Goodreads Choice - History & Biography

America's history: a sugarcoated legend written by white men. Now, acclaimed columnist Michael Harriot delivers a searingly smart and hilariously Black AF corrective. Unapologetically provocative and ...

Beyond the confines of race and class lies a powerful, unspoken force shaping America: caste. In this groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson unveils the insidious hierarch...

From the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy comes a gripping, little-known true story: the first assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln.

We all know the tragedy of 1865, but four years e...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” ( Vox ) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections betwe...

As the bombs fell and the world teetered on the brink, one man stood defiant. Erik Larson, the master of historical narrative, plunges us into the heart of London during the Blitz, alongside Winston C...

The #1 New York Times bestseller and the crowning achievement of Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy, The Guns at Last Light delivers a gripping narrative of the Allied triumph in Europe during Wor...

In this ambitious single-volume history, award-winning historian Jill Lepore delivers a magisterial account of America's origins and its ever-evolving, often contradictory story. These Truths embark...

In the shadow of the Roaring Twenties, a uniquely American evil took root. While flappers danced to jazz, the Ku Klux Klan rose to terrifying power not in the Old Confederacy, but in the Heartland and...

In the depths of the Great Depression, nine working-class boys from the American West embarked on an improbable quest for Olympic gold. The Boys in the Boat tells the inspiring true story of the Uni...

Discover the unsettling genius of Shirley Jackson, the literary sorceress behind chilling masterpieces like "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. Ruth Franklin’s award-winning biography, *Sh...

In the shadow of World War I, a new element promised a bright future. Radium, hailed as a miracle cure and beauty enhancer, illuminated the lives of hundreds of young women who painted watch dials in ...

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her Belfast home, her children left clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. In a city silenced by fear, everyone knew the ...

In the treacherous landscape of the Cold War, Kim Philby, a British intelligence officer, rose to the pinnacle of MI6, all while secretly serving as a double agent for the Soviet Union. Ben Macintyre ...

From a minor German noble to one of history's most powerful women, Catherine the Great's story is a sweeping saga of ambition, passion, and transformation. In this masterful biography, Pulitzer Prize-...

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson comes the explosive first volume of his American Revolution trilogy, The British Are Coming. This deeply researched and vividly told narrative plunge...