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

Accidental Presidents Book Cover — Recommendations

Accidental Presidents

Jared Cohen

Ray Dalio - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Ashton Kutcher - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Dead Wake Book Cover — Recommendations

Dead Wake

Erik Larson

George R. R. Martin - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Sahil Bloom - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

World Order Book Cover — Recommendations

World Order

Henry Kissinger

Economics & Politics

Mark Zuckerberg - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

James Mattis - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

These Truths Book Cover — Recommendations

These Truths

Jill Lepore

Bill Gates - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Daniel W. Drezner - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Sixth Extinction Book Cover — Recommendations

The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

Barack Obama - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Bill Gates - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Madness of Crowds Book Cover — Recommendations

The Madness of Crowds

Douglas Murray

Economics & Politics

Joe Rogan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Tom Bilyeu - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Age of Napoleon Book Cover — Recommendations

The Age of Napoleon

Will & Ariel Durant

Economics & Politics

Larry Ellison - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Elon Musk - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book Cover — Recommendations

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

Chris Dixon - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Lewis Cantley - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Book Cover — Recommendations

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

Ryan Holiday - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Jamie Dimon - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Old Way Book Cover — Recommendations

The Old Way

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Patrick Collison - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Sam Altman - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Diary of a Young Girl Book Cover — Recommendations

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Bill Gates - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Natalie Portman - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Fire Next Time Book Cover — Recommendations

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Tom Hanks - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Devil in the White City Book Cover — Recommendations

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

Edgar Wright - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Meghan Markle - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

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

The Art of War in the Middle Ages

Charles Oman

Paul Graham - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Sam Altman - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Stalin Book Cover — Recommendations

Stalin

Edvard Radzinsky

Elon Musk - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Jordan Peterson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

More Money Than God Book Cover — Recommendations

More Money Than God

Sebastian Mallaby

Economics & Politics

Trung Phan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Tim Ferriss - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Parting the Waters Book Cover — Recommendations

Parting the Waters

Taylor Branch

Economics & Politics

Christopher Hitchens - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Barack Obama - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Medieval Technology and Social Change Book Cover — Recommendations

Medieval Technology and Social Change

Lynn White

Patrick Collison - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Paul Graham - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Longitude Book Cover — Recommendations

Longitude

Dava Sobel

Patrick Collison - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Richard Branson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Hons and Rebels Book Cover — Recommendations

Hons and Rebels

Jessica Mitford

Christopher Hitchens - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

J.K. Rowling - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Homage to Catalonia Book Cover — Recommendations

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Economics & Politics

Christopher Hitchens - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Ben Shapiro - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Hitler Book Cover — Recommendations

Hitler

Ian Kershaw

Marc Andreessen - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Christopher Hitchens - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Fallen Leaves Book Cover — Recommendations

Fallen Leaves

Will Durant

Derek Sivers - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Naval Ravikant - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Battle Cry of Freedom Book Cover — Recommendations

Battle Cry of Freedom

James McPherson

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Saagar Enjeti - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

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

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

Economics & Politics

Howard Stern - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Lisa Ling - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

A Brief History of Time Book Cover — Recommendations

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

Richard Branson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

James Clear - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Without You, There Is No Us Book Cover — Recommendations

Without You, There Is No Us

Suki Kim

Jon Stewart - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Joe Rogan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Why Nations Fail Book Cover — Recommendations

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoğlu & James A. Robinson

Economics & Politics

Bill Gates - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Mark Zuckerberg - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Spy and the Traitor Book Cover — Recommendations

The Spy and the Traitor

Ben Macintyre

Bill Gates - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Casey Neistat - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Screwtape Letters Book Cover — Recommendations

The Screwtape Letters

C.S. Lewis

Dominic D'Agostino - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

C.S. Lewis - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)