900 History & geography
126 books in this stack, divided by Dewey ten-class.
900 History & geography · 24
A History of the Arab Peoples
Albert Hourani
1991
Must-Read
1493
Charles C. Mann
2011
Must-Read
A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
1895
Must-Read
What Is History?
E.H. Carr
2018
Must-Read
The Age of Capital
Eric Hobsbawm
1975
Must-Read
The Age of Empire
Eric Hobsbawm
1987
Must-Read
The Age of Extremes
Eric Hobsbawm
1994
Must-Read
The Age of Revolution
Eric Hobsbawm
1962
Must-Read
Civilization and Capitalism
Fernand Braudel
1981
Must-Read
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
1992
Must-Read
Between Past and Future
Hannah Arendt
1961
Must-Read
The Muqaddimah
Ibn Khaldun
1858
Must-Read
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Isaiah Berlin
1901
Must-Read
Homo Ludens
Johan Huizinga
1938
Recommended
The Revolt of the Masses
José Ortega y Gasset
1929
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The Poverty of Historicism
Karl Popper
1956
Must-ReadThe Historian's Craft
Marc Bloch
1949
Must-Read
The Order of Things
Michel Foucault
1966
Must-Read
Civilization
Niall Ferguson
2011
Recommended
Empire
Niall Ferguson
2003
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington
1996
Must-Read
A Brief History of Equality
Thomas Piketty
2021
Must-Read
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt
2010
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
2011
Recommended910 Geography & travel · 12
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1922
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Penguin Island
Calm Publications Staff, Kevin Crane, Carolyn Thomson, Peter Dans
1995
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The Captive Mind
Czesław Miłosz
1953
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A Daughter of the Samurai
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
2021
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
Fernand Braudel
1949
Must-ReadThe National Being
George William Russell
1916
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau
1862
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Dubliners
James Joyce
1914
Must-ReadThe Land of Little Rain
Mary Austin
1903
RecommendedThrough the Brazilian Wilderness
Theodore Roosevelt
1914
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Summa Contra Gentiles
Thomas Aquinas
1475
RecommendedDarkwater
W.E.B. Du Bois
1920
Recommended920 Biography · 9
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
1900
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No More Parades
Ford Madox Ford
1925
RecommendedThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
1912
RecommendedThe Journal of Jules Renard
Jules Renard
1925
Must-ReadThe Autobiography of an Idea
Louis Henri Sullivan
1926
RecommendedEminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey
1918
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Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1817
Must-ReadThe Lives of the Caesars
Suetonius
2004
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Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
1951
Must-Read930 Ancient world · 9
The Gallic War
Julius Caesar
1955
RecommendedRecords of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian
1876
Must-Read
Agricola
Tacitus
98
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Annals
Tacitus
1598
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Germania
Tacitus
98
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
1526
Must-Read Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
1526
Must-ReadAnabasis
Xenophon
2006
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Hellenica
Xenophon
1700
Must-Read940 Europe · 35
The Origins of the Second World War
A.J.P. Taylor
1961
RecommendedThe Bolshevik Myth
Alexander Berkman
1925
RecommendedThe Old Regime and the Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville
1856
Must-Read
Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
2017
Must-Read
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
1947
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A Distant Mirror
Barbara Tuchman
1600
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The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman
1962
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Ordinary Men
Christopher Browning
1992
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Crusade in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1948
RecommendedMy Disillusionment in Russia
Emma Goldman
1925
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Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
1922
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Thunder Below!
Eugene B. Fluckey
1992
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Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
1938
Must-ReadThe Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age
Halil Inalcik
1973
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Ghost Soldiers
Hampton Sides
2001
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt
1935
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
James D. Hornfischer
2004
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The Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
1919
RecommendedTen Days That Shook the World
John Reed
1919
RecommendedThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx
1852
Must-ReadWonderful Adventures of Mrs
Mary Seacole
1984
RecommendedThe Drowned and the Saved
Primo Levi
1988
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The Third Reich Trilogy
Richard J. Evans
2005
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Helmet for My Pillow
Robert Leckie
1957
RecommendedTrafalgar
Roy Adkins
2004
RecommendedThe Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich
1985
Must-Read
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Ted W. Lawson
1943
RecommendedSeven Pillars of Wisdom
Thomas E. Lawrence
1905
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Behemoth
Thomas Hobbes
1680
Must-Read
The Magic Lantern
Timothy Garton Ash
1990
Recommended+ 5 more in Europe.
950 Asia · 7
Orientalism
Edward Said
1978
Must-Read
The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
1946
Must-ReadWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway
1992
RecommendedThe Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
1927
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Memory for Forgetfulness
Mahmoud Darwish
1995
RecommendedKojiki
O no Yasumaro
1870
Must-Read
India After Gandhi
Ramachandra Guha
2007
Must-Read960 Africa · 2
970 North America · 25
A Voice from the South
Anna Julia Cooper
1988
RecommendedThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
1794
RecommendedThe Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk
Black Hawk
1833
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The Black Jacobins
C.L.R. James
1935
Must-ReadThe Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
2021
Recommended
1491
Charles C. Mann
2005
Must-Read
1776
David McCullough
2005
Recommended
John Adams
David McCullough
2001
RecommendedThe Middle Five
Francis La Flesche
1900
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
1845
Must-ReadGeronimo's Story of His Life
Geronimo
1906
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
1980
Must-Read
These Truths
Jill Lepore
2018
RecommendedWashington Square
Luther S. Harris
2003
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The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
1976
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The Labyrinth of Solitude
Octavio Paz
1961
Must-Read
Black Boy
Richard Wright
1945
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The Power Broker
Robert Caro
1974
Must-ReadThe Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert Caro
1982
Must-ReadThe Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
1899
Recommended
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
1885
RecommendedPersonal Memoirs of Ulysses S
Ulysses S. Grant
2020
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Black Reconstruction in America
W.E.B. Du Bois
1935
Must-Read
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
1903
Must-ReadThe Life of Buffalo Bill
William F. Cody
2004
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