Who are the best history authors?

The best-known history authors here, ranked by how widely they are read and written about, are Julius Caesar, George Washington, Marco Polo, Leon Trotsky and Jawaharlal Nehru.

What are the best history series?

Aubrey–Maturin by Patrick O'Brian, Sharpe by Bernard Cornwell, The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell and The Cadfael Chronicles by Edith Pargeter — each listed in reading order.

Can I read history books for free?

Yes. 646 history books by these authors are in the public domain in the US and free to read here.

History authors and series

The best-known history authors are Julius Caesar, George Washington and Marco Polo. Below are all 909 history writers in the directory, their best-known series in reading order, and 646 of their books free to read.

Authors: 909
Series: 29
Free to read: 646

Best-known history authors

History series in reading order

All series

Aubrey–Maturin
Patrick O'Brian · 21 books
Sharpe
Bernard Cornwell · 25 books
The Saxon Stories
Bernard Cornwell · 13 books
The Cadfael Chronicles
Edith Pargeter · 22 books
Voices of Utopia
Svetlana Alexievich · 5 books
The Warlord Chronicles
Bernard Cornwell · 3 books
O'Malley Family Saga
Bertrice Small · 6 books
The Grail Quest
Bernard Cornwell · 4 books
Great Episodes
Ann Rinaldi · 4 books
Skye's Legacy
Bertrice Small · 6 books
The Starbuck Chronicles
Bernard Cornwell · 4 books
The Border Chronicles
Bertrice Small · 6 books

Free history classics

All free classics

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries
Julius Caesar
Journal of my journey over the mountains
George Washington
Washington's Masonic Correspondence
George Washington
The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2
Marco Polo
The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Leon Trotsky
Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism)
Leon Trotsky
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Tacitus
Tacitus
Tacitus
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Stories from Thucydides
Thucydides
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
Edward Gibbon
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass

Classic history authors

All history authors

Julius Caesar 3 books
George Washington 7 books
Marco Polo 1 books
Leon Trotsky 40 books
Jawaharlal Nehru 20 books
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 1 books
Fidel Castro 15 books
Tacitus 5 books
Thucydides 1 books
Ibn Khaldun 4 books
Edward Gibbon 5 books
Tim Berners-Lee 2 books
Michelle Obama 5 books
Frederick Douglass 16 books
Pliny the Elder 1 books
Hernán Cortés 2 books
Michel Foucault 44 books
Kazuo Ishiguro 10 books
Napoleon III 3 books
Livy 1 books
Martin Van Buren 5 books
Svetlana Alexievich 7 books
Alexander Hamilton 28 books
James VI and I 11 books
Oswald Spengler 8 books
Snorri Sturluson 4 books
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 5 books
Margaret Mitchell 4 books
Bede 4 books
Polybius 1 books
Thomas Babington Macaulay 21 books
Benedetto Croce 25 books
Kate Chopin 4 books
Emmeline Pankhurst 2 books
Georgette Heyer 61 books
Jules Michelet 13 books
Samuel Pepys 1 books
Babur 1 books
Germaine de Staël 8 books
Procopius 3 books
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 35 books
Sima Qian 1 books
Lucan 1 books
Sheikh Hasina 2 books
Anna Politkovskaya 6 books
Frantz Fanon 7 books
Eric Hobsbawm 27 books
Maximilien Robespierre 0 books
Arthur Koestler 35 books
Will Durant 38 books
Liu Xiaobo 2 books
John Reed 8 books
Leopold von Ranke 11 books
Ida B. Wells 4 books
Ted Kaczynski 5 books
Eduardo Galeano 20 books
Betty Friedan 6 books
Mother Jones 1 books
William Tecumseh Sherman 3 books
Jacob Burckhardt 6 books
Marjane Satrapi 3 books
Jordanes 4 books
Alexander Berkman 6 books
Erskine Childers 10 books
Abigail Adams 1 books
Emilio Aguinaldo 2 books
Luo Guanzhong 1 books
Syngman Rhee 6 books
Amin Maalouf 14 books
Cardinal Richelieu 1 books
Mehmed II 0 books
Henry Dunant 2 books
François Guizot 8 books
Auguste Maquet 12 books
Christopher Tolkien 20 books
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 4 books
Howard Zinn 36 books
Harold Bloom 186 books
Frank Gehry 7 books
Alex Haley 17 books
Francis Parkman 17 books
Puyi 3 books
Friedrich Schlegel 2 books
Alvin Toffler 13 books
Walter Isaacson 15 books
Barbara W. Tuchman 11 books
Pierre de Coubertin 2 books
Mohammad Khatami 1 books
Thomas Piketty 9 books
Karen Armstrong 33 books
Giorgio Napolitano 0 books
Georg Ebers 23 books
György Lukács 18 books
Adolf von Harnack 17 books
Edvard Westermarck 13 books
Charles A. Beard 27 books
Jean-Paul Marat 2 books
Madeline Miller 3 books
E. H. Carr 27 books
Frederick Jackson Turner 19 books
Marquis de Condorcet 3 books
Sylvia Pankhurst 11 books
Ammianus Marcellinus 1 books
Frederick Law Olmsted 13 books
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton 4 books
John Foxe 1 books
Clara Barton 7 books
Jon Stewart 5 books
Emilio Segrè 5 books
Timothy Snyder 14 books
John Smith 5 books
Bernard Cornwell 78 books
James A. Robinson 5 books
Marc Bloch 9 books
John Knox 3 books
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Richard Jefferies 20 books
Assia Djebar 12 books
John Evelyn 5 books
William H. Prescott 7 books
Eleanor Alice Burford 154 books
Eusebius 2 books
J. F. C. Fuller 30 books
William Paley 7 books
Robert Capa 5 books
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Niall Ferguson 17 books
Juan Manuel Santos 1 books
P. V. Narasimha Rao 5 books
Phil Knight 3 books
Étienne de La Boétie 1 books
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Anne Applebaum 9 books
Karl Kautsky 12 books
John Burroughs 30 books
Eric Hoffer 11 books
Robert Fogel 7 books
Saxo Grammaticus 1 books
Peter Ackroyd 61 books
Hendrik Willem van Loon 15 books
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Adam Ferguson 9 books
Marcus Garvey 4 books
Robert Leckie 22 books
Liliʻuokalani 2 books
Hippolytus of Rome 2 books
Robert Fisk 9 books
Einhard 1 books
Mariano Azuela 2 books
Edward Augustus Freeman 21 books
A. J. P. Taylor 25 books
William Lloyd Garrison 5 books
Leon Uris 19 books
Joachim Gauck 2 books
Jean Froissart 1 books
Matilda Joslyn Gage 3 books
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon 1 books
Alexander Kerensky 5 books
Clement of Alexandria 1 books
Henry Thomas Buckle 3 books
Shashi Tharoor 21 books
Carles Puigdemont 1 books
Fredric Jameson 20 books
Dionysius of Halicarnassus 0 books
Philippa Gregory 38 books
Antony Beevor 14 books
David Irving 16 books
Terry Eagleton 43 books
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 4 books
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour 1 books
Patrick O'Brian 40 books
James Truslow Adams 15 books
Tzvetan Todorov 15 books
Nikolay Karamzin 4 books
Stephen E. Ambrose 29 books
Camille Paglia 9 books
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges 1 books
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Harry Turtledove 117 books
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David McCullough 17 books
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Ian Kershaw 14 books
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Mary Renault 16 books
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Jung Chang 6 books
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Richard Pipes 20 books
Thomas Harriot 3 books
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Edith Pargeter 69 books
Carlo Ginzburg 11 books
Carl Bernstein 7 books
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C. Northcote Parkinson 26 books
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John Keegan 35 books
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Tony Judt 13 books
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History FAQ

Who are the best history authors?: The best-known history authors here, ranked by how widely they are read and written about, are Julius Caesar, George Washington, Marco Polo, Leon Trotsky and Jawaharlal Nehru.
What are the best history series?: Aubrey–Maturin by Patrick O'Brian, Sharpe by Bernard Cornwell, The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell and The Cadfael Chronicles by Edith Pargeter — each listed in reading order.
Can I read history books for free?: Yes. 646 history books by these authors are in the public domain in the US and free to read here.

Best-known history authors

Jawaharlal Nehru

Fidel Castro

Tim Berners-Lee

Michelle Obama

Michel Foucault

Kazuo Ishiguro

Svetlana Alexievich

Georgette Heyer

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Sheikh Hasina

Anna Politkovskaya

Frantz Fanon

Eric Hobsbawm

Arthur Koestler

Will Durant

Liu Xiaobo

Ted Kaczynski

Eduardo Galeano

History series in reading order

Free history classics

Classic history authors

Julius Caesar

George Washington

Marco Polo

Leon Trotsky

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Tacitus

Thucydides

Ibn Khaldun

Edward Gibbon

Frederick Douglass

Pliny the Elder

Hernán Cortés

Napoleon III

Livy

Martin Van Buren

Alexander Hamilton

James VI and I

Oswald Spengler

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