Best General History Books

2
A History of Warfare
by John Keegan
2,744 members
23 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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3
Undaunted Courage
by Stephen E. Ambrose
8,591 members
90 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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4
1776
by David McCullough
14,932 members
266 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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7
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
3,404 members
78 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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8
Maps of Time : An Introduction to Big History
by David Christian
683 members
13 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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9
Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations
by Brian Fagan
296 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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10
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz
2,034 members
58 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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11
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
by Janet L. Abu-Lughod
439 members
3 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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12
The Tribes of Britain
by David Miles
291 members
1 review
½ 3.6
2 Members
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13
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared M. Diamond
13,443 members
190 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Percevan, John_Vaughan
14
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
by Hugh Thomas
896 members
7 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Rensslaer, John_Vaughan
15
The Middle East: 2000 Years of History From the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day
by Bernard Lewis
1,852 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
HxBuff, John_Vaughan
16
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
3,937 members
105 reviews
4
2 Members
HxBuff, John_Vaughan
18
A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
3,697 members
23 reviews
3.8
Member
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19
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
by Johan Huizinga
1,899 members
26 reviews
4
Member
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20
Decisive Moments in History: Twelve Historical Miniatures
by Stefan Zweig
699 members
15 reviews
4.1
Member
lewbs
22
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
by Leonard L. Richards
170 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
sjmccreary
23
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh
6,589 members
80 reviews
4.2
Member
lewbs
24
A History of Britain: The Wars of the British, 1603-1776
by Simon Schama
1,491 members
4 reviews
4
Member
John_Vaughan
25
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
by William H. McNeill
797 members
9 reviews
4.2
Member
ABVR
27
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
by Paul Johnson
1,260 members
16 reviews
4.1
Member
lewbs
28
Millennium : A History of the Last Thousand Years
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
927 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ABVR
29
The Anatomy of Revolution
by Crane Brinton
606 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
30
The Lessons of History
by Will Durant
2,147 members
34 reviews
3.9
Member
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31
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P. Huntington
3,771 members
38 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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32
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
by Peter Ackroyd
1,489 members
30 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
33
Plagues and People
by William H. McNeill
2,123 members
22 reviews
4
Member
ABVR
34
The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World
by Daniel Boorstin
1,300 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
John_Vaughan
35
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
by Antonia Fraser
1,227 members
20 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
36
The Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski
2,848 members
23 reviews
4.2
Member
John_Vaughan
37
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
by William H. McNeill
543 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
ABVR
38
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
by Sara M. Evans
504 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
39
The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
by Daniel R. Headrick
239 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
ABVR
40
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
by Winston S. Churchill
1,715 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
John_Vaughan
41
The Days of the French Revolution
by Christopher Hibbert
892 members
10 reviews
3.8
Member
John_Vaughan
42
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
3,223 members
100 reviews
3.8
Member
John_Vaughan
43
Comentarios Reales
by Garcilaso de la Vega
298 members
4 reviews
4
Member
John_Vaughan
44
The Great Republic: A History of America
by Winston S. Churchill
301 members
2 reviews
4
Member
John_Vaughan
45
The English: A Portrait of a People
by Jeremy Paxman
1,644 members
21 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
John_Vaughan
46
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
16,658 members
133 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
8,325 members
127 reviews
3.8
Member
John_Vaughan,ABVR
48
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
13,917 members
171 reviews
½ 3.7
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
by Lewis Mumford
1,575 members
9 reviews
4.2
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Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World
by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
192 members
2 reviews
3.8