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#404
The Edge of the Empire: A Journey to Britannia: From the Heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall
The Edge of the Empire: A Journey to Britannia: From the Heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall
  • Bronwen Riley
00 reads
#405
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
  • Mary Roach
3.4962 reads
#406
The human side of science
The human side of science
  • Arthur W. Wiggins
00 reads
#407
The long weekend life in the English country house, 1918-1939
The long weekend life in the English country house, 1918-1939
  • Adrian Tinniswood
32 reads
#408
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Henry V

Henry V: The Warrior King of 1415
  • Ian Mortimer
21 read
#409
Strange Glow
Strange Glow
  • Timothy J. Jorgensen
00 reads
#410
Idiot Brain
Idiot Brain
  • Dean Burnett
3.58 reads
#411
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
  • Philipp Blom
41 read
#412
How the Post Office Created America: A History
How the Post Office Created America: A History
  • Winifred Gallagher
3.55 reads
#413
Shady characters
Shady characters
  • Keith Houston
411 reads
#414
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
  • Ruth Goodman
00 reads
#415
Life Moves Pretty Fast
Life Moves Pretty Fast
  • Hadley Freeman
00 reads
#416
Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
  • Dan Lewis
32 reads
#417
Seven Skeletons
Seven Skeletons
  • Lydia Pyne
00 reads
#418
The Book
The Book
  • Keith Houston
410 reads
#419
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
  • Brian Christian
  • Tom Griffiths
4.02144 reads
#420
God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
  • Cullen Murphy
31 read
#421
The Lion in the Living Room
The Lion in the Living Room
  • Abigail Tucker
4.256 reads
#422
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
  • Joshua Foer
  • Ella Morton
  • Dylan Thuras
  • Atlas Obscura
32 reads
#423
Northmen
Northmen
  • John Haywood
32 reads
#424
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
  • Stephen Church
00 reads
#425
Game of Queens
Game of Queens
  • Sarah Gristwood
31 read
#426
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1536

1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII
  • Suzannah Lipscomb
33 reads
#427
A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
  • Mark Thompson
00 reads
#428
Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
  • Brian Clegg
00 reads
#429
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
  • John McWhorter
4.2115 reads
#430
Crown of Blood
Crown of Blood
  • Nicola Tallis
3.333 reads
#431
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
  • Jane Dunn
3.48 reads
#433
Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 other curious food and drink questions
Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 other curious food and drink questions
  • Andy Brunning
41 read
#434
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
  • Anthony Everitt
3.5610 reads
#435
The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
  • Stephen Alford
01 read
#436
Egyptomania: A History of  Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy
Egyptomania: A History of  Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy
  • Ronald H. Fritze
51 read
#437
Rome: An Empire's Story
Rome: An Empire's Story
  • Greg Woolf
41 read
#438
Lives of the Romans
Lives of the Romans
  • Joanne Berry
31 read
#439
Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual
Legionary: The Roman Soldier's (Unofficial) Manual
  • Philip Matyszak
31 read
#440
Gladiator: The Roman Fighter's [Unofficial] Manual
Gladiator: The Roman Fighter's [Unofficial] Manual
  • Philip Matyszak
31 read
#441
A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
  • Walter Álvarez
31 read
#442
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
  • Josh Katz
43 reads
#443
A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
  • Gill Paul
3.333 reads
#444
Knight
Knight
  • Michael Prestwich
31 read
#445
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
  • Bill Schutt
52 reads
#446
Get Well Soon
Get Well Soon
  • Jennifer Wright
4.1832 reads
#447
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
  • Kory Stamper
4.3734 reads
#448
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
  • Giles Tremlett
00 reads
#449
Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste
Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste
  • Tom Nealon
00 reads
#450
City of Light, City of Poison
City of Light, City of Poison
  • Holly Tucker
32 reads
#451
Four Princes
Four Princes
  • John Julius Norwich
3.336 reads
#452
Young and Damned and Fair
Young and Damned and Fair
  • Gareth Russell
3.52 reads
#453
And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara
And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara
  • Cody Cassidy
  • Paul Doherty
3.715 reads
#454
The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1699
The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1699
  • Ian Mortimer
00 reads
#455
Victoria
Victoria
  • Julia Baird
4.56 reads
#456
So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot
So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot
  • Morgan Ring
00 reads
#457
The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History
The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History
  • Susanna Forrest
21 read
#458
Fun Science
Fun Science
  • Charlie McDonnell
52 reads
#459
Mask of the sun
Mask of the sun
  • John Dvorak
00 reads
#460
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
  • Sam Kean
4.1814 reads
#461
Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies
Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies
  • Craig P. Bauer
42 reads
#462
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Corsets and Codpieces

Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
  • Karen Bowman
32 reads
#463
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty
  • Tracy Borman
31 read
#464
The Little Book of Big History
The Little Book of Big History
  • Ian Crofton
  • Jeremy Black
31 read
#465
Jane Austen at Home
Jane Austen at Home
  • Lucy Worsley
4.1915 reads
#466
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
  • Elizabeth Norton
33 reads
#467
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
  • Marta McDowell
3.754 reads
#468
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
  • Dan Jones
3.4216 reads
#469
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
  • Stephen Greenblatt
4.52 reads
#470
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
  • Lydia Kang
  • Nate Pedersen
3.5229 reads
#471
Revolution
Revolution
  • Peter Ackroyd
4.173 reads
#472
So Great a Prince: The Accession of Henry VIII - 1509
So Great a Prince: The Accession of Henry VIII - 1509
  • Lauren Johnson
31 read
#473
Six Wives
Six Wives
  • David Starkey
3.56 reads
#474
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
  • Mike Duncan
4.2143 reads
#475
Christmas: A Biography
Christmas: A Biography
  • Judith Flanders
32 reads
#476
A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
  • Adam Rutherford
3.8336 reads
#477
Queens of the Conquest
Queens of the Conquest
  • Alison Weir
3.335 reads
#478
The Fate of Rome
The Fate of Rome
  • Kyle Harper
4.386 reads
#479
Periodic Tales
Periodic Tales
  • Hugh Aldersey-Williams
3.8912 reads
#480
How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages
How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages
  • Christopher Tyerman
00 reads
#481
Soonish
Soonish
  • Kelly Weinersmith
  • Zach Weinersmith
4.0150 reads
#482
Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
  • Richard L. Currier
31 read
#483
The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
  • Malachy Tallack
31 read
#484
Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics
Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics
  • Allan Chapman
41 read
#485
Timekeepers
Timekeepers
  • Simon Garfield
36 reads
#486
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
  • Philip Ball
31 read
#487
Wallis in Love : The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
Wallis in Love : The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
  • Andrew Morton
00 reads
#488
The Plantagenets
The Plantagenets
  • Dan Jones
4.2127 reads
#489
The Secret Lives of Colour
The Secret Lives of Colour
  • Kassia St Clair
4.1325 reads
#490
The Radium Girls
The Radium Girls
  • Kate Moore
00 reads
#491
A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
  • Derek K. Wilson
00 reads
#492
Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair
Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair
  • Daisy Goodwin
  • Sara Sheridan
41 read
#493
I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
  • Liam Drew
31 read
#494
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
  • Bart D. Ehrman
3.98 reads
#495
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
  • Edward Brooke-Hitching
38 reads
#496
A Short History of Drunkenness
A Short History of Drunkenness
  • Mark Forsyth
4.254 reads
#497
Daughters of the Winter Queen
Daughters of the Winter Queen
  • Nancy Goldstone
43 reads
#498
The Prodigal Tongue
The Prodigal Tongue
  • Lynne Murphy
3.56 reads
#499
Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall
  • Adrian Goldsworthy
00 reads
#500
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
  • Stephen Brusatte
4.17113 reads
#501
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
  • Simon Winchester
3.9216 reads
#502
The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
  • James Kakalios
35 reads
#503
Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed
Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed
  • Jessica Weisberg
31 read
#504
Origin Story A Big History of Everything
Origin Story A Big History of Everything
  • David Christian
422 reads