History Books

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
(35.1K)
Founding Brothers: T...
by Joseph J. Ellis
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
(35.1K)
Hell's Angels: A Str...
by Hunter S. Thompson
The Right Stuff
(34.7K)
The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(34.7K)
Incidents in the Lif...
by Harriet Ann Jacobs
The Histories
(33.8K)
The Histories
by Herodotus
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
(33.7K)
Left to Tell: Discov...
by Immaculée Ilibagiza
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
(33K)
No Ordinary Time: Fr...
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
How the Irish Saved Civilization
(32.7K)
How the Irish Saved...
by Thomas Cahill
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
(32.6K)
The New Jim Crow: Ma...
by Michelle Alexander
Decision Points
(32.6K)
Decision Points
by George W. Bush
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
(32.4K)
Going Clear: Sciento...
by Lawrence Wright
The World Without Us
(32.3K)
The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
(32K)
The Disappearing Spo...
by Sam Kean
Leonardo's Notebooks
(31.3K)
Leonardo's Notebooks
by Leonardo da Vinci
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
(31.1K)
Genghis Khan and the...
by Jack Weatherford
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
(31K)
The Rise of Theodore...
by Edmund Morris
Hamilton: The Revolution
(30.4K)
Hamilton: The Revolu...
by Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
(30.4K)
The Snowball: Warren...
by Alice Schroeder
The Federalist Papers
(30.1K)
The Federalist Paper...
by Alexander Hamilton
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
(29.8K)
The Ghost Map: The S...
by Steven Johnson
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
(29.4K)
Too Big to Fail: The...
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
King Leopold's Ghost
(29.3K)
King Leopold's Ghost
by Adam Hochschild
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
(29.2K)
The Shock Doctrine:...
by Naomi Klein
The Social Contract
(28.9K)
The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
(28.6K)
The Hare With Amber...
by Edmund de Waal
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
(28.5K)
The Mother Tongue: E...
by Bill Bryson
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
(28.4K)
Evicted: Poverty and...
by Matthew Desmond
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
(27.9K)
Confessions of an Ec...
by John Perkins
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
(27.2K)
A Book of Five Rings...
by Miyamoto Musashi
The Trial and Death of Socrates
(26.9K)
The Trial and Death...
by Plato
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
(26.8K)
Killing Jesus: A History
(26.4K)
Killing Jesus: A His...
by Bill O'Reilly
The Fire Next Time
(26.2K)
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
The Souls of Black Folk
(26.1K)
The Souls of Black F...
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Mein Kampf
(25.9K)
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
God's Smuggler
(25.8K)
God's Smuggler
by Brother Andrew
Politics
(25.7K)
Politics
by Aristotle
Civilization and Its Discontents
(25.5K)
Civilization and Its...
by Sigmund Freud
Apology
(25.5K)
Apology
by Plato
History of the Peloponnesian War
(25.2K)
History of the Pelop...
by Thucydides
A History of Western Philosophy
(25.2K)
A History of Western...
by Bertrand Russell
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
(25.2K)
The Partly Cloudy Pa...
by Sarah Vowell
The Monster of Florence
(24.9K)
The Monster of Flore...
by Douglas Preston
Chaos: Making a New Science
(24.8K)
Chaos: Making a New...
by James Gleick
A Distant Mirror:  The Calamitous 14th Century
(24.8K)
A Distant Mirror: T...
by Barbara W. Tuchman
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
(24.7K)
The Motorcycle Diari...
by Ernesto Che Guevara
The Shock of the New
(24.7K)
The Shock of the New
by Robert Hughes
Common Sense
(24.4K)
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
(24.3K)
Empire of the Summer...
by S.C. Gwynne
A Briefer History of Time
(24.3K)
A Briefer History of...
by Stephen Hawking
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
(24.1K)
Slouching Towards Be...
by Joan Didion
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
(23.6K)
Please Kill Me: The...
by Legs McNeil
On Liberty
(23.1K)
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
(22.7K)
Discourse on Method...
by René Descartes
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
(22.7K)
First They Killed My...
by Loung Ung
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
(22.5K)
Barbarians at the Ga...
by Bryan Burrough
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
(22.2K)
Stalingrad: The Fate...
by Antony Beevor
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
(22.2K)
The Swerve: How the...
by Stephen Greenblatt
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
(22.2K)
The Poisoner's Handb...
by Deborah Blum
No Logo
(22.1K)
No Logo
by Naomi Klein