r/History Recommended Reading List

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/history/wiki/recommendedlist
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
by Eduardo Galeano
2,386 members
41 reviews
4.1
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
by Linda Schele
717 members
6 reviews
3.8
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Beowulf
by Beowulf poet
24,428 members
329 reviews
3.8
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
4,250 members
83 reviews
4.1
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Chronicles of the First Crusade (Penguin Classics)
by Christopher Tyerman
65 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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10
Asimov's Chronology of the World
by Isaac Asimov
366 members
2 reviews
4.1
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The Past Is a Foreign Country
by David Lowenthal
342 members
1 review
4.1
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The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery
by Joann Fletcher
249 members
4 reviews
4.1
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Imperial China 900-1800
by F. W. Mote
172 members
4 reviews
½ 4.6
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Simon Bolivar: A Life
by John Lynch
154 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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The Historian's Craft
by Marc Bloch
1,100 members
16 reviews
4.1
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Egil's Saga
by Snorri Sturluson
1,037 members
9 reviews
4
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Byzantium: The Early Centuries
by John Julius Norwich
934 members
9 reviews
4.1
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
by Eric Foner
764 members
20 reviews
4.2
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King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway
by Snorri Sturluson
671 members
5 reviews
3.8
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Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
by Andrew Robinson
603 members
7 reviews
3.8
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Chronicles
by Jean Froissart
612 members
4 reviews
3.8
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Did God Have A Wife? Archaeology And Folk Religion In Ancient Israel
by William G. Dever
171 members
3 reviews
4
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The Histories
by P. Cornelius Tacitus
1,416 members
7 reviews
3.9
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History of the World
by J. M. Roberts
2,362 members
18 reviews
3.9
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
7,495 members
55 reviews
4
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Anonymous
9,545 members
117 reviews
3.8
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The Histories
by Herodotus
9,612 members
81 reviews
4.1
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A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
14,315 members
150 reviews
4.2
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The Iliad
by Homer
38,013 members
370 reviews
4
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The Odyssey
by Homer
50,701 members
442 reviews
4
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The Conquest of Gaul
by Julius Caesar
4,162 members
46 reviews
3.9
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
37,956 members
612 reviews
4
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
35,309 members
438 reviews
3.9
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Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
28,113 members
533 reviews
½ 4.3
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
22,504 members
400 reviews
4.2
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The Aeneid
by Virgil
22,016 members
193 reviews
3.9
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The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
20,788 members
241 reviews
4.1
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
16,310 members
188 reviews
3.8
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
14,006 members
189 reviews
4
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
13,068 members
637 reviews
4
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Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
12,510 members
117 reviews
½ 3.7
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Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
10,925 members
141 reviews
3.9
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,576 members
227 reviews
½ 4.4
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I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
8,938 members
164 reviews
4.2
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The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
8,507 members
185 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
7,538 members
88 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
7,087 members
108 reviews
3.8
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
6,995 members
188 reviews
4.2
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The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
6,345 members
121 reviews
½ 4.3
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Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
5,869 members
159 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh
5,812 members
74 reviews
4.2
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Truman
by David McCullough
5,677 members
79 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Man in the Iron Mask
by Alexandre Dumas
5,642 members
31 reviews
3.8
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
5,183 members
74 reviews
½ 4.4
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
4,550 members
125 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare
4,508 members
48 reviews
4
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Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris
4,194 members
37 reviews
4.2
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
by Will Durant
4,065 members
26 reviews
3.9
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
by Eusebius
3,999 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
3,896 members
48 reviews
½ 4.4
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
3,468 members
68 reviews
4
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
by Che Guevara
3,280 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
66
Gates of Fire
by Steven Pressfield
3,277 members
88 reviews
4.2
67
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
3,240 members
112 reviews
3.9
68
A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
3,171 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
69
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
3,125 members
40 reviews
½ 4.3
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
3,109 members
38 reviews
½ 4.3
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
3,095 members
175 reviews
½ 4.4
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Gods and Generals
by Jeff Shaara
3,073 members
34 reviews
3.9
73
Castle
by David Macaulay
3,056 members
47 reviews
4.2
75
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt
2,900 members
42 reviews
½ 4.3
76
The Prose Edda
by Snorri Sturluson
2,827 members
24 reviews
4.1
77
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
by David Macaulay
2,781 members
26 reviews
4.2
78
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
2,585 members
87 reviews
3.8
79
Plutarch's Lives
by Plutarch
2,380 members
30 reviews
4.1
80
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
2,359 members
11 reviews
4.1
81
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
2,351 members
27 reviews
4.2
82
Ten Days that Shook the World
by John Reed
2,342 members
32 reviews
3.8
83
Njal's Saga
by Anonymous
2,307 members
20 reviews
3.9
84
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
by E. B. Sledge
2,285 members
62 reviews
½ 4.4
85
Kalevala
by Elias Lönnrot
2,270 members
27 reviews
4.2
86
The Crusades through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf
2,207 members
36 reviews
3.9
87
The Last Full Measure
by Jeff Shaara
2,086 members
23 reviews
4
88
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by Tom Holland
2,077 members
35 reviews
4
89
The Coming of the Third Reich
by Richard J. Evans
2,030 members
44 reviews
½ 4.3
90
Agricola and Germania
by P. Cornelius Tacitus
1,996 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
91
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
by David Macaulay
1,978 members
16 reviews
½ 4.3
92
What Is History?
by Edward Hallett Carr
1,896 members
28 reviews
3.8
93
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt
1,857 members
30 reviews
3.9
94
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
1,826 members
20 reviews
½ 4.3
95
Plagues and Peoples
by William H. McNeill
1,814 members
20 reviews
4
96
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
by Carlo Ginzburg
1,810 members
26 reviews
4
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The Fifties
by David Halberstam
1,781 members
30 reviews
4.1
98
Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
1,751 members
18 reviews
3.9
99
The Making of the English Working Class
by E. P. Thompson
1,720 members
10 reviews
4.1
100
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas Ostler
1,661 members
34 reviews
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