World History | 58 books
The best World History books
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Ramachandra Guha
India After Gandhi
4.4
19 min
Tamim Ansary
Destiny Disrupted
4.4
23 min
Dan Jones
Powers and Thrones
4.4
31 min
C.L.R. James
The Black Jacobins
4.4
31 min
Francis Fukuyama
Political Order and Political Decay
4.4
9 min
Ed Conway
Material World
4.5
17 min
Serhii Plokhy
The Gates of Europe
4.3
19 min
Philip Freeman
Alexander the Great
4.3
31 min
Ibn Khaldūn
The Muqaddimah
4.3
14 min
Marc Morris
The Anglo-Saxons
4.3
21 min
Adam Tooze
Crashed
4.3
31 min
Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's Ghost
4.2
15 min
Peter Frankopan
The Silk Roads
4.2
20 min
William Dalrymple
The Anarchy
4.2
25 min
Christopher Clark
The Sleepwalkers
4.2
17 min
Serhii Plokhy
Chernobyl
4.2
20 min
David Fromkin
A Peace to End All Peace
4.2
19 min
Charles C. Mann
1491
4.1
16 min
Jack Weatherford
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
4.1
11 min
Scott Anderson
Lawrence in Arabia
4.1
19 min
Steven Johnson
How We Got to Now
4.1
9 min
Henry Kissinger
World Order
4.1
18 min
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jerusalem
4.1
19 min
David Christian
Origin Story
4.1
18 min
Ian Morris
Why The West Rules – For Now
4.1
22 min
William J. Bernstein
A Splendid Exchange
4.2
22 min
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel
4
9 min
John M. Barry
The Great Influenza
4
13 min
Vaclav Smil
Energy
4.1
13 min
Camilla Townsend
Fifth Sun
4.1
14 min