25+ Best History Books of All Time for a Solid Understanding of Our World

by Goodwall
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26 books
Are you looking for your next read and want something historical, interesting, and insightful? Look no further! Here are our top picks for the best history books of all time!
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A History of the World in 100 Objects

Neil MacGregor, 2011

Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, 2015

No Turning Back

The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Estelle Freedman, 2007

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond, 1999

A People's History of the United States

1492-Present
Howard Zinn, 2015

Europe

A History
Norman Davies, 1996

The Silk Roads

A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan, 2016

October

The Story of the Russian Revolution
China Miéville, 2018

Afropean

Notes from Black Europe
Johny Pitts, 2019

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson, 2012

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

Susan Wise Bauer, 2007

1493

Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann, 2012

Maoism

A Global History
Julia Lovell, 2019

Headstrong

52 Women who Changed Science-- and the World
Rachel Swaby, 2015

The Guns of August

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, 2004

The Ghost Map

The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and how it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Steven Johnson, 2006

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard, 2015

The Story of Art

Ernst Hans Gombrich, 1995

War and Peace

graf Leo Tolstoy, 2008

A Black Women's History of the United States

Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross, 2020

Open Veins of Latin America

Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano, 1997

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum, 2011

Long Walk To Freedom

Nelson Mandela, 2013

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown, 2009

The Gay Revolution

The Story of the Struggle
Lillian Faderman, 2016

Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix, 2000