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r/History Recommended Reading List

Description: Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/history/wiki/recommendedlist

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3
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
by Linda Schele
673 members, 6 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2)

Score: 3.36

4
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
21,621 members, 308 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (3)

Score: 3.04

6
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
3,476 members, 67 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5)

Score: 2.68

7
Chronicles of the First Crusade (Penguin Classics)
by Christopher Tyerman
59 members, 1 review
3.4 stars (3.4 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (6)

Score: 2.56

9
Asimov's Chronology of the World
by Isaac Asimov
344 members, 2 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (8)

Score: 2.38

10
The Past Is a Foreign Country
by David Lowenthal
326 members, 1 review
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (9)

Score: 2.31

11
The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery
by Joann Fletcher
230 members, 4 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (10)

Score: 2.25

12
Imperial China 900-1800
by F. W. Mote
157 members, 4 reviews
4.54 stars (4.54 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (11)

Score: 2.2

13
Simon Bolivar: A Life
by John Lynch
137 members, 1 review
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (12)

Score: 2.15

14
The Historian's Craft
by Marc Bloch
1,011 members, 16 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (13)

Score: 2.11

15
Egil's Saga
by Snorri Sturluson
956 members, 8 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (14)

Score: 2.07

16
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
by John Julius Norwich
880 members, 9 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (15)

Score: 2.03

17
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
by Eric Foner
694 members, 19 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (16)

Score: 2

18
King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway
by Snorri Sturluson
624 members, 5 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (17)

Score: 1.97

19
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
by Andrew Robinson
576 members, 7 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (18)

Score: 1.94

20
Chronicles
by Jean Froissart
563 members, 5 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (19)

Score: 1.92

22
The Histories
by Tacitus
1,237 members, 8 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (21)

Score: 1.87

23
History of the World
by J. M. Roberts
2,220 members, 15 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (23)

Score: 1.83

24
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
6,951 members, 52 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (24)

Score: 1.81

25
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Anonymous
8,883 members, 108 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (25)

Score: 1.79

26
The Histories
by Herodotus
8,890 members, 77 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (26)

Score: 1.77

27
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
13,414 members, 146 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (27)

Score: 1.76

28
The Iliad
by Homer
34,515 members, 346 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (28)

Score: 1.74

29
The Odyssey
by Homer
45,975 members, 419 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (29)

Score: 1.72

30
The Gallic War
by Julius Caesar
3,948 members, 46 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (30)

Score: 1.71

31
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
34,325 members, 572 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Score: 0

32
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
32,519 members, 421 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Score: 0

33
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
25,056 members, 505 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Score: 0

34
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
21,195 members, 375 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Score: 0

35
The Aeneid
by Virgil
20,106 members, 182 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Score: 0

36
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas père
19,035 members, 232 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Score: 0

37
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
14,754 members, 174 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Score: 0

38
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
13,250 members, 180 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Score: 0

39
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
12,090 members, 619 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Score: 0

40
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
11,503 members, 107 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Score: 0

41
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
10,064 members, 136 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Score: 0

42
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
8,829 members, 219 reviews
4.45 stars (4.45 stars)

Score: 0

43
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
8,434 members, 153 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

44
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
7,903 members, 175 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Score: 0

45
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
by William L. Shirer
7,071 members, 74 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Score: 0

47
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
6,441 members, 98 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Score: 0

48
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
6,367 members, 178 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Score: 0

49
The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
5,797 members, 104 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Score: 0

50
Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
5,425 members, 147 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Score: 0

52
Truman
by David McCullough
5,202 members, 72 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Score: 0

53
The Man in the Iron Mask
by Alexandre Dumas
5,173 members, 32 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

54
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
4,800 members, 68 reviews
4.45 stars (4.45 stars)

Score: 0

56
Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris
3,857 members, 36 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Score: 0

57
The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare
3,851 members, 48 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Score: 0

59
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
by Eusebius
3,598 members, 27 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Score: 0

60
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
3,566 members, 44 reviews
4.43 stars (4.43 stars)

Score: 0

63
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by Tom Holland
3,154 members, 66 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Score: 0

64
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
by Che Guevara
3,099 members, 37 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Score: 0

65
Gates of Fire
by Steven Pressfield
3,029 members, 82 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Score: 0

66
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
3,004 members, 107 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Score: 0

67
A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
2,935 members, 17 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Score: 0

68
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
2,898 members, 39 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Score: 0

70
Gods and Generals
by Jeff Shaara
2,869 members, 33 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Score: 0

71
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
2,859 members, 167 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Score: 0

72
Castle
by David Macaulay
2,709 members, 40 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Score: 0

73
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt
2,674 members, 41 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Score: 0

74
The Prose Edda
by Snorri Sturluson
2,672 members, 24 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Score: 0

76
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
by David Macaulay
2,483 members, 22 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Score: 0

77
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
2,335 members, 80 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Score: 0

78
Plutarch's Lives
by Plutarch
2,155 members, 24 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

79
Njal's Saga
by Anonymous
2,121 members, 20 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Score: 0

80
Ten Days that Shook the World
by John Reed
2,119 members, 29 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Score: 0

81
Kalevala
by Elias Lönnrot
2,101 members, 27 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Score: 0

82
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
2,100 members, 11 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Score: 0

83
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
2,099 members, 26 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Score: 0

84
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
by E. B. Sledge
2,031 members, 59 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Score: 0

85
The Crusades through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf
2,015 members, 35 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Score: 0

86
The Last Full Measure
by Jeff Shaara
1,916 members, 22 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Score: 0

87
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by Tom Holland
1,888 members, 33 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Score: 0

88
Agricola and Germania
by P. Cornelius Tacitus
1,874 members, 16 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Score: 0

89
The Coming of the Third Reich
by Richard J. Evans
1,831 members, 41 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Score: 0

90
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
by David Macaulay
1,749 members, 15 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

91
What Is History?
by Edward Hallett Carr
1,737 members, 24 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Score: 0

92
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt
1,732 members, 25 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Score: 0

93
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
1,710 members, 19 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Score: 0

94
The Fifties
by David Halberstam
1,686 members, 30 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Score: 0

95
Plagues and Peoples
by William H. McNeill
1,665 members, 19 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Score: 0

98
The Making of the English Working Class
by E. P. Thompson
1,584 members, 9 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

99
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
by Jon Lee Anderson
1,557 members, 23 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Score: 0

100
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas Ostler
1,545 members, 34 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Score: 0

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Started by: imnasser1994 (March 10)

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