Top 100 History Books

📘 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

In this book, blogger and former internet entrepreneur Mark Manson explains in simple, no expletives barred terms how to achieve happiness by caring more about fewer things and not caring at all about more. He explains how the metrics we use to define ourselves may be the very things holding us back.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Sapiens

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth.

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Bumi Manusia

Bumi manusia

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The fire next time

**From Amazon.com:** A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, *The Fire Next Time* galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 ההיסטוריה של המחר

Tras el éxito de Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari vuelve su mirada al futuro para ver hacia dónde nos dirigimos.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

"Since it's publication five decades ago, William L. Shirer?s monumental study of Hitler?s empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century?s blackest hours.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. Censorship works not by blocking the flow of information, but rather by flooding people with disinformation and distractions. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century cuts through these muddy waters and confronts some of the most urgent questions on today’s global agenda.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 History

One of the earliest histories of the western world still extant, this gives a contemporary account of the Greco-Persian wars of the fifth century BCE with the rise of the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great.

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Pakistan Studies

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The History and Culture of Pakistan

This book has the overveiw as the short description of the events and the consequences for the creation of Pakistan. This should be read under view that the struggle of jinnah was the main case for the creation of Pakisstan

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The Second World War

Never before in history have there been combined in one man the character, the political leadership, the military perception and the eloquence which our generation has known in Winston Churchill.

Genre: History Subgenre: Military History

📘 Prisoner B-3087

Based on the true story of a Jewish boy's survival during ten concentration camps of the Holocaust, this novel follows Yanek Gruener's harrowing journey from his birth in Poland to the camps in Germany, Germany, and Poland.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Why we struck

Genre: History Subgenre: Military History

📘 History of the Filipino people chapter 1

CLASSIC HISTORY BOOK BY TEODORO AGONCILLO. HISTORY OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE INCLUDES PRE-COLONIAL HISTORY UP THROUGH THE EDSA REVOLUTION.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Mga gunita ng himagsikan

Philippine revolution.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The birchbark house

[In this] story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The Enduring Vision

Widely admired for its outstanding scholarship and engaging narrative, The Enduring Vision integrates political, social, and cultural history within a clear chronological framework. It was the first U.S. history textbook to incorporate sustained attention to cultural history, the West, and the environment.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York

Discusses the illusion that is a democracy by pointing out what real power looks like and where it comes from.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

A historical masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipelago' is a gripping exploration of the Soviet Union's prison system, based on the firsthand testimonies of survivors and Solzhenitsyn's own experiences.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Tropic of Cancer

Considerada por buena parte de la crítica como la mejor de sus obras, en su primera novela se sitúa Miller en la estela de Walt Whitman y Thoreau para crear un monólogo en el que el autor hace un inolvidable repaso de su estancia en París en los primeros años de la década de 1930, centrada tanto en sus experiencias sexuales como en sus juicios sobr...

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 India From Curzon to Nehru and After

Classic study, originally published in 1969. Personal experiences, work with Gandhi, Nehru, Indian politics, government.a provocative and interesting memoir, stretching from a Punjab village to the highest echelons of power in New Delhi.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Collapse

"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world.

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Freedom at Midnight

The end of an empire. The birth of two nations. Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Killers of the Flower Moon

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 A history of the modern world

Conceived and written as a history of the modern world rather than a truncated Western Civilization book, this text is one of the most highly praised history texts ever published. It has been adopted at more than 1000 schools and has been translated into six languages.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Historia Universal - Educación Básica 8º

PRESENTACIÓN DE LA EDICIÓN 1995 Entregamos a los colegas y estudiantes la presente edición absolutamente actualizada, de acuerdo con el Programa Oficial correspondiente al 8º Grado de la Educación Básica.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Eichmann in Jerusalem

**Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil** is a 1963 book by political theorist *Hannah Arendt*. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on Adolf Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The illusion of life

'The Illusion of Life' is a book written by veteran Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. It's a detailed first-hand account recollecting the history of Disney animation, offering a unique insider perspective to one of the most creative and expansive times in animation's history. Also includes many photographs and illustrations.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 A concise history of Pakistan

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Creating Black Americans

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The World Atlas of Coffee

This book is a beautiful world guide to the brown bean. Taking the reader on a global tour of coffee-growing countries, The World Atlas of Coffee presents the bean in full-color photographs and concise, informative text.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The making of the atomic bomb

Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood.

Genre: History Subgenre: Military History

📘 The Complete World of Greek Mythology

The Complete World of Greek Mythology

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Band of Brothers

Follows the 101st Airbone as it drops into Normandy on D-Day and fights its way through Europe to the end of World War II.

