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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,854,706 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 992,946 ratings — published 2010
Lifeboat 12 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,260 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,154,633 ratings — published 1947
Minor Detail (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,334 ratings — published 2017
Korea: A New History of South and North (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,350 ratings — published 2023
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,186 ratings — published 2023
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.19 — 805,943 ratings — published 2008
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,963 ratings — published 2018
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.88 — 123,421 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,308 ratings — published 2016
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 83,785 ratings — published 2011
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.89 — 218,729 ratings — published 2011
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,501 ratings — published 1972
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912 (Dear America)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 11,429 ratings — published 1998
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,433 ratings — published 2016
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,376 ratings — published 1997
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.72 — 43,985 ratings — published 2019
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,308 ratings — published 1994
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,019 ratings — published 1997
Finding Someplace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.86 — 541 ratings — published 2015
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,028 ratings — published 2020
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 34,646 ratings — published 2006
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,295 ratings — published 1984
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 183,440 ratings — published 2016
Women & Children First (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,492 ratings — published 2012
Baseball Saved Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,000 ratings — published 1993
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,370 ratings — published 2014
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,656 ratings — published 2007
Sylvia & Aki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,491 ratings — published 2011
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.49 — 798,333 ratings — published 2016
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,063 ratings — published 2017
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,264 ratings — published 2016
The Waiting Hours (Cliffehaven #13)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 776 ratings — published
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,192 ratings — published 2009
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,460 ratings — published 2017
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 753,625 ratings — published 2003
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,607 ratings — published 1955
The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 87,375 ratings — published 2009
Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,628 ratings — published 2011
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 160,488 ratings — published 2015
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.10 — 247,004 ratings — published 2005
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,099 ratings — published 2005
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,354,093 ratings — published 1956
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 957,341 ratings — published 2006
I Remember Beirut (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-events)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,276 ratings — published 2008
Let Time Fly (Stone Shed Book 3)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-events)
avg rating 5.00 — 8 ratings — published 2025
Memories of the Russian Court (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-events)
avg rating 3.95 — 176 ratings — published 1923
Kent State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-events)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,953 ratings — published 2020
Haunting Cries: Stories of Child Abuse from Industrial Schools (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as historical-events)
avg rating 4.15 — 62 ratings — published 2010
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