50 most popular books of the historical non-fiction genre
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- The Second World War by Winston Churchill
- The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
- The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
- The History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The History of the World by Andrew Marr
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- John Adams by David McCullough
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- The Double Helix by James D. Watson
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
- Orientalism by Edward W. Said
- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard
- A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
