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r/AskHistorians' Recommended Books

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Members: 3 participating members (show all)

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1
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
18,157 members, 395 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), ManWithAnAgenda (1)

Score: 8

2
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
5,559 members, 156 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2)

Score: 3.36

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
The Fatal Shore
by Robert Hughes
3,553 members, 50 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3)

Score: 3.04

7
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
by Ian Shaw
925 members, 10 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (5)

Score: 2.68

8
The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Zemon Davis
1,209 members, 20 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (6)

Score: 2.56

9
From Dawn to Decadence
by Jacques Barzun
3,429 members, 36 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (7)

Score: 2.46

11
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
7,288 members, 81 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Score: 0

12
Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
5,425 members, 147 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Score: 0

13
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick
4,963 members, 114 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Score: 0

14
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
4,801 members, 68 reviews
4.45 stars (4.45 stars)

Score: 0

16
The Story of Art
by E. H. Gombrich
4,189 members, 33 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Score: 0

17
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor
3,743 members, 54 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Score: 0

18
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by Hannah Arendt
3,591 members, 54 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Score: 0

19
Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
3,400 members, 60 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Score: 0

21
The Good Soldier Svejk
by Jaroslav Hašek
3,160 members, 53 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Score: 0

22
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
3,057 members, 73 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Score: 0

23
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
3,042 members, 46 reviews
4.46 stars (4.46 stars)

Score: 0

24
A Little History of the World
by E. H. Gombrich
2,998 members, 57 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Score: 0

25
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
2,950 members, 64 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Score: 0

26
The Waning of the Middle Ages
by Johan Huizinga
2,936 members, 33 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

27
A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
2,935 members, 17 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Score: 0

28
The First World War
by John Keegan
2,858 members, 37 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Score: 0

29
The Fall of Berlin 1945
by Antony Beevor
2,732 members, 50 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Score: 0

30
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
2,679 members, 78 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Score: 0

31
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt
2,674 members, 41 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Score: 0

32
Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
2,576 members, 37 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Score: 0

34
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943
by Rick Atkinson
2,394 members, 55 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Score: 0

35
Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum
2,326 members, 40 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Score: 0

37
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
by Daniel Yergin
2,003 members, 23 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Score: 0

39
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63
by Taylor Branch
1,994 members, 22 reviews
4.54 stars (4.54 stars)

Score: 0

41
Storm of Steel
by Ernst Jünger
1,928 members, 64 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Score: 0

42
The Coming of the Third Reich
by Richard J. Evans
1,831 members, 41 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Score: 0

43
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark
1,746 members, 46 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

44
The Conquest of New Spain
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
1,744 members, 27 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Score: 0

45
What Is History?
by Edward Hallett Carr
1,737 members, 24 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Score: 0

46
A History of Western Music
by Donald Jay Grout
1,695 members, 6 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Score: 0

47
The Worst Journey in the World
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1,688 members, 50 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Score: 0

48
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz
1,688 members, 53 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Score: 0

49
Plagues and Peoples
by William H. McNeill
1,665 members, 19 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Score: 0

51
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944
by Rick Atkinson
1,646 members, 40 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Score: 0

53
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder
1,617 members, 58 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

54
The Making of the English Working Class
by E. P. Thompson
1,584 members, 9 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

55
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

56
The Peloponnesian War
by Donald Kagan
1,531 members, 20 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Score: 0

57
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
by Gordon S. Wood
1,496 members, 20 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Score: 0

59
Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
by Ian Kershaw
1,473 members, 21 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Score: 0

60
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
by Orlando Figes
1,473 members, 18 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Score: 0

61
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
by Robert Middlekauff
1,471 members, 19 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

63
The Civil War: A Narrative
by Shelby Foote
1,392 members, 14 reviews
4.58 stars (4.58 stars)

Score: 0

64
Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis
by Ian Kershaw
1,363 members, 18 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Score: 0

65
Six Days of War
by Michael B. Oren
1,347 members, 23 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Score: 0

67
The Third Reich in Power
by Richard J. Evans
1,332 members, 20 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

68
The Cold War: A New History
by John Lewis Gaddis
1,299 members, 30 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Score: 0

69
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by Daniel Okrent
1,269 members, 44 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Score: 0

70
The Fate of Africa
by Martin Meredith
1,262 members, 25 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

71
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
by Max Hastings
1,259 members, 29 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Score: 0

73
The Second World War
by John Keegan
1,234 members, 11 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Score: 0

74
Religion and the Decline of Magic
by Keith Thomas
1,226 members, 17 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

75
The Scramble for Africa: 1876–1912
by Thomas Pakenham
1,220 members, 19 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Score: 0

76
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945
by Rick Atkinson
1,217 members, 42 reviews
4.49 stars (4.49 stars)

Score: 0

77
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
by Max Hastings
1,201 members, 24 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Score: 0

81
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by Bernard Bailyn
1,162 members, 18 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Score: 0

82
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
by John W. Dower
1,162 members, 11 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Score: 0

83
The Search for Modern China
by Jonathan D. Spence
1,151 members, 16 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Score: 0

84
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
by Ronald Takaki
1,139 members, 9 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Score: 0

85
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
by Gordon S. Wood
1,136 members, 12 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Score: 0

86
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
1,129 members, 15 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Score: 0

87
The Third Reich at War
by Richard J. Evans
1,122 members, 23 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Score: 0

88
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
by Christopher Clark
1,110 members, 29 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Score: 0

89
The Glorious Cause
by Jeff Shaara
1,110 members, 17 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Score: 0

90
Pompeii: The Life of A Roman Town
by Mary Beard
1,088 members, 29 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Score: 0

91
The First World War: A Complete History
by Martin Gilbert
1,068 members, 11 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Score: 0

92
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
by Adam Hochschild
1,039 members, 50 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Score: 0

94
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
1,025 members, 12 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Score: 0

96
The Historian's Craft
by Marc Bloch
1,011 members, 16 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Score: 0

99
The Making of the Middle Ages
by R. W. Southern
1,006 members, 9 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Score: 0

100
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
by Max Hastings
1,004 members, 24 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

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Started by: imnasser1994 (March 11)

Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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