Ranked: History

This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: History

1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
2. A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
3. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
4. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
5. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
6. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
7. Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives by Derek Dwight Anderson
8. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
9. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
11. Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda
12. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
13. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
14. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
15. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
16. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
17. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
18. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
19. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
20. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources by Robert W. Strayer
21. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
22. Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
23. 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
24. Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
25. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
26. Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
27. Inquisition by Edward Peters
28. The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy
29. Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy by Inga Saffron
30. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
31. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
32. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
33. Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
34. World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea
35. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
36. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
37. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
38. From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress
39. The Treasures of Tutankhamun by I.E.S. Edwards
40. Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life by Marko Perko, Stephen M Stahl
41. The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance by Robert Sabatino Lopez
42. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
43. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
44. Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner
45. Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
46. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
47. Amazing Women In History: 5 Kick-Ass Women the History Books Left Out by Keri Lynn Engel
48. Alliance: The Inside Story Of How Roosevelt, Stalin And Churchill Won One War And Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
49. Sources of Indian Tradition edited by William Theodore de Bary, Stephen Hay
50. The Crusades: A History from Beginning to End by Henry Freeman