Nonfiction History

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#2
Cabins in the Laurel
Cabins in the Laurel
  • Muriel Earley Sheppard
41 read
#3
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The Mutiny in Singapore

The Mutiny in Singapore: War, Anti War and the War for India's Independence
  • Sho Kuwajima
31 read
#4
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
  • Lynne Olson
4.52 reads
#5
The Second Amendment
The Second Amendment
  • Michael Waldman
3.836 reads
#6
The Half Has Never Been Told
The Half Has Never Been Told
  • Edward E. Baptist
48 reads
#7
Factory Man
Factory Man
  • Beth Macy
31 read
#8
Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
  • Michael Signer
51 read
#9
The Power of Babel
The Power of Babel
  • John McWhorter
4.115 reads
#10
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
  • Erik Larson
3.7168 reads
#11
White Trash
White Trash
  • Nancy Isenberg
3.746 reads
#12
The Great Clod: Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia
The Great Clod: Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia
  • Gary Snyder
31 read
#13
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
  • Jack Weatherford
4.0995 reads
#14
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
  • Thomas E. Ricks
3.869 reads
#15
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
  • Joby Warrick
4.3230 reads
#16
The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma
The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma
  • Delphine Schrank
31 read
#17
King Leopold's Ghost
King Leopold's Ghost
  • Adam Hochschild
4.3877 reads
#18
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The Reactionary Mind

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
  • Corey Robin
31 read
#19
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
  • Colin Woodard
4.3128 reads
#20
It's All Relative
It's All Relative
  • A.J. Jacobs
3.8518 reads
#21
The Library Book
The Library Book
  • Susan Orlean
3.94178 reads
#22
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
  • Edward L. Ayers
41 read
#23
Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon
  • S. C. Gwynne
4.0350 reads
#24
The Swerve
The Swerve
  • Stephen Greenblatt
3.6842 reads
#25
Fascism: A Warning
Fascism: A Warning
  • Madeleine K. Albright
4.410 reads
#26
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  • David Grann
4.15492 reads
#27
Apeirogon
Apeirogon
  • Colum McCann
53 reads
#28
The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832
The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832
  • Richard Beeman
41 read
#29
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How the South Won the Civil War

How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
  • Heather Cox Richardson
4.52 reads
#30
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Machiavelli

Machiavelli
  • Patrick Boucheron
41 read
#31
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Angels and Ages

Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
  • Adam Gopnik
31 read
#32
The Story of England
The Story of England
  • Christopher Hibbert
3.52 reads
#33
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
  • John McWhorter
3.827 reads
#34
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Sound & Symbol in Chinese

Sound & Symbol in Chinese
  • Bernhard Karlgren
31 read
#35
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
  • Sonia Purnell
4.2742 reads
#36
Caste
Caste
  • Isabel Wilkerson
4.43232 reads
#37
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
  • James Shapiro
51 read
#38
Zero Fail
Zero Fail
  • Carol Leonnig
411 reads
#39
Robert E. Lee and Me
Robert E. Lee and Me
  • Ty Seidule
4.1214 reads
#40
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  • Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46224 reads
#41
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
  • Joseph J. Ellis
3.8345 reads
#42
All That She Carried
All That She Carried
  • Tiya Miles
3.677 reads
#43
Not One Inch
Not One Inch
  • Mary Elise Sarotte
3.53 reads
#44
How the Word Is Passed
How the Word Is Passed
  • Clint Smith
4.8160 reads
#45
The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
  • Mike Rothschild
4.148 reads
#46
The Plantagenets
The Plantagenets
  • Dan Jones
4.2128 reads
#47
American Midnight
American Midnight
  • Adam Hochschild
4.4513 reads
#48
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
  • Candice Millard
4.2754 reads
#49
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • Isabel Wilkerson
4.46104 reads
#50
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
  • Stacy Schiff
3.3112 reads
#51
Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
  • Dean King
51 read
#52
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  • David Grann
4.11344 reads
#53
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
    4.3835 reads
    #54
    Fifth Sun
    Fifth Sun
    • Camilla Townsend
    411 reads
    #55
    Picasso's War
    Picasso's War
    • Hugh Eakin
    4.58 reads
    #56
    The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
    The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
    • Michael Waldman
    51 read
    #57
    Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
    Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
    • Heather Cox Richardson
    4.319 reads
    #58
    Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
    Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
    • Jonathan Kennedy
    3.8626 reads