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100 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner	4.24	36 reads
#3	Russian Thinkers Isaiah Berlin Aileen Kelly	5	3 reads
#4	Bomb Power : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State Garry Wills	5	3 reads
#5	Dealers of Lightning Michael A. Hiltzik	4.11	19 reads
#6	Augustus John Williams	4.36	38 reads
#7	Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror Michael V. Hayden	4	7 reads
#8	History of Rome History of Rome Livy	0	0 reads
#9	The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century István Hargittai	0	0 reads
#10	Hard Drive James Wallace Jim Erickson	3.5	5 reads
#11	How the Scots Invented the Modern World Arthur Herman	3.75	12 reads
#12	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon	3.73	26 reads
#13	The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo William Marsden (Translator)	3.44	11 reads
#14	The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vols 1-2 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vols 1-2 Plutarch Thomas North (Translator)	0	0 reads
#15	Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC Kate Gilliver	0	0 reads
#16	The Presidents Club Nancy Gibbs Michael Duffy	4.14	10 reads
#17	The Conquest of Gaul Gaius Julius Caesar	4.5	6 reads
#18	Plutarch's Lives: Volume II Plutarch John Dryden (Translator)	3.67	4 reads
#19	Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla Plutarch Bernadotte Perrin (Translator)	3.75	14 reads
#20	Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein	4.03	27 reads
#21	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond	3.85	93 reads
#22	Miami and the Siege of Chicago Norman Mailer	4	3 reads
#23	Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Rick Perlstein	3.92	14 reads
#24	The Plantagenets Dan Jones	4.21	28 reads
#25	Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book II Thucydides	3.75	31 reads
#26	Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky	3.62	102 reads
#27	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer	4.27	119 reads
#28	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann	4.2	126 reads
#29	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin	4.5	98 reads
#30	The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith	3.64	63 reads
#31	The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors Dan Jones	3.95	23 reads
#32	The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality Oswald Spengler	4.25	7 reads
#34	If This Is A Man / The Truce Primo Levi Paul Bailey	4.39	30 reads
#35	SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard	3.98	160 reads
#36	Rome Greg Woolf	0	0 reads
#37	The histories Herodotus	4.13	13 reads
#38	The Wise Men Walter Isaacson	4	4 reads
#39	The End of the Past Aldo Schiavone Margery J. Schneider (Translator)	0	0 reads
#40	The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 Alfred Thayer Mahan	3	1 read
#41	Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers Richard E. Neustadt Ernest R. May	2	1 read
#42	The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop	4.36	23 reads
#43	The Lessons of History Will Durant Ariel Durant	3.81	54 reads
#44	Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon Robert Kurson	4.29	24 reads
#45	Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror Victor Sebestyen	0	0 reads
#46	Cognitive Gadgets Cecilia Heyes	0	0 reads
#47	Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Ben R. Rich Leo Janos	4.47	77 reads
#48	The Rhetorical Presidency Jeffrey K. Tulis	0	0 reads
#49	Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight	4.24	25 reads
#50	A World Lit Only by Fire William Manchester	3.86	11 reads
#51	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Garry Wills	4.17	9 reads
#52	Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Richard Rhodes	4.29	9 reads
#53	Fortune's Children Arthur T. Vanderbilt II Patrick Lawlor	3.33	3 reads
#54	The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew	4.17	10 reads
#55	Maoism Julia Lovell	3.5	4 reads
#56	Judge Thy Neighbor Patrick Bergemann	0	0 reads
#57	The Second Founding Eric Foner	3	9 reads
#58	The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Peter Frankopan	4.23	84 reads
#59	The Shock of the Old David Edgerton	0	2 reads
#60	Scipio Africanus B.H. Liddell Hart	4	2 reads
#61	Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American B.H. Liddell Hart	0	0 reads
#62	These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore	4.23	47 reads
#63	The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War Alan Brinkley	0	1 read
#64	Voices of protest Alan Brinkley	2	1 read
#65	One Giant Leap Charles Fishman	4	2 reads
#66	An Impeccable Spy Owen Matthews	0	0 reads
#67	Pliny's Oyster Daisy Dunn	0	0 reads
#68	How History Gets Things Wrong Alex Rosenberg	0	0 reads
#69	Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century George Packer	3	1 read
#70	The Unwinding George Packer	4.03	22 reads
#71	Chinese Spies Roger Faligot	0	0 reads
#72	State Capture State Capture Alex Hertel-Fernandez	0	0 reads
#73	The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia Peter Hopkirk	4.38	10 reads
#74	Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall	3.94	164 reads
#75	Now It Can Be Told Leslie R. Groves	4	1 read
#76	Virtue Politics : Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy James Hankins	0	0 reads
#77	What It Takes: The Way to the White House Richard Ben Cramer	4.33	4 reads
#78	This America Jill Lepore	4.4	7 reads
#79	It's Even Worse Than It Looks Thomas E. Mann	3.83	7 reads
#80	Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad M. T. Anderson	4.44	10 reads
#81	The Compatriots: Dissidents, Hackers, Oligarchs, and Spies - The Story of Russia's Uncontrollable Emigres Andrei Soldatov Irina Borogan	0	0 reads
#82	Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Bill Browder	4.21	85 reads
#83	Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird	0	0 reads
#84	The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms Kai Bird	0	0 reads
#85	Plagues and Peoples William H. McNeill	4	6 reads
#86	I Like to Watch Emily Nussbaum	3.82	21 reads
#87	Twilight of the American Century Andrew J. Bacevich	0	0 reads
#88	Music Ted Gioia	2.67	3 reads
#89	The Industrialists The Industrialists Jennifer Delton	0	0 reads
#90	Secret and sanctioned : covert operations and the American presidency Stephen F. Knott	0	0 reads
#91	The wages of destruction Adam Tooze	4.33	3 reads
#92	Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze	4.17	7 reads
#93	The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Paul Kennedy	4.33	5 reads
#94	Forces of Production David F. Noble	0	0 reads
#95	A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World Gregory Clark	0	2 reads
#96	Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays Joan Acocella	0	0 reads
#97	Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games Sid Meier	4.05	35 reads
#98	Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture David Kushner	4.2	153 reads
#99	The Long Divergence Timur Kuran	0	0 reads
#100	The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Zachary D. Carter	4	15 reads
#101	The Deluge Adam Tooze	4.67	5 reads
#102	The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Charles R. Morris	3.4	6 reads