History

Books about the real past, from single events and figures to the sweep of whole eras and civilisations.

History books shared by readers across our community.

Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian
3.5
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
3.0
Alec Guinness : The Authorized Biography
Piers Paul Read
Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay
George Ewart Evans
Blue at the Mizzen
Patrick O'Brian
Desolation Island
Patrick O'Brian
H.M.S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian
Post Captain
Patrick O'Brian
Regeneration
Pat Barker
The Commodore
Patrick O'Brian
The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
David Kirkpatrick
The Far Side of the World
Patrick O'Brian
The Fortune of War
Patrick O'Brian
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
The Ionian Mission
Patrick O'Brian
The Letter of Marque
Patrick O'Brian
The Mauritius Command
Patrick O'Brian
The Republic
Plato
The Surgeon's Mate
Patrick O'Brian
The Thirteen-Gun Salute
Patrick O'Brian
The Yellow Admiral
Patrick O'Brian
Treason's Harbour
Patrick O'Brian
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
A Good Clean Fight
Derek Robinson
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Anne of Green Gables
Kathleen Olmstead
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Damned Good Show
Derek Robinson
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Peter Biskind
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
Alec Guinness
Oliver Twist (Great Illustrated Classics )
Marian Leighton
Piece of Cake
Derek Robinson
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
Put Out More Flags
Evelyn Waugh
Rose Cottage (15) (Rediscovered Classics)
Mary Stewart
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally
The Far Side Gallery 3
Gary Larson
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
The Sword of Honour Trilogy
Evelyn Waugh
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Tracy Borman
A Spell of Winter
Helen Dunmore
Five Decembers
James Kestrel
Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Larry’s Party
Carol Shields
May We Be Forgiven
A. M. Homes
Offshore
Penelope Fitzgerald
Rites of Passage
William Golding
Staying On
Paul Scott
The Dragon Waiting
John M. Ford
The Janissary Tree
Jason Goodwin
The Moon and the Sun
Vonda N. McIntyre
The Siege of Krishnapur
J. G. Farrell
Thomas the Rhymer
Ellen Kushner
When I Lived in Modern Times
Linda Grant