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#1

The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

4 Readers

#2

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

2023 • 58 Readers • 432 pages • 4

#3

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

2023 • 22 Readers • 4.2

#4

The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

2023 • 4 Readers • 304 pages

#5

Year of the Rabbit

2020 • 14 Readers • 380 pages • 3.6

#6

Belonging a German reckons with home and history

2018 • 35 Readers • 288 pages • 4.3

#7

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1946 • 8 Readers • 209 pages • 5

#8

Robert E. Lee and Me

2022 • 43 Readers • 4.1

#9

Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

2020 • 38 Readers • 306 pages • 3.4

#10

The Great Mortality

2005 • 60 Readers • 364 pages • 3.4

#11

The Dark Queens

2022 • 96 Readers • 392 pages • 3.7

#12

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2012 • 3 Readers • 3

#13

The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country

2006 • 3 Readers • 490 pages

#14

Truevine

2016 • 13 Readers • 420 pages • 3.3

#15

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2019 • 8 Readers • 4

#16

Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia

11 Readers • 4.5

#17

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2005 • 11 Readers

#18

Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

2023 • 4 Readers • 480 pages

#19

The Deep Dark

2006 • 5 Readers • 415 pages • 4

#20

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

2024 • 44 Readers • 351 pages • 4.4

#21

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13 Readers • 264 pages

#22

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

12 Readers • 4

#23

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

1950 • 19 Readers • 245 pages • 4.6

#24

Crimes of the Centuries: The Cases That Changed Us

2023 • 3 Readers • 340 pages

#25

Ghost Ship

2004 • 9 Readers • 304 pages • 5

#26

The Monster of Florence

2008 • 84 Readers • 354 pages • 3.6

#27

Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor

3 Readers

#28

Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

10 Readers

#29

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2024 • 6 Readers

#30

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

2024 • 195 Readers • 593 pages • 4

#31

Kent State: An American Tragedy

2024 • 8 Readers • 416 pages • 4.7

#32

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

2024 • 86 Readers • 576 pages • 4.6

#33

Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

2024 • 3 Readers

#34

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

2019 • 259 Readers • 513 pages • 4.4

#35

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

2024 • 19 Readers

#36

The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

2024 • 4 Readers

#37

The Wide Wide Sea

2024 • 48 Readers • 408 pages • 4.5

#38

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

2024 • 15 Readers • 4.7

#39

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

2018 • 602 Readers • 519 pages • 4.5

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#40

Postwar

2005 • 117 Readers • 896 pages • 4.5

#41

The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel

2022 • 7 Readers • 4

#42

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

2022 • 58 Readers • 304 pages • 3.7

#43

Cover 8

2024 • 4 Readers

#44

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

2023 • 16 Readers • 3

#45

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

2020 • 190 Readers • 9h 58m • 4.7

#46

Still Life with Bones

2023 • 26 Readers • 321 pages • 4.5

#47

By the Fire We Carry

2024 • 34 Readers • 352 pages • 4

#48

Book and Dagger

2024 • 18 Readers • 376 pages • 3.5

#49

Eden Undone

2024 • 13 Readers • 361 pages • 4

#50

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4 Readers

#51

Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History

2023 • 30 Readers • 4.5

#52

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

2024 • 29 Readers • 433 pages • 4.2

#53

Death in the city of light

2011 • 40 Readers • 424 pages • 3.4

#54

Kingmaker

2024 • 7 Readers • 545 pages

#55

Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

2024 • 7 Readers • 3.8

#56

The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood

2025 • 4 Readers • 352 pages

#57

Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

2025 • 3 Readers • 304 pages

#58

A History of the World in Six Plagues

2025 • 3 Readers • 320 pages

#59

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

2024 • 4 Readers • 547 pages • 5

#60

Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

2025 • 2 Readers • 272 pages

#61

The Sinners All Bow

2025 • 8 Readers • 321 pages • 3

#62

The Cure for Women

2024 • 10 Readers • 5

#63

Seven Fallen Feathers

2017 • 51 Readers • 304 pages • 4.4

#64

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

2019 • 85 Readers • 530 pages • 4.4

#65

The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering

2024 • 3 Readers

#66

Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster

2018 • 2 Readers • 320 pages

#67

Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land

2024 • 2 Readers • 314 pages

#68

The Barn

2024 • 24 Readers • 448 pages • 4.3

#69

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

2024 • 17 Readers • 576 pages • 4.1

#70

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2 Readers

#71

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy: 1945-1975

2018 • 3 Readers • 752 pages • 3

#72

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

2025 • 4 Readers