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26 Best History Books of All Time


Our goal: Find the best History books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

    Here's what we did:
  1. Type "best history books" into our search engine and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
    (It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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  1. 2
    Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
  2. 3
    1491
  3. 6
    A People's History of the United States
  4. 7
    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  5. 8
    Grant

    Grant

    Ron Chernow

  6. 9
    Orientalism

    Orientalism

    Edward W. Said

  7. 10
    Say Nothing
  8. 11
    Postwar
  9. 12
    What Is History?

    What Is History?

    Edward Hallet Carr

  10. 13
    The Communist Manifesto
  11. 14
    SPQR
  12. 15
    1776

    1776

    David McCullough

  13. 18
    Churchill

    Churchill

    A Life

    Martin Gilbert

  14. 19
    A History of the American People
  15. 22
    Leningrad

    Leningrad

    Anna Reid

  16. 24
    Democracy

    Democracy

    A Life

    Paul Cartledge

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