r/History Recommended Reading List

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/history/wiki/recommendedlist
1
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
29,215 members
362 reviews
3.8
3 Members
merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda, dysig
2
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
by David Macaulay
2,449 members
19 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
hipdeep, merrystar, dysig
4
The Guns of August
by Barbara Tuchman
7,575 members
144 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
Nonconformisto, KeenKeen
7
Castle
by David Macaulay
3,793 members
49 reviews
4.2
2 Members
hipdeep, DKON
8
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
9,050 members
117 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
Nonconformisto, KeenKeen
9
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas Ostler
1,899 members
36 reviews
4
2 Members
merrystar, dysig
10
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
by Eduardo Galeano
3,209 members
43 reviews
4.2
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, swanoftuonela
11
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
6,230 members
107 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, KeenKeen
12
The Past Is a Foreign Country
by David Lowenthal
387 members
2 reviews
4
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, DKON
13
Chronicles of the First Crusade (Penguin Classics)
by Christopher Tyerman
87 members
1 review
½ 3.5
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, dysig
14
Asimov's Chronology of the World
by Isaac Asimov
425 members
4 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, KeenKeen
15
Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion In Ancient Israel
by William G. Dever
205 members
3 reviews
4
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, DKON
16
Imperial China 900-1800
by F. W. Mote
213 members
4 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, KeenKeen
17
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
by John Julius Norwich
1,073 members
8 reviews
4.1
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, dysig
18
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
8,947 members
69 reviews
4
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, Nonconformisto
19
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,485 members
699 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
21
Advise and Consent
by Allen Drury
1,075 members
20 reviews
3.9
Member
Nonconformisto
22
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
by Linda Schele
808 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
24
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
35,860 members
629 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
merrystar
25
Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
6,941 members
180 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
26
Modern Ireland, 1600-1972
by R. F. Foster
766 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
27
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
3,227 members
100 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
28
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
15,672 members
212 reviews
4
Member
KeenKeen
29
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh
6,575 members
79 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
30
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
by Will Durant
4,891 members
36 reviews
3.9
Member
dysig
31
History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire [complete]
by Edward Gibbon
3,648 members
43 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
dysig
32
Ten Days that Shook the World
by John Reed
2,867 members
43 reviews
3.9
Member
KeenKeen
33
The IRA
by Tim Pat Coogan
687 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
35
The Coming of the Third Reich
by Richard J. Evans
2,590 members
51 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
KeenKeen
37
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
by David Macaulay
3,466 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
38
Plutarch's Lives
by Plutarch
2,999 members
33 reviews
4.1
Member
dysig
39
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
2,122 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
KeenKeen
40
Agricola and Germania
by P. Cornelius Tacitus
2,337 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dysig
41
The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery
by Joann Fletcher
294 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
42
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
2,904 members
11 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
43
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt
2,157 members
38 reviews
3.9
Member
dysig
44
Simon Bolivar: A Life
by John Lynch
183 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
45
The Historian's Craft
by Marc Bloch
1,315 members
19 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
46
Egil's Saga
by Snorri Sturluson
1,237 members
13 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
47
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
by Eric Foner
909 members
24 reviews
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
48
King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway
by Snorri Sturluson
779 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
by Andrew Robinson
679 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
50
Chronicles [ed. Geoffrey Brereton]
by Jean Froissart
762 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
51
The Histories
by P. Cornelius Tacitus
1,616 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
52
History of the World
by J. M. Roberts
2,756 members
19 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
53
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,428 members
133 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
54
The Histories
by Herodotus
11,515 members
97 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
55
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
17,236 members
174 reviews
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
56
The Iliad
by Homer
47,503 members
447 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
57
The Odyssey
by Homer
62,456 members
521 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
58
The Conquest of Gaul
by Julius Caesar
4,878 members
53 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
59
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
47,100 members
750 reviews
4
60
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
42,012 members
491 reviews
3.9
61
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,742 members
229 reviews
3.9
62
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
25,586 members
431 reviews
4.2
63
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
24,543 members
270 reviews
4.1
64
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19,594 members
209 reviews
3.8
65
Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott
15,016 members
137 reviews
½ 3.7
66
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
14,356 members
175 reviews
3.9
67
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
11,261 members
244 reviews
½ 4.4
68
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
10,119 members
181 reviews
4.2
69
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
9,808 members
197 reviews
½ 4.3
70
Undaunted Courage
by Stephen E. Ambrose
8,578 members
89 reviews
4.1
71
1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
8,454 members
220 reviews
4.2
72
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
8,296 members
126 reviews
3.8
73
Truman
by David McCullough
6,713 members
91 reviews
½ 4.4
74
The Man in the Iron Mask
by Alexandre Dumas
6,563 members
39 reviews
3.8
75
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
6,137 members
84 reviews
½ 4.4
76
The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare
5,837 members
55 reviews
4.1
77
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
5,626 members
144 reviews
½ 4.3
78
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
by Eusebius
5,068 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
79
Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris
4,903 members
45 reviews
4.2
81
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
4,637 members
58 reviews
½ 4.4
82
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
4,216 members
78 reviews
4
83
The Motorcycle Diaries
by Che Guevara
3,903 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
85
Gates of Fire
by Steven Pressfield
3,792 members
95 reviews
4.2
86
The Prose Edda
by Snorri Sturluson
3,720 members
33 reviews
4
87
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
3,718 members
195 reviews
½ 4.4
88
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
3,700 members
120 reviews
4
89
A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
3,695 members
22 reviews
3.8
90
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
3,586 members
46 reviews
½ 4.3
91
Gods and Generals
by Jeff Shaara
3,559 members
36 reviews
3.9
92
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt
3,513 members
49 reviews
½ 4.3
93
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
2,835 members
30 reviews
4.2
94
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
by E. B. Sledge
2,805 members
73 reviews
½ 4.4
95
Kalevala
by Elias Lönnrot
2,702 members
32 reviews
4.2
96
Njal's Saga
by Anonymous
2,668 members
25 reviews
3.9
97
The Crusades through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf
2,646 members
39 reviews
3.9
98
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by Tom Holland
2,412 members
40 reviews
4
99
The Last Full Measure
by Jeff Shaara
2,403 members
26 reviews
4
100
What Is History?
by E. H. Carr
2,256 members
32 reviews
3.8