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#404
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
  • David Reich
4.54 reads
#405
The Royal Art of Poison
The Royal Art of Poison
  • Eleanor Herman
413 reads
#406
Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World
Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World
  • Julio MacLennan
31 read
#407
24 Hours in Ancient Rome
24 Hours in Ancient Rome
  • Philip Matyszak
4.1310 reads
#408
Atlas of Empires: The World's Great Powers from Ancient Times to Today (CompanionHouse Books) Comprehensive Resource of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations through History with Illustrations and Maps
Atlas of Empires: The World's Great Powers from Ancient Times to Today (CompanionHouse Books) Comprehensive Resource of the Rise and Fall of Civilizations through History with Illustrations and Maps
  • Peter Davidson
41 read
#409
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
  • Stacy Horn
31 read
#410
Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages
  • Norman F. Cantor
31 read
#411
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
  • David Frye
00 reads
#412
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
  • Kathryn Hughes
31 read
#413
A Bite-Sized History of France
A Bite-Sized History of France
  • Jeni Mitchell
  • Stéphane Hénaut
3.673 reads
#414
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy
  • David Starkey
31 read
#415
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The Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
  • Marc Morris
44 reads
#416
1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
  • Ed West
2.673 reads
#417
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
  • Lucy Worsley
33 reads
#418
A History of France
A History of France
  • John Julius Norwich
3.52 reads
#419
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
  • Sydnee McElroy
  • Justin McElroy
3.7715 reads
#420
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
  • Peter Ackroyd
31 read
#421
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
  • Neil MacGregor
4.52 reads
#422
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
  • Ross D.E. MacPhee
00 reads
#423
The Eternal City: A History of Rome
The Eternal City: A History of Rome
  • Ferdinand Addis
51 read
#424
Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies
Hoax: A History of Deception: 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies
  • Ian Tattersall
  • Peter Névraumont
31 read
#425
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
  • Peter Heather
3.52 reads
#426
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Theater of the World

Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
  • Thomas Reinertsen Berg
00 reads
#427
Mortal Republic
Mortal Republic
  • Edward J. Watts
22 reads
#428
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World
  • Alice Roberts
44 reads
#429
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do?

What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
  • Cecelia Tichi
00 reads
#430
The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
  • Kate Williams
42 reads
#431
Cover 7

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
  • Lucy Worsley
3.52 reads
#432
Cover 7

The Restless Kings

The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown
  • Nick Barratt
00 reads
#433
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
  • Deborah Cadbury
42 reads
#434
Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History
Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History
  • Adam Rutherford
00 reads
#435
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
  • Ruth Goodman
01 read
#436
Europe
Europe
  • Tim Flannery
42 reads
#437
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
  • Jason Porath
3.8314 reads
#438
Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children
Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children
  • Therese Oneill
3.255 reads
#439
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
  • Philipp Blom
3.53 reads
#440
Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones
Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones
  • Ed West
31 read
#441
The Shortest History of Germany: From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe―A Retelling for Our Times
The Shortest History of Germany: From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe―A Retelling for Our Times
  • James Hawes
31 read
#442
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
  • Julia P. Gelardi
31 read
#443
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
  • Simon Jenkins
44 reads
#444
Hell and Damnation: A Sinner's Guide to Eternal Torment
Hell and Damnation: A Sinner's Guide to Eternal Torment
  • Marq de Villers
21 read
#445
The Course of History: Ten Meals That Changed the World
The Course of History: Ten Meals That Changed the World
  • Struan Stevenson
  • Tony Singh
21 read
#446
In These Times
In These Times
  • Jenny Uglow
00 reads
#447
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
  • Philippa Gregory
  • David Baldwin
  • Michael Jones
32 reads
#448
Louis XIV: The Power and the Glory
Louis XIV: The Power and the Glory
  • Josephine Wilkinson
31 read
#449
The World of the Crusades
The World of the Crusades
  • Christopher Tyerman
00 reads
#450
Cities: The First 6,000 Years
Cities: The First 6,000 Years
  • Monica L. Smith
31 read
#451
The Story of Britain
The Story of Britain
  • Roy Strong
32 reads
#452
Germania
Germania
  • Simon Winder
34 reads
#453
Women Warriors
Women Warriors
  • Pamela D. Toler
22 reads
#454
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
  • Sam Kean
411 reads
#455
1215 and All That: Magna Carta and King John
1215 and All That: Magna Carta and King John
  • Ed West
31 read
#456
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
  • David McCullough
3.522 reads
#457
Superheavy
Superheavy
  • Kit Chapman
3.89 reads
#458
A History Of The Wife
A History Of The Wife
  • Marilyn Yalom
34 reads
#459
Crusaders
Crusaders
  • Dan Jones
3.674 reads
#460
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
  • Emma Southon
3.833 reads
#461
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
  • Hallie Rubenhold
4.1684 reads
#462
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
  • Larry Zuckerman
31 read
#463
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
  • Paul Strathern
31 read
#464
Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff
Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff
  • Lydia Pyne
31 read
#465
Dominion
Dominion
  • Tom Holland
4.3320 reads
#466
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
  • Dan Carlin
3.7812 reads
#467
Medieval Bodies
Medieval Bodies
  • Jack Hartnell
43 reads
#468
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24 Hours in Ancient Athens

