History

First-hand accounts and analyses of civilizations, wars, and world events.

Good-bye to all thatRobert Graves

★3.5

BiographyFiction

Life on the MississippiMark Twain

★3.9

BiographyEssays

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1Edward Gibbon

★4.0

Political ScienceHistory

The Innocents AbroadMark Twain

★3.8

EssaysHumor & Satire

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African / Written By HimselfOlaudah Equiano

★3.7

BiographyFiction

GorgiasPlato

★4.5

FictionHistory

Two Years Before the MastRichard Henry Dana

★3.0

AdventureBiography

On the Nature of ThingsTitus Lucretius Carus

★4.0

PoetryHistory

On WarCarl von Clausewitz

★4.0

FictionHistorical Fiction

The LawFrédéric Bastiat

★4.3

Political SciencePhilosophy

Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and CivilizationLewis Mumford

★3.9

FictionHistory

My Bondage and My FreedomFrederick Douglass

★4.4

BiographyHistory

History of the Plague in LondonDaniel Defoe

★3.5

FictionHistorical Fiction

St. Francis of AssisiG. K. Chesterton

★4.0

BiographyHistory

Gilbert Keith ChestertonPatrick Braybrooke

★4.0

BiographyHistory

CritoPlato

★4.2

EssaysFiction

The Carmina of Caius Valerius CatullusGaius Valerius Catullus

★4.1

FictionHistory

PhaedrusPlato

★4.3

FictionHistory

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917Ernest Henry Shackleton

★4.2

BiographyHistory

Sailing Alone Around the WorldJoshua Slocum

★4.2

BiographyHistory

The Golden HouseCharles Dudley Warner

★3.7

EssaysFiction

How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern ScienceEugene Lyman Fisk Irving Fisher

★4.0

BiographyEssays

How to live: A manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine islandsAdeline Knapp

★4.0

BiographyEssays

The Narrative of Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Olive Gilbert

★4.1

FictionBiography