History Books in English
Browse 20 history books in English to learn English with tap-to-translate in the Clue app. Reading in a single genre is one of the fastest ways to expand vocabulary.
20 books in History
A General History of the Pirates
Captain Charles Johnson
Advanced (C1–C2)
Commentaries on the Gallic War
Julius Caesar
Advanced (C1–C2)
Disenchantment
C. E. Montague
Advanced (C1–C2)
Histories
Herodotus
Advanced (C1–C2)
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Advanced (C1–C2)
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Legends of Vancouver
E. Pauline Johnson
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Midwinter
John Buchan
Intermediate (B1–B2)
My Disillusionment in Russia
Emma Goldman
Advanced (C1–C2)
Now It Can Be Told
Philip Gibbs
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Red Dusk and the Morrow
Paul Dukes
Intermediate (B1–B2)
Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The American Crisis
Thomas Paine
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Bolshevik Myth
Alexander Berkman
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laërtius
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Lives of the Caesars
Suetonius
Advanced (C1–C2)
The Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
Intermediate (B1–B2)
The Secret History
Procopius
Advanced (C1–C2)
Tombstone
Walter Noble Burns
Intermediate (B1–B2)Learning English with books — FAQ
Which file formats does Clue support?
EPUB, PDF, and plain text (.txt). Drop them in from iCloud Drive, Files, or any other source.
Can I read books I bought on the Kindle Store?
Not directly — Amazon DRM prevents this. But you can read DRM-free EPUBs from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, Tor, and many independent publishers.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Once a book is in your library, reading and dictionary lookups all work offline. You only need internet to download new books.
How big is the dictionary?
27,000 English headwords with translations into each supported native language. That covers the vast majority of words you'll meet in modern fiction and journalism.
Is there a Kindle integration?
No. Clue's reader is self-contained. The trade-off is that everything works offline and we control the typography and tap experience end-to-end.