History

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: History

Below are non-fiction books with a focus on history

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• 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann

A

• Alliance: The Inside Story Of How Roosevelt, Stalin And Churchill Won One War And Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
• Amazing Women In History: 5 Kick-Ass Women the History Books Left Out by Keri Lynn Engel

B

• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
• Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
• Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
• Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
• Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda

C

• Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy by Inga Saffron
• Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
• The Crusades: A History from Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

D

• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow

E

• Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler

G

• The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

H

• A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
• The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
• How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

I

• Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives by Derek Dwight Anderson
• Inquisition by Edward Peters

L

• The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
• A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich

K

• Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor

M

• The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford

N

• Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

P

• Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro

S

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
• Sources of Indian Tradition edited by William Theodore de Bary, Stephen Hay

T

• Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life by Marko Perko, Stephen M Stahl
• The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance by Robert Sabatino Lopez
• The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy
• The Treasures of Tutankhamun by I.E.S. Edwards

U

• Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
• Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane

W

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources by Robert W. Strayer
• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
• World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea