Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
By: Richard Cohen
3.99
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
A “supremely entertaining” ( The New Yorker ) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history…
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1. On Loving God
By: Bernard of Clairvaux
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Perhaps Bernard's most delightful tract, On Loving God posits that everything good in human persons… read more
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- nonfiction
2. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
By: Martin Bunton
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles… read more
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3. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
By: Ian Mortimer
4.00
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Gui… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
4. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- biography
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- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
5. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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- american history
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
7. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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- biography
- history
- world history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The World: A Family History of Humanity
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.00
Format: 1344 pages, Hardcover
From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from pre… read more
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- world history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
By: Caroline Elkins
4.26
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
12. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
By: Robin George Andrews
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma mor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- world history
14. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.11
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “defin… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
- audiobook
15. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
By: Gregory J. Wallance
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Ru… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
16. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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- history
- world history
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
17. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
By: Henry Farrell
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them
By: Tom Phillips
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
By: Ian Morris
3.95
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain's relationshi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
- world history
"Many of us worry today about a growing gap between the great mass of mere mortals and an internationalised and (metaphorically) incestuous elite, flitting between the luxury hotels and Michelin-starr…"-Ian Morris, Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
20. Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
By: Richard Cohen
3.99
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
A “supremely entertaining” ( The New Yorker ) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history… read more
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- historical
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- european history
- books about books
- audiobook
21. DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution
By: James D. Watson
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the di… read more
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- history
- audiobook
