Bestsellers in History

1. 1.

   65 days in the top 100

   

   Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

2. 2.

   93 days in the top 100

   

   The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

3. 3.

   4 days in the top 100

   

   Road to Valour: A True Story of World War II Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation

4. 4.

   119 days in the top 100

   

   Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
5. 5.

   19 days in the top 100

   

   Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
6. 6.

   45 days in the top 100

   

   Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins
7. 7.

   318 days in the top 100

   

   Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
8. 8.

   24 days in the top 100

   

   Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
9. 9.

   62 days in the top 100

   

   In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
10. 10.

    300 days in the top 100

    

    Civilization: The West and the Rest
11. 11.

    36 days in the top 100

    

    Redcoated Ploughboys: The Volunteer Battalion of Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada, 1813-1815
12. 12.

    12 days in the top 100

    

    Kenya
13. 13.

    5 days in the top 100

    

    The Amateur
14. 14.

    1010 days in the top 100

    

    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
15. 15.

    177 days in the top 100

    

    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
16. 16.

    335 days in the top 100

    

    Man's Search for Meaning
17. 17.

    3 days in the top 100

    

    The Illustrated History of World WarTwo: An authoritative and detailed account of the military and political events of the second world war, with over 350 photographs and maps
18. 18.

    206 days in the top 100

    

    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
19. 19.

    58 days in the top 100

    

    The Great War and Modern Memory
20. 20.

    1624 days in the top 100

    

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