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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 14443 times as history)
avg rating 4.35 � 1,165,115 ratings � published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12348 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 � 437,617 ratings � published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8787 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 � 255,825 ratings � published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8121 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 � 727,289 ratings � published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7562 times as history)
avg rating 4.10 � 240,297 ratings � published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7020 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 � 407,000 ratings � published 2003
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 6907 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 � 73,878 ratings � published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6775 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 � 141,905 ratings � published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6351 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 � 91,729 ratings � published 2005
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 5739 times as history)
avg rating 4.14 � 412,534 ratings � published 2017
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5565 times as history)
avg rating 4.26 � 98,056 ratings � published 1970
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5553 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 � 193,866 ratings � published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5429 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 � 978,959 ratings � published 2010
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5165 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 � 81,142 ratings � published 1962
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4971 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 � 79,196 ratings � published 2004
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4903 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 � 370,273 ratings � published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4751 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 � 212,021 ratings � published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4657 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 � 191,457 ratings � published 2004
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4512 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 � 44,596 ratings � published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4391 times as history)
avg rating 4.48 � 110,832 ratings � published 2010
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4213 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 � 64,410 ratings � published 1998
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4089 times as history)
avg rating 4.13 � 154,440 ratings � published 2015
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4052 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 � 42,660 ratings � published 1978
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3948 times as history)
avg rating 4.12 � 774,140 ratings � published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3832 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 � 53,975 ratings � published -430
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 3823 times as history)
avg rating 4.19 � 273,133 ratings � published 2015
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3663 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 � 71,660 ratings � published 1995
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3634 times as history)
avg rating 4.24 � 48,801 ratings � published 1997
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3548 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 � 119,687 ratings � published 1998
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3537 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 � 128,629 ratings � published 2020
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3531 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 � 74,177 ratings � published 2002
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3427 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 � 167,349 ratings � published 2023
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3413 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 � 168,674 ratings � published 2016
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3349 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 � 137,899 ratings � published 2018
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3237 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 � 134,160 ratings � published 1992
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3231 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 � 73,328 ratings � published 2004
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3221 times as history)
avg rating 4.45 � 150,202 ratings � published 1959
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3166 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 � 85,014 ratings � published 1946
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3164 times as history)
avg rating 3.94 � 39,576 ratings � published -411
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3102 times as history)
avg rating 4.53 � 152,463 ratings � published 2020
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3062 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 � 79,602 ratings � published 2011
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3046 times as history)
avg rating 3.95 � 537,290 ratings � published -400
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3006 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 � 114,153 ratings � published 2000
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2968 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 � 346,335 ratings � published 2013
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2951 times as history)
avg rating 4.23 � 24,366 ratings � published 2003
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2839 times as history)
avg rating 3.99 � 74,156 ratings � published 1995
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2773 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 � 54,626 ratings � published 2006
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 2745 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 � 65,417 ratings � published 1996
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2715 times as history)
avg rating 4.37 � 58,254 ratings � published 2019
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2704 times as history)
avg rating 4.02 � 15,110 ratings � published 1776
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
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