Genres

History

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

1 • 407 Readers 4

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

2023 • 673 Readers • 9 pages 4.1

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

2018 • 485 Readers • 519 pages 4.5

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,052 Readers • 443 pages 4.2

Eden Undone

Eden Undone
ByAbbott Kahler

2024 • 3 Readers • 361 pages 3

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

2023 • 112 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

Death in Salem: The Private Lives behind the 1692 Witch Hunt

2010 • 4 Readers • 279 pages 3.8

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

2014 • 6 Readers • 40 pages 4.7

Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381

2009 • 14 Readers • 238 pages 4.3

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition

2019 • 15 Readers • 336 pages 4.8

Alexander at the End of the World: The Dramatic Last Years That Made Alexander Great

2024 • 2 Readers • 507 pages 4

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

2017 • 824 Readers • 416 pages 4.2

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

2017 • 66 Readers • 448 pages 3.4

The Fourth of July: and the Founding of America

2007 • 1 Reader • 192 pages 4

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

1994 • 324 Readers • 388 pages 3.7

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

2024 • 28 Readers • 545 pages 4.5

They Called Us Enemy

They Called Us Enemy
ByGeorge Takei,Justin Eisinger,+1 more

2019 • 204 Readers • 208 pages 4.6

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

2019 • 135 Readers • 577 pages 4

History 4° Celsius

Theory in Forms

2020 • 1 Reader • 152 pages 5

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

2006 • 28 Readers • 669 pages 4.2

Silk: A World History

Silk: A World History
ByAarathi Prasad

2023 • 9 Readers • 386 pages 3.3

A Short History of the Twentieth Century

2005 • 2 Readers • 560 pages

Free Time

Free Time
ByGary S. Cross

2024 • 4 Readers • 352 pages 5

Meditations

Meditations
ByMarcus Aurelius,Martin Hammond(Translator)

-180 • 1,024 Readers • 254 pages 4.2

A People's History of the United States

A People's History of the United States
ByHoward Zinn,Kathy Emery,+1 more

1980 • 514 Readers • 642 pages 4.2

Hamilton : the revolution

Hamilton : the revolution
ByLin-Manuel Miranda,Jeremy McCarter

2015 • 166 Readers • 285 pages 4.7

Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel
ByErnst Jünger

1920 • 75 Readers • 320 pages 4

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

#1 of 3 in Persepolis

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
ByMarjane Satrapi,Mattias Ripa(Translator)

2000 • 535 Readers • 165 pages 4.3

The Day the World Came to Town

2011 • 1 Reader • 256 pages 4.5

Emperor of Rome

Emperor of Rome
ByMary Beard

2023 • 38 Readers • 431 pages 3.9

Inventing the People

Inventing the People
ByEdmund S. Morgan

1988 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

The Ancient Engineers

The Ancient Engineers
ByL. Sprague de Camp

1960 • 2 Readers • 481 pages 5

One Summer: America, 1927

2013 • 109 Readers 4.1

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

2020 • 82 Readers • 599 pages 4.3

Taking Back the Academy!

Taking Back the Academy!
ByJim Downs(Editor),Jennifer Manion(Editor)

2004 • 221 pages

The Murder of King Tut

The Murder of King Tut
ByMartin Dugard,James Patterson

2009 • 9 Readers • 352 pages 2.8

Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women

2014 • 1 Reader • 378 pages 4

War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire

War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire
ByDietrich Eichholtz,John Broadwin(Translator)

2006 • 1 Reader

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick

2000 • 211 Readers • 340 pages 4.1

Babylon: Mesopotamia And The Birth Of Civilization

2010 • 22 Readers • 320 pages 4.3

Fifth Sun A New History of the Aztecs

2021 • 5 Readers • 336 pages 4.7

American Mafia: Chicago

American Mafia: Chicago
ByWilliam Griffith

2013 • 219 pages

Entre Este y Oeste: Un viaje por las fronteras de Europa

Entre Este y Oeste: Un viaje por las fronteras de Europa
ByAnne Applebaum,Francisco José Ramos Mena(Translator)

