home
books
Categories
biographies & memoirs
health & fitness
design
business & management
non-fiction
technology
Featured books
Good to Great
Jim Collins
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
Sex at Dawn
Christopher Ryan
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Irresistible
Adam Alter
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Balaji Srinivasan
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
Super Pumped
Mike Isaac
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
On the Shortness of Life
Lucius Seneca
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
view all categories
explore all books
people
Industries
media
technology
writing
entrepreneurship
science
venture capital
Featured people
Vinod Khosla
Meg Whitman
Anthony Pompliano
Joe Biden
Mike Shinoda
Esther Dyson
Drew Houston
Walter Isaacson
Gwynne Shotwell
Malcolm Gladwell
Emily Ratajkowski
Emma Chamberlain
Harry Styles
Zoë Foster Blake
Tim Ferriss
Stephen Dubner
Jennifer Morgan
Packy McCormick
Kobe Bryant
Kate Beckinsale
Charlamagne Tha God
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
Pedro Pascal
Max Levchin
Jocko Willink
Jason Fried
Sam Altman
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Mark Zuckerberg
Evan Spiegel
Joe Gebbia
Marc Andreessen
Mike Maples, Jr.
Chris Dixon
Steven Pinker
Richard Branson
Vinod Khosla
Stephen Dubner
Lex Fridman
Alain de Botton
Dustin Moskovitz
Brad Feld
Emily Ratajkowski
Janet Mock
Christopher Hitchens
Elon Musk
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
The Voice That Is Great Within Us
Hayden Carruth
1 people
1 people
1 person
Call Sign Chaos
General Mattis
1 people
1 people
1 person
Wooden Leg
Wooden Leg
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Jungle Grows Back
Robert Kagan
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Harmless People
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Village
Bing West
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Long Summer
Brian Fagan
1 people
1 people
1 person
Colossus
Jack Beatty
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Girl in the Picture
Denise Chong
1 people
1 people
1 person
Conquerors
Roger Crowley
1 people
1 people
1 person
On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tsé-Tung
1 people
1 people
1 person
What is Real
Adam Becker
1 people
1 people
1 person
Changes in the Land
William Cronon
1 people
1 people
1 person
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Ben Shapiro
1 people
1 people
1 person
A Cultural History of Physics
Károly Simonyi
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1 people
1 people
1 person
Give War a Chance
P.J. O'Rourke
1 people
1 people
1 person
The House of Morgan
Ron Chernow
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Gutenberg Revolution
John Man
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
Norman Russell
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Causes of War
Geoffrey Blainey
1 people
1 people
1 person
House of Glass
Hadley Freeman
1 people
1 people
1 person
A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3
Mircea Eliade
1 people
1 people
1 person
One of Us
Alice Domurat Dreger
11 / 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
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
11 people
11 people
11 person
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
10 people
10 people
10 person
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
9 people
9 people
9 person
Titan
Ron Chernow
9 people
9 people
9 person
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
9 people
9 people
9 person
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
8 people
8 people
8 person
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
8 people
8 people
8 person
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
8 people
8 people
8 person
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell
8 people
8 people
8 person
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
8 people
8 people
8 person
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
7 people
7 people
7 person
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
explore all books
Featured people
Ryan Holiday
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Ray Dalio
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Vinod Khosla
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Oprah Winfrey
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Cynthia Johnson
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Maria Popova
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Jenny Kleeman
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Anthony Pompliano
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Chris Anderson
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Larry Page
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Simon Sinek
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Emma Watson
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
The War of Worldviews: Choosing Connection in a Culture of Separation
Jamie Winship
The Currency of Heaven: How to Trust God for More Than Enough
Taylor A. Welch
Fireline: Rediscover Your Purpose In the Crossroads Of Life
Collin Quigley
Money and the Prosperous Soul: Tipping the Scales of Favor and Blessing
Stephen De Silva
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
I Am the Messenger
Markus Zusak
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
Daring Greatly
Brene Brown
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Awaken the Giant Within
Tony Robbins
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
explore all books
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
Ryan Holiday
Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to Two Free Audiobooks
Check it out
