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1.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by:
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.05 avg rating β 43,235 ratings
2.
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by:
Tom Holland
4.23 avg rating β 25,519 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
by:
Ian Mortimer
4.01 avg rating β 25,925 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
by:
Alison Weir
4.03 avg rating β 32,632 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
by:
Liza Picard
3.97 avg rating β 1,037 ratings
6.
The Princes in the Tower
by:
Alison Weir
3.87 avg rating β 7,642 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by:
Antonia Fraser
3.87 avg rating β 7,980 ratings
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
by:
Danny Danziger
3.81 avg rating β 2,294 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by:
James M. McPherson
4.40 avg rating β 33,176 ratings
10.
Peter the Great: His Life and World
by:
Robert K. Massie
4.15 avg rating β 22,819 ratings
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
by:
Ross King
3.85 avg rating β 14,510 ratings
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
by:
Alison Weir
4.01 avg rating β 15,352 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
by:
Frances Gies
3.84 avg rating β 3,835 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by:
Tom Holland
4.17 avg rating β 11,231 ratings
15.
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by:
Stephen Greenblatt
3.87 avg rating β 10,656 ratings
15.
Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
by:
James Romm
4.28 avg rating β 2,765 ratings
17.
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by:
David McCullough
4.25 avg rating β 18,113 ratings
18.
Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
by:
Liza Picard
4.03 avg rating β 1,432 ratings
19.
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC
by:
Steven Mithen
4.08 avg rating β 1,506 ratings
20.
Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier
by:
Brenda Fowler
3.73 avg rating β 221 ratings
20.
The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages
by:
Morris Bishop
3.92 avg rating β 1,646 ratings
22.
Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
by:
John Julius Norwich
3.92 avg rating β 521 ratings
23.
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by:
Nathaniel Philbrick
3.89 avg rating β 45,339 ratings
24.
John Adams
by:
David McCullough
4.08 avg rating β 373,244 ratings
24.
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by:
Stephen E. Ambrose
4.23 avg rating β 66,334 ratings
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Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London
by:
Nigel Jones
3.75 avg rating β 723 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
by:
Robert Lacey
3.87 avg rating β 5,818 ratings
27.
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
by:
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.12 avg rating β 9,480 ratings
29.
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
by:
Adrienne Mayor
4.13 avg rating β 1,245 ratings
30.
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
by:
Frances Gies
3.88 avg rating β 925 ratings
31.
The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers
by:
John C. Waugh
4.13 avg rating β 1,102 ratings
32.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by:
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.28 avg rating β 196,295 ratings
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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
by:
Jill Jonnes
3.78 avg rating β 3,318 ratings
34.
The Johnstown Flood
by:
David McCullough
4.13 avg rating β 24,632 ratings
35.
The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People
by:
Don Brothwell
4.11 avg rating β 55 ratings
35.
Russia Under the Old Regime
by:
Richard Pipes
4.06 avg rating β 527 ratings
37.
Dr Johnson's London
by:
Liza Picard
4.04 avg rating β 778 ratings
38.
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
by:
Stephen E. Ambrose
3.99 avg rating β 13,754 ratings
39.
The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War
by:
Bruce Catton
4.37 avg rating β 466 ratings
40.
A History of Pagan Europe
by:
Prudence J. Jones
3.74 avg rating β 696 ratings
41.
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
by:
Philippe Ariès
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,192 ratings
42.
The Weaker Vessel
by:
Antonia Fraser
3.92 avg rating β 1,424 ratings
43.
The Wives of Henry VIII
by:
Antonia Fraser
4.11 avg rating β 18,967 ratings
44.
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
by:
Lisa Jardine
3.77 avg rating β 321 ratings
45.
The Wars of the Roses
by:
Alison Weir
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 9,146 ratings
46.
The Year of Decision 1846
by:
Bernard DeVoto
4.13 avg rating β 424 ratings
47.
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations
by:
John Haywood
4.09 avg rating β 176 ratings
47.
Pompeii : The Living City
by:
Alex; Laurence Butterworth
3.90 avg rating β 305 ratings
47.
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
by:
Lisa Rosner
3.66 avg rating β 188 ratings
47.
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
by:
Dan Jones
4.26 avg rating β 14,099 ratings
51.
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World
by:
Andrew Jotischky
3.90 avg rating β 112 ratings
51.
Mornings on Horseback
by:
David McCullough
4.10 avg rating β 34,706 ratings
51.
Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
by:
Joanna Denny
4.03 avg rating β 3,102 ratings
51.
Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men
by:
Suzie Lennox
3.71 avg rating β 116 ratings
51.
The Social Conquest of Earth
by:
Edward O. Wilson
4.01 avg rating β 4,286 ratings
56.
