This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: History
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives by Derek Dwight Anderson
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
- Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
- Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
- The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
- Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources by Robert W. Strayer
- How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
- Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
- Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor
- Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
- Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
- Inquisition by Edward Peters
- The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy
- Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy by Inga Saffron
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
- Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
- World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress
- The Treasures of Tutankhamun by I.E.S. Edwards
- Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life by Marko Perko, Stephen M Stahl
- The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance by Robert Sabatino Lopez
- Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
- The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner
- Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
- The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
- Amazing Women In History: 5 Kick-Ass Women the History Books Left Out by Keri Lynn Engel
- Alliance: The Inside Story Of How Roosevelt, Stalin And Churchill Won One War And Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
- Sources of Indian Tradition edited by William Theodore de Bary, Stephen Hay
- The Crusades: A History from Beginning to End by Henry Freeman