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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
ITA
The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang
TRO
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky
CAB
Europe: A History
Norman Davies
EAH
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
Hal Gold
JIU
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock
FOT
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
HTI
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Howard Zinn
YCB
Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
David Kenyon Webster
PIA
Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer
PRR
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
WWT
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Ernesto Che Guevara
TMD
The Princes in the Tower
Alison Weir
TPI
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood
TRO
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Leonard Peikoff
OTP
Brave Companions: Portraits in History
David McCullough
BCP
Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition
Ambeth R. Ocampo
RWT
The First Salute : View of the American Revolution
Barbara W. Tuchman
TFS
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
AD
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Martin Luther King Jr.
ATO
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
Paul Johnson
MTT
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
William Manchester
TLL
Mornings on Horseback
David McCullough
MOH
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
APH
The Power of the Powerless
Václav Havel
TPO
The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuściński
TE
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Michael H. Hart
T1A
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
Philip Caputo
ARO
The New Penguin History of The World
J.M. Roberts
TNP
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
TPB
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
TGA
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Saul D. Alinsky
RFR
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano
OVO
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Barbara W. Tuchman
SAT
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Vine Deloria Jr.
CDF
Mary Queen of Scots
Antonia Fraser
MQO
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
TLO
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
Norman Mailer
TAO
Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K. Massie
NAA
The Forgotten Soldier
Guy Sajer
TFS
Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel
Anatoly Kuznetsov
BYA
Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov
KT
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
TAO
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Barbara W. Tuchman
TPT
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
C.S. Lewis
TDI
The Great Siege: Malta 1565
Ernle Bradford
TGS
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
Shelby Foote
TCW
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Amiri Baraka
BPN
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter
AIA
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
Eric J. Hobsbawm
TAO
What Is History?
Edward Hallett Carr
WIH
Night
Elie Wiesel
N
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
ESI
The World's Religions
Huston Smith
TWR
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Gregory Boyington
BBB
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
Milton Sanford Mayer
TTT
Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy
PIC
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Anonymous
AWI
Witness
Whittaker Chambers
W
Mr. Lincoln's Army
Bruce Catton
MLA
Closing the Ring
Winston S. Churchill
CTR
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
Marc Bloch
THC
To Hell and Back
Audie Murphy
THA
Come, Tell Me How You Live
Agatha Christie Mallowan
CTM
The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
TDO
Citizen 13660
Miné Okubo
C1
Caesar and Christ
Will Durant
CAC
Mythology
Edith Hamilton
M
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
HTC
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
C.L.R. James
TBJ
The Revolution Betrayed
Leon Trotsky
TRB
War Is a Racket
Smedley D. Butler
WIA
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
W.E.B. Du Bois
BRI
The Mis-Education of the Negro
Carter G. Woodson
TMO
My Early Life, 1874-1904
Winston S. Churchill
MEL
The Greek Way
Edith Hamilton
TGW
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Manly P. Hall
TST
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
TWJ
Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
SOS
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
TWO
Ten Days that Shook the World
John Reed
TDT
The Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
TRR
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly
NOM
Capital
Karl Marx
C
The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
TGA
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt
TCO
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville
TOR
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
MBA
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx
TEB
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
ROT
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Edward Gibbon
THO
Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin
PRA
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
TDO
Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
William Bradford
OPP
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
Miyamoto Musashi
ABO
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolomé de las Casas
ASA
The Book of the Courtier
Baldassare Castiglione
TBO
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
Ibn Khaldun
TMA
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Padmasambhava
TBO
The Poetic Edda
Unknown
TPE
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth
THO
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
Pierre Abélard
TLO
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
Eusebius
THO
The Campaigns of Alexander
Arrian
TCO
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus
TAO
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Pliny the Younger
TLO
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
LFA
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
TIL
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
TOR
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
EHL
Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff
CAL
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
WST
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
LP
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
TLO
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann
TLC
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
LWT
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
TWB
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
DOT
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
TRO
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Edmund de Waal
THW
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
COA
God's Smuggler
Brother Andrew
GS
Master of the Senate
Robert A. Caro
MOT
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
Susan Orlean
TOT
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Unknown
MOD
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Unknown
TNT
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
Clive James
CAN
Things We Couldn't Say
Unknown
TWC
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
BTB
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
NTE
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
HOT
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
TWO
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Ramachandra Guha
IAG
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Tim Butcher
BRA
Travels with Herodotus
Ryszard Kapuściński
TWH
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
Mao Zedong
QFC
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
ASH
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
TOD
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson
ITG
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
TBS
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson
AHA
What Is the What
Dave Eggers
WIT
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer
TRA
The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman
TZW
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
CHS
Columbine
Dave Cullen
C
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
TGO
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
H.G. Bissinger
FNL
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach
PFM
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Karen Armstrong
AHO
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
TBO
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Michael Lewis
BTI
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
TNJ
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Sam Kean
TDS
Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin-Manuel Miranda
HTR
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
TSD
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Sarah Vowell
TPC
Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick
CMA
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Michael Moss
SSF
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
TSO
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Rape of Nanking
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Europe: A History
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
How the Irish Saved Civilization
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
Paul Revere's Ride
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
The Princes in the Tower
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Brave Companions: Portraits in History
Rizal Without the Overcoat: Expanded Edition
The First Salute : View of the American Revolution
Arctic Dreams
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
Mornings on Horseback
A People's History of the United States
The Power of the Powerless
The Emperor
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
The New Penguin History of The World
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Mary Queen of Scots
The Lessons of History
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
Nicholas and Alexandra
The Forgotten Soldier
Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel
Kolyma Tales
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
The Great Siege: Malta 1565
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
What Is History?
Night
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The World's Religions
Baa Baa Black Sheep
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
Profiles in Courage
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Witness
Mr. Lincoln's Army
Closing the Ring
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
To Hell and Back
Come, Tell Me How You Live
The Discovery of India
Citizen 13660
Caesar and Christ
Mythology
Homage to Catalonia
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
The Revolution Betrayed
War Is a Racket
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
The Mis-Education of the Negro
My Early Life, 1874-1904
The Greek Way
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Worst Journey in the World
Storm of Steel
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Ten Days that Shook the World
The Rough Riders
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Capital
The Gettysburg Address
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
My Bondage and My Freedom
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Reflections on the Revolution in France
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Poor Richard's Almanack
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
The Book of the Courtier
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Poetic Edda
The History of the Kings of Britain
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
The Campaigns of Alexander
The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Letters from a Stoic
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Cleopatra: A Life
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Liar's Poker
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Long Walk to Freedom
The Wright Brothers
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
God's Smuggler
Master of the Senate
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
Things We Couldn't Say
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Wretched of the Earth
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
Travels with Herodotus
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
What Is the What
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Zookeeper's Wife
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Columbine
The Guns of August
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Hamilton: The Revolution
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Chaos: Making a New Science
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions