# History books Source: https://inprose.co.uk/browse/genre/history - Facet: genre - Value: History - Books on in prose: 26 ## Top books - [The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker (2024)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9781800812260) by Annie Gray - [The Penguin Book of Pirates (2024)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780143137511) by Katherine Howe - [The Pirate's Wife (2024)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9781335018281) by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos - [The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (2023)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780385534260) by David Grann - [Unruly (2023)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780593728482) by David Mitchell - [Cuba: An American History (2022)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9781501154560) by Ada Ferrer - [Hidden Figures (2022)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780008555375) by Margot Lee Shetterly - [The Motorcycle Diaries (2021)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780241465103) by Ernesto Che Guevara - [Zonal Marking (2020)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780008291174) by Michael Cox - [The Fifth Risk (2019)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780141991429) by Michael Lewis - [Cuba Libre! (2019)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780735218161) by Tony Perrottet - [Ocean of Sound (2018)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9781788160308) by David Toop - [The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches (2017)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780241982396) by Brian MacArthur - [Mythos (2017)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780718188726) by Stephen Fry - [Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (2017)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9781472830487) by Charles Johnson - [A History of the Cuban Revolution (2015)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9781118942284) by Aviva Chomsky - [Angels With Dirty Faces (2015)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9781409150411) by Jonathan Wilson - [Sapiens (2015)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780062316103) by Yuval Noah Harari - [Empress Dowager Cixi (2014)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780099532392) by Jung Chang - [Steve Jobs (2011)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9781451648553) by Walter Isaacson - [The Adventure of English (2011)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9781628720242) by Melvyn Bragg - [Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (2005)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780007204496) by Hunter S. Thompson - [Moneyball (2004)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780393324815) by Michael Lewis - [Hiroshima (1986)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780140093827) by John Hersey - [Fin-De-Siecle Vienna Politics and Culture (1980)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780394744780) by Carl E. Schorske - [The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1975)](https://inprose.co.uk/book/9780394720241) by Robert A. Caro