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#605
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
#606
A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
  • Sue Wilkes
43 reads
#607
Looking for Miss America
Looking for Miss America
  • Margot Mifflin
01 read
#608
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Blood Work

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
  • Holly Tucker
2.673 reads
#609
How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena
How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena
  • Paul Sutter
32 reads
#610
A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England
A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England
  • Monica Hall
31 read
#611
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
#612
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Iron Empires

Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
  • Michael Hiltzik
00 reads
#613
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
#614
The End of Everything
The End of Everything
  • Katie Mack
4.0254 reads
#615
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
#616
The War Queens
The War Queens
  • Jonathan W. Jordan
  • Emily Anne Jordan
00 reads
#617
Humble Pi
Humble Pi
  • Matt Parker
4.511 reads
#618
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
  • Bea Koch
44 reads
#619
Enemy of All Mankind
Enemy of All Mankind
  • Steven Johnson
3.4311 reads
#620
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Scourge of Henry VIII

Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise
  • Melanie Clegg
41 read
#621
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
  • Thomas Penn
42 reads
#622
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
#623
The Light Ages
The Light Ages
  • Seb Falk
4.27 reads
#624
Death by Shakespeare
Death by Shakespeare
  • Kathryn Harkup
3.677 reads
#625
The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London
The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London
  • Simon Jenkins
31 read
#626
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
  • Adrian Goldsworthy
4.087 reads
#627
Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years
Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years
  • Ian Mortimer
3.53 reads
#628
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Cook, Taste, Learn

Cook, Taste, Learn: How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking
  • Guy Crosby
31 read
#629
The Delusions of Crowds
The Delusions of Crowds
  • William J. Bernstein
00 reads
#630
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
  • Charles Kenny
3.673 reads
#631
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
  • Simon Winchester
3.756 reads
#632
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
  • Tori Telfer
3.4510 reads
#633
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The Habsburgs

The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
  • Martyn Rady
4.26 reads
#634
Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
  • Meredith Small
21 read
#635
Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained
Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained
  • James M. Russell
32 reads
#636
Four Lost Cities
Four Lost Cities
  • Annalee Newitz
3.6938 reads
#637
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
  • Johannes Krause
  • Thomas Trappe
  • Caroline Waight (Translator)
3.53 reads
#638
Princes of the Renaissance
Princes of the Renaissance
  • Mary Hollingsworth
31 read
#639
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
  • Julian Sancton
4.2633 reads
#640
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
  • Simon Winder
35 reads
#641
The Age of Wood
The Age of Wood
  • Roland Ennos
3.754 reads
#642
One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927
  • Bill Bryson
4.0373 reads
#643
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
  • Gideon Defoe
3.255 reads
#644
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
  • Joseph J. Ellis
44 reads
#645
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
  • Niall Ferguson
3.68 reads
#646
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
  • John McWhorter
3.8923 reads
#647
The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
  • Marc Morris
4.1215 reads
#648
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Uncrowned Queen

Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors
  • Nicola Tallis
00 reads
#649
The Woman They Could Not Silence
The Woman They Could Not Silence
  • Kate Moore
4.3327 reads
#650
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
  • Sam Kean
3.6729 reads
#651
Elizabeth & Margaret
Elizabeth & Margaret
  • Andrew Morton
43 reads
#652
How to Survive in Medieval England
How to Survive in Medieval England
  • Toni Mount
22 reads
#653
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
  • Emma Southon
422 reads
#654
The Exotic
The Exotic
  • Hampton Sides
31 read
#655
Queens of the Crusades
Queens of the Crusades
  • Alison Weir
35 reads
#656
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
  • Arthur Herman
00 reads
#657
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
  • Gemma Hollman
3.46 reads
#658
Metropolis
Metropolis
  • Ben Wilson
47 reads
#659
Maiden Voyages
Maiden Voyages
  • Siân Evans
3.52 reads
#660
Innovation
Innovation
  • Peter Ackroyd
00 reads
#661
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
  • John M. Barry
31 read
#662
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
  • Anderson Cooper
4.53 reads
#663
Powers and Thrones
Powers and Thrones
  • Dan Jones
420 reads
#664
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In the Shadow of the Empress

In the Shadow of the Empress
  • Nancy Goldstone
00 reads
#665
When Women Ruled the World
When Women Ruled the World
  • Maureen Quilligan
42 reads
#666
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
  • Mary Roach
3.8890 reads
#667
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
  • William Cronon
44 reads
#668
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
  • Matt Siegel
41 read
#669
The Bright Ages
The Bright Ages
  • Matthew Gabriele
  • David M. Perry
3.3512 reads
#670
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
  • Beth Shapiro
51 read
#671
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
  • Eric Jay Dolin
4.55 reads
#672
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The Greeks

The Greeks: A Global History
  • Roderick Beaton
00 reads
#673
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The Shadow King

The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI
  • Lauren Johnson
31 read
#674
Twelve Caesars
Twelve Caesars
  • Mary Beard
3.674 reads
#675
Otherlands
Otherlands
  • Thomas Halliday
4.1518 reads
#676
Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe
Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe
  • Daniel Whiteson
  • Jorge Cham
44 reads
#677
A Taste for Poison
A Taste for Poison
  • Neil Bradbury, Ph.D.
4.0525 reads
#678
Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables
Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables
  • Jo Wimpenny
4.173 reads
#679
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
  • Chad Orzel
33 reads
#680
Impact
Impact
  • Greg Brennecka
00 reads
#681
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George V

George V: Never a Dull Moment
  • Jane Ridley
00 reads
#682
New Rome: The Empire in the East
New Rome: The Empire in the East
  • Paul Stephenson
01 read
#683
Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague
Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague
  • John Aberth
41 read
#684
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
    22 reads
    #685
    How to Take Over the World
    How to Take Over the World
    • Ryan North
    414 reads
    #686
    Off the Edge
    Off the Edge
    • Kelly Weill
    3.6415 reads
    #687
    Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
    Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
    • Natalie Haynes
    4.2343 reads
    #688
    Music Is History
    Music Is History
    • Questlove
    3.252 reads
    #689
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    The Nineties

    The Nineties: A Book
    • Chuck Klosterman
    413 reads
    #690
    The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
    The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
    • Adam Rutherford
    • Hannah Fry
    00 reads
    #691
    The Dark Queens
    The Dark Queens
    • Shelley Puhak
    3.7511 reads
    #692
    The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830
    The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830
    • Ian Mortimer
    42 reads
    #693
    Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
    Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
    • Ira Rutkow
    3.754 reads
    #694
    The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
    The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
    • Riley Black
    3.6318 reads
    #695
    The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
    The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
    • Bill Bryson
    3.259 reads
    #696
    The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
    The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
    • Dean Jobb
    3.678 reads
    #697
    The End of the River
    The End of the River
    • Simon Winchester
    41 read
    #698
    Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from Willam the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
    Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from Willam the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
    • Tracy Borman
    42 reads
    #699
    Ingredients
    Ingredients
    • George Zaidan
    3.677 reads
    #700
    The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
    The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
    • Steve Brusatte
    4.2924 reads
    #701
    France
    France
    • Graham Robb
    33 reads
    #702
    The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
    The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
    • Sarah Gristwood
    00 reads
    #703
    Napoleon's Buttons
    Napoleon's Buttons
    • Penny Le Couteur
    • Jay Burreson
    3.53 reads
    #704
    The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    • Lindsey Fitzharris
    4.255 reads