Need some ideas for your next read? Look no further. Below is a list of my favorite books that everyone will love. If you don’t love them? Well, the internet is a risky place. Things happen.
North American and South American History:
Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
The Angola Horror – Charity Vogel
The Apache Wars – Paul Andrew Hutton
As If an Enemy’s Country – Richard Archer
Astoria – Peter Stark
The Best Land Under Heaven – Michael Wallis
The Big Burn – Timothy Egan
Brilliant Beacons – Eric Jay Dolin
The Children’s Blizzard – David Laskin
City of Scoundrels – Gary Krist
Close to Shore – Michael Capuzzo
Coming Back Alive – Spike Walker
Commander Will Cushing – Jamie Malanowski
Conquistador – Buddy Levy
The Cruelest Miles – Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
Curse of the Narrows – Laura MacDonald
Destiny of the Republic – Candice Millard
Duel with the Devil – Paul Collins
Empire of Pain – Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Sin – Gary Krist
The Finest Hours – Michael Tougias, Casey Sherman
Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink
Grant – Ron Chernow
Grant and Sherman – Charles Bracelen Flood
The Immortals – Steven T. Collis
The Impeachers – Brenda Wineapple
The Island at the Center of the World – Russel Shorto
The Johnstown Flood – David McCullough
Jungle of Stone – William Carlsen
A Land So Strange – Andre Resendez
The Last Stand – Nathaniel Philbrick
The Lost City of Z – David Grann
Lucky 666 – Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
The Man Who Caught the Storm – Brantley Hargrove
Mayflower – Nathaniel Philbrick
Midnight Rising – Tony Horwitz
The Mirage Factory – Gary Krist
Morning of Fire – Scott Ridley
A Most Wicked Conspiracy – Paul Starobin
The Radium Girls – Kate Moore
Rainy Lake House – Theodore Catton
River of Darkness – Buddy Levy
River of Doubt – Candice Millard
Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson
A Shot in the Moonlight – Ben Montgomery
The Storm on Our Shores – Mark Obmascik
Sudden Sea – R.A. Scotti
The Swamp Fox – John Oller
The Taking of Jemima Boone – Matthew Pearl
Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Terrible Hours – Peter Maas
Terror to the Wicked – Tobey Pearl
Tories – Thomas B. Allen
Under a Flaming Sky – Daniel Brown
The Unknowns – Patrick K. O’Donnell
Unshackling America – Willard Sterne Randall
Voyage of Mercy – Stephen Puleo
Washington – Ron Chernow
The White Cascade – Gary Krist
White Hurricane – David Geren Brown
Without Precedent – Joel Richard Paul
The Woman They Could Not Silence – Kate Moore
The Wreck of the Carl D. – Michael Schumacher
Arctic/Antarctic History:
Endurance – Alfred Lansing
Fatal North – Bruce Henderson
The Ice Master – Jennifer Niven
In the Kingdom of Ice – Hampton Sides
Island of the Blue Foxes – Stephen R. Brown
Labyrinth of Ice – Buddy Levy
Madhouse at the End of the Earth – Julian Sancton
A Wretched and Precarious Situation – David Welky
European History:
Alfred the Great – Justin Pollard
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber – Julian Rubinstein
The Black Prince – Michael Jones
Catherine of Aragon – Giles Tremlett
Checkmate in Berlin – Giles Milton
Code Name: Lise – Larry Loftis
The Escape Artists – Neal Bascomb
Faster – Neal Bascomb
The Greatest Knight – Thomas Aabridge
Hunting Eichmann – Neal Bascomb
Isabella – Kristin Downey
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War – Lynne Olson
Napoleon – Andrew Roberts
Operation Thunderbolt – Saul David
Romantic Outlaws – Charlotte Gordon
Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keefe
Six Days in August – David King
The Tigress of Forli – Elizabeth Lev
Tunnel 29 – Helena Merriman
The Volunteer – Jack Fairweather
The White Horse King – Benjamin Merkle
The Winter Fortress – Neal Bascomb
African History:
Hero of the Empire – Candice Millard
King Leopold’s Ghost – Adam Hochschild
Rorke’s Drift – Neil Thornton
Skeletons on the Zahara – Dean King
Australian/Oceanic/Maritime History:
Batavia’s Graveyard – Mike Dash
The Bounty – Caroline Alexander
In the Heart of the Sea – Nathaniel Philbrick
Island of the Lost – Joan Druett
Last Man Off – Matt Lewis
A Night to Remember – Walter Lord
The Republic of Pirates – Colin Woodard
Under the Black Flag – David Cordingly
Asian/Russian History:
Catherine the Great – Robert Massie
Dead Mountain – Donnie Eichar
In Order to Live – Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers
Mightnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham
Peter the Great – Robert Massie
Rampage – James M. Scott
Target Tokyo – James M. Scott
True Crime:
American Predator – Maureen Callahan
Bad Blood – John Carreyrou
Black Klansman – Ron Stallworth
Blood Royal – Eric Jager
Catch and Kill – Ronan Farrow
Columbine – Dave Cullen
The Five – Hallie Rubenhold
The Girl on the Velvet Swing – Simon Baatz
The Good Nurse – Charles Graeber
Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society – Victoria Bruce, William Oldfield
The Killer of Little Shephards – Douglas Starr
Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann
The Lady in the Cellar – Sinclair McKay
The Midnight Assassin – Skip Hollandsworth
The Road to Jonestown – Jeff Guinn
The Spy and the Traitor – Ben Macintyre
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