#154A People’s History of the United States cover
A People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn
★ 4.1 · 275.4K on Goodreads
#155The Rest Is Noise cover
The Rest Is Noise
Alex Ross
★ 4.1 · 16.2K on Goodreads
#156Atomic Accidents cover
Atomic Accidents
James Mahaffey
★ 4.2 · 3K on Goodreads
#157Picasso's War cover
Picasso's War
Hugh Eakin
★ 4.4 · 1.3K on Goodreads
#158American Carnage cover
American Carnage
Tim Alberta
★ 4.2 · 3.8K on Goodreads
#159The Age of Reason cover
The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine
★ 4.1 · 9.6K on Goodreads
#160Unwell Women cover
Unwell Women
Elinor Cleghorn
★ 4.1 · 11.9K on Goodreads
#161The Third Chimpanzee cover
The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond
★ 4.1 · 29.1K on Goodreads
#162The Forgotten 500 cover
The Forgotten 500
Gregory A. Freeman
★ 4.1 · 14.1K on Goodreads
#163The Greatest Sentence Ever Written cover
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson
★ 4.1 · 8.7K on Goodreads
#164The Invisible Coup cover
The Invisible Coup
Peter Schweizer
★ 4.4 · 1.2K on Goodreads
#165The Peloponnesian War cover
The Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan
★ 4.1 · 5.5K on Goodreads
#166A Walk in the Woods cover
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
★ 4.1 · 460.4K on Goodreads
#167Ours Was the Shining Future cover
Ours Was the Shining Future
David Leonhardt
★ 4.3 · 1.5K on Goodreads
#168Jerusalem cover
Jerusalem
Simon Sebag Montefiore
★ 4.1 · 14.1K on Goodreads
#169A Splendid Exchange cover
A Splendid Exchange
William J. Bernstein
★ 4.2 · 3.4K on Goodreads
#170Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World cover
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
★ 4.1 · 88.3K on Goodreads
#171Bedtime Biography: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World cover
Bedtime Biography: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
★ 4.1 · 88.3K on Goodreads
#172The WEIRDest People in the World cover
The WEIRDest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
★ 4.1 · 4.8K on Goodreads
#173The Fate of Rome cover
The Fate of Rome
Kyle Harper
★ 4.2 · 2.2K on Goodreads
#174Saving Aziz cover
Saving Aziz
Chad Robichaux with David L. Thomas
★ 4.4 · 984 on Goodreads
#175An Ordinary Man cover
An Ordinary Man
Richard Norton Smith
★ 4.4 · 897 on Goodreads
#176Killing Lincoln cover
Killing Lincoln
Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
★ 4.1 · 110.1K on Goodreads
#177Hiroshima cover
Hiroshima
John Hersey
★ 4.1 · 93.7K on Goodreads
#178Genome cover
Genome
Matt Ridley
★ 4.1 · 28.7K on Goodreads
#179Thirteen Days cover
Thirteen Days
Robert F. Kennedy
★ 4.1 · 9.2K on Goodreads
#180Democracy in America cover
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
★ 4.1 · 27.7K on Goodreads
#181Fantasyland cover
Fantasyland
Kurt Andersen
★ 4.1 · 9.1K on Goodreads
#182Fifth Sun cover
Fifth Sun
Camilla Townsend
★ 4.1 · 6.4K on Goodreads
#1831491 cover
1491
Charles C. Mann
★ 4.0 · 99.1K on Goodreads
#184The Consolation of Philosophy cover
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
★ 4.1 · 19.1K on Goodreads
#185The Light of Days cover
The Light of Days
Judy Batalion
★ 4.1 · 10.4K on Goodreads
#186Reagan cover
Reagan
H. W. Brands
★ 4.1 · 3K on Goodreads
#187How Innovation Works cover
How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley
★ 4.1 · 3.6K on Goodreads
#188Nine Lives cover
Nine Lives
William Dalrymple
★ 4.1 · 8.9K on Goodreads
#189Guns, Germs and Steel cover
Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond
★ 4.0 · 475.1K on Goodreads
#190Metropolis cover
Metropolis
Ben Wilson
★ 4.1 · 2.9K on Goodreads
#191Becoming FDR cover
Becoming FDR
Jonathan Darman
★ 4.4 · 686 on Goodreads
#192Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Michael Hiltzik
★ 4.1 · 2.5K on Goodreads
#193Isaac's Storm cover
Isaac's Storm
Erik Larson
★ 4.0 · 75.8K on Goodreads
#194Shakespeare in a Divided America cover
Shakespeare in a Divided America
James Shapiro
★ 4.1 · 3.3K on Goodreads
#195Stoned cover
Stoned
Aja Raden
★ 4.1 · 3.8K on Goodreads
#196Origin Story cover
Origin Story
David Christian
★ 4.1 · 7.9K on Goodreads
#197Teddy and Booker T. cover
Teddy and Booker T.
Brian Kilmeade
★ 4.2 · 1.6K on Goodreads
#198A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare cover
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
James Shapiro
★ 4.1 · 4.5K on Goodreads
#199The Triumph of Seeds cover
The Triumph of Seeds
Thor Hanson
★ 4.1 · 3.2K on Goodreads
#200Heart cover
Heart
Sandeep Jauhar
★ 4.1 · 3.7K on Goodreads
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