Seventeen Seventy-six
David McCullough
History books
Historical events and figures
83 books in this category
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Battle Cry of Freedom
James M. McPherson
The Templars
Dan Jones
A Little History of the World
E. H. Gombrich
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
The Story of Mankind
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
Microbe hunters
Paul De Kruif
Triumph of the City
Edward L. Glaeser
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
The Crusades
Thomas Asbridge
Brighter than a thousand suns
Robert Jungk
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
Hiroshima
John Hersey
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann, Luis Murillo Fort
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen
The Half Has Never Been Told
Edward E. Baptist
The Demon Under the Microscope
Thomas Hager
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Civilisation
Kenneth Clark
A history of the world in 100 objects
Neil MacGregor, Neil MacGregor
Our Island Story
H.E. Marshall