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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: History (26 books)

The best classic books from the History genre.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

5.0 (1)

When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night.

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A People's History of the United States

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

5.0 (2)

Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat.

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The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer

4.0 (3)

Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.

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If This Is a Man and The Truce

If This Is a Man and The Truce

Primo Levi

4.0 (3)

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The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

5.0 (1)

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Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That

Robert Graves

5.0 (2)

As a proof of my readiness to accept autobiographical conventions, let me at once record my two earliest memories.

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

Mao Tse-Tung

3.0 (2)

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Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth

Vera Brittain

5.0 (1)

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

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The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

4.0 (2)

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