Wonders of the Ancient World: Antiquity's Greatest Feats of Design and Engineering
by:
Justin Pollard
4.16 avg rating β 63 ratings
56.
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
by:
Judith Flanders
4.18 avg rating β 2,690 ratings
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Crown of Blood
by:
Nicola Tallis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,509 ratings
59.
Ancient Worlds
by:
Richard Miles
3.98 avg rating β 224 ratings
59.
The Wonder That Was India
by:
A.L. Basham
4.11 avg rating β 1,830 ratings
59.
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
by:
Gareth Russell
4.15 avg rating β 2,238 ratings
62.
Vanished Civilizations: The Hidden Secrets of Lost Cities and Forgotten Peoples
by:
Reader's Digest Association
4.18 avg rating β 74 ratings
62.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
by:
David Hackett Fischer
4.37 avg rating β 3,469 ratings
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The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1)
by:
Mark Edward Lewis
3.76 avg rating β 587 ratings
65.
The Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age : A Journey Back to Our Cultural Origins
by:
Richard Rudgley
3.83 avg rating β 263 ratings
65.
Pagan Britain
by:
Ronald Hutton
4.19 avg rating β 452 ratings
67.
Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-Site Tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages
by:
T. Douglas Price
4.23 avg rating β 108 ratings
67.
The World of Odysseus
by:
Moses I. Finley
3.90 avg rating β 1,097 ratings
69.
The Singing Neanderthals
by:
Steven Mithen
3.89 avg rating β 653 ratings
69.
The Histories
by:
Herodotus
4.01 avg rating β 54,680 ratings
69.
Hounds and Hunting in Ancient Greece
by:
Denison B. Hull
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
72.
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
by:
Emerson W. Baker
3.84 avg rating β 1,319 ratings
72.
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior - Heroes of Ancient Greece, From Utopia to Crisis and Collapse
by:
Paul Cartledge
3.78 avg rating β 3,023 ratings
74.
In Search of the Immortals: Mummies, Death and the Afterlife
by:
Howard Reid
3.74 avg rating β 46 ratings
74.
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
by:
Dan Jones
4.25 avg rating β 22,364 ratings
74.
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
by:
James Davidson
3.90 avg rating β 575 ratings
77.
The Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series)
by:
Joanna Berry
4.21 avg rating β 369 ratings
77.
Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies
by:
Ian Mortimer
3.88 avg rating β 169 ratings
77.
The Greeks and the Irrational
by:
E.R. Dodds
4.20 avg rating β 1,030 ratings
80.
The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West
by:
J.P. Mallory
4.07 avg rating β 104 ratings
80.
The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli
by:
Richard Aldous
3.93 avg rating β 465 ratings
80.
1215 : The Year of Magna Carta
by:
Gillingham Danziger
3.81 avg rating β 2,294 ratings
80.
Knight In Medieval England 1000-1400
by:
Peter R. Coss
3.80 avg rating β 49 ratings
84.
The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
by:
Terry L. Hunt
3.84 avg rating β 651 ratings
84.
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by:
Daniel Walker Howe
4.16 avg rating β 8,618 ratings
84.
The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
by:
Ronald Hutton
4.15 avg rating β 393 ratings
84.
The Age of the Vikings
by:
Anders Winroth
3.76 avg rating β 1,149 ratings
88.
The Triumph of the Sea Gods: The War against the Goddess Hidden in Homer's Tales
by:
Steven Sora
4.04 avg rating β 25 ratings
88.
The Vikings
by:
Magnus Magnusson
3.95 avg rating β 287 ratings
88.
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like At the Turn of the First Millennium
by:
Robert Lacey
3.87 avg rating β 5,818 ratings
88.
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China
by:
Dieter Kuhn
4.09 avg rating β 195 ratings
92.
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
by:
Christopher I. Beckwith
3.59 avg rating β 781 ratings
92.
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
by:
Paul Collins
3.58 avg rating β 8,674 ratings
92.
Ring Out Bow Bells
by:
Cynthia Harnett
4.15 avg rating β 75 ratings
92.
China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
by:
Mark Edward Lewis
3.82 avg rating β 257 ratings
96.
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire
by:
Andrew Wheatcroft
3.49 avg rating β 548 ratings
96.
Miracle At Philadelphia
by:
Catherine Drinker Bowen
4.06 avg rating β 1,983 ratings
96.
Chinaβs Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
by:
Mark Edward Lewis
3.94 avg rating β 285 ratings
99.
Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe
by:
Peter Heather
3.97 avg rating β 984 ratings
99.
1066: The Year of The Conquest
by:
David Howarth
4.06 avg rating β 4,524 ratings
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