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
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The Age of Empire
Eric Hobsbawm
1987
Must-Read
The Age of Extremes
Eric Hobsbawm
1994
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The Age of Revolution
Eric Hobsbawm
1962
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Civilization and Capitalism
Fernand Braudel
1981
Must-Read
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
1992
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Between Past and Future
Hannah Arendt
1961
Must-Read
The Muqaddimah
Ibn Khaldun
1858
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The Hedgehog and the Fox
Isaiah Berlin
1901
Must-Read
Homo Ludens
Johan Huizinga
1938
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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
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The Order of Things
Michel Foucault
1966
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Civilization
Niall Ferguson
2011
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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
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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
RecommendedPenguin 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
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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
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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
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Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
2017
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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
Must-ReadCrusade in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1948
RecommendedMy Disillusionment in Russia
Emma Goldman
1925
RecommendedStorm 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
Must-ReadGhost Soldiers
Hampton Sides
2001
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt
1935
RecommendedThe Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
James D. Hornfischer
2004
RecommendedThe 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
Must-ReadHelmet for My Pillow
Robert Leckie
1957
RecommendedTrafalgar
Roy Adkins
2004
RecommendedThe Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich
1985
Must-ReadThirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Ted W. Lawson
1943
RecommendedSeven Pillars of Wisdom
Thomas E. Lawrence
1905
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Behemoth
Thomas Hobbes
1680
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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
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1491
Charles C. Mann
2005
Must-Read
1776
David McCullough
2005
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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
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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
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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
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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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