History Biography Book Group: 100 Books

Title Author
Jerusalem: One City Three Faiths Karen Armstrong
Islam Karen Armstrong
Holy War
A War to Be Won Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millet
An Army at Dawn Rick Atkinson
Six Armies in Normandy John Keegan
Queen Victoria Lytton Strachey
An Uncommon Man Hannah Pakula
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weatherford
1421: The Year China Discovered America Gavin Menzies
God's Chinese Son Jonathan Spence
Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now Eleanor Coppola
Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic Dan Auiler
Dead Certainties Simon Schama
Did They really Do It? Fred rosen
Murder as Morses Pond Linda Rosencrance
The Peabody Sisters Megan Marshall
Mark Twain: A Life Ron Powers
The Pyramids Miroslav Verner
Art of the Middle Ages Jenna Benton
Sacred Architecture Caroline Humphrey
Founding Brothers Joseph J. Ellis
Dearest Friend Lynne Withey
John Adams David McCullough
Lincoln at Gettysburg Garry Willis
Mary Boykin Chesnut Elizabeth Muhlenfeld
April 1865 Jay Winik
Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand
What if? 2 Robert Cowley, Ed.
Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
Voyage of the Catalpa Peter R.Stevens
Nothing Like It In The World Stephen Ambrose
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade Robert Harms
Paris, 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Margaret MacMillan
Black Mass Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neil
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World Mark Kurlansky
Boston: A Topographical  History Malter Muir Whitehill & Lawrence W. Kennedy
Theodore Rex Edmund Morris
Grant William S. McFeely
Eisenhower Geoffrey Perret
The Teammates David Halberstam
Alexander the Great and His Time Agnes Savill
Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America Ted Steinberg
Krakatoa Simmon Winchester
Noah's Flood William Ryan & Walter Pitman
Caesar Christian Meier
Charlemagne Matthias Becher
Age Of Napoleon J. Christopher Herold
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey Candce Millard
Outposts: Journeys to Surviving Relics of the British Empire Simon Winchester
Istanbul: Memories and the City Orhan Pamuk
Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire
Negro President Gary Willis
We Are Lincoln Men David Hebert Donald
Freedom From Fear David M. Kennedy
A Magnificent Catastrophe Edward Larson
John Quincy Adams Robert Remini
Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 Ray Morris, Jr.
The Classical Greeks Michael Grant
Venice, the Lion City Garry Willis
The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution Linda Monk
Salt Mark Kurlansky
The Big Oyster  Mark Kurlansky
The Worst Hard Time:  The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan
Furious Improvisation Susan Quinn
the Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression Amity Shales
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lincoln  David Donald
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman William Miller
Mayflower Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea:  The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Nathaniel Philbrick
Sea of Glory Nathaniel Philbrick
Changes in the Land William Cronon
Cape Cod Henery David Thoreau
The Great Influenza John Barry
Polio: An American Story David Oshinsky
The Great Mortality John Kelly
The Children's Blizzard David Laskin
The Johnstown Flood David McCullough
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 Stephen Puleo
The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire Peter Clarke
Armageddon Averted Stephen Kotkin
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday Alan W. Hirshfeld 
The Woman Behind the New deal Kristin Downet
The Finest Hours:  The True Story of the U.S. Coastguard Most Daring Sea Rescue Michael Tougais
The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson
Brunelleschi's Dome Ross King
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard Feynman
Poe: A Life Cut Short Peter Ackroyd
The Rise of Christianity Rodney Stark
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant U.S. Grant
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of his Theory of Evolution David Quammen
The Supreme court William H. Rehnquist
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris David McCullough
Juiced Jose Canseco