Genre: History Subgenre: Military History

📘 The botany of desire

A Random House Trade Paperback

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The Happiest Man on Earth

A memoir of Eddie Jaku, a Holocaust survivor who found happiness despite unimaginable hardships, offering timeless lessons on gratitude and kindness to readers of all ages.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 A different mirror

Chronicles the history of America, from colonization to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, from a multicultural point of view.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Ringkasan sejarat filsafat

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 1491

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Fast Food Nation

To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 How Buildings Learn

Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Naturalis historia

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo)

The untold story of the intersection of the women's suffrage movement and the abolitionist movement, revealing the biases within the women's movement and the need for solidarity and unity in the struggle for equality.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

An American Indian History, a 1970 book by American writer Dee Brown that covers the history of Native Americans primarily in the American West in the late nineteenth century. Although the title refers to a particular event location, many tribes from across the northern continent are included.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Essay concerning human understanding

Locke's Essay ... (1690) withstood an onslaught by traditional theologians, for rejecting orthodox theology and the concept of innate ideas: as he suggested that God could make matter think.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Documentary sources of Philippine history

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 History of architecture

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 A Study of History

A masterful attempt to describe a universal history. Staggering depth of scholarship and breath of thought.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Early Social Formations

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Notes of a Native Son

Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Hiroshima

Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.

Genre: History Subgenre: Military History

📘 People of the earth

An engaging narrative of prehistoric human origins and early civilizations

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 The Warmth of Other Suns

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Caste

“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The 12th Planet

The 12th Planet explores the existence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization that once inhabited Earth thousands of years ago.

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 The Dawn of Everything

A groundbreaking exploration of the past that fundamentally transforms our understanding of human history.

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Parallel myths

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 The slave community

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Blizzard!

A stormy tale of 1888's deadliest blizzard, with personal perspectives and historical context

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Ab urbe condita

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 The Looming Tower

National Book Award FinalistA Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the YearA gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks ...

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The creature from Jekyll Island

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Endurance

Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914. The ship became locked inside an island of ice, and was later crushed.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The Unfinished Nation

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Ordinary Men

Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.

Genre: History Subgenre: Military History

📘 The Great Influenza

The Great Influenza: A World at Risk

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Prehispanic source materials for the study of Philippine history

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Patterns of fashion

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Thirteen days

During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 A history of western music

"A History of Western Music has secured its place - through six editions and for almost half a century - as the definitive resource for students and connoisseurs alike. Today this exceptional book remains the most authoritative and useful text available, providing readers with insights into both the music and its historical context.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Arkitekturang Filipino

On Philippine architecture.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The night diary

Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The fourth turning

First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. Are you ready for the Fourth Turning?Strauss and Howe will change the way you see the world--and your place in it.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Jattan Da Itihas

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Sejarah & peradaban Islam

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 India after Gandhi

political history

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Why We Can't Wait

In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. launched the Civil Rights movement and demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action with this letter from Birmingham Jail.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Las venas abiertas de América Latina

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Innumeracy

Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences is a 1988 book by mathematician John Allen Paulos about innumeracy (deficiency of numeracy) as the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy: incompetence with numbers rather than words. Innumeracy is a problem with many otherwise educated and knowledgeable people.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Vom Kriege

*Vom Kriege* is the basic work on the Western way of war. For Clauswitz, war is "politics by other means". It concentrates on defeating the enemy by massing overwhelming force at the enemy's weak point.

Genre: History Subgenre: Military History

📘 The Silk Roads

"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Michelle Remembers

A chilling description of how one child can overcome the most horrific events at such a young age and create a world to which she can escape without losing her mind (and soul). Her parents using her as a sacrifice to the Devil to entice his demonic appearance in their twisted enticement of worship!

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

The *Barrington Atlas*, created by the Classical Atlas Project (now, the [Ancient World Mapping Center][1]), is a reference work of permanent value.

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Columbine

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 At Home

At Home: A Short History of Private Life is a history of domestic life written by Bill Bryson. It was published in May 2010.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 In the Heart of the Sea

Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 National Book Award winner chronicles the harrowing ordeal of the Essex whale ship crew that survived a near-sinking and subsequent harrowing journey on the ocean's surface.

Genre: History Subgenre: Military History

📘 The devil's arithmetic

Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 A history of Western architecture

"The third edition of this standard reference work has been substantially revised and expanded to take account of the latest developments in architectural history, as well as being completely redesigned.".

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Sisterhood is Powerful

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The 57 Bus

This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California. One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Enlightenment now

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Understanding movies

Annotation. Designed to help movie watchers analyze films with precision and technical sophistication, this book focuses on formalism--how the forms of the film (e.g., camera work, editing, photography, etc.) create meaning. It sheds light on how television and movies communicate, and the complex network of language systems they use.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Letters from a father to his daughter

Nehruji has described in simple language the history of civilization. It answers a child's question that where do we come from? Who were our ancestors? How the languages originated? How religion started? How kings and kingdoms came into existence? What were the early civilizations like? It is an interesting book with interesting sketches.

Genre: History Subgenre: Ancient History

📘 Drawing down the Moon

Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo-Pagan subculture.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Salt

Mark Kurlansky's books Cod & Salt are the musts for every student on food studies. Together they supply the missing link of knowledge. One or two semesters courses are recommended for beginners in cod and salt studies.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 Midnight in Chernobyl

"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 The city in history

The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. “One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century” (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.

Genre: History Subgenre: Modern History

📘 A Distant Mirror

Amazon.com Review In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague.

Genre: History Subgenre: Medieval History