History

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
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#2
Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
  • Alan Shepard
  • Deke Slayton
  • Jay Barbree
3.52 reads
#3
The Mindset list of the obscure
The Mindset list of the obscure
  • Tom McBride
00 reads
#4
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
  • Martin Gardner
44 reads
#5
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  • Charles Mackay
32 reads
#6
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
  • Mike Mullane
410 reads
#7
How Music Works
How Music Works
  • David Byrne
3.9348 reads
#8
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The Physics of Wall Street

The Physics of Wall Street
  • James Owen Weatherall
32 reads
#9
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
  • Mary Roach
3.4962 reads
#10
Failure Is Not an Option
Failure Is Not an Option
  • Gene Kranz
4.3337 reads
#11
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  • Mary Roach
3.92117 reads
#12
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
  • Mary Roach
3.93109 reads
#13
Classic Video Games: The Golden Age 1971-1984
Classic Video Games: The Golden Age 1971-1984
  • Brian Eddy
21 read
#14
Don't Know Much About Mythology
Don't Know Much About Mythology
  • Kenneth C. Davis
2.56 reads
#15
Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II
Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II
  • Gerd Horten
41 read
#16
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The Story of World War II

The Story of World War II
  • Henry Steele Commager
  • Donald L. Miller
00 reads
#17
Computing
Computing
  • Paul E. Ceruzzi
2.54 reads
#18
Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News
Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News
  • Dan Rather
42 reads
#19
The Mental Floss History of the United States
The Mental Floss History of the United States
  • Erik Sass
  • Will Pearson
  • Mangesh Hattikudur
00 reads
#20
Ripley's Believe It or Not!: In Celebration...
Ripley's Believe It or Not!: In Celebration...
  • Ripley Entertainment Inc.
21 read
#21
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development
  • Robert A. McGuire
  • Philip R.P. Coelho
21 read
#22
Schirra's Space
Schirra's Space
  • Wally Schirra
  • Richard N. Billings
3.52 reads
#23
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
  • Bart D. Ehrman
3.58 reads
#24
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
  • Edward J. Larson
42 reads
#25
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  • Mary Roach
3.9319 reads
#26
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
  • Ian Mortimer
00 reads
#27
A World Lit Only by Fire
A World Lit Only by Fire
  • William Manchester
31 read
#28
Medieval People
Medieval People
  • Eileen Power
21 read
#29
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Rocket Men

Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
  • Craig Nelson
  • Richard McGonagle
00 reads
#30
Spycraft
Spycraft
  • Robert Wallace
  • H. Keith Melton
  • Henry R. Schlesinger
31 read
#31
Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
  • Free Press
31 read
#32
Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
  • Richard E. Neustadt
  • Ernest R. May
21 read
#33
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
  • Tom Wolfe
4.282 reads
#34
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium
  • Dave Barry
3.52 reads
#36
Hello, everybody!
Hello, everybody!
  • Anthony J. Rudel
00 reads
#37
Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks
Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks
  • Alexander Russo
31 read
#38
Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves
Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves
  • Gene Fowler
  • Bill Crawford
41 read
#39
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
  • Tim Wu
3.8729 reads
#40
The World of Star Trek
The World of Star Trek
  • David Gerrold
32 reads
#41
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
  • Blake J. Harris
3.7869 reads
#42
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
  • Jared Diamond
3.88401 reads
#43
Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age
Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age
  • Adrian Johns
00 reads
#44
Consider the fork
Consider the fork
  • Bee Wilson
3.8924 reads
#45
"Live from Cape Canaveral"
"Live from Cape Canaveral"
  • Jay Barbree
00 reads
#46
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Almost Perfect

Almost Perfect: The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect Corporation
  • W.E. Peterson
31 read
#47
Cyberspies
Cyberspies
  • Gordon Corera
3.755 reads
#48
Quiz Kids: The Radio Program with the Smartest Children in America, 1940-1953
Quiz Kids: The Radio Program with the Smartest Children in America, 1940-1953
  • Martin A. Gardner
41 read
#49
The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives
The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives
  • Ada Petrova
  • Peter Watson
31 read
#50
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
  • Jeffrey Kluger
4.6321 reads
#51
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
  • Matthew Rubery
3.53 reads
#52
Spam Nation
Spam Nation
  • Brian Krebs
3.517 reads
#53
Get Well Soon
Get Well Soon
  • Jennifer Wright
4.1832 reads
#54
Ice Ghosts
Ice Ghosts
  • Paul Watson
32 reads
#55
Is This Live?: Inside the Wild Early Years of MuchMusic: The Nation's Music Station
Is This Live?: Inside the Wild Early Years of MuchMusic: The Nation's Music Station
  • Christopher Ward
31 read
#56
Ingenious: How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier
Ingenious: How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier
  • David Johnston
  • Tom Jenkins
21 read
#57
Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE
Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE
  • Gordon Thomas
  • Greg Lewis
21 read
#58
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
  • Jimmy Maher
32 reads
#59
Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer
Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer
  • Christian Fink-Jensen
  • Randolph Eustace-Walden
00 reads
#60
Nothing On but the Radio: A Look Back at Radio in Canada and How It Changed the World
Nothing On but the Radio: A Look Back at Radio in Canada and How It Changed the World
  • Gil Murray
31 read
#61
Colossal Canadian Failures: A Short History of Things that Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Colossal Canadian Failures: A Short History of Things that Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
  • Randy Richmond
  • Tom Villemaire
41 read
#62
Flim Flam: Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists
Flim Flam: Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists
  • Mark Bourrie
21 read
#63
Apollo 11: How America Won the Race to the Moon
Apollo 11: How America Won the Race to the Moon
  • Associated Press
21 read
#64
Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids?: Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted
Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids?: Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted
  • Ruth Duskin Feldman
41 read
#65
Raised on Radio
Raised on Radio
  • Gerald Nachman
31 read
#66
Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946
Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946
  • Andrew Taylor
21 read
#67
The Oak Island Mystery
The Oak Island Mystery
  • R. Lionel Fanthorpe
  • P. A. Fanthorpe
00 reads
#68
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Non Campus Mentis

Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students
  • Anders Henriksson
43 reads
#69
One Giant Leap
One Giant Leap
  • Charles Fishman
42 reads
#70
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
  • Will Cuppy
31 read
#71
Mystery Of Exploding Teeth
Mystery Of Exploding Teeth
  • Thomas Morris
3.54 reads
#72
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
  • Lydia Kang
  • Nate Pedersen
3.5229 reads
#73
Canada before Television: Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy
Canada before Television: Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy
  • Len Kuffert
31 read
#74
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
  • Gillian Beer
00 reads
#75
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
  • Tom Standage
  • Ρούλα Κοκκολιού (Translator)
3.5838 reads
#76
A Brief History of Vice
A Brief History of Vice
  • Robert Evans
31 read
#77
Fighting for Space
Fighting for Space
  • Amy Shira Teitel
51 read
#78
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
  • James Donovan
4.258 reads
#79
Flight
Flight
  • Christopher Kraft
3.86 reads
#80
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
  • Aaron A. Reed
01 read
#81
50 Years of Text Games: Further Explorations
50 Years of Text Games: Further Explorations
  • Aaron A. Reed
51 read
#82
Apollo 11: The Moon Landing in Real Time
Apollo 11: The Moon Landing in Real Time
  • Ian Passingham
41 read