History

Updated 5 months ago
205 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Richard Holmes	3.56	12 reads
#3	1776 David McCullough	4.04	146 reads
#4	Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Stephen Rebello	3.88	7 reads
#5	Band of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose	4.24	102 reads
#6	Basquiat Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art Phoebe Hoban	0	2 reads
#7	Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water Marc Reisner	4.63	21 reads
#8	California: A History Kevin Starr	4.25	5 reads
#9	Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C.F. Martin and His Contemporaries James Westbrook	0	0 reads
#10	The Civil War: A Narrative Shelby Foote	4	7 reads
#11	Meggs' History of Graphic Design Philip B. Meggs Alston W. Purvis	4.29	7 reads
#12	California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Wendy Kaplan	0	0 reads
#13	Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 Kevin Starr	4	1 read
#14	D-Day, June 6, 1944 Stephen E. Ambrose	4.19	21 reads
#15	De Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens Annalyn Swan	5	1 read
#16	Empire of Liberty Gordon S. Wood	4.33	6 reads
#17	Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Jared Diamond	3.88	437 reads
#18	A History of the Middle East Peter Mansfield	0	1 read
#19	The Judgment of Paris Ross King	3.75	4 reads
#20	Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed	4.18	17 reads
#21	The Night of the Hunter Simon Callow	0	0 reads
#22	Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface	0	0 reads
#23	The Pixar Touch David A. Price	3.43	13 reads
#24	Propaganda Edward L. Bernays	3.37	26 reads
#25	The Rest Is Noise Alex Ross	4.5	17 reads
#26	Six Days of War Michael B. Oren	4.33	13 reads
#27	Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson	4.22	719 reads
#28	The Story of Art E.H. Gombrich	4.22	40 reads
#29	Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970 Peter Plagens	4	1 read
#30	Too big to fail Andrew Ross Sorkin	4.19	36 reads
#31	Triumph of the City Edward L. Glaeser	3.91	20 reads
#32	Walt Disney Neal Gabler	3.83	20 reads
#33	Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles Kevin Roderick	4	1 read
#34	A World History of Photography Naomi Rosenblum	4.5	2 reads
#35	Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand	4.38	283 reads
#36	The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Walter Isaacson	4.15	89 reads
#37	Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles Les Standiford	4	2 reads
#38	KL Nikolaus Wachsmann	4.8	5 reads
#39	The Invention of Nature Andrea Wulf	4.09	45 reads
#40	Lincoln David Herbert Donald	4.27	13 reads
#41	The Wright Brothers David McCullough	4.08	77 reads
#42	The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies Ethan Mordden	4	1 read
#43	Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design Barry M. Katz	4	2 reads
#44	The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship Roger Friedland Harold Zellman	0	0 reads
#45	Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics Jonathan Wilson	4.08	26 reads
#46	The Ball is Round David Goldblatt	4.5	5 reads
#47	The Evolution of God Robert Wright	4.4	12 reads
#48	Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Robert K. Massie	4.25	46 reads
#49	Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 Kevin Starr	4	1 read
#50	Seinfeldia Jennifer Keishin Armstrong	3.75	21 reads
#51	Baseball George Vecsey	3	2 reads
#52	The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Lillian Faderman	4.33	3 reads
#53	Paul McCartney Paul McCartney: The Life Philip Norman	4.33	3 reads
#54	The English and Their History Robert Tombs	4.11	14 reads
#55	The Gene Siddhartha Mukherjee	4.3	93 reads
#56	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee	4.25	169 reads
#57	The Anatomy of Fascism Robert O. Paxton	3.93	21 reads
#58	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson	4.46	105 reads
#59	Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar Alan di Perna Brad Tolinski	4.33	4 reads
#60	Napoleon Andrew Roberts	4.46	34 reads
#61	Pacific: The Ocean of the Future Simon Winchester	3.57	15 reads
#62	The Earth Is Weeping Peter Cozzens	3.75	10 reads
#63	West of Eden: An American Place Jean Stein	4	1 read
#64	Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn Daniel Gordis	3.86	11 reads
#65	The Beatles : all these years Mark Lewisohn	4.45	14 reads
#66	Hackerlar Steven Levy	4.1	55 reads
#67	The Caped Crusade Glen Weldon	4.31	18 reads
#68	Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy Mike Love James S. Hirsch	3.5	3 reads
#69	The Wrecking Crew The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret Kent Hartman	3.5	2 reads
#70	Superman: The High-Flying History of the Man of Steel Larry Tye	3	2 reads
#71	We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.39	76 reads
#72	Grant Ron Chernow	4.47	54 reads
#73	Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi	4.53	89 reads
#74	The Battle of Franklin: When the Devil Had Full Possession of the Earth James R. Knight	3	1 read
#75	A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen David Hockney Martin Gayford	4.67	3 reads
#76	On Tyranny Timothy Snyder	4.17	187 reads
#77	Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet Lyndal Roper	4	3 reads
#78	Greater Gotham Mike Wallace	5	3 reads
#79	Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson	4.14	123 reads
#80	The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age David N. Schwartz	4.2	7 reads
#81	Never Use Futura Douglas Thomas	4.17	6 reads
#82	Bunk : The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts Kevin Young	2.67	5 reads
#83	Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Steven J. Ross	3.5	2 reads
#84	Richard Nixon John A. Farrell	4.5	6 reads
#85	A Man on the Moon Andrew Chaikin	4.46	29 reads
#86	Washington: A Life Ron Chernow	4.4	64 reads
#87	Golden Gate Kevin Starr	0	0 reads
#88	The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles Gary Krist	4.13	6 reads
#89	A History of the World Cup: 1930-2014 Clemente A. Lisi	3	1 read
#90	The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World Stephen Brusatte	4.11	120 reads
#91	The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City William B. Helmreich	3	1 read
#92	The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History Jon Morris	3.5	10 reads
#93	Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Financial Edition Charles Mackay	3.5	7 reads
#94	Out of sight William R. Hackman	0	0 reads
#95	Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Edwin G. Burrows Mike Wallace	4.33	6 reads
#96	Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s Hunter Drohojowska-Philp	4	1 read
#97	Apollo's Angels Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet Jennifer Homans	4.33	3 reads
#98	The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Simon Winchester	4	18 reads
#99	How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone Brian McCullough	4	21 reads
#100	The BMW Century: The Ultimate Performance Machines Tony Lewin	4	1 read
#101	The Birth of Loud Ian S. Port	4	3 reads