Ranked: History

This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: History

1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
2. A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
3. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
4. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
5. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
6. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
7. Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives by Derek Dwight Anderson
8. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
9. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
11. Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda
12. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
13. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
14. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
15. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
16. Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power by Ross King
17. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
18. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
19. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
20. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
21. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources by Robert W. Strayer
22. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
23. Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
24. 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
25. Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
26. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
27. Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
28. Inquisition by Edward Peters
29. The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy
30. Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy by Inga Saffron
31. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
32. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
33. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
34. Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
35. World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea
36. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
37. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
38. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
39. From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress
40. The Treasures of Tutankhamun by I.E.S. Edwards
41. Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life by Marko Perko, Stephen M Stahl
42. The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance by Robert Sabatino Lopez
43. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
44. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
45. Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner
46. Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
47. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
48. Amazing Women In History: 5 Kick-Ass Women the History Books Left Out by Keri Lynn Engel
49. Alliance: The Inside Story Of How Roosevelt, Stalin And Churchill Won One War And Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
50. Sources of Indian Tradition edited by William Theodore de Bary, Stephen Hay
51. The Crusades: A History from Beginning to End by Henry Freeman