History Book Summaries

The Barefoot Lawyer Summary
The Barefoot Lawyer
A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China
by Chen Guangcheng 2013 352 pages
4.28
436 ratings
China
Memoir
Biography
Down and Out in Paris and London Summary
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell 1933 213 pages
4.09
96.1K ratings
Classics
Memoir
Biography
Europe Summary
Europe
The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present
by Brendan Simms 2013 720 pages
3.95
743 ratings
History
European History
Politics
On Fascism Summary
On Fascism
by Matthew C. Macwilliams 2020 208 pages
3.96
604 ratings
History
Politics
Race
Universal Man Summary
Universal Man
The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
by Richard Davenport-Hines 2015 432 pages
3.69
202 ratings
Biography
Economics
History
The Great Wall Summary
The Great Wall
China Against the World, 1000 BC - AD 2000
by Julia Lovell 1981 432 pages
3.47
326 ratings
History
China
Asia
Securing Democracy Summary
Securing Democracy
My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Brazil
by Glenn Greenwald 2021 280 pages
4.31
142 ratings
Politics
History
Brazil
Tory Nation Summary
Tory Nation
How one party took over
by Samuel Earle 2023
4.19
63 ratings
Politics
History
Classical Music for Dummies Summary
Classical Music for Dummies
by David Pogue 1997 356 pages
3.94
629 ratings
Music
Reference
Classical Music
The Shadow of the Great Game Summary
The Shadow of the Great Game
The Untold Story of India's Partition
by Narendra Singh Sarila 2006 320 pages
4.15
281 ratings
History
India
Politics
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst Summary
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
by Daniel Reingold 2006 368 pages
3.87
1.1K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Old Rage Summary
Old Rage
by Sheila Hancock 2022 272 pages
4.08
911 ratings
Memoir
Autobiography
Book Club
Flesh and Stone Summary
Flesh and Stone
The Body and the City in Western Civilization
by Richard Sennett 1996 432 pages
4.29
520 ratings
History
Architecture
Sociology
Blackbeard Summary
Blackbeard
America's Most Notorious Pirate
by Angus Konstam 2006 336 pages
3.53
415 ratings
History
Pirates
Biography
The Quakers Summary
The Quakers
A Very Short Introduction
by Pink Dandelion 2008 142 pages
3.68
355 ratings
Religion
History
Christianity
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies Summary
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies
The Real West
by David Fisher 2015 304 pages
3.97
5.9K ratings
History
Westerns
Biography
Life in Code Summary
Life in Code
A Personal History of Technology
by Ellen Ullman 2017 320 pages
3.97
1.3K ratings
Memoir
Technology
Science
Anti-Tech Revolution Summary
Anti-Tech Revolution
Why and How
by Theodore John Kaczynski 2016 268 pages
3.92
585 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Technology
Socialism Betrayed Summary
Socialism Betrayed
Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union
by Roger Keeran 2004 230 pages
4.39
455 ratings
History
Politics
Russia
The Dope Summary
The Dope
The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
by Benjamin T. Smith 2021 464 pages
4.03
1.0K ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
A History of Bangladesh Summary
A History of Bangladesh
by Willem van Schendel 2009 374 pages
4.21
234 ratings
History
Bangladesh
Asia
Big Fellow, Long Fellow Summary
Big Fellow, Long Fellow
A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera
by T. Ryle Dwyer 1998 256 pages
4.23
120 ratings
Ireland
History
Biography
Sons of Wichita Summary
Sons of Wichita
How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
by Daniel Schulman 2014 432 pages
3.85
2.2K ratings
Biography
Politics
Business
Scotland Summary
Scotland
A Very Short Introduction
by Rab Houston 2008 172 pages
3.26
121 ratings
History
Scotland
British Literature
Exposure Summary
Exposure
Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
by Robert Bilott 2019 400 pages
4.50
2.1K ratings
Science
History
Environment
Against the Grain Summary
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott 2017 312 pages
4.13
4.5K ratings
History
Anthropology
Politics
The Unprotected Class Summary
The Unprotected Class
How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
by Jeremy Carl 2024 400 pages
4.32
130 ratings
Politics
History
Race
Shout, Sister, Shout! Summary
Shout, Sister, Shout!
