Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

1597 ★ 3.7

Guns, germs, and steel

Jared M. Diamond

1997 ★ 4.1

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

1778 ★ 3.9

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

1980 ★ 4.2

King Lear

William Shakespeare

1619 ★ 4.0

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS

David Muñoz Mateos, Robin Wall Kimmerer

2013 ★ 4.6

The Code Book

Simon Singh

1999 ★ 4.1

The story of art

E. H. Gombrich

1950 ★ 4.2

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

Александр Солженицын

2002 ★ 4.6

The making of the atomic bomb

Richard Rhodes

1986 ★ 4.3

A different mirror

Ronald Takaki

1993 ★ 3.8

A Vindication of Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

1792 ★ 3.6

Vers une architecture

Le Corbusier, Hans Hildebrandt

1923 ★ 4.7

Art Through the Ages

Helen Gardner

1936

Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault, Simon Prebble

1975 ★ 4.2

The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright

2006 ★ 4.3

The Unfinished Nation

Alan Brinkley

1993 ★ 4.5

The Wave

Todd Strasser

1991 ★ 4.3

A history of graphic design

Alston Purvi, Philip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis

1983 ★ 2.8

Fermat's Last Theorem

Simon Singh

1997 ★ 4.0

A history of western music

J. Peter Burkholder, Claude V. Palisca, Donald J. Grout et al.

1964 ★ 5.0

The Road Ahead

Bill Gates, Peter Rinearson, Nathan Myhrvold

1995 ★ 4.1

A history of Western architecture

David Watkin

1986

A people's tragedy

Orlando Figes

1996 ★ 4.0

From slavery to freedom

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr.

1947

The discovery of the unconscious

Henri F. Ellenberger

1970

America

David Emory Shi, George Brown Tindall

1984

A History of Political Theory

George Holland Sabine

1937

The city shaped

Spiro Kostof

1991

What is history?

Edward Hallet Carr

1961