Hi readers –
Below you will find the list of books I read over the last 10 years. I was trying to find best books about major historic topics or personalities.
I hope that people looking for good history/biography books will find inspirations in it…
***Business***
– Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
– The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles
– Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
– House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
– The Warburgs by Ron Chernow
– The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould by Edward Renehan
– The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw
***Politics***
– Lords of finance by Liaquant Ahamed
– The Marshall Plan by Benn Stiel
– Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
– John Adams by David McCullough
– Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
– Truman by David McCullough
– Grant by Ron Chernow
– Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
– The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
– Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
– Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
– Theodore Roosevelt (3 volumes) biography by Edmund Morris
– Lyndon Johnson bio (4 volumes) by Robert Caro
– Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Holliday
– Deng Xiaoping by Ezra Vogel
– The Battle of Bretton Woods by Benn Stiel
– Andrew Jackson by HW Brands
– Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
***Russian History***
– Nicholas and Alexandra: The Tragic, Compelling Story of the Last Tsar and his Family by Robert K. Massie
– Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
– Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
– A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
***History***
– Caesar: The Life Of A Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
– Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
– The Fall Of The West: The Death Of The Roman Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy
– The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge
– Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
– The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle
– The Second World War (6 Volumes) by Churchill Winston
– The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
– The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones
– Powers and thrones by Dan Jones
– Shogun by AL Sadler
***Other***
– 1776 by David McCullough
– The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
– The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
– Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
– The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
– Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
– Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
– Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin
– Mr B by Jennifer Homans (bio of G Balanchine)
– The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
***Mediocre***
– FDR by Jean Edward Smith
– Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
– Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
– Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
– Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
– Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
– An American Life: The Autobiography by Ronald Reagan
– The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
– The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
– The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home by Denise Kiernan
– The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
– The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
– Astor by Anderson Cooper
– Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper
by JohnyMne12on1c