The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
by Gayle Wald 2007 264 pages
4.04
327 ratings
Music
Biography
History
Master Slave Husband Wife Summary
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
by Ilyon Woo 2023 416 pages
3.98
16.9K ratings
History
Biography
Book Club
Ancient Greece Summary
Ancient Greece
From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
by Thomas R. Martin 1992 254 pages
3.99
2.4K ratings
History
Ancient History
Greece
What Is Real? Summary
What Is Real?
The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
by Adam Becker 2018 384 pages
4.28
3.5K ratings
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Supernatural Summary
Supernatural
Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
by Graham Hancock 2005 480 pages
4.23
3.3K ratings
History
Spirituality
Religion
Beyond the Occult Summary
Beyond the Occult
by Colin Wilson 1989 381 pages
3.92
260 ratings
Occult
Paranormal
Philosophy
Financial Literacy Summary
Financial Literacy
Finding Your Way in the Financial Markets
by Connel Fullenkamp 2003 24 pages
4.01
249 ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Cooking for Kings Summary
Cooking for Kings
The Life of Antonin Carême, the First Celebrity Chef
by Ian Kelly 2003 288 pages
3.74
277 ratings
Biography
Food
History
None Dare Call It Conspiracy Summary
None Dare Call It Conspiracy
by Gary Allen 1971 141 pages
4.04
2.0K ratings
Politics
History
Conspiracy Theories
American Kompromat Summary
American Kompromat
How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
by Craig Unger 2021 368 pages
3.91
932 ratings
Politics
History
Espionage
Judaism Summary
Judaism
A Very Short Introduction
by Norman Solomon 1996 135 pages
3.35
939 ratings
Religion
Judaism
History
That First Season Summary
That First Season
How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
by John Eisenberg 2009 292 pages
4.18
682 ratings
Sports
Football
Biography
Confidence Man Summary
Confidence Man
The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
by Maggie Haberman 2022 597 pages
4.09
10.2K ratings
Politics
Biography
History
The Democracy Project Summary
The Democracy Project
A History, a Crisis, a Movement
by David Graeber 2013 352 pages
4.09
1.7K ratings
Politics
History
Anthropology
Caffeinated Summary
Caffeinated
How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us
by Murray Carpenter 2014 288 pages
3.59
1.1K ratings
Science
Health
Food
Targeted Summary
Targeted
The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
by Brittany Kaiser 2019 400 pages
3.57
1.1K ratings
Politics
Technology
Memoir
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy Summary
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
by Michael Baxandall 1972 200 pages
3.96
3.0K ratings
Art
Art History
History
Lost Scriptures Summary
Lost Scriptures
Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament
by Bart D. Ehrman 2003 352 pages
4.00
2.4K ratings
Religion
History
Christianity
Physics and Philosophy Summary
Physics and Philosophy
The Revolution in Modern Science
by Werner Heisenberg 1958 176 pages
4.03
3.0K ratings
Science
Philosophy
Physics
A Criminal History of Mankind Summary
A Criminal History of Mankind
by Colin Wilson 1985 815 pages
3.90
763 ratings
History
Psychology
True Crime
Hall of Mirrors Summary
Hall of Mirrors
The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses - and Misuses - of History
by Barry Eichengreen 2014 520 pages
4.01
285 ratings
Economics
History
Finance
Invaders and Infidels Summary
Invaders and Infidels
From Sindh to Delhi: The 500-Year Journey of Islamic Invasions
by Sandeep Balakrishna 2020 224 pages
4.39
268 ratings
History
India
Religion
White Malice Summary
White Malice
The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
by Susan Williams 2021 651 pages
4.18
723 ratings
History
Africa
Politics
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