Most recommended History books

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

All most recommended History books by specialists

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott

Economics & Politics

The Ascent of Money

Niall Ferguson

Economics & Politics

The Age of Wonder

Richard Holmes

The Ascent of Man

Jacob Bronowski

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous

The Idea Factory

Jon Gertner

The Great Transformation

Karl Polanyi

Economics & Politics

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright

Economics & Politics

The Old Way

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

The Library Book

Susan Orlean

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer

Economics & Politics

The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

This Explains Everything

John Brockman

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Robert J. Gordon

The Second World War

John Keegan

The Spy and the Traitor

Ben Macintyre

World Order

Henry Kissinger

Economics & Politics

The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoğlu & James A. Robinson

Economics & Politics

Walt Disney

Neal Gabler

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families

Philip Gourevitch

Economics & Politics

Dead Wake

Erik Larson

Working

Studs Terkel

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