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#103
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914
  • Barbara W. Tuchman
31 read
#104
The Swerve
The Swerve
  • Stephen Greenblatt
3.6418 reads
#105
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
  • Tracy Borman
3.673 reads
#106
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
  • Susan Wise Bauer
4.1720 reads
#107
Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future
Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future
  • Ian Morris
3.719 reads
#108
Clash of Crowns: William the Conqueror, Richard Lionheart, and Eleanor of Aquitaine―A Story of Bloodshed, Betrayal, and Revenge
Clash of Crowns: William the Conqueror, Richard Lionheart, and Eleanor of Aquitaine―A Story of Bloodshed, Betrayal, and Revenge
  • Mary McAuliffe
31 read
#109
Europe
Europe
  • Norman Davies
4.4215 reads
#110
The Isles: A History
The Isles: A History
  • Norman Davies
4.25 reads
#111
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The Maid and the Queen

The Maid and the Queen
  • Nancy Goldstone
01 read
#112
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The Wilder Life

The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
  • Wendy McClure
43 reads
#113
An Edible History of Humanity
An Edible History of Humanity
  • Tom Standage
3.298 reads
#114
The Story of English in 100 Words
The Story of English in 100 Words
  • David Crystal
3.255 reads
#115
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Becoming Queen Victoria

Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
  • Kate Williams
3.52 reads
#116
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
  • Kate Summerscale
3.26 reads
#117
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.719 reads
#118
The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory
The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory
  • Michael S. Malone
00 reads
#119
The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories
The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories
  • Edward Hollis
41 read
#120
Leonardo and the Last Supper
Leonardo and the Last Supper
  • Ross King
3.754 reads
#121
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
  • Diarmaid MacCulloch
3.719 reads
#122
Foundation: The History of England Volume I
Foundation: The History of England Volume I
  • Peter Ackroyd
3.7314 reads
#123
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
  • Charles R. Morris
21 read
#124
Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
  • Matt Kaplan
2.833 reads
#125
Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
  • John Freely
01 read
#126
Mankind
Mankind
  • Pamela D. Toler
00 reads
#127
The First Thousand Years
The First Thousand Years
  • Robert Louis Wilken
00 reads
#128
Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough
Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough
  • John J. Ross
31 read
#129
Ad Infinitum
Ad Infinitum
  • Nicholas Ostler
00 reads
#130
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Blood Will Tell

Blood Will Tell: A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII
  • Kyra Cornelius Kramer
00 reads
#131
Mad science
Mad science
  • Randy Alfred
00 reads
#132
To marry an English Lord
To marry an English Lord
  • Gail MacColl
  • Carol Wallace
3.58 reads
#133
Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants
Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants
  • Alison Maloney
3.52 reads
#134
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What’s in a Word?

What’s in a Word?
  • Webb Garrison
31 read
#135
The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century
The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century
  • Paul Collins
00 reads
#136
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
  • Hugh Brewster
3.53 reads
#137
Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
  • Daniel Allen Butler
42 reads
#138
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
  • Simon Garfield
3.2515 reads
#139
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
  • Neil Shubin
3.755 reads
#140
Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome
Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome
  • Rita J. Markel
41 read
#141
Bogus Science: Or, Some People Really Believe These Things
Bogus Science: Or, Some People Really Believe These Things
  • John Grant
21 read
#142
Panati's extraordinary origins of everyday things.
Panati's extraordinary origins of everyday things.
  • Charles Panati
3.334 reads
#143
Angels and Ages: Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age
Angels and Ages: Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age
  • Adam Gopnik
21 read
#144
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
  • Sarah Gristwood
31 read
#145
Holy bones, holy dust
Holy bones, holy dust
  • Charles Freeman
00 reads
#146
The Creation of Anne Boleyn
The Creation of Anne Boleyn
  • Susan Bordo
3.336 reads
#147
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
  • Marlene Zuk
3.439 reads
#148
The Year Without Summer
The Year Without Summer
  • William K. Klingaman
  • Nicholas P. Klingaman
31 read
#149
Holy Sh*t
Holy Sh*t
  • Melissa Mohr
45 reads
#150
The Lady and Her Monsters
The Lady and Her Monsters
  • Roseanne Montillo
2.754 reads
#151
The Real Jane Austen : A Life in Small Things
The Real Jane Austen : A Life in Small Things
  • Paula Byrne
3.85 reads
#152
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
  • Tom Standage
  • Ρούλα Κοκκολιού (Translator)
3.5838 reads
#153
The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy
The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy
  • Leonie Frieda
31 read
#154
Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat
Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat
  • Bee Wilson
3.52 reads
#155
And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Time of Jesus
And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Time of Jesus
  • Selina O'Grady
32 reads
#156
Who Was Dracula?
Who Was Dracula?
  • Jim Steinmeyer
32 reads
#157
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The Children of Henry VIII

The Children of Henry VIII
  • John Guy
21 read
#158
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
  • Susan P. Mattern
00 reads
#159
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The Tragedy of the Templars

The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
  • Michael Haag
33 reads
#160
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
  • Ian Mortimer
3.510 reads
#161
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
  • Reza Aslan
3.9191 reads
#162
The twelve caesars
The twelve caesars
  • Matthew Dennison
00 reads
#163
How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
  • Nigel Spivey
31 read
#164
Jane Austen's England
Jane Austen's England
  • Roy A. Adkins
  • Lesley Adkins
3.56 reads
#165
The History of the Renaissance World
The History of the Renaissance World
  • Susan Wise Bauer
56 reads
#166
Shakespeare's Restless World
Shakespeare's Restless World
  • Neil MacGregor
52 reads
#167
Heretics and Heroes
Heretics and Heroes
  • Thomas Cahill
31 read
#168
History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
  • Brad Meltzer
  • Keith Ferrell
3.46 reads
#169
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
  • Matthew Goodman
31 read
#170
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Between Man and Beast

Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
  • Monte Reel
00 reads
#171
Tudors
Tudors
  • Peter Ackroyd
00 reads
#172
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
  • Richard Kurin
00 reads
#173
The Infographic History of the World
The Infographic History of the World
  • Valentina D'Efilippo
  • James Ball
3.52 reads
#174
Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years
  • Tom Standage
3.333 reads
#175
Servants
Servants
  • Lucy Lethbridge
3.673 reads
#176
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
  • Alison Weir
37 reads
#177
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story
  • Dimitra Papagianni
  • Michael A. Morse
3.55 reads
#178
A History of the World in 12 Maps
A History of the World in 12 Maps
  • Jerry Brotton
3.333 reads
#179
America The Story of Us: An Illustrated History
America The Story of Us: An Illustrated History
  • Kevin Baker
41 read
#180
A Short History of Christianity
A Short History of Christianity
  • Geoffrey Blainey
21 read
#181
The World of Downton Abbey
The World of Downton Abbey
  • Jessica Fellowes
3.52 reads
#182
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
  • Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
3.4717 reads
#183
The chronicles of Downton Abbey
The chronicles of Downton Abbey
  • Jessica Fellowes
  • Matthew Sturgis
3.54 reads
#184
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
  • Fiona Carnarvon
3.9111 reads
#185
A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects
  • Neil MacGregor
4.2919 reads
#186
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I
  • Richard Ned Lebow
00 reads
#187
Holy Holidays!: The Catholic Origins of Celebration
Holy Holidays!: The Catholic Origins of Celebration
  • Greg Tobin
41 read
#188
This Saint's for You!: 300 Heavenly Allies Who Will Change Your Life
This Saint's for You!: 300 Heavenly Allies Who Will Change Your Life
  • Thomas J. Craughwell
41 read
#189
The Etymologicon
The Etymologicon
  • Mark Forsyth
3.8528 reads
#190
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family
  • Susan Higginbotham
31 read
#191
Terry Jones' Barbarians
Terry Jones' Barbarians
  • Terry Jones
  • Alan Ereira
3.333 reads
#192
Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
  • Mark Forsyth
31 read
#193
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
  • Anna Whitelock
00 reads
#194
The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
  • Chris Skidmore
00 reads
#195
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
  • Terry Jones
  • Alan Ereira
3.673 reads
#196
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors
  • Edward Hollis
31 read
#197
Star Wars and History
Star Wars and History
    00 reads
    #198
    Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family
    Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family
    • Leanda de Lisle
    31 read
    #199
    Gods of Olympus a History
    Gods of Olympus a History
    • Barbara Graziosi
    00 reads
    #200
    THE PANDA'S THUMB: More Refelctions in Natural History
    THE PANDA'S THUMB: More Refelctions in Natural History
    • Stephen Jay Gould
    41 read
    #201
    Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
    Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
    • Stephen Jay Gould
    41 read
    #202
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    The Last White Rose

    The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason. The Secret Wars against the Tudors
    • Desmond Seward
    00 reads