European History
Empires, revolutions, and the ideas that shaped Western civilization
Featured Books
Handpicked European History summaries our editors recommend.
Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
Yusra Mardini
From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph. Pan MacMillan, 2018
Rebecca Rupp
Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Neil Price
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
New Arrivals
Latest additions on European History
David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Lydia Kang
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Mark Miodownik
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Tom Vanderbilt
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Tania Gergel
The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.
Mark Pendergrast
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
David Goldblatt
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Kassia St. Clair
The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.
Adam Higginbotham
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
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Top-rated books on European History
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Lisa Mosconi
A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Costas Lapavitsas
Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.
Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
John David Turner
A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Carlo Rovelli
The Journey to Quantum Gravity. Penguin, 2016.
Rebecca Rupp
Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
Stephen Cavalier
The World History of Animation. Quarto Publishing, 2011.
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Viktor Emil Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.
Walter Isaacson
His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Yusra Mardini
From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph. Pan MacMillan, 2018
Rebecca Rupp
Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Neil Price
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
Costas Lapavitsas
Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.
Adam Tooze
How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. Viking, 2018.
Andrew Roberts
Napoleon the Great. Penguin Books, 2014.
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