History books
History books on in prose, ranked by community signal — 26 titles across the catalogue.
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker
Annie Gray
2024
The Penguin Book of Pirates
Katherine Howe
2024
The Pirate's Wife
Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
2024
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
2023
Unruly
David Mitchell
2023
Cuba: An American History
Ada Ferrer
2022
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
2022
The Motorcycle Diaries
Ernesto Che Guevara
2021
Zonal Marking
Michael Cox
2020
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
2019
Cuba Libre!
Tony Perrottet
2019
Ocean of Sound
David Toop
2018
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches
Brian MacArthur
2017
Mythos
Stephen Fry
2017
Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Charles Johnson
2017
A History of the Cuban Revolution
Aviva Chomsky
2015
Angels With Dirty Faces
Jonathan Wilson
2015
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
2015
Empress Dowager Cixi
Jung Chang
2014
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
2011
The Adventure of English
Melvyn Bragg
2011
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
2005
Moneyball
Michael Lewis
2004
Hiroshima
John Hersey
1986
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna Politics and Culture
Carl E. Schorske
1980
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
1975
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