Most recommended History books

Explore a curated collection of History books handpicked by the most influential specialists.

American Lion Book Cover — Recommendations

The Second World War Book Cover — Recommendations

The Path Between the Seas Book Cover — Recommendations

Bass Culture Book Cover — Recommendations

Coach Wooden and Me Book Cover — Recommendations

Bloodlands Book Cover — Recommendations

Empty Mansions Book Cover — Recommendations

Francis Crick Book Cover — Recommendations

Dreamland Book Cover — Recommendations

Democracy at Work Book Cover — Recommendations

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps Book Cover — Recommendations

History of Western Philosophy Book Cover — Recommendations

Into the Fire Book Cover — Recommendations

Ordinary Men Book Cover — Recommendations

Stalingrad Book Cover — Recommendations

Storm of Steel Book Cover — Recommendations

Suicide of the West Book Cover — Recommendations

The Choice Book Cover — Recommendations

The End is Always Near Book Cover — Recommendations

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World Book Cover — Recommendations

The Narrow Corridor Book Cover — Recommendations

The Rape of Nanking Book Cover — Recommendations

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Book Cover — Recommendations

Tripping Over the Truth Book Cover — Recommendations

Why Liberalism Failed Book Cover — Recommendations

Ain't I a Woman Book Cover — Recommendations

Abraham Lincoln Book Cover — Recommendations

A Piece of the Action Book Cover — Recommendations

Bull! Book Cover — Recommendations

A World Lit Only by Fire Book Cover — Recommendations

Capital Book Cover — Recommendations

Black Elk Book Cover — Recommendations

Catherine the Great Book Cover — Recommendations

Fingerprints of the Gods Book Cover — Recommendations

Fiasco Book Cover — Recommendations

How Music Works Book Cover — Recommendations

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field Book Cover — Recommendations

Essays in Persuasion Book Cover — Recommendations

Generations Book Cover — Recommendations

Idea Makers Book Cover — Recommendations

Guns, Sails, and Empires Book Cover — Recommendations

Montaigne Book Cover — Recommendations

One Bullet Away Book Cover — Recommendations

Requiem For the American Dream Book Cover — Recommendations

Mao Book Cover — Recommendations

Skunk Works Book Cover — Recommendations

Stalin Book Cover — Recommendations

Revolution in the Valley Book Cover — Recommendations

The Captive Mind Book Cover — Recommendations

The Black Jacobins Book Cover — Recommendations

The Boys in the Boat Book Cover — Recommendations

The Case Against Sugar Book Cover — Recommendations

The City in History Book Cover — Recommendations

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Book Cover — Recommendations

The Immortality Key Book Cover — Recommendations

The Intel Trinity Book Cover — Recommendations

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Book Cover — Recommendations

The Physics of Wall Street Book Cover — Recommendations

The Next 100 Years Book Cover — Recommendations

The Loom of Language Book Cover — Recommendations

The Little Kingdom Book Cover — Recommendations

The Warmth of Other Suns Book Cover — Recommendations

The Road to Wigan Pier Book Cover — Recommendations

The Sun Does Shine Book Cover — Recommendations

The Sleepwalkers Book Cover — Recommendations

The Trial of Socrates Book Cover — Recommendations

The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross Book Cover — Recommendations

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé Book Cover — Recommendations

