Amazon Editor's Best History Books of 2024

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20 books
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The Demon of Unrest

A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson, 2024

Nexus

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari, 2024

John Lewis

A Life
David Greenberg, 2024

Narcotopia

In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
Patrick Winn, 2024

Madness

Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Antonia Hylton, 2024

Challenger

A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham, 2024

The Wide Wide Sea

Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides, 2024

A Gentleman and a Thief

The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
Dean Jobb, 2024

Becoming Little Shell

A Landless Indian’s Journey Home
Chris La Tray, 2024

When the Sea Came Alive

An Oral History of D-Day
Garrett M. Graff, 2024

An Unfinished Love Story

A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2024

The Swans of Harlem

Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
Karen Valby, 2024

The Survivors of the Clotilda

The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
Hannah Durkin, 2024

Eden Undone

A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
Abbott Kahler, 2024

Autocracy, Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum, 2024

Ask Not

The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Maureen Callahan, 2024

Medgar and Myrlie

Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
Joy-Ann Reid, 2024

Paradise Bronx

The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Ian Frazier, 2024

The Blues Brothers

An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic
Daniel de Visé, 2024