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The most-recommended history titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015
86 recommenders
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins · 2006
26 recommenders
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · 2017
25 recommenders
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant · 1997
24 recommenders
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond · 2005
The Art o f War
Sun Tzu · 2005
20 recommenders
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · 2018
18 recommenders
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2006
16 recommenders
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · 2004
13 recommenders
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson · 2010
11 recommenders
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger · 2016
What We Owe the Future
William MacAskill · 2022
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2010
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2019
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1994
10 recommenders
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson · 2011
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand · 1995
The Guns Of August
Barbara W. Tuchman · 2009
9 recommenders
Ways of Seeing
John Berger · 1990
Three Women
Lisa Taddeo · 2019
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
Katherine Boo · 2012
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes · 1995
The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
Charles Darwin · 2004
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe · 2004
8 recommenders
These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore · 2019
The Confessions
Saint Augustine · 1998
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · 1954
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Christopher R. Browning · 1993
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu · 2010
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson · 2003
7 recommenders
Voices From Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich · 2006
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder · 2010
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi · 1960
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson · 2008
The Histories
Herodotus · 2003
What It Takes
Richard Ben Cramer · 1993
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan · 2015
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith · 2021
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown · 2013
6 recommenders
The First Three Minutes
Steven Weinberg · 1993
Nonzero
Robert Wright · 2001
Energy and Civilization: a History
Vaclav Smil · 2017
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · 1776
The Tiger
John Vaillant · 2010
Plagues and Peoples
William McNeill · 1976
The Alchemy of Air
Thomas Hager · 2008
5 recommenders
The Victorian Internet
Tom Standage · 1999
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)
David P. Womersley · 1996
The Landmark Thucydides
Thucydides · 1972
Parting the Waters
Taylor Branch · 1990
Race After Technology
Ruha Benjamin · 2019
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson · 2022
The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd · 2011
The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough · 2004
The Art of War
Sun Zi · 1900
The Song of the Dodo
David Quammen · 1997
Stuff Matters
Mark Miodownik · 2014
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann · 2023
Genome (text only) First American Edition edition by M. Ridley
Matt Ridley · 2006
A Crack in Creation
Jennifer A. Doudna · 2017
4 recommenders
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Peter Frankopan · 2023
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
Mike Monteiro · 2019
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Simon Schama · 1990
Mythos
Stephen Fry · 2017
Medieval Technology and Social Change
Lynn White · 1966
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Anna Funder · 2011
Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi · 2016
The Decadent Society
Ross Gregory Douthat · 2020
A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin · 1998
A Problem from Hell
Samantha Power · 2002
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold · 1968
Beyond A Boundary
C. L. R. James · 2005
How To Hide An Empire
Daniel Immerwahr · 2019
Numbers Don't Lie
Vaclav Smil · 2020
Pandemic 1918
Catharine Arnold · 2018
Red Star Over China
Edgar Snow · 1994
The Aeneid
Virgil · 1990
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
Boris Johnson · 2014
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys · 2003
Where Is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall · 2018
The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan · 2018
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
Daniel J. Boorstin · 1985
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Philippe Sands · 2016
Dead Famous
Greg Jenner · 2021
The Double Helix
James D. Watson Ph.D. · 2001
Battle Cry of Freedom
James M. McPherson · 2003
Modern Times
Paul Johnson · 2001
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson · 2015
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann · 2011
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon · 2005
Best Evidence
David S. Lifton · 1992
3 recommenders
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688
Clare Jackson · 2021
Elegant Defense, An: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
Matt Richtel · 2019
The Invention of the Jewish People
Shlomo Sand · 2010
How to Fight Anti-Semitism
Bari Weiss · 2019
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Henry Gee · 2021
The Master Algorithm
Pedro Domingos · 2015
Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
Adam Hochschild · 2006
