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#505
How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
  • Rodney Stark
4.57 reads
#506
The Vikings: A New History
The Vikings: A New History
  • Neil Oliver
22 reads
#507
The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers
  • David McCullough
4.172 reads
#508
Queen Victoria's Granddaughters 1860-1918
Queen Victoria's Granddaughters 1860-1918
  • Christina Croft
00 reads
#509
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
  • Matthew Kneale
3.54 reads
#510
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.449 reads
#511
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
#512
The Royal Art of Poison
The Royal Art of Poison
  • Eleanor Herman
413 reads
#513
Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World
Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World
  • Julio MacLennan
31 read
#514
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
#515
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
#516
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
  • David Frye
00 reads
#517
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
#518
How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
  • Bruce Benamran
31 read
#519
A Bite-Sized History of France
A Bite-Sized History of France
  • Jeni Mitchell
  • Stéphane Hénaut
3.673 reads
#520
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy
  • David Starkey
31 read
#521
Cover 3

The Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
  • Marc Morris
44 reads
#522
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
#523
A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life
A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life
  • Joe Schwarcz
33 reads
#524
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
  • Steven Novella
3.6911 reads
#525
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
  • Lucy Worsley
33 reads
#526
A History of France
A History of France
  • John Julius Norwich
3.52 reads
#527
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
#528
How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English
How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English
  • Angela Kiss
31 read
#529
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
#530
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
  • Neil MacGregor
4.52 reads
#531
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
#532
The Eternal City: A History of Rome
The Eternal City: A History of Rome
  • Ferdinand Addis
51 read
#533
Cover 6

Talk on the Wild Side

Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can't Be Tamed
  • Lane Greene
00 reads
#534
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
#535
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
  • Peter Heather
3.52 reads
#536
Cover 7

Theater of the World

Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
  • Thomas Reinertsen Berg
00 reads
#537
Mortal Republic
Mortal Republic
  • Edward J. Watts
22 reads
#538
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World
  • Alice Roberts
44 reads
#539
Liquid Rules
Liquid Rules
  • Mark Miodownik
4.0914 reads
#540
Cover 7

The Science of Everyday Life

The Science of Everyday Life
  • Marty Jopson
3.333 reads
#541
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
#542
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
  • Bob Berman
31 read
#543
Math with Bad Drawings
Math with Bad Drawings
  • Ben Orlin
4.339 reads
#544
Cover 7

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
  • Lucy Worsley
3.52 reads
#545
Cover 7

The Restless Kings

The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown
  • Nick Barratt
00 reads
#546
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
  • Deborah Cadbury
42 reads
#547
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
#548
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
  • Ruth Goodman
01 read
#549
Europe
Europe
  • Tim Flannery
42 reads
#550
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
  • Tim James
3.52 reads
#551
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
#552
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
#553
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
#554
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
#555
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
  • Simon Jenkins
44 reads
#556
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
#557
In These Times
In These Times
  • Jenny Uglow
00 reads
#558
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
#559
Louis XIV: The Power and the Glory
Louis XIV: The Power and the Glory
  • Josephine Wilkinson
31 read
#560
The World of the Crusades
The World of the Crusades
  • Christopher Tyerman
00 reads
#561
Cities: The First 6,000 Years
Cities: The First 6,000 Years
  • Monica L. Smith
31 read
#562
The Story of Britain
The Story of Britain
  • Roy Strong
32 reads
#563
Germania
Germania
  • Simon Winder
34 reads
#564
Women Warriors
Women Warriors
  • Pamela D. Toler
22 reads
#565
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
#566
Cover 8

Breakfast with Einstein

Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects
  • Chad Orzel
31 read
#567
1215 and All That: Magna Carta and King John
1215 and All That: Magna Carta and King John
  • Ed West
31 read
#568
How To
How To
  • Randall Munroe
4.04142 reads
#569
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
#570
Superheavy
Superheavy
  • Kit Chapman
3.89 reads
#571
A History Of The Wife
A History Of The Wife
  • Marilyn Yalom
34 reads
#572
Crusaders
Crusaders
  • Dan Jones
3.674 reads
#573
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
  • Emma Southon
3.833 reads
#574
Medallion Status
Medallion Status
  • John Hodgman
4.0432 reads
#575
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
#576
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
  • Larry Zuckerman
31 read
#577
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
  • Paul Strathern
31 read
#578
Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff
Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff
  • Lydia Pyne
31 read
#579
Dominion
Dominion
  • Tom Holland
4.3320 reads
#580
The Science of Food: An Exploration of What We Eat and How We Cook
The Science of Food: An Exploration of What We Eat and How We Cook
  • Marty Jopson
32 reads
#581
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
#582
Medieval Bodies
Medieval Bodies
  • Jack Hartnell
43 reads
#583
Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America
Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America
  • J.M. Fenster
22 reads
#584
England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases
England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases
  • Ed West
00 reads
#585
The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
The Normans: From Raiders to Kings
  • Lars Brownworth
42 reads
#586
The Invention of Yesterday
The Invention of Yesterday
  • Tamim Ansary
3.334 reads
#587
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
#588
The Season
The Season
  • Kristen Richardson
42 reads
#589
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
#590
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
    4.18197 reads
    #591
    Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
    Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
    • Barry S. Strauss
    3.333 reads
    #592
    Cover 1

    The Map of Knowledge

    The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
    • Violet Moller
    31 read
    #593
    Transcendence
    Transcendence
    • Gaia Vince
    44 reads
    #594
    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
    #595
    The Wonders
    The Wonders
    • John Woolf
    00 reads
    #596
    Thomas Cromwell
    Thomas Cromwell
    • Tracy Borman
    33 reads
    #597
    The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History
    The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History
    • Adam Selzer
    51 read
    #598
    The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • DK
    4.52 reads
    #599
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    • Walter Isaacson
    4.16116 reads
    #600
    Sovereign Ladies
    Sovereign Ladies
    • Maureen Waller
    00 reads
    #601
    The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
    The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
    • Emily Prokop
    3.335 reads
    #602
    The Human Story
    The Human Story
    • James C. Davis
    00 reads
    #603
    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
    #604
    Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
    Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
    • Bart D. Ehrman
    4.1110 reads