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List of the most famous, notable, or top history books and novels, with jacket cover images. This list is a perfect starting point for your history reading list, and should answer the question "What are the top history books?". Note that some items on this list might be currently out of print. You can purchase most of these titles on Amazon with just one click. List is alphabetical and you can sort by any column. Examples of items on this list include No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II and Giacobbe. You can use this list to create a new list, re-rank it to fit your opinion, then share it with your Twitter followers, Facebook friends or with any other social networks you use on a regular basis.

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Order   Name Author First Published Genre Subjects Original Language
  1. 1
    Gavin Menzies
    2002-11-04
    History
    China, Geography, Travel, Exploration
    English Language
  2. 2
    Charles C. Mann
    2005
    History
    History, Ecology, Antiquities
  3. 3

    173 Hours In Captivity

    History
  4. 4

    1876

    Gore Vidal
    1976
    History, Novel
    United States of America, History
    English Language
  5. 5
    Chris Bucholtz
    History, Aviation
    Tuskegee Airmen
  6. 6
    Kunio Yanagita
    History, Non-fiction
    Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Military history
    Japanese Language
  7. 7
    Neil Sheehan
    1988
    History, Non-fiction
    Vietnam War
  8. 8

    A Child's History of England

    Charles Dickens
    History
    English Language
  9. 9

    A Court on Horseback

    Michael G. Chang
    2007-05-01
    History
    English Language
  10. 10

    A Cup of Coffee

    History
  11. 11

    A Division of the Spoils

    Paul Scott
    1975-05-05
    History, Novel
    English Language
  12. 12

    A Dying Colonialism

    History
  13. 13

    A History of Christianity

    Paul Johnson
    History
    Christianity
  14. 14
    Karen Armstrong
    1993
    History, Philosophy, Inspirational
    History, Religion, God, Comparative religion
  15. 15

    A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century

    J. W. Burrow, John Burrow
    2008-04
    History, Non-fiction
    History
  16. 16

    A History of Knowledge

    Charles Van Doren
    Monograph
    Cultural history
    English Language
  17. 17

    A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present

    Henry Allen Bullock
    History
  18. 18

    A History of Philosophy

    History, Non-fiction
  19. 19
    Winston Churchill
    History
    History, British Cuisine, Politics, Government, World
  20. 20

    A Kingdom of Dreams

    Judith McNaught
    1989-03-01
    History, Novel, Fiction, Romance novel
    English Language
  21. 21

    A Night to Remember

    Walter Lord
    1955-12
    History
    English Language
  22. 22
    David Fromkin
    History
    History, Middle East, World
    English Language
  23. 23
    Howard Zinn
    History, Non-fiction
    United States of America, Foreign relations of the United States, Politics of the United States More
    English Language
  24. 24

    A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music

    George Lewis
    2008
    History
  25. 25
    Upton Sinclair, Jr.
    1947
    History
    English Language

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