While it's difficult to definitively rank the top 100 history books as opinions on the subject can vary, here is a list of widely acclaimed history books across different time periods and themes:

"A History of the World in 100 Objects" by Neil MacGregor

"Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond

"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

"The Guns of August" by Barbara W. Tuchman

"The Histories" by Herodotus

"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon

"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer

"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

"The Penguin History of the World" by J.M. Roberts

"The Origins of the Second World War" by A.J.P. Taylor

"The Civil War: A Narrative" by Shelby Foote

"A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn

"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes

"The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America" by Erik Larson

"The Silk Roads: A New History of the World" by Peter Frankopan

"The Reformation: A History" by Diarmaid MacCulloch

"The Spanish Civil War" by Hugh Thomas

"The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991" by Eric Hobsbawm

"A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century" by Barbara W. Tuchman

"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson

"The Great War and Modern Memory" by Paul Fussell

"The Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides

"The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough

"The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land" by Thomas Asbridge

"A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918" by G.J. Meyer

"The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England" by Dan Jones

"The American Civil War: A Military History" by John Keegan

"The French Revolution: A History" by Thomas Carlyle

"1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. Mann

"The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution" by Francis Fukuyama

Please note that this list represents a selection of highly regarded history books but is by no means exhaustive. The preferences and interests of readers may vary, and there are numerous other excellent history books available covering a wide range of topics and periods.

"The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350" by Robert Bartlett

"The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt" by Toby Wilkinson

"The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt

"The Cold War: A New History" by John Lewis Gaddis

"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England" by Marc Morris

"The Fall of Constantinople 1453" by Steven Runciman

"A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II" by Gerhard L. Weinberg

"The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt

"The Spanish Armada" by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker

"The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914" by Christopher Clark

"The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350" by John Aberth

"The Peloponnesian War" by Donald Kagan

"The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848" by Eric Hobsbawm

"The Story of Civilization" by Will Durant and Ariel Durant

"The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914" by Richard J. Evans

"The Russian Revolution" by Sheila Fitzpatrick

"The Crusades: The Essential Readings" edited by Thomas F. Madden

"The Oxford History of Byzantium" edited by Cyril Mango

"The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East" by Eugene Rogan

"The Age of Capital: 1848-1875" by Eric Hobsbawm

"The Silk Road: A New History" by Valerie Hansen