1994 • 2 Readers • 439 pages

The Red Queen

#3 of 15 in The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels

The Red Queen
ByPhilippa Gregory

2010 • 66 Readers • 412 pages 3.7

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

2007 • 37 Readers • 299 pages 3.8

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

2014 • 46 Readers • 544 pages 3.9

Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence

Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence
ByLynette Ramsay Silver

1999 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

Night

#1 of 3 in The Night Trilogy

Night
ByElie Wiesel,Stella Rodway(Translator)

1955 • 963 Readers • 126 pages 4.3

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
ByRoxanne Dunbar Ortiz,Laural Merlington

2015 • 140 Readers 4.4

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

2023 • 48 Readers • 628 pages 4.2

Griffinology

Griffinology
ByA. L. McClanan

2024 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

2024 • 8 Readers • 454 pages 2.5

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

2009 • 51 Readers 4.5

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

2021 • 328 Readers 4.2

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

2002 • 43 Readers • 256 pages 3.9

The Penguin History of New Zealand

2003 • 9 Readers • 564 pages 4

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

#1 of 2 in Berlin Diary

1941 • 21 Readers • 662 pages 4.2

Hiroshima

Hiroshima
ByJohn Hersey

1946 • 169 Readers • 162 pages 4.1

The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

2024 • 9 Readers • 352 pages 4.3

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

2023 • 82 Readers • 11h 40m 4.1

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

1992 • 103 Readers • 271 pages 4

Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

2007 • 1 Reader • 225 pages 3

The Big Short

#2 of 2 in Liar's Poker

The Big Short
ByMichael Lewis

2010 • 297 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

2010 • 221 Readers • 536 pages 4

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

1996 • 186 Readers • 434 pages 4.1

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

2023 • 10 Readers • 448 pages 3.3

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita
ByMikhail Bulgakov,Katherine Tiernan O'Connor(Translator),+1 more

1966 • 987 Readers • 424 pages 4.1

DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools

2024 • 2 Readers • 288 pages 4

The Plantagenets

The Plantagenets
ByDan Jones

93 Readers • 20h 50m 4.2

The age of revolution, 1789-1848.

#1 of 4 in Modern History

1962 • 44 Readers • 356 pages 3.9

July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta

2023 • 1 Reader • 411 pages 4

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

2019 • 55 Readers • 530 pages 4.5

The Children's Blizzard

2004 • 21 Readers • 337 pages 3.6

In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life

1977 • 1 Reader • 304 pages 4

Roots and Legends

Roots and Legends
ByEditors of Wellfleet Press

2025 • 1 Reader • 207 pages 4

Our Decline: Its Causes and Remedies

Our Decline: Its Causes and Remedies
ByAmir Shakib Arsalan,M.A. Shakoor(Translator)

2004 • 148 pages

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

1920 • 3 Readers • 94 pages

The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender, and Education in Turkey

2004 • 1 Reader • 176 pages 5

The Blackstone Key

#1 of 2 in Mary Finch

The Blackstone Key
ByRose Melikan

2008 • 1 Reader • 438 pages

Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood

2007 • 1 Reader • 288 pages 5

Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest

1992 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

InuYasha: Allies and Enemies

#33 of 40 in 犬夜叉 / Inuyasha

2003 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

The Last Country Houses

1982 • 344 pages

The Splintered Kingdom

#2 of 5 in Conquest

The Splintered Kingdom
ByJames Aitcheson

2012 • 4 Readers 4

أميركا والإبادات الجنسية

2012 • 1 Reader • 197 pages

The Changeling Bride

1999 • 310 pages

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

2018 • 21 Readers • 592 pages 4

Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate

2016 • 1 Reader • 365 pages 4

Blazers, Badges and Boaters: A Pictorial History of School Uniform

1990 • 1 Reader • 192 pages 2

Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology

1985 • 1 Reader • 272 pages 4

Polio

Polio
ByDavid M. Oshinsky

2005 • 17 Readers • 352 pages 3.5

Mukoita II, Cutting Techniques: Seafood, Poultry, and Vegetables

2018 • 1 Reader • 1 page