26 Best History Books
Goal: Find the best History books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best history books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
26 Best History Books
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Also recommended by:
Joe Rogan, Bill Gates, Charlie Munger, Simon Sinek, Daniel Ek, Jesse Williams, Stewart Brand, James Clear, Margaret Atwood, Mark Manson, Jamie Dimon, Patrick Arnold
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
Also recommended by:
Tim Ferriss, Ben Horowitz, Lisa Ling, Daymond John, Austen Allred
1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
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The Guns of August
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
by Barbara W. Tuchman
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The Crusades
The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
by Thomas Asbridge
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
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Say Nothing
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe
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1776
by David McCullough
A History of the American People
by Paul Johnson
Appeasement
Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
by Tim Bouverie
Broken Lives
How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century
by Konrad H. Jarausch
Caesar and Christ
The Story of Civilization, Book 3
by Will & Ariel Durant
Churchill
A Life
by Martin Gilbert
Democracy
A Life
by Paul Cartledge
Embracing Defeat
Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
Leningrad
by Anna Reid
Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
by Eduardo Galeano
SPQR
A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
Stalin's Englishman
Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
by Andrew Lownie
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
The History of the Ancient World
From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
by Susan Wise Bauer
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15 Best History Books Of All Time – History Adventures
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The best history books
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45 Best History Books of All Time | Reedsy Discovery
reedsy.com
- 4
The 100 Best History Books of All Time - Listmuse.com
listmuse.com
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Best History Books Of All Time: 12 Essential Reads On Western Civilization - Forbes Vetted
forbes.com
