Nonfiction Books on the Victorian Era
2. 
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
by:
Judith Flanders
4.18 avg rating — 2,690 ratings 3. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,254 ratings 
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
by:
Daniel Pool
3.85 avg rating — 5,732 ratings 6. 
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,237 ratings 
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
by:
Therese Oneill
