All History Books

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Must-Read 2005

1491

Charles C. Mann

Must-Read 2011

1493

Charles C. Mann

Must-Read 1600

A Distant Mirror

Barbara Tuchman

Must-Read 1991

A History of the Arab Peoples

Albert Hourani

Must-Read 1993

A History of Warfare

John Keegan

Must-Read 1980

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

Must-Read 2006

Anabasis

Xenophon

Must-Read 1598

Annals

Tacitus

Must-Read 2018

Annals & The Histories

Tacitus

Must-Read 1936

Annihilation of Caste

B.R. Ambedkar

Must-Read 2001

Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

Must-Read 1988

Baltasar and Blimunda

José Saramago

Must-Read 1680

Behemoth

Thomas Hobbes

Must-Read 1935

Black Reconstruction in America

W.E.B. Du Bois

Must-Read 2010

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

Must-Read 2000

Born in Blood and Fire

John Chasteen

Must-Read 2005

Collapse

Jared Diamond

Must-Read 1776

Decline and Fall of Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

Must-Read 1994

Diplomacy

Henry Kissinger

Must-Read 1933

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

Must-Read 1963

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

Must-Read 1939

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 1526

History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Must-Read 1938

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Must-Read 2010

Ill Fares the Land

Tony Judt

Must-Read 2003

Istanbul

Orhan Pamuk

Must-Read 1998

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

Must-Read 1870

Kojiki

O no Yasumaro

Must-Read 1995

Lectures on the Philosophy of History

G.W.F. Hegel

Must-Read 1994

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

Must-Read 1997

Mason & Dixon

Thomas Pynchon

Must-Read 1845

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Must-Read 2008

Ninety-Three

Victor Hugo

Must-Read 1961

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Must-Read 1992

Ordinary Men

Christopher Browning

Must-Read 1978

Orientalism

Edward Said

Must-Read 1526

Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Must-Read 2005

Postwar

Tony Judt

Must-Read 1876

Records of the Grand Historian

Sima Qian

Must-Read 2017

Red Famine

Anne Applebaum

Must-Read 1800

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

Must-Read 1918

State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

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

Must-Read 1996

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

Must-Read 1961

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

Must-Read 1940

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Must-Read 1947

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Must-Read 1946

The Discovery of India

Jawaharlal Nehru

Must-Read 1957

The Double

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Must-Read 1988

The Drowned and the Saved

Primo Levi

Must-Read 1852

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx

Must-Read 1976

The Face of Battle

John Keegan

Must-Read 1962

The Guns of August

Barbara Tuchman

Must-Read 1949

The Historian's Craft

Marc Bloch

Must-Read 1776

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

Must-Read 1961

The Labyrinth of Solitude

Octavio Paz

Must-Read 1963

The Making of the English Working Class

E.P. Thompson

Must-Read 1869

The Man Who Laughs

Victor Hugo

Must-Read 1949

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

Fernand Braudel

Must-Read 1856

The Old Regime and the Revolution

Alexis de Tocqueville

Must-Read 1992

The Penguin History of Latin America

Edwin Williamson

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 2005

The Third Reich Trilogy

Richard J. Evans

Must-Read 1999

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

Must-Read 1985

The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich

Must-Read 1974

The Venture of Islam

Marshall Hodgson

Must-Read 1982

The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert Caro

Must-Read 1955

Tristes Tropiques

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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 1895

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 1988

A Voice from the South

Anna Julia Cooper

Recommended 2019

A Woman of No Importance

Sonia Purnell

Recommended 1992

Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose

Recommended 2016

Barkskins

Annie Proulx

Recommended 2019

Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Jim Mattis & Bing West

Recommended 2005

Chivalry

Maurice Hugh Keen

Recommended 2011

Civilization

Niall Ferguson

Recommended 2011

Cleopatra

Duane W. Roller

Recommended 1989

Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

Carlo Ginzburg

Recommended 1865

Commentaries on the Gallic War

Julius Caesar

Recommended 1948

Crusade in Europe

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Recommended 2000

Defeat Into Victory

Field Marshal Viscount William Slim

Recommended 1919

Diverging Roads

Rose Wilder Lane


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