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The top 50 History books on Amazon — with recorded rankings, chart movement, and tracking history. Check the snapshot date to see when these books were collected.

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History — 2026-11-0150 booksAvg 4.61★579,270 total reviewsLatest collected snapshot

Movement compared with 2026-10-31

CoverRankMoveBookRatingReviewsShare

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The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic

Malcolm Gladwell

34 days tracked · +1 this week

4.6789 reviews

2New

New

Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life

Jay Stratton

4.5847 reviews

3–

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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

34 days tracked · +2 this week

4.7101,081 reviews

The Book. The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization | Inspirational Science Books for Adults - Unique Artifact - Knowledge Encyclopedia with Detailed & Catchy Illustrations

HUNGRY MINDS

29 days tracked · +34 this week

4.63,050 reviews

5New

New

History of the World Map by Map (DK History Map by Map)

4.88,663 reviews

Uniting the States: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle – Six Founders Who Shaped America's Revolutionary Democracy

Brian Kilmeade

21 days tracked · peak #2 · −3 this week

4.899 reviews

Swan Song: Diana, my sister

Charles Spencer

34 days tracked · peak #1 · −1 this week

4.52,243 reviews

Unelected

Jennica Pounds

24 days tracked · peak #5 · +6 this week

5164 reviews

48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

34 days tracked · peak #6 · +2 this week

4.790,616 reviews

102

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Jocko Willink

34 days tracked · peak #4

4.739,557 reviews

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The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World

Nathaniel Philbrick

28 days tracked · peak #4 · +12 this week

4.3122 reviews

126

The Stones Cry Out: Biblical Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Last Days

Dinesh D'Souza

24 days tracked · peak #6

4.640 reviews

13–

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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

John U. Bacon

34 days tracked · peak #11

4.73,095 reviews

142

Night

Elie Wiesel

34 days tracked · peak #6 · +2 this week

4.723,876 reviews

153

Balloons Over Broadway: An Inspiring True Story About Parade Balloons for Children (Ages 4–8)

Melissa Sweet

6 days tracked

4.82,256 reviews

1610

The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

William Strauss

34 days tracked

4.56,212 reviews

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The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East

Simon Sebag Montefiore

34 days tracked · peak #7

4.7290 reviews

18New

New

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

Buzz Bissinger

4.31,303 reviews

19–

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Secrets: A Reporter's Memoir

Bob Woodward

6 days tracked · peak #3

—— reviews

206

Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy

Ben Macintyre

34 days tracked · peak #11

4.6397 reviews

211

One Man In: The Explosive Firsthand Account of the Lone Special-Ops Commando Who Fought Off a Major Terrorist Attack in Kenya

Christian Craighead

34 days tracked · peak #3 · −1 this week

4.8670 reviews

222

A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II

Lucas Delattre

2 days tracked · peak #20

4.3796 reviews

2312

The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement

Victor Davis Hanson

34 days tracked · peak #8 · +7 this week

4.8526 reviews

245

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

34 days tracked · peak #11

4.717,644 reviews

253

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

32 days tracked · peak #8 · −1 this week

4.6133,992 reviews

263

The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women

Rosalie Gilbert

10 days tracked · peak #12 · −4 this week

4657 reviews

276

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer

4 days tracked · peak #21

4.711,393 reviews

283

America's Golden Age: Trumpism and an Era of Limitless Possibilities

Newt Gingrich

13 days tracked · peak #1 · −24 this week

4.653 reviews

298

No Ordinary Dog: My Partner from the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden Raid

Will Chesney

4 days tracked

4.84,340 reviews

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

34 days tracked · peak #21 · +2 this week

4.443,258 reviews

315

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro

3 days tracked

4.7— reviews

32New

New

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

34 days tracked · peak #10 · +1 this week

4.827,687 reviews

33–

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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

Andrew Ross Sorkin

34 days tracked · peak #18 · +1 this week

4.611,878 reviews

3419

The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

Ross King

3 days tracked · peak #15

4.6880 reviews

35New

New

Tidal Wave: The Pilots, the Princess, and the Enemy Ace - A True Story of Courage and Survival in WWII

Adam Makos

4.84,608 reviews

3612

This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark

Craig Fehrman

4 days tracked · peak #14

4.5507 reviews

3713

The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women's Magic

Lindsey Stewart

27 days tracked · peak #25

4.8222 reviews

386

MeatEater's American History: The Alaskans (1896-1941)

Steven Rinella

13 days tracked · peak #10 · −20 this week

52 reviews

392

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

34 days tracked · peak #22

4.34,640 reviews

405

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

34 days tracked · peak #34 · +4 this week

4.6— reviews

41New

New

A Grief Observed

C. S. Lewis

20 days tracked · peak #40

4.63,831 reviews

42–

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Ethel Kennedy: The Extraordinary Life and Bold Legacy

Kerry Kennedy

22 days tracked · peak #7 · −6 this week

4.670 reviews

433

Confronting America: What Has to Change (Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series)

Bill O'Reilly

34 days tracked · peak #19 · +3 this week

4.5214 reviews

44New

New

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, & Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

31 days tracked · peak #10 · −23 this week

4.613,374 reviews

456

Art of Seduction: An Indispensible Primer on the Ultimate Form of Power

Robert Greene

34 days tracked · peak #33 · −4 this week

4.7— reviews

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

22 days tracked · peak #10

4.613,001 reviews

473

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson

33 days tracked · peak #32 · −4 this week

4.3— reviews

481

American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump

Kai Bird

34 days tracked · peak #13

4.6214 reviews

496

A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World

Robin Wigglesworth

33 days tracked · peak #15

4.757 reviews

50New

New

Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History

Benjamin Moser

4.456 reviews

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