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

The City in History Book Cover — Recommendations

The City in History

Lewis Mumford

Patrick Collison - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Keith Rabois - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Case Against Sugar Book Cover — Recommendations

The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes

Joe Rogan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Vinod Khosla - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Boys in the Boat Book Cover — Recommendations

The Boys in the Boat

Daniel James Brown

Satya Nadella - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

James Mattis - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Black Jacobins Book Cover — Recommendations

The Black Jacobins

C.L.R. James

Economics & Politics

Christopher Hitchens - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Ben Horowitz - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

The Captive Mind Book Cover — Recommendations

The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz

Christopher Hitchens - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Marc Andreessen - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Revolution in the Valley Book Cover — Recommendations

Revolution in the Valley

Andy Hertzfeld

Keith Rabois - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Patrick Collison - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Stalin Book Cover — Recommendations

Stalin

Oleg V. Khlevniuk

Elon Musk - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Jordan Peterson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Skunk Works Book Cover — Recommendations

Skunk Works

Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos & Leo Janos

Sam Altman - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Chris Anderson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Mao Book Cover — Recommendations

Mao

Jung Chang

Richard Branson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Dennis Prager - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Requiem For the American Dream Book Cover — Recommendations

Requiem For the American Dream

Noam Chomsky

Economics & Politics

Meghan Markle - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Noam Chomsky - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

One Bullet Away Book Cover — Recommendations

One Bullet Away

Nathaniel Fick

Peter Attia - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

James Mattis - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Montaigne Book Cover — Recommendations

Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

Alain de Botton - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Guns, Sails, and Empires Book Cover — Recommendations

Guns, Sails, and Empires

Carlo M. Cipolla

Economics & Politics

Sam Altman - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Paul Graham - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Idea Makers Book Cover — Recommendations

Idea Makers

Stephen Wolfram

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Michael Pollan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Generations Book Cover — Recommendations

Generations

William Strauss

Patrick Collison - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Tony Robbins - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Essays in Persuasion Book Cover — Recommendations

Essays in Persuasion

John Maynard Keynes

Economics & Politics

Warren Buffett - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Kevin Rose - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

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

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon

Naval Ravikant - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Charlie Munger - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

How Music Works Book Cover — Recommendations

How Music Works

David Byrne

Derek Sivers - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Eric Weinstein - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Fiasco Book Cover — Recommendations

Fiasco

Thomas E. Ricks

Charlie Munger - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Bryan Callen - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Fingerprints of the Gods Book Cover — Recommendations

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

Joe Rogan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Aaron Rodgers - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Catherine the Great Book Cover — Recommendations

Catherine the Great

Robert K. Massie

Elon Musk - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Nancy Pearl - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Black Elk Book Cover — Recommendations

Black Elk

Joe Jackson

Joe Rogan - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Lex Fridman - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Capital Book Cover — Recommendations

Capital

Karl Marx

Economics & Politics

Elon Musk - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Noam Chomsky - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

A World Lit Only by Fire Book Cover — Recommendations

A World Lit Only by Fire

William Manchester

Dave Elitch - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Tom Hanks - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Bull! Book Cover — Recommendations

Bull!

Maggie Mahar

Warren Buffett - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

A Piece of the Action Book Cover — Recommendations

A Piece of the Action

Joe Nocera

Charlie Munger - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Warren Buffett - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Abraham Lincoln Book Cover — Recommendations

Abraham Lincoln

John G. Nicolay

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Barack Obama - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Ain't I a Woman Book Cover — Recommendations

Ain't I a Woman

Bell Hooks

Emma Watson - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Janet Mock - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Why Liberalism Failed Book Cover — Recommendations

Why Liberalism Failed

Patrick J. Deneen

Economics & Politics

Tim Keller - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Barack Obama - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Tripping Over the Truth Book Cover — Recommendations

Tripping Over the Truth

Travis Christofferson

Dominic D'Agostino - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)

Aubrey Marcus - Book Recommendations (BookSelects)