Genre
History & Memoir
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The Histories
Herodotus · 440 BC
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · 400 BC
Anabasis
Xenophon · 370 BC
Parallel Lives
Plutarch · 100 AD
Annals / Histories
Tacitus · 116 AD
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo · 397 AD
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
The Venerable Bede · 731 AD
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · 1776 AD
Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854 AD
The History of Rome
Theodor Mommsen · 1854 AD
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer · 1890 AD
Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger · 1920 AD
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl · 1946 AD
The Second World War (6 vols)
Winston Churchill · 1953 AD
Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955 AD
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1973 AD
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro · 1974 AD
The Years
Annie Ernaux · 2008 AD
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Ben Mezrich · 2009 AD
Secondhand Time
Svetlana Alexievich · 2013 AD
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