Best books in History
The daily bread of the catalog's most curious thinkers. Patrick Collison, Barack Obama and Noam Chomsky dominate this category, and the titles they chose reveal that understanding the present always starts with understanding what came before.
A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson
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Bull!
Maggie Mahar
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
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With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa
E. B. Sledge
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How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
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Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
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Dealers of Lightning
Michael A. Hiltzik
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
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Debt, Tenth Anniversary Edition
David Graeber
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Parting the waters
Taylor Branch
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
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Gone with the wind
Margaret Mitchell
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
Nancy Forbes
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Great expectations
Charles Dickens
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Hard Landing
Thomas Petzinger Jr.
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Heartland
Sarah Smarsh
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Ordinary men
Christopher R. Browning
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Empire of the Summer Moon
S. C. Gwynne
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In the Plex
Steven Levy
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Lights Out
Thomas Gryta
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Lone Survivor
Patrick Robinson
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Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
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Longitude
Dava Sobel
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
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