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A People's History of the United States (Paperback) book cover

A People's History of the United States (Paperback)

4.07 of 253,629

The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback) book cover

The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)

4.09 of 2,442,687

1776 (Paperback) book cover

1776 (Paperback)

by David McCullough

4.06 of 208,506

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover) book cover

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover)

by Laura Hillenbrand

4.41 of 675,679

John Adams (Paperback) book cover

John Adams (Paperback)

by David McCullough

4.05 of 331,885

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback) book cover

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.29 of 212,182

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback) book cover

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)

4.17 of 339,991

Night (Paperback) book cover

Night (Paperback)

4.28 of 851,133

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback) book cover

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)

by Charles C. Mann

4.00 of 104,197

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback) book cover

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)

by William L. Shirer

4.12 of 144,038

The Guns of August (Paperback) book cover

The Guns of August (Paperback)

by Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18 of 75,557

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback) book cover

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)

by Simon Winchester

3.84 of 151,725

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover) book cover

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)

by Rebecca Skloot

4.02 of 575,502

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback) book cover

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)

by Barbara W. Tuchman

4.11 of 47,126

The Histories (Paperback) book cover

The Histories (Paperback)

3.94 of 65,090

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback) book cover

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)

by Stephen E. Ambrose

4.42 of 97,138

Salt: A World History (Paperback) book cover

Salt: A World History (Paperback)

by Mark Kurlansky

3.72 of 115,247

At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover) book cover

At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)

3.95 of 96,962

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