home
books
Categories
technology
health & fitness
non-fiction
biographies & memoirs
science & nature
fiction
Featured books
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Tribe of Mentors
Tim Ferriss
Educated
Tara Westover
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When Things Fall Apart
Pema Chodron
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Tribe
Sebastian Junger
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Talent Code
Daniel Coyle
Atomic Habits
James Clear
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz
Quiet
Susan Cain
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
Educated
Tara Westover
view all categories
explore all books
people
Industries
education
media
science
entrepreneurship
writing
venture capital
Featured people
Ev Williams
Ginni Rometty
Charlamagne Tha God
Yotam Ottolenghi
David Sacks
Brian Grazer
Hugh Jackman
Roshni Nadar Malhotra
Ilhan Omar
Matt Mullenweg
Arianna Huffington
Brené Brown
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Elon Musk
Jacinda Ardern
Chelsea Handler
Josh Waitzkin
Terrance McArthur
Ben Horowitz
Larry Page
Michael Pollan
view all industries
explore all people
lists
series
top 100
blog
books
view all
all categories
arts & entertainment
biographies & memoirs
business & management
design
economics & politics
fiction
health & fitness
history
money & investing
non-fiction
philosophy
poetry
psychology
science & nature
self improvement
spirituality & religion
technology
top 100 books
view all
fiction
non-fiction
people
view all
all industries
crypto
activism
hospitality
education
photography
marketing
film
comedy
journalism
design
venture capital
technology
sport
science
politics
music
media
investing
modelling
entrepreneurship
writing
entertainment
featured
Ev Williams
Max Levchin
Michael Bierut
Sheryl Sandberg
Alain de Botton
Josh Waitzkin
Kendall Jenner
Paul Graham
Joe Rogan
Gary Vaynerchuk
Reid Hoffman
Ginni Rometty
Andrew Huberman
Brian Chesky
Noam Chomsky
Vitalik Buterin
John Doerr
Daniel Ek
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Jennifer Morgan
Mark Zuckerberg
Yuval Noah Harari
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Muna AbuSulayman
lists
curated book lists
series
book series in order
blog
the reading journal
shop
shop the goodbooks merch
missing something?
submit
instagram
facebook
twitter
hi@goodbooks.io
history
Discover the best history books recommended by the world's most successful and interesting people.
filter by category
All history books
1 people
1 people
1 person
Forgetting
Lewis Hyde
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Past From Above
Charlotte Trumpler
1 people
1 people
1 person
Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Beak of the Finch
Jonathan Weiner
1 people
1 people
1 person
Pandaemonium
Humphrey Jennings
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Presidential Biographies
David McCullough
1 people
1 people
1 person
A Literary Companion to Science
Walter Gratzer
1 people
1 people
1 person
Stalin
Oleg V. Khlevniuk
1 people
1 people
1 person
Emergence of a Free Press
Leonard W. Levy
1 people
1 people
1 person
Nicaragua
Peter Kornbluh
1 people
1 people
1 person
Thank You for Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Record of the Paper
Richard A. Falk & Howard Friel
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Book of Nothing
John D. Barrow
1 people
1 people
1 person
The American Occupation of Japan
Michael Schaller
1 people
1 people
1 person
Fight Like a Mother
Shannon Watts
1 people
1 people
1 person
Marcel Duchamp
Calvin Tomkins
1 people
1 people
1 person
Just and Unjust Wars
Michael Walzer
1 people
1 people
1 person
More Money Than God
Sebastian Mallaby
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Evolution of Everything
Matt Ridley
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Rig Veda
Wendy Doniger
1 people
1 people
1 person
Pale Rider
Laura Spinney
1 people
1 people
1 person
Why We Can’t Wait
Martin Luther King Jr.
1 people
1 people
1 person
QED and the Men Who Made It
Silvan S. Schweber
1 people
1 people
1 person
The Dialogues of Socrates
Socrates
26 / 43
Filter by category
All books
arts & entertainment
biographies & memoirs
business & management
design
economics & politics
fiction
health & fitness
history
money & investing
non-fiction
philosophy
poetry
psychology
science & nature
self improvement
spirituality & religion
technology
Featured books in history
54 people
54 people
54 person
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
14 people
14 people
14 person
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
13 people
13 people
13 person
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
11 people
11 people
11 person
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
11 people
11 people
11 person
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
10 people
10 people
10 person
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
9 people
9 people
9 person
Titan
Ron Chernow
9 people
9 people
9 person
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
9 people
9 people
9 person
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
8 people
8 people
8 person
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
8 people
8 people
8 person
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
8 people
8 people
8 person
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell
8 people
8 people
8 person
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
8 people
8 people
8 person
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
7 people
7 people
7 person
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
explore all books
Featured people
Vitalik Buterin
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Josh Waitzkin
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Bill Nye
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Marissa Mayer
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Richard Branson
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Tucker Carlson
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Sam Altman
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Emily Ratajkowski
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Joe Biden
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Girish Mathrubootham
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Whitney Cummings
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Eric Weinstein
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
explore all people
Recently added books
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
I Am the Messenger
Markus Zusak
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
Daring Greatly
Brene Brown
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Awaken the Giant Within
Tony Robbins
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
The Road Less Traveled and Beyond
M. Scott Peck
Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
When Things Fall Apart
Pema Chodron
explore all books
Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Matthew McConaughey
Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to Two Free Audiobooks
Check it out
