r/AskHistorians' Recommended Books

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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
23,462 members
463 reviews
3.8
4 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, just_taoit, aveblank,
Explanations
: This is a novel.
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages
by Johan Huizinga
1,900 members
26 reviews
4
3 Members
pitjrw, ahef1963, robertisms
3
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
by David M. Potter
745 members
8 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
pitjrw, DKON, aveblank
4
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
5,617 members
143 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
sharonwragg, ManWithAnAgenda, aveblank
5
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
by John Julius Norwich
892 members
4 reviews
4.2
3 Members
CORMALLEN, DKON, RG2078230
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The Peloponnesian War
by Donald Kagan
1,910 members
23 reviews
4.1
2 Members
davelair, DKON
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
by Gordon S. Wood
1,879 members
24 reviews
4.1
2 Members
airgid, DKON
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Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind
by Miguel Leon-Portilla
202 members
3 reviews
4.1
2 Members
sashame, DKON
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
by John D'Emilio
700 members
2 reviews
4
2 Members
DKON, anarnachronism
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
by Ian Shaw
1,193 members
13 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ManWithAnAgenda, DKON
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The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement, 1450-1650
by J. H. Parry
273 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
RobertVaughan, DKON
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Byzantium: The Apogee
by John Julius Norwich
850 members
5 reviews
4.2
2 Members
CORMALLEN, DKON
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
by Max Hastings
1,199 members
30 reviews
3.9
2 Members
CORMALLEN, DKON
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly
3,118 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
RobertVaughan
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The Conquest of New Spain
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
2,362 members
36 reviews
4.1
Member
evaneshel
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by William Cronon
1,181 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sashame
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
7,354 members
187 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
by Linda Schele
812 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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Gender and the Politics of History
by Joan Wallach Scott
387 members
1 review
3.8
Member
sashame
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The Fatal Shore
by Robert Hughes
4,305 members
57 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
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The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
by William H. McNeill
544 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
pitjrw
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The Aegean Bronze Age
by Oliver Dickinson
146 members
½ 3.4
Member
RobertVaughan
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
9,078 members
96 reviews
4
Member
sashame
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The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries
by Mark Lehner
337 members
3 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
RobertVaughan
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Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
4,182 members
75 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
1,995 members
24 reviews
3.9
Member
sashame
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Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
3,222 members
45 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
by Orlando Figes
1,979 members
21 reviews
4.2
Member
DKON
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The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Zemon Davis
1,508 members
29 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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The Buccaneers of America
by Alexander O. Exquemelin
511 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
RobertVaughan
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Leviathan & the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life
by Steven Shapin
427 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
sashame
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
by Jacques Barzun
4,106 members
42 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
by Robert Middlekauff
1,946 members
23 reviews
4
Member
DKON
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Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
by Ian Kershaw
1,860 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
DKON
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The Third Reich in Power
by Richard J. Evans
1,859 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
DKON
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The Cold War: A New History
by John Lewis Gaddis
1,777 members
37 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945
by Rick Atkinson
1,792 members
52 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
DKON
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The Second World War
by John Keegan
1,500 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
1,510 members
15 reviews
4.1
Member
DKON
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
by Ronald Takaki
1,518 members
12 reviews
4
Member
DKON
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by Bernard Bailyn
1,440 members
18 reviews
4.2
Member
DKON
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The Crusades: A History
by Jonathan Riley-Smith
755 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
DKON
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Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837
by Linda Colley
732 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
by James T. Patterson
760 members
5 reviews
4
Member
DKON
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The Campaigns of Napoleon: The Mind and Method of History's Greatest Soldier
by David Chandler
788 members
6 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
DKON
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God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
by Jonathan D. Spence
767 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
by Siegfried Sassoon
767 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
DKON
52
China: A New History
by John King Fairbank
804 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
by Miranda Carter
860 members
26 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
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The Russian Revolution
by Sheila Fitzpatrick
871 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
DKON
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The Age of Reform
by Richard Hofstadter
849 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
DKON
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The Days of the French Revolution
by Christopher Hibbert
893 members
10 reviews
3.8
Member
DKON
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
by Adam Goodheart
919 members
30 reviews
4.1
Member
DKON
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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
by Peter Englund
882 members
20 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
DKON
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Why the Allies Won
by Richard Overy
995 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
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America's Constitution: A Biography
by Akhil Reed Amar
1,021 members
16 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
DKON
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
by Eugene D. Genovese
996 members
8 reviews
4
Member
DKON
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by Mike Dash
1,006 members
32 reviews
4.2
Member
DKON
63
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha
1,142 members
26 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
DKON
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The Maya
by Michael D. Coe
1,129 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
DKON
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
by Modris Eksteins
1,090 members
20 reviews
4.1
Member
DKON
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A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
by Gerhard L. Weinberg
1,113 members
6 reviews
4.2
Member
DKON
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
by Thomas Asbridge
1,307 members
16 reviews
4
Member
DKON
68
A Writer at War. Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman
1,204 members
26 reviews
4.1
Member
DKON
70
The First World War
by Hew Strachan
1,152 members
21 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
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The First World War: A Complete History
by Martin Gilbert
1,469 members
13 reviews
4
Member
DKON
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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
by George C. Herring
634 members
6 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
DKON
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Mexico: Ancient Peoples and Places
by Michael D. Coe
553 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
DKON
74
The World of the Celts
by Simon James
518 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
DKON
75
The King's Two Bodies
by Ernst H. Kantorowicz
541 members
1 review
½ 4.4
Member
DKON
76
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
by Richard White
503 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
DKON
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The Middle Ground: Indian, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
by Richard White
481 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
78
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
by Leila Ahmed
472 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
DKON
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Inventing Japan: 1853-1964
by Ian Buruma
443 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
DKON
80
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
by Laura Silber
441 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
DKON
81
The Struggle for Europe
by Chester Wilmot
423 members
5 reviews
4
Member
DKON
82
The Red Flag: A History of Communism
by David Priestland
352 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
DKON
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Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
by Eric Foner
329 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
DKON
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The Aztecs
by Richard F. Townsend
273 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
DKON
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The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
by Odd Arne Westad
293 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
DKON
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The Modern Middle East: A History
by James L. Gelvin
283 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
DKON
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The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia
by David E. Hoffman
244 members
1 review
4.1
Member
DKON
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The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America
by Drew R. McCoy
237 members
4
Member
DKON
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Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC
by Robin Osborne
241 members
4.2
Member
DKON
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The African Slave Trade
by Basil Davidson
240 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
DKON
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The First World War, Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918
by Holger H. Herwig
143 members
3 reviews
4
Member
DKON
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Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859
by Elizabeth R. Varon
147 members
4
Member
DKON
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Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe
by Victoria De Grazia
153 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
DKON
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For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
by Melvyn P. Leffler
165 members
1 review
3.8
Member
DKON
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Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities
by Paul Cartledge
161 members
2 reviews
3
Member
DKON
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The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began
by Jack Beatty
190 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
DKON
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Medieval Christianity: a new history
by Kevin Madigan
215 members
3 reviews
4
Member
DKON