The Gulag Archipelago
1973★ 8.9
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
1776★ 8.8
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
1962★ 8.3
History of the Peloponnesian War
431 BC★ 8.2
Hiroshima
1946★ 8.0
The Making of the English Working Class
1963★ 7.9
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1987★ 7.9
Battle Cry of Freedom
1988★ 7.9
Discipline and Punish
1975★ 7.8
Postwar
2005★ 7.6
The Annals
117★ 7.6
The Histories
440 BC★ 7.5
Records of the Grand Historian
94 BC★ 7.5
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
731★ 7.3
Henry V
1599★ 7.3
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
1860★ 7.3
The Conquest of New Spain
1568★ 7.3
Henry IV, Part One
1597★ 7.2
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
1919★ 7.2
The Story of Art
1950★ 7.2
The History of Rome
25 BC★ 7.2
The Twelve Caesars
121★ 7.2
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
100★ 7.1
The Gallic War
50 BC★ 7.1
Hope Against Hope
1970★ 7.1
Eminent Victorians
1918★ 7.0
Black Reconstruction in America
1935★ 7.0
The Black Jacobins
1938★ 7.0
The Best and the Brightest
1972★ 7.0
Henry IV, Part Two
1599★ 7.0
A History of the Crusades
1951★ 6.9
The French Revolution
1837★ 6.9
Parting the Waters
1988★ 6.9
The Face of Battle
1976★ 6.9
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution
1856★ 6.8
The Cheese and the Worms
1976★ 6.8
American Slavery, American Freedom
1975★ 6.8
A Distant Mirror
1978★ 6.8
Julius Caesar
1599★ 6.8
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
1970★ 6.8
Richard III
1592★ 6.8
Embracing Defeat
1999★ 6.7
The Secret History
550★ 6.7
Guns, Germs and Steel
1997★ 6.7
1491
2005★ 6.7
The Sleepwalkers
2012★ 6.7
The Burden of Southern History
1960★ 6.7
SPQR
2015★ 6.7
The Muqaddimah
1377★ 6.7
The Travels
1355★ 6.7
The Discoverers
1983★ 6.6
The Age of Revolution
1962★ 6.6
History of Sexuality, Volume 1
1976★ 6.6
The Age of Extremes
1994★ 6.5
The American Political Tradition
1948★ 6.5
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1960★ 6.5
A Stillness at Appomattox
1953★ 6.5
Citizens
1989★ 6.4
Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
1989★ 6.4
History of the Franks
594★ 6.4