The Greatest Books of All Time on History

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17152 Allow Me To Introduce Lon Milo DuQuette American English
17152 Dream Brother John Browne 2001 Unknown Unknown
17152 The Sirens' Call Chris Hayes 2025 American English
17152 The Great Experiment Yascha Mounk 2022 American English
17152 Futureface Alex Wagner 2018 American English
17152 In The Shadow Of Statues Mitch Landrieu 2018 American English
17152 The New Geography Of Jobs Enrico Moretti 2012 American English
17152 The World As It Is Ben Rhodes 2018 American English
17152 Coach Wooden And Me Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2017 American English
17152 Basketball Shea Serrano 2017 American English
17152 Rodin's Debutante Ward Just 2011 American English
17152 President Reagan Lou Cannon 1991 American English
17152 Lessons In Disaster Gordon M. Goldstein 2008 American English
17152 The Defining Moment Jonathan Alter 2006 American English
17152 Fdr Jean Edward Smith 2007 American English
17152 Unequal Democracy Larry Bartels 2008 American English
16904 Cape Cod Henry David Thoreau 1865 American English
17152 The Bookbinder Of Jericho Pip Williams 2023 Australian English
17152 Humans Brandon Stanton 2020 American English
17152 Is Science Western In Origin? C.K. Raju Indian English
17152 Sherwood Meagan Spooner 2019 American English
17152 Christ The Conqueror Of Hell Hilarion Alfeyev 2009 Russian Russian
17152 Focault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
17152 The Brendan Voyage Severin, Tim 1978 Irish English
17152 The World Played Chess Robert Dugoni American English
17152 Eyes Of Horus Joan Grant 1980 British English
17152 Sita Amish Tripathi 2017 Indian English
17152 The Square Of Sevens Laura Shepherd-Robinson 2023 British English
17152 Never Sleep Fred Van Lente American English
17152 The Memory Painter Womack, Gwendolyn 2015 American English
17152 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English
17152 The Windup Bird Chronicle haruki murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
17152 Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire Drusilla Dunjee Houston 1985 American English
17152 In This Corner Of The World Fumiyo Kouno 2007 Japanese Japanese
17152 Saint Thomas Aquinas And Saint Francis Of Assisi G.K. Chesterton English English
17152 Història D'un Piano Ramon Gener Spanish Catalan
17152 Poland Adam Zamoyski 2009 British English
17152 The New Climate War Michael Mann 2021 American English
17152 Drift Caroline Bergvall 2014 Unknown English
17152 Watermark Joseph Brodsky 1989 Unknown English
16974 The Anarchist Cookbook William Powell 1971 American English
17092 Mémoires D'hadrien, Carnets De Notes De Mémoires D'hadrien Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
17152 Who Paid The Pipers Of Western Marxism? Gabriel Rockhill American English
17152 Indian Sun Craske, Oliver Unknown English
17108 A Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 American English
17152 The Pink Line Mark Gevisser 2020 South African English
17152 The Book Of Job Harold S. Kushner 2012 American English
16906 The Outlaw Of Torn Edgar Rice Burroughs 1914 American English
17152 The Days Of Vengeance David H. Chilton 1987 Canadian English
17152 Daring And The Duke Sarah MacLean 2020 American English
17152 Journey To The River Sea Eva Ibbotson 2001 British English
17152 Banners Of Silk Rosalind Laker 1981 British English
17152 Al Qaeda And What It Means To Be Modern John Gray 2003 British English
17152 Outlaw Angus Donald 2009 British English
17152 Heads You Win Jeffrey Archer 2018 British English
17152 Dangerous Beauty Mark Ross 2001 Unknown English
17152 Anima Rising Christopher Moore 2025 American English
17025 Endurance Alfred Lansing 1959 American English
17152 Tom Mix And Pancho Villa Clifford Irving 1982 American English
17152 The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman 2011 American English
17152 The Books Of The Bible Anonymous Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, koine greek
17152 Lettere A Lucilio Seneca 2064 Roman Italian
17152 The Book Of D'ni Rand Miller 1997 American English
17152 Captain Paul Edward Ellsberg 2010 American English
17152 Will The Circle Be Unbroken? Studs Terkel 1996 American English
17152 Beyond Stephen Walker 2021 Unknown Unknown
17152 Losing The Signal McNish, Jacquie, Silcoff, Sean 2015 Canadian English