#1
Setting: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
AI #1
Sweep9/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action9/10Epic finish8/10
AI vs Readers
Top books: History
AI scores each book across five 10-point criteria. Readers vote on the same scale, so the algorithmic and reader rankings can sit side by side.
Genres
Rankings by category
AI
Top 100
AI-rated books: 64. Reader-ranked books: 0.
#2
Setting: Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherlands
AI #2
Sweep8/10Adventure9/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish9/10
#3
Setting: Constantinople / Istanbul, Turkey
AI #3
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#4
Setting: Ten Boom House, Haarlem, Netherlands
AI #4
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#5
Setting: Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands
AI #5
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#6
Setting: Twickenham, London, England
AI #6
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#7
Setting: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France
AI #7
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#8
Setting: Galveston, Texas
AI #8
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#9
Setting: Wall Street, New York City, New York
AI #9
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#10
Setting: Elephant Island, Antarctica
AI #10
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#11
Setting: Donner Pass, Sierra Nevada, California
AI #11
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#12
Setting: Manchester Arena, Manchester, England
AI #12
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#13
Setting: Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois
AI #13
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#14
Setting: Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
AI #14
Sweep7/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#15
Setting: Columbia, South Carolina
AI #15
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#16
I Will Hold: The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates From Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War
7.8/10Setting: Belleau Wood, France
AI #16
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#17
Setting: Wounded Knee, South Dakota
AI #17
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#18
Setting: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
AI #18
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#19
Setting: Osage County, Oklahoma
AI #19
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#20
Setting: Marietta, Ohio
AI #20
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#21
Setting: Abbottabad, Pakistan
AI #21
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#22
Setting: Moscow, Russia
AI #22
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#23
Setting: London, England
AI #23
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#24
Setting: Cape Canaveral, Florida
AI #24
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#25
Setting: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
AI #25
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#26
Setting: Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana
AI #26
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#27
Disney's Land
7.6/10Setting: Disneyland, Anaheim, California
AI #27
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#28
Setting: Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
AI #28
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#29
Setting: Savannah, Georgia
AI #29
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#30
Setting: Minneapolis, Minnesota
AI #30
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#31
Setting: Kennedy Space Center, Florida
AI #31
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#32
Setting: Lexington, Massachusetts
AI #32
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#33
Setting: Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii
AI #33
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#34
Setting: Soundview, Bronx, New York City
AI #34
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#35
Setting: Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
AI #35
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#36
Setting: Packington Estate, London, England
AI #36
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#37
Setting: Jeu de Paume Museum, Paris, France
AI #37
Sweep7/10Adventure8/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#38
Setting: Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina
AI #38
Sweep8/10Adventure8/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#39
Setting: Belfast, Northern Ireland
AI #39
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#40
The Library Book
7.6/10Setting: Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California
AI #40
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#41
Setting: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Pripyat, Ukraine
AI #41
Sweep7/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#42
Setting: Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
AI #42
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#43
Setting: Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
AI #43
Sweep7/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#44
Setting: Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.
AI #44
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#45
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
7.4/10Setting: Los Alamos, New Mexico
AI #45
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#46
Setting: Titanic wreck site, North Atlantic Ocean
AI #46
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#47
Setting: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim, Poland
AI #47
Sweep7/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish8/10
#48
In Cold Blood
7.4/10Setting: Holcomb, Kansas
AI #48
Sweep7/10Adventure7/10Period detail8/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#49
Setting: Kontum Province, Vietnam
AI #49
Sweep7/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
#50
Setting: San Francisco, California
AI #50
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#51
Setting: Havana, Cuba
AI #51
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#52
Setting: Pinnacle, Jamaica
AI #52
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#53
Setting: Nanjing, China
AI #53
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#54
Setting: Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington, D.C.
AI #54
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#55
Setting: Money, Mississippi
AI #55
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#56
Setting: Nuremberg, Germany
AI #56
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#57
Setting: Lake Superior
AI #57
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#58
Setting: Grand Canyon, Arizona
AI #58
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#59
Setting: Berlin, Germany
AI #59
Sweep7/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#60
Thunderstruck
7.2/10Setting: London, England
AI #60
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#61
Setting: London, England
AI #61
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#62
Setting: Hiroshima, Japan
AI #62
Sweep7/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish8/10
#63
Setting: Los Angeles, California
AI #63
Sweep8/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action7/10Epic finish7/10
#64
Setting: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim, Poland
AI #64
Sweep7/10Adventure7/10Period detail7/10Hero in action8/10Epic finish7/10
Criteria
History
Scale of the story, journey, period, or conflict.
Momentum and sense of movement.
Credibility of era, places, and details.
Whether decisions and actions carry the story.
A close that feels worthy of a large story.