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