History Biography

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#2
American Heiress
American Heiress
  • Jeffrey Toobin
3.9214 reads
#3
The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers
  • David McCullough
4.0877 reads
#4
The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City
  • Erik Larson
3.98623 reads
#5
When Books Went to War
When Books Went to War
  • Molly Guptill Manning
3.148 reads
#6
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
  • Tom Standage
  • Ρούλα Κοκκολιού (Translator)
3.5740 reads
#7
Bitter Brew
Bitter Brew
  • William Knoedelseder
3.7914 reads
#8
Unbroken
Unbroken
  • Laura Hillenbrand
4.38284 reads
#9
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
  • Robert K. Massie
4.2747 reads
#10
The Worst Hard Time
The Worst Hard Time
  • Timothy Egan
4.0147 reads
#11
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
#12
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
4.46106 reads
#13
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.3976 reads
#14
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Caroline Fraser
4.1732 reads
#15
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
  • Kate Moore
4.15190 reads
#16
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
  • Jeanne Theoharis
42 reads
#17
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
  • Susan Quinn
3.68 reads
#18
The Darkest Year
The Darkest Year
  • William K. Klingaman
41 read
#19
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
  • Jason Fagone
4.2928 reads
#20
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
  • Mo Rocca
4.45 reads
#21
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
4.46228 reads
#22
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
4.15502 reads
#23
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The Broken Heart of America

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
  • Walter Johnson
4.53 reads
#24
Being Heumann
Being Heumann
  • Judith Heumann
  • Kristen Joiner
4.175 reads
#25
Rising Out of Hatred
Rising Out of Hatred
  • Eli Saslow
4.2510 reads
#26
Caste
Caste
  • Isabel Wilkerson
4.43233 reads
#27
She Come By It Natural
She Come By It Natural
  • Sarah Smarsh
4.0612 reads
#28
What Were We Thinking
What Were We Thinking
  • Carlos Lozada
31 read
#29
How the South Won the Civil War
How the South Won the Civil War
  • Heather Cox Richardson
3.410 reads
#30
American Baby
American Baby
  • Gabrielle Glaser
45 reads
#31
The Last Million
The Last Million
  • David Nasaw
00 reads
#32
I Alone Can Fix It
I Alone Can Fix It
  • Carol Leonnig
  • Philip Rucker
4.1319 reads
#33
Landslide
Landslide
  • Michael Wolff
3.678 reads
#34
The Nineties
The Nineties
    3.7488 reads
    #35
    How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
    How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
    • Daniel Immerwahr
    4.4165 reads
    #36
    Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
    Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
    • Dipo Faloyin
    4.3121 reads
    #37
    Why We Did It
    Why We Did It
    • Tim Miller
    3.385 reads
    #38
    Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother
    Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother
    • Chris Mooney
    • James Patterson
    42 reads
    #39
    Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
    Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
    • Rick Emerson
    3.8926 reads
    #40
    The Queen: Her Life
    The Queen: Her Life
    • Andrew Morton
    00 reads
    #41
    People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
    People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
    • Dara Horn
    4.5523 reads
    #42
    Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
    Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
    • Lesley M.M. Blume
    410 reads
    #43
    Bad Jews
    Bad Jews
    • Emily Tamkin
    00 reads
    #44
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    • John Carreyrou
    4.42542 reads
    #45
    Where the Jews Aren't
    Where the Jews Aren't
    • Masha Gessen
    3.674 reads
    #46
    Indigenous Continent
    Indigenous Continent
    • Pekka Hämäläinen
    4.3811 reads
    #47
    Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
    Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
    • Michelle Dean
    45 reads
    #48
    Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
    Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
    • William Sommer
    3.8815 reads
    #49
    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
      #50
      Three minutes in Poland
      Three minutes in Poland
      • Glenn Kurtz
      00 reads
      #51
      Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
      Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
      • Michael Schulman
      3.510 reads
      #52
      Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
      Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
      • Audrey Clare Farley
      3.674 reads
      #53
      The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe
      The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe
      • Helene Stapinski
      • Bonnie Siegler
      00 reads
      #54
      Lead Sister The Story of Karen Carpenter
      Lead Sister The Story of Karen Carpenter
      • Lucy O'Brien
      00 reads
      #55
      She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music
      She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music
      • Lucy O'Brien
      41 read
      #56
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      Easy Money

      Easy Money
      • Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman
      4.1411 reads
      #57
      My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
      My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
      • Martha Hodes
      41 read
      #58
      Black AF History
      Black AF History
      • Michael Harriot
      3.9410 reads
      #59
      The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
      The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
      • Jonathan Rosen
      3.9625 reads
      #60
      George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
      George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
      • Philip Norman
      42 reads
      #61
      Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
      Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
      • Amanda Montell
      3.88276 reads
      #62
      Five Days at Memorial
      Five Days at Memorial
      • Sheri Fink
      4.1336 reads
      #63
      American Girls
      American Girls
      • Jessica Roy
      42 reads
      #64
      An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
      An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
      • Doris Kearns Goodwin
      43 reads
      #65
      Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
      Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
      • Therese Oneill
      3.173 reads
      #66
      The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
      The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
      • Rachelle Bergstein
      31 read
      #67
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      Triumph of the Yuppies

      Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
      • Tom McGrath
      00 reads
      #68
      The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters
      The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters
      • Sam Kashner
      • Nancy Schoenberger
      00 reads
      #69
      The Bookshop
      The Bookshop
      • Evan Friss
      48 reads
      #70
      The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
      The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
      • Margalit Fox
      3.135 reads
      #71
      The Message
      The Message
      • Ta-Nehisi Coates
      4.5557 reads
      #72
      Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
      Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
      • Adam Higginbotham
      4.4323 reads
      #73
      The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography
      The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography
      • Peter Ames Carlin
      41 read
      #74
      Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
      Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
      • Tim Robey
      3.45 reads
      #75
      The Secret to Superhuman Strength
      The Secret to Superhuman Strength
      • Alison Bechdel
      4.2339 reads
      #76
      Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
      Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
      • Jonathan Blitzer
      4.6411 reads
      #77
      An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
      An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
      • Zeinab Badawi
      3.76 reads
      #78
      The Many Lives of Anne Frank
      The Many Lives of Anne Frank
      • Ruth Franklin
      41 read