Good History/Nonfiction Books

Any recommendations on nonfiction/history? I like nonfiction that reads like a novel -- strong voice, at least reasonably not dense. I really liked Jonathan Harr, Mark Steel, and John Carlin, but I couldn't stand David McCullough, not because he's a bad writer but because of the citations. They just disturbed my reading too much for me to like his work. So please, no in-text citations.

tl;dr: What is /book/'s favorite nonfiction and history?

pun - n.  A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

So basically a pun is a play on a word with two different meanings, or two similar sounding words. In this case the operative word is anonymous, and it means the exact same thing in both references. >>13 Was suggesting that our anonymous person is the same anonymous person who wrote the Alice book. Since anonymous is an adjective and not a noun this is quite stupid in the first place, and still not a pun. Remember, anonymous is not a noun, and you might understand.