The most popular history books of 2023

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history books published in 2023, most popular first.

Walden and Other Writings (The Norton Library)

Henry David Thoreau

Published 2023

416 pages

Stamped from the Beginning A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram Kendi

Published 2023

288 pages

The Cloisters A Novel

Katy Hays

Published 2023

336 pages

Shirley

Charlotte Bront�

Published 2023

528 pages

Up from Slavery (The Norton Library)

Booker T. Washington

Published 2023

224 pages

Crooked Plow: A Novel (Verso Fiction)

Published 2023

288 pages

Burmese Days

George Orwell

Published 2023

352 pages

Fear and Trembling A New Translation

Søren Kierkegaard

Published 2023

208 pages

Portrait of a Thief A Novel

Grace D. Li

Published 2023

416 pages

Hedda Gabler; a Drama in Four Acts. Translated From the Norwegian by Edmund Gosse

Henrik Ibsen

Published 2023

246 pages

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (100th Anniversary Edition)

A. Conan Doyle

Published 2023

266 pages

Dante's Divine Comedy The Purgatorio

Dante Alighieri

Published 2023

400 pages

We Were Dreamers An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

Simu Liu

Published 2023

304 pages

All the Beauty in the World The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Patrick Bringley

Published 2023

240 pages

Jo's Boys

Louisa May Alcott

Published 2023

Shakespeare's Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

Published 2023

294 pages

Me and White Supremacy Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

Layla Saad

Published 2023

256 pages

The Uninhabitable Earth (Adapted for Young Adults) Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells

Published 2023

176 pages

The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity

David Graeber, David Wengrow

Published 2023

720 pages

Five Children and It (Plays for Young People)

Carl Sandburg

Published 2023

104 pages

Imitation of Christ (The Essential Wisdom Library)

Thomas à Kempis

Published 2023

336 pages

Herland

Charlotte Gilman

Published 2023

198 pages

Papyrus

Irene Vallejo, Irene Vallejo Moreu

Published 2023

Main Street Fully Annotated Edition with Over 400 Notes

Sinclair Lewis

Published 2023

341 pages

Walden and Other Writings (The Norton Library)

Stamped from the Beginning A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America

The Cloisters A Novel

Shirley

Up from Slavery (The Norton Library)

Crooked Plow: A Novel (Verso Fiction)

Burmese Days

Fear and Trembling A New Translation

Portrait of a Thief A Novel

Hedda Gabler; a Drama in Four Acts. Translated From the Norwegian by Edmund Gosse

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (100th Anniversary Edition)

Dante's Divine Comedy The Purgatorio

We Were Dreamers An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

All the Beauty in the World The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Jo's Boys

Shakespeare's Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra

Me and White Supremacy Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

The Uninhabitable Earth (Adapted for Young Adults) Life After Warming

The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity

Five Children and It (Plays for Young People)

Imitation of Christ (The Essential Wisdom Library)

Herland

Papyrus

Main Street Fully Annotated Edition with Over 400 Notes

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