Voltaire's Bastards Book Cover — Recommendations

Who Rules The World? Book Cover — Recommendations

Unbroken Book Cover — Recommendations

Voices of a People's History of the United States Book Cover — Recommendations

Wild Swans Book Cover — Recommendations

Das Kapital Book Cover — Recommendations

Best Evidence Book Cover — Recommendations

Machete Season Book Cover — Recommendations

Money Book Cover — Recommendations

Manufacturing Consent Book Cover — Recommendations

Rocket Men Book Cover — Recommendations

The Evolution of Everything Book Cover — Recommendations

The Origins of Virtue Book Cover — Recommendations

The Victorian Internet Book Cover — Recommendations

This Explains Everything Book Cover — Recommendations

The Screwtape Letters Book Cover — Recommendations

The Spy and the Traitor Book Cover — Recommendations

Why Nations Fail Book Cover — Recommendations

Without You, There Is No Us Book Cover — Recommendations

A Brief History of Time Book Cover — Recommendations

A People's History of the United States Book Cover — Recommendations

Battle Cry of Freedom Book Cover — Recommendations

Fallen Leaves Book Cover — Recommendations

Hitler Book Cover — Recommendations

Homage to Catalonia Book Cover — Recommendations

Hons and Rebels Book Cover — Recommendations

Longitude Book Cover — Recommendations

Medieval Technology and Social Change Book Cover — Recommendations

Parting the Waters Book Cover — Recommendations

More Money Than God Book Cover — Recommendations

Stalin Book Cover — Recommendations

The Art of War in the Middle Ages Book Cover — Recommendations

All most recommended History books by specialists

Destined for War Book Cover — Recommendations

Destined for War

Graham Allison

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Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Book Cover — Recommendations

Where Are the Customers' Yachts?

Fred Schwed Jr.

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Jason Zweig - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Who We Are and How We Got Here Book Cover — Recommendations

Who We Are and How We Got Here

David Reich

Naval Ravikant - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Marc Andreessen - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

When Genius Failed Book Cover — Recommendations

When Genius Failed

Roger Lowenstein

Shane Parrish - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

David Friedberg - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Prize Book Cover — Recommendations

The Prize

Daniel Yergin

Bill Gates - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Trung Phan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The God Delusion Book Cover — Recommendations

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

Brian Armstrong - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Stephen Hawking - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Fourth Turning Book Cover — Recommendations

The Fourth Turning

William Strauss

Economics & Politics

Tony Robbins - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Balaji S. Srinivasan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Long Walk to Freedom Book Cover — Recommendations

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

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Barack Obama - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Alexander Hamilton Book Cover — Recommendations

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

Travis Kalanick - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Peter Thiel - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Barbarians at the Gate Book Cover — Recommendations

Barbarians at the Gate

Bryan Burrough & John Helyar

Keith Rabois - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Chamath Palihapitiya - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Why We're Polarized Book Cover — Recommendations

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

Economics & Politics

Mark Zuckerberg - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Julia Galef - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Splendid and the Vile Book Cover — Recommendations

The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book Cover — Recommendations

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

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The History of the Peloponnesian War Book Cover — Recommendations

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Winston Churchill - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Thomas Jefferson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

American Kingpin Book Cover — Recommendations

American Kingpin

Nick Bilton

Alexis Ohanian - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Andrew Wilkinson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Souls of Black Folk Book Cover — Recommendations

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

Jesse Williams - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Martin Luther King Jr. - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Book Cover — Recommendations

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer

Economics & Politics

Jordan Peterson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Lex Fridman - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Rise and Fall of American Growth Book Cover — Recommendations

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Robert J. Gordon

Patrick Collison - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Marc Andreessen - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Great Transformation Book Cover — Recommendations

The Great Transformation

Karl Polanyi

Economics & Politics

Noam Chomsky - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Satya Nadella - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Guns of August Book Cover — Recommendations

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

John F. Kennedy - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Idea Factory Book Cover — Recommendations

The Idea Factory

Jon Gertner

Ron Conway - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Patrick Collison - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Modern Times Book Cover — Recommendations

Modern Times

Paul Johnson

Economics & Politics

Ben Shapiro - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Charles Koch - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Lincoln Book Cover — Recommendations

Lincoln

Gore Vidal

Christopher Hitchens - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Ryan Holiday - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

In the Garden of Beasts Book Cover — Recommendations

In the Garden of Beasts

Erik Larson

Tom Hanks - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Nancy Pearl - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Infinite Powers Book Cover — Recommendations

Infinite Powers

Steven Strogatz

Naval Ravikant - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Michael Mauboussin - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Empire of the Summer Moon Book Cover — Recommendations

Empire of the Summer Moon

S. C. Gwynne

Lex Fridman - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Saagar Enjeti - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Andrew Carnegie Book Cover — Recommendations

Andrew Carnegie

David Nasaw

Codie Sanchez - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Paul Graham - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

All Quiet on the Western Front Book Cover — Recommendations

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

Christopher Hitchens - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Donald Trump - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Epic of Gilgamesh Book Cover — Recommendations

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous

Ryan Holiday - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Gulag Archipelago Book Cover — Recommendations

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Economics & Politics

Balaji S. Srinivasan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Jocko Willink - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)