home
books
Categories
technology
design
fiction
science & nature
biographies & memoirs
health & fitness
Featured books
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen
Billion Dollar Whale
Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
Principles
Ray Dalio
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
How Not to Die
Dr. Michael Greger
Start with Why
Simon Sinek
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Talent Code
Daniel Coyle
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
view all categories
explore all books
people
Industries
media
technology
writing
education
venture capital
science
Featured people
Caterina Fake
Ben Shapiro
Arianna Huffington
Joe Biden
Chris Sacca
Naval Ravikant
Jensen Huang
Sophia Amoruso
Elon Musk
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Meg Whitman
Terrance McArthur
Daniel Pink
Tom Hanks
Sadia Badiei
Kevin Rose
Coleen Baik
Michael Bierut
Jensen Huang
Whitney Cummings
view all industries
explore all people
lists
series
top 100
blog
books
view all
all categories
arts & entertainment
biographies & memoirs
business & management
design
economics & politics
fiction
health & fitness
history
money & investing
non-fiction
philosophy
poetry
psychology
science & nature
self improvement
spirituality & religion
technology
top 100 books
view all
fiction
non-fiction
people
view all
all industries
crypto
activism
hospitality
education
photography
marketing
film
comedy
journalism
design
venture capital
technology
sport
science
politics
music
media
investing
modelling
entrepreneurship
writing
entertainment
featured
Yotam Ottolenghi
Daniel Pink
Chris Sacca
Joe Biden
Joe Rogan
Ray Dalio
Mike Maples, Jr.
Christopher Hitchens
Caterina Fake
Janet Mock
Samin Nosrat
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Eric Weinstein
Steven Pressfield
Kate Beckinsale
Mary Meeker
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Diana Kimball
Harry Styles
Zoë Foster Blake
Mike Shinoda
Jensen Huang
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Simon Sinek
lists
curated book lists
series
book series in order
blog
the reading journal
shop
shop the goodbooks merch
missing something?
submit
instagram
facebook
twitter
hi@goodbooks.io
history
Discover the best history books recommended by the world's most successful and interesting people.
filter by category
All history books
1 people
1 people
1 person
Changes in the Land
William Cronon
1 people
1 people
1 person
What is Real
Adam Becker
1 people
1 people
1 person
On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tsé-Tung
1 people
1 people
1 person
Conquerors
Roger Crowley
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Girl in the Picture
Denise Chong
1 people
1 people
1 person
Colossus
Jack Beatty
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Long Summer
Brian Fagan
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Village
Bing West
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Harmless People
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Jungle Grows Back
Robert Kagan
1 people
1 people
1 person
Wooden Leg
Wooden Leg
1 people
1 people
1 person
Call Sign Chaos
General Mattis
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Voice That Is Great Within Us
Hayden Carruth
1 people
1 people
1 person
McMafia
Misha Glenny
1 people
1 people
1 person
Lenin's Tomb
David Remnick
1 people
1 people
1 person
Al-Qaeda
Jason Burke
1 people
1 people
1 person
Bobby Kennedy
Larry Tye
1 people
1 people
1 person
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields
1 people
1 people
1 person
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel
1 people
1 people
1 person
Have Gun Will Travel
Ronin Ro
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Big Change
Frederick Lewis Allen & Guy Foster
1 people
1 people
1 person
My Years with General Motors
Alfred Sloan
1 people
1 people
1 person
More Letters of Note
Shaun Usher
1 people
1 people
1 person
A Prayer for the City
Buzz Bissinger
40 / 43
Filter by category
All books
arts & entertainment
biographies & memoirs
business & management
design
economics & politics
fiction
health & fitness
history
money & investing
non-fiction
philosophy
poetry
psychology
science & nature
self improvement
spirituality & religion
technology
Featured books in history
54 people
54 people
54 person
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
14 people
14 people
14 person
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
13 people
13 people
13 person
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
11 people
11 people
11 person
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
11 people
11 people
11 person
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
10 people
10 people
10 person
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
9 people
9 people
9 person
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
9 people
9 people
9 person
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
9 people
9 people
9 person
Titan
Ron Chernow
8 people
8 people
8 person
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
8 people
8 people
8 person
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
8 people
8 people
8 person
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell
8 people
8 people
8 person
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
8 people
8 people
8 person
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
7 people
7 people
7 person
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
explore all books
Featured people
Mike Shinoda
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Dustin Moskovitz
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Zoë Foster Blake
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Mike Maples, Jr.
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Jordan Peterson
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Travis Kalanick
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Malcolm Gladwell
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Greg McKeown
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Tim Cook
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Kate Beckinsale
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Ryan Hoover
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Reed Hastings
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
explore all people
Recently added books
Too Dumb to Fail
Matt K. Lewis
Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously
David Green
The Last Olympian
Rick Riordan
The Titan's Curse
Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Rick Riordan
It Starts With Us
Colleen Hoover
Roman and Jewel
Dana L. Davis
Book Lovers
Emily Henry
The Japanese Lover
Isabel Allende
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
The Frangipani Hotel
Violet Kupersmith
The Case Against Satan
Ray Russell
explore all books
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
Walter Isaacson
Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to Two Free Audiobooks
Check it out