24 Hours in Ancient Athens
  • Philip Matyszak
3.27 reads
#469
England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases
England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases
  • Ed West
00 reads
#470
The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
  • Lars Brownworth
42 reads
#471
The Invention of Yesterday
The Invention of Yesterday
  • Tamim Ansary
3.334 reads
#472
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named
  • Peter Wothers
2.52 reads
#473
The Season
The Season
  • Kristen Richardson
42 reads
#474
To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe
To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe
  • Matthew Lockwood
31 read
#475
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
  • Barry S. Strauss
3.333 reads
#476
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The Map of Knowledge

The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
  • Violet Moller
31 read
#477
Transcendence
Transcendence
  • Gaia Vince
44 reads
#478
The Enemies of Rome: The Barbarian Rebellion Against the Roman Empire
The Enemies of Rome: The Barbarian Rebellion Against the Roman Empire
  • Stephen P. Kershaw
31 read
#479
The Wonders
The Wonders
  • John Woolf
00 reads
#480
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell
  • Tracy Borman
33 reads
#481
The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History
The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History
  • Adam Selzer
51 read
#482
Cover 4

The Roman Gladiator Referee’s Handbook

The Roman Gladiator Referee’s Handbook
  • Oliver Hayes
31 read
#483
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Walter Isaacson
4.17115 reads
#484
Sovereign Ladies
Sovereign Ladies
  • Maureen Waller
00 reads
#485
The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
  • Emily Prokop
3.335 reads
#486
The Human Story
The Human Story
  • James C. Davis
00 reads
#487
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
  • Michael Farquhar
00 reads
#488
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
  • Bart D. Ehrman
4.1110 reads
#489
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - AD 1700
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - AD 1700
  • Charles Freeman
41 read
#490
A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
  • Sue Wilkes
43 reads
#491
Cover 5

Blood Work

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
  • Holly Tucker
2.673 reads
#492
A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England
A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England
  • Monica Hall
31 read
#493
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
  • Robert Morrison
01 read
#494
Cover 5

Iron Empires

Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
  • Michael Hiltzik
00 reads
#495
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Red Roses

Red Roses: Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort
  • Amy Licence
00 reads
#496
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
  • Alexis Coe
3.6824 reads
#497
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
  • G.J. Meyer
3.255 reads
#498
The War Queens
The War Queens
  • Jonathan W. Jordan
  • Emily Anne Jordan
00 reads
#499
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
  • Bea Koch
44 reads
#500
Enemy of All Mankind
Enemy of All Mankind
  • Steven Johnson
3.4311 reads
#501
Cover 3

Scourge of Henry VIII

Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise
  • Melanie Clegg
41 read
#502
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
  • Thomas Penn
42 reads
#503
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
  • Anne de Courcy
00 reads