Genres

History

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

1 • 470 Readers 4

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

1959 • 447 Readers • 270 pages 4.5

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

2023 • 813 Readers • 352 pages 4.1

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

2018 • 585 Readers • 519 pages 4.4

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

1960 • 403 Readers • 1,245 pages 4.3

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,409 Readers • 443 pages 4.2

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

2023 • 151 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

História da Vida Privada no Brasil, Volume 1: Cotidiano e Vida Privada na América Portuguesa

#1 of 4 in História da Vida Privada no Brasil

1997 • 2 Readers • 560 pages

Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki
ByThor Heyerdahl

1948 • 79 Readers • 308 pages 4

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

2010 • 465 Readers • 571 pages 4.2

Vozes de Tchernóbil: A história oral do desastre nuclear

#4 of 5 in Voices of Utopia

1997 • 1 Reader • 312 pages

Huck’s Raft

Huck’s Raft
BySteven Mintz

2004 • 472 pages

Akhenaten

Akhenaten
ByDorothy Porter

1992 • 160 pages

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

2003 • 395 Readers • 390 pages 4

Growing Up in Coal Country

Growing Up in Coal Country
BySusan Campbell Bartoletti

1996 • 2 Readers • 132 pages

War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire

War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire
ByDietrich Eichholtz,John Broadwin(Translator)

2006 • 1 Reader

Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence

Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence
ByLynette Ramsay Silver

1999 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

Roots and Legends

Roots and Legends
ByEditors of Wellfleet Press

2025 • 1 Reader • 207 pages 4

In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life

1977 • 4 Readers • 304 pages 3.7

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

2005 • 368 Readers • 578 pages 4.2

Night

#1 of 3 in The Night Trilogy

Night
ByElie Wiesel,Stella Rodway(Translator)

1955 • 1,150 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

2001 • 280 Readers • 656 pages 4.2

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles
ByMadeline Miller

2011 • 3,264 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

A People's History of the United States

A People's History of the United States
ByHoward Zinn,Kathy Emery,+1 more

1980 • 610 Readers • 642 pages 4.2

Hiroshima

Hiroshima
ByJohn Hersey

1946 • 231 Readers • 196 pages 4.1

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914

1977 • 64 Readers • 708 pages 4

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

1997 • 261 Readers • 290 pages 4.2

Meditations

Meditations
ByMarcus Aurelius,Martin Hammond(Translator)

-180 • 1,193 Readers • 254 pages 4.2

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung.

1964 • 15 Readers • 311 pages 3.7

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick

2000 • 250 Readers • 340 pages 4.1

The Red Queen

#3 of 15 in The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels

The Red Queen
ByPhilippa Gregory

2010 • 82 Readers • 412 pages 3.7

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

#1 in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

1926 • 62 Readers • 1,475 pages 4.3

The Devil in the White City

2002 • 1,073 Readers • 447 pages 4

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

#1 of 2 in Persepolis

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
ByMarjane Satrapi,Mattias Ripa(Translator)

2000 • 624 Readers • 165 pages 4.4

The Children's Blizzard

2004 • 30 Readers • 337 pages 3.5

Hamilton : the revolution

Hamilton : the revolution
ByLin-Manuel Miranda,Jeremy McCarter

2015 • 194 Readers • 285 pages 4.6

An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943

#1 of 3 in World War II Liberation Trilogy

2002 • 57 Readers • 681 pages 4.2

The Book Thief

The Book Thief
ByMarkus Zusak

2005 • 2,665 Readers • 552 pages 4.3

Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

2007 • 2 Readers • 225 pages 3.5

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

2010 • 267 Readers • 536 pages 4

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

#1 of 2 in Berlin Diary

1941 • 28 Readers • 662 pages 4.2

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita
ByMikhail Bulgakov,Katherine Tiernan O'Connor(Translator),+1 more

1918 • 1,180 Readers • 424 pages 4.2

The Murder of King Tut

The Murder of King Tut
ByMartin Dugard,James Patterson

2009 • 12 Readers • 352 pages 2.6

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

1994 • 397 Readers • 388 pages 3.8

The Library Book

The Library Book
BySusan Orlean

2018 • 406 Readers 3.9

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

3 Stamped

2016 • 325 Readers 4.6

The Big Short

#2 of 1 in Liar's Poker

The Big Short
ByMichael Lewis

2010 • 355 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

The Plantagenets

The Plantagenets
ByDan Jones

105 Readers • 20h 50m 4.2

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

2017 • 952 Readers • 416 pages 4.2

A Long Petal of the Sea

A Long Petal of the Sea
ByIsabel Allende

2019 • 186 Readers • 325 pages 4

Soul by Soul

Soul by Soul
ByWalter Johnson

1999 • 2 Readers • 320 pages

They Called Us Enemy

They Called Us Enemy
ByGeorge Takei,Justin Eisinger,+1 more

2019 • 239 Readers • 208 pages 4.6

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

2019 • 82 Readers • 530 pages 4.4

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

2002 • 54 Readers • 256 pages 4.1

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

2020 • 366 Readers • 585 pages 4.2

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

2014 • 61 Readers • 544 pages 3.8

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

1996 • 248 Readers • 434 pages 4.2

Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel
ByErnst Jünger

1920 • 91 Readers • 320 pages 4

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

2007 • 43 Readers • 299 pages 3.8

The age of revolution, 1789-1848.

#1 of 4 in Modern History

1962 • 57 Readers • 356 pages 3.9

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

2019 • 157 Readers • 577 pages 4.1

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

2014 • 6 Readers • 40 pages 4.7

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

1992 • 116 Readers • 271 pages 4

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

2021 • 394 Readers • 24h 4.2

The Penguin History of New Zealand

2003 • 12 Readers • 564 pages 4.3

One Summer: America, 1927

2013 • 133 Readers 4

The Princes in the Tower

1992 • 24 Readers • 327 pages 3.7

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

2017 • 110 Readers • 305 pages 4.2

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

1919 • 35 Readers • 210 pages 3.6

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

2017 • 74 Readers • 448 pages 3.4

Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381

2009 • 15 Readers • 238 pages 4.3

Babylon: Mesopotamia And The Birth Of Civilization

2010 • 24 Readers • 320 pages 4.3

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

2009 • 71 Readers 4.4

On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

2021 • 12 Readers • 433 pages 4

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition

2019 • 25 Readers • 336 pages 4.6

Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

#6 of 1 in Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Series

2016 • 21 Readers • 337 pages 4.3

Death in Salem: The Private Lives behind the 1692 Witch Hunt

2010 • 4 Readers • 279 pages 3.8

Imperios y espadazos

Imperios y espadazos
ByAndoni Garrido

2017 • 2 Readers • 504 pages 4

July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta

2023 • 1 Reader • 411 pages 4

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

2023 • 64 Readers • 628 pages 4.3

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

2006 • 35 Readers • 669 pages 4.3

Inventing the People

Inventing the People
ByEdmund S. Morgan

1988 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

2020 • 99 Readers • 599 pages 4.2

Free Time

Free Time
ByGary S. Cross

2024 • 4 Readers • 352 pages 5

DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools

2024 • 2 Readers • 288 pages 4

Emperor of Rome

Emperor of Rome
ByMary Beard

2023 • 46 Readers • 431 pages 3.8

The Ancient Engineers

The Ancient Engineers
ByL. Sprague de Camp

1960 • 2 Readers • 481 pages 5

Unruly: A History of England’s Kings and Queens

2023 • 108 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

A Short History of the Twentieth Century

2005 • 5 Readers • 560 pages 4

Fifth Sun A New History of the Aztecs

2021 • 8 Readers • 336 pages 4.7

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

2024 • 8 Readers • 454 pages 2.5

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

2024 • 45 Readers • 545 pages 4.6

Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend

2018 • 4 Readers • 256 pages 4.3