Top books on r/AskHistorians

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Embracing Defeat

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Agincourt: The King; the Campaign; the Battle

Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

A Medieval Life

The Wars of the Roses

The First World War

The Inheritance of Rome

Command and Control

Reconstruction

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

Why the West Rules--for Now

Ordinary Men

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

Death Traps

Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century

TheFall of Carthage The Punic Wars 265-146BC by Goldsworthy,...

Genghis Khan

Six Frigates

The Sword and the Shield

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Japan at War: An Oral History