HISTORY BEST SELLERS, JUNE 2023

Rank

1

The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot To Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. [HC] Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. Flatiron Books. 2023. ISBN 9781250777263. $29.99.

2

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom. [HC] Ilyon Woo. Simon & Schuster. 2023. ISBN 9781501191053. $29.99.

3

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot To Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. [HC] Timothy Egan. Viking. 2023. ISBN 9780735225268. $30.

4

Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past. [HC] Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer. Basic Books. 2023. ISBN 9781541601390. $32.

5

The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom. [HC] Larry Loftis. William Morrow. 2023. ISBN 9780063234581. $32.99.

6

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction. [HC] Lynne Olson. Random House. 2023. ISBN 9780525509479. $32.

7

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk.[HC] Buddy Levy. St. Martin’s Press. 2022. ISBN 9781250274441. $29.99.

8

In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives To Save Jews During the Holocaust. [HC] Richard Hurowitz. Harper. 2023. ISBN 9780063037236. $28.99.

9

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz To Warn the World. [HC] Jonathan Freedland. Harper Collins. 2022. ISBN 9780063112339. $28.99.

10

The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America. [HC] H. W. Brands. Doubleday. 2022. ISBN 9780385547284. $32.50.

11

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets. [HC] Matthew Connelly. Pantheon. 2023. ISBN 9781101871577. $32.50.

12

Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance. [HC] Alvin Hall. HarperOne. 2023. ISBN 9780063271968. $29.99.

13

Follow Me to Hell: McNelly’s Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice. [HC] Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s Press. 2023. ISBN 9781250214553. $29.99.

14

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe. [HC] Caroline Dodds Pennock. Knopf. 2023. ISBN 9781524749262. $32.50.

15

Saying It Loud: 1966―The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement. [HC] Mark Whitaker. Simon & Schuster. 2023. ISBN 9781982114121. $29.99.

16

The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd. [HC] Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos. Hanover Square Press. 2022. ISBN 9781335429841. $27.99.

17

Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created. [HC] Nick Tabor. St. Martin’s Press. 2023. ISBN 9781250766540. $29.99.

18

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues. [HC] Jonathan Kennedy. Crown. 2023. ISBN 9780593240472. $30.

19

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge; From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic. [HC] Simon Winchester. Harper. 2023. ISBN 9780063142886. $35.

20

The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It. [HC] Nina Siegal. Ecco. 2023. ISBN 9780063070653. $32.50.