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100 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner	4.25	21 reads
#3	Russian Thinkers Isaiah Berlin Aileen Kelly	5	2 reads
#4	Bomb Power : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State Garry Wills	5	2 reads
#5	Dealers of Lightning Michael A. Hiltzik	4	6 reads
#6	Augustus John Williams	4.31	31 reads
#7	Playing to the Edge Michael V. Hayden	4.33	4 reads
#8	History of Rome History of Rome Livy	0	0 reads
#9	The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century István Hargittai	0	0 reads
#10	Hard Drive James Wallace Jim Erickson	0	1 read
#11	How the Scots Invented the Modern World Arthur Herman	3.67	4 reads
#12	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon	3.67	13 reads
#13	The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo William Marsden (Translator)	3.43	8 reads
#14	The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vols 1-2 The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Vols 1-2 Plutarch Thomas North (Translator)	0	0 reads
#15	Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC Kate Gilliver	0	0 reads
#16	The Presidents Club Nancy Gibbs Michael Duffy	4.17	9 reads
#17	The Conquest of Gaul Gaius Julius Caesar	4	3 reads
#18	Plutarch's Lives: Volume II Plutarch John Dryden (Translator)	4	1 read
#19	Selections from Plutarch's Lives Plutarch	3.67	8 reads
#20	Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America Rick Perlstein	3.86	23 reads
#21	Collapse Jared Diamond	3.94	63 reads
#22	Miami and the Siege of Chicago Norman Mailer	4	2 reads
#23	Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Rick Perlstein	4.13	9 reads
#24	The Plantagenets Dan Jones	4.19	22 reads
#25	Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book II Thucydides	3.57	21 reads
#26	Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky	3.63	52 reads
#27	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer	4.32	81 reads
#28	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann	4.11	88 reads
#29	Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin	4.58	64 reads
#30	An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations Adam Smith Edwin Cannan	3.87	17 reads
#31	The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors Dan Jones	4.07	15 reads
#32	The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality Oswald Spengler	2	2 reads
#34	Birmingham Irish Primo Levi Stuart J. Woolf (Translator)	4.38	12 reads
#35	SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Mary Beard	3.94	110 reads
#36	Rome Greg Woolf	0	0 reads
#37	The histories Herodotus	3.8	8 reads
#38	The Wise Men Walter Isaacson	4	3 reads
#39	The End of the Past Aldo Schiavone Margery J. Schneider (Translator)	0	0 reads
#40	The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 Alfred Thayer Mahan	0	0 reads
#41	Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers Richard E. Neustadt Ernest R. May	0	0 reads
#42	The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop	4.28	12 reads
#43	The Lessons of History Will Durant Ariel Durant	3.57	35 reads
#44	Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon Robert Kurson	4.29	19 reads
#45	Lenin Victor Sebestyen	0	0 reads
#46	Cognitive Gadgets Cecilia Heyes	0	0 reads
#47	Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Ben R. Rich Leo Janos	4.5	50 reads
#48	The Rhetorical Presidency Jeffrey K. Tulis	0	0 reads
#49	Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight	3.95	17 reads
#50	A World Lit Only by Fire William Manchester	4	7 reads
#51	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Garry Wills	5	6 reads
#52	Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Richard Rhodes	4.33	4 reads
#53	Fortune's Children Arthur T. Vanderbilt II Patrick Lawlor	3.5	2 reads
#54	The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew	4.5	5 reads
#55	Maoism Julia Lovell	3.5	2 reads
#56	Judge Thy Neighbor Patrick Bergemann	0	0 reads
#57	The Second Founding Eric Foner	3	4 reads
#58	The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Peter Frankopan	4.17	48 reads
#59	The Shock of the Old David Edgerton	0	1 read
#60	Scipio Africanus B.H. Liddell Hart	0	0 reads
#61	Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American B.H. Liddell Hart	0	0 reads
#62	These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore	4.24	30 reads
#63	The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War Alan Brinkley	0	0 reads
#64	Voices of protest Alan Brinkley	2	1 read
#65	One Giant Leap Charles Fishman	4	2 reads
#66	An Impeccable Spy Owen Matthews	0	0 reads
#67	In the Shadow of Vesuvius In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny Daisy Dunn	0	0 reads
#68	How History Gets Things Wrong Alex Rosenberg	0	0 reads
#69	Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century George Packer	0	0 reads
#70	The Unwinding George Packer	3.94	12 reads
#71	Chinese Spies Roger Faligot	0	0 reads
#72	State Capture State Capture Alex Hertel-Fernandez	0	0 reads
#73	The Great Game Peter Hopkirk	0	1 read
#74	Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall	3.92	97 reads
#75	Now It Can Be Told Leslie R. Groves	4	1 read
#76	Virtue Politics : Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy James Hankins	0	0 reads
#77	What It Takes: The Way to the White House Richard Ben Cramer	4.5	2 reads
#78	This America Jill Lepore	4.67	5 reads
#79	It's Even Worse Than It Looks Thomas E. Mann	3.67	4 reads
#80	Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad M.T. Anderson	4.29	8 reads
#81	The Compatriots: Dissidents, Hackers, Oligarchs, and Spies - The Story of Russia's Uncontrollable Emigres Andrei Soldatov Irina Borogan	0	0 reads
#82	Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Bill Browder	4.35	49 reads
#83	Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird	0	0 reads
#84	The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms Kai Bird	0	0 reads
#85	Plagues and Peoples William H. McNeill	2	2 reads
#86	I Like to Watch Emily Nussbaum	3.73	14 reads
#87	Twilight of the American Century Andrew J. Bacevich	0	0 reads
#88	Music Ted Gioia	3	2 reads
#89	The Industrialists The Industrialists Jennifer Delton	0	0 reads
#90	Secret and sanctioned : covert operations and the American presidency Stephen F. Knott	0	0 reads
#91	The wages of destruction Adam Tooze	4	2 reads
#92	Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze	4.33	3 reads
#93	The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Paul Kennedy	4.5	3 reads
#94	Forces of Production David F. Noble	0	0 reads
#95	A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World Gregory Clark	0	2 reads
#96	Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays Joan Acocella	0	0 reads
#97	Sid Meier's Memoir! Sid Meier	4	20 reads
#98	Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture David Kushner	4.16	95 reads
#99	The Long Divergence Timur Kuran	0	0 reads
#100	The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Zachary D. Carter	3.67	12 reads
#101	The Deluge Adam Tooze	5	1 read
#102	The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Charles R. Morris	3.25	6 reads