900 History & geography
163 books in this stack, divided by Dewey ten-class.
900 History & geography · 57
A History of the Arab Peoples
Albert Hourani
1991
Must-Read
The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas
1891
Must-Read
Verses on Various Occasions
Anonymous
2015
Recommended
Oil!
Brian Black
2003
Recommended
1493
Charles C. Mann
2011
Must-Read
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
2019
Recommended
A General History of the Pirates
Daniel Defoe
2023
Recommended
A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
1895
Must-Read
Cleopatra
Duane W. Roller
2011
Recommended
Queen Victoria
E. Gordon Browne
2006
Recommended
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
E.B. Sledge
1981
Recommended
What Is History?
E.H. Carr
2018
Must-Read
The Penguin History of Latin America
Edwin Williamson
1992
Must-Read
His Masterpiece
Émile Zola
1915
Recommended
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
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
F.W. Hume
1885
Recommended
Civilization and Capitalism
Fernand Braudel
1981
Must-Read
Defeat Into Victory
Field Marshal Viscount William Slim
2000
Recommended
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
1992
Must-Read
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
G.W.F. Hegel
1995
Must-Read
Between Past and Future
Hannah Arendt
1961
Must-Read
Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger
1994
Must-Read
Shorts from Scenes from Private Life
Honoré de Balzac
2023
Recommended
The Muqaddimah
Ibn Khaldun
1858
Must-Read
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Isaiah Berlin
1901
Must-Read
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
James D. Hornfischer
2011
Recommended
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Jim Mattis & Bing West
2019
Recommended+ 27 more in History & geography.
910 Geography & travel · 12
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1922
Recommended
Penguin Island
Calm Publications Staff, Kevin Crane, Carolyn Thomson, Peter Dans
1995
Recommended
The Captive Mind
Czesław Miłosz
1953
Recommended
A Daughter of the Samurai
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
2021
Recommended
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
Fernand Braudel
1949
Must-Read
The National Being
George William Russell
1916
Recommended
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau
1862
Recommended
Dubliners
James Joyce
1914
Must-Read
The Land of Little Rain
Mary Austin
1903
Recommended
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Theodore Roosevelt
1914
Recommended
Summa Contra Gentiles
Thomas Aquinas
1475
Recommended
Darkwater
W.E.B. Du Bois
1920
Recommended920 Biography · 13
A Man's Place
Annie Ernaux
2012
Recommended
The Years
Annie Ernaux
2017
Recommended
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
1900
Recommended
No More Parades
Ford Madox Ford
1925
Recommended
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
1912
RecommendedThe Journal of Jules Renard
Jules Renard
1925
Must-Read
The Autobiography of an Idea
Louis Henri Sullivan
1926
Recommended
Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey
1918
Recommended
If This Is a Man
Primo Levi
2015
Must-Read
Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1817
Must-Read
The Lives of the Caesars
Suetonius
2004
Recommended
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
1951
Must-Read
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
William Manchester
1978
Recommended930 Ancient world · 8
The Gallic War
Julius Caesar
1955
Recommended
Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian
1876
Must-Read
Agricola
Tacitus
98
Must-Read
Annals
Tacitus
1598
Must-Read
Germania
Tacitus
98
Must-Read
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
1526
Must-Read
Anabasis
Xenophon
2006
Must-Read
Hellenica
Xenophon
1700
Must-Read940 Europe · 35
The Origins of the Second World War
A.J.P. Taylor
1961
Recommended
The Bolshevik Myth
Alexander Berkman
1925
Recommended
The 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
Must-Read
A Distant Mirror
Barbara Tuchman
1600
Must-Read
The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman
1962
Must-Read
Ordinary Men
Christopher Browning
1992
Must-Read
Crusade in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1948
Recommended
My Disillusionment in Russia
Emma Goldman
1925
Recommended
Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
1922
Recommended
Thunder Below!
Eugene B. Fluckey
1992
Recommended
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
1938
Must-Read
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age
Halil Inalcik
1973
Must-Read
Ghost Soldiers
Hampton Sides
2001
Recommended
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt
1935
Recommended
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
James D. Hornfischer
2004
Recommended
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
1919
Recommended
Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed
1919
Recommended
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx
1852
Must-Read
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs
Mary Seacole
1984
Recommended
The Drowned and the Saved
Primo Levi
1988
Must-Read
The Third Reich Trilogy
Richard J. Evans
2005
Must-Read
Helmet for My Pillow
Robert Leckie
1957
Recommended
Trafalgar
Roy Adkins
2004
Recommended
The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich
1985
Must-Read
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Ted W. Lawson
1943
Recommended
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Thomas E. Lawrence
1905
Recommended
Behemoth
Thomas Hobbes
1680
Must-Read
The Magic Lantern
Timothy Garton Ash
1990
Recommended+ 5 more in Europe.
950 Asia · 8
Orientalism
Edward Said
1978
Must-Read
The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
1946
Must-Read
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway
1992
Recommended
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
1927
Recommended
Memory for Forgetfulness
Mahmoud Darwish
1995
Recommended
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Nitobe Inazō
1907
Must-Read
Kojiki
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
Recommended
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
1794
Recommended
The Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk
Black Hawk
1833
Recommended
The Black Jacobins
C.L.R. James
1935
Must-Read
The 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
Recommended
The Middle Five
Francis La Flesche
1900
Recommended
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
1845
Must-Read
Geronimo's Story of His Life
Geronimo
1906
Recommended
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
1980
Must-Read
These Truths
Jill Lepore
2018
Recommended
Washington Square
Luther S. Harris
2003
Recommended
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
1976
Recommended
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Octavio Paz
1961
Must-Read
Black Boy
Richard Wright
1945
Must-Read
The Power Broker
Robert Caro
1974
Must-Read
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert Caro
1982
Must-Read
The Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
1899
Recommended
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
1885
Recommended
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S
Ulysses S. Grant
2020
Recommended
Black Reconstruction in America
W.E.B. Du Bois
1935
Must-Read
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
1903
Must-Read
The Life of Buffalo Bill
William F. Cody
2004
Recommended
