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209 books

Must-Read 1600

A Distant Mirror

Barbara Tuchman

Must-Read 1993

A History of Warfare

John Keegan

Must-Read 1998

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

Must-Read 1980

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

Must-Read 1936

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

Must-Read 2006

Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon

Must-Read 1997

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

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Annals & The Histories

Tacitus

Must-Read 1937

Annihilation of Caste

B.R. Ambedkar

Must-Read 2001

Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

Must-Read 1988

Baltasar and Blimunda

José Saramago

Must-Read 1840

Barnaby Rudge

Charles Dickens

Must-Read 1935

Black Reconstruction in America

W.E.B. Du Bois

Must-Read 1985

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Must-Read 2010

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

Must-Read 1982

Civilization and Capitalism

Fernand Braudel

Must-Read 2004

Collapse

Jared Diamond

Must-Read 1776

Decline and Fall of Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

Must-Read 1947

Doctor Faustus

Thomas Mann

Must-Read 1952

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Must-Read 1968

Feudal Society

Marc Bloch

Must-Read 2003

Gulag

Anne Applebaum

Must-Read 1997

Guns Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond

Must-Read 1912

Hadji Murad

Leo Tolstoy

Must-Read 1494

Histories

Herodotus

Must-Read 2010

Ill Fares the Land

Tony Judt

Must-Read 1983

Imagined Communities

Benedict Anderson

Must-Read 1992

Jazz

Toni Morrison

Must-Read 1938

Joseph and His Brothers

Thomas Mann

Must-Read 1988

Libra

Don DeLillo

Must-Read 1997

Mason & Dixon

Thomas Pynchon

Must-Read 2008

Ninety-Three

Victor Hugo

Must-Read 1961

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Must-Read 2017

On Tyranny

Timothy Snyder

Must-Read 1992

Ordinary Men

Christopher Browning

Must-Read 1526

Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Must-Read 2005

Postwar

Tony Judt

Must-Read 2017

Red Famine

Anne Applebaum

Must-Read 1800

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

Must-Read 1926

Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Must-Read 1975

The Age of Capital

Eric Hobsbawm

Must-Read 1987

The Age of Empire

Eric Hobsbawm

Must-Read 1994

The Age of Extremes

Eric Hobsbawm

Must-Read 1962

The Age of Revolution

Eric Hobsbawm

Must-Read 1935

The Black Jacobins

C.L.R. James

Must-Read 1891

The Black Tulip

Alexandre Dumas

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The Civil War

Julius Caesar

Must-Read 2007

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Must-Read 1957

The Double

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Must-Read 1976

The Face of Battle

John Keegan

Must-Read 1962

The Guns of August

Barbara Tuchman

Must-Read 1992

The Historian's Craft

Marc Bloch

Must-Read 1776

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

Must-Read 1965

The Interpreters

Wole Soyinka

Must-Read 1963

The Making of the English Working Class

E.P. Thompson

Must-Read 1869

The Man Who Laughs

Victor Hugo

Must-Read 1975

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II

Fernand Braudel

Must-Read 2000

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol

Must-Read 2004

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

Must-Read 1974

The Power Broker

Robert Caro

Must-Read 1963

The Rise of the West

William H. McNeill

Must-Read 2018

The Road to Unfreedom

Timothy Snyder

Must-Read 1903

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

Must-Read 2008

The Third Reich Trilogy

Richard J. Evans

Must-Read 1999

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

Must-Read 1982

The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert Caro

Must-Read 2020

Twilight of Democracy

Anne Applebaum

Must-Read 1914

Ulysses

James Joyce

Must-Read 1823

Valperga

Mary Shelley

Must-Read 1864

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Must-Read 2018

What Is History?

E.H. Carr

Recommended 2005

1776

David McCullough

Recommended 2016

A Bid for Fortune

Guy Newell 1867-1905 Boothby

Recommended 1995

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

Recommended 2023

A General History of the Pirates

Daniel Defoe

Recommended 2023

Almond

R. H. Taylor

Recommended 1834

An Inquiry Into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity

Jonathan Dymond

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Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose

Recommended 2016

Barkskins

Annie Proulx

Recommended 1900

Barriers Burned Away

Edward Payson Roe

Recommended 1904

Ben Hur

Lew Wallace

Recommended 2016

Betty Zane

Zane Grey

Recommended 2012

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel

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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Jim Mattis & Bing West

Recommended 1902

Captain Jinks, Hero

Ernest Crosby

Recommended 2004

Catriona

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recommended 2005

Chivalry

Maurice Hugh Keen

Recommended 2011

Civilization

Niall Ferguson

Recommended 2013

Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

Carlo Ginzburg

Recommended 1865

Commentaries on the Gallic War

Julius Caesar

Recommended

Crusade in Europe

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Defeat Into Victory

Field Marshal Viscount William Slim

Recommended 2017

Diverging Roads

Rose Wilder Lane

Recommended 1986

Ecological Imperialism

Alfred W. Crosby

Recommended 2003

Empire

Niall Ferguson

Recommended 2004

Empire of Cotton

Sven Beckert

Recommended 2018

Geronimo's Story of His Life

Geronimo

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Ghost Soldiers

Hampton Sides

Recommended 2006

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Helmet for My Pillow

Robert Leckie

Recommended 2021

His Masterpiece

Emile Zola

Recommended 2016

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

Recommended 2017

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari

Recommended 1938

Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga

Recommended 2021

I Will Repay

Emmuska Orczy

Recommended

It Doesn't Take a Hero

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Recommended 2001

John Adams

David McCullough

Recommended 2023

King Coal

Upton Sinclair

Recommended 2025

Laughing Boy

Oliver La Farge

Recommended 1911

Lavengro

George Borrow

Recommended 2017

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Recommended 2021

Lord Tony's Wife

Emmuska Orczy

Recommended 1999

Magnificent Obsession

Lloyd Cassel Douglas

Recommended 1921

Maria Chapdelaine

Louis Hémon

Recommended 1983

My Brilliant Career

M. Franklin

Recommended 2023

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

James D. Hornfischer

Recommended 2021

No More Parades

Ford Ford

Recommended 2003

Oil!

Brian Black

Recommended 2015

On the Art of Writing

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recommended 2015

Pan Michael

Henryk Sienkiewicz, Samuel Augustus Binion

Recommended 1989

Pelle the Conqueror

Martin Andersen Nexø

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

Recommended 2022

Queen Victoria

E. Gordon Browne

Recommended 1993

Remembering Babylon

David Malouf

Recommended 1817

Rob Roy

Walter Scott

Recommended 2011

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Recommended 2023

Shorts from Scenes from Private Life

Honoré de Balzac

Recommended 2001

Sir Percy Hits Back

Emmuska Orczy

Recommended 2023

Some Do Not …

Ford Madox Ford

Recommended 2016

SPQR

Mary Beard

Recommended

Storm of Steel

Ernst Jünger

Recommended 1991

Such a Long Journey

Rohinton Mistry

Recommended 2017

Ten Days That Shook the World

John Reed

Recommended 1960

The Ambassadors

Henry James

Recommended 2018

The Black Arrow

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recommended 2022

The Blue Castle

L. M. Montgomery

Recommended 1992

The Cheese and the Worms

Carlo Ginzburg

Recommended 1990

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Jacob Burckhardt

Recommended 1972

The Columbian Exchange

Alfred W. Crosby

Recommended 2025

The Cruise of the Alerte

E. F. Knight

Recommended 1991

The Deluge

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Recommended 2014

The Elusive Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness

Recommended 2014

The Enemy of an Enemy

Zachary Shore

Recommended 1992

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

Recommended 2021

The Enormous Room

E. E. Cummings

Recommended 2017

The Fifth Queen

Ford Madox Ford

Recommended 2021

The First Sir Percy

Baroness Orczy

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The Gallic War

Julius Caesar

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The Gathering Storm (The Second World War)

Winston S. Churchill

Recommended 1852

The History of Henry Esmond

William Makepeace Thackeray

Recommended 1791

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

Recommended 2025

The Informer

Liam O'Flaherty

Recommended 2021

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

Recommended 2010

The Land of Green Plums

Herta Müller

Recommended 1903

The Land of Little Rain

Mary Austin

Recommended 1867

The Last Chronicle of Barset

Anthony Trollope

Recommended 1826

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

James D. Hornfischer

Recommended 2014

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmauska Orczy

Recommended 2025

The Lives of the Caesars

Suetonius

Recommended 1990

The Magic Lantern

Timothy Garton Ash

Recommended 2021

The Maid of Sker

R D (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Recommended 1979

The Man Without Qualities

Robert Musil

Recommended 1999

The Map of Love

Ahdaf Soueif

Recommended 2023

The Marrow of Tradition

Charles W. Chesnutt

Recommended 2024

The Masqueraders

Georgette Heyer

Recommended 2009

The Master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recommended 2020

The Mirror & the Light

Hilary Mantel

Recommended 2020

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

Recommended 1885

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

F.W. Hume

Recommended 2021

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Edgar Allan Poe

Recommended 1986

The Nibelungenlied

Edward Haymes

Recommended 2019

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

Recommended 1961

The Origins of the Second World War

A.J.P. Taylor

Recommended 2019

The Path to Rome

Hilaire Belloc

Recommended 1800

The Pathfinder

James Fenimore Cooper

Recommended 2018

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

Bertrand Russell

Recommended 2011

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Recommended 1999

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

Recommended 1982

The Return of Martin Guerre

Natalie Zemon Davis

Recommended 2007

The Roman Triumph

Mary Beard

Recommended 2000

The Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt

Recommended 2014

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

Recommended 1972

The Sea Hawk

Rafael Sabatini

Recommended 2022

The Small House at Allington

Anthony Trollope

Recommended 2021

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

Recommended 2000

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Recommended 1998

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Alexandre Dumas

Recommended 1937

The Waning of the Middle Ages

Johan Huizinga

Recommended 2021

The Warlord of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Recommended 1998

The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy

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Their Finest Hour (The Second World War)

Winston S. Churchill

Recommended 2018

These Truths

Jill Lepore

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Ted W. Lawson

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Thunder Below!

Eugene B. Fluckey

Recommended 2006

Trafalgar

Roy Adkins

Recommended 2006

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

Recommended 2018

Ursule Mirouët

Clara Bell, Honore De Balzac

Recommended 2015

Verses on Various Occasions

Anonymous

Recommended 1957

Voss

Patrick White

Recommended 2003

Washington Square

Luther S. Harris

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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway

Recommended 2013

Where Angels Fear to Tread

E.M. Forster

Recommended 2015

White Fang

Jack London

Recommended 2012

With Fire and Sword

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

E.B. Sledge

Recommended 2009

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

Supplementary 1988

Ice-Candy-Man

Bapsi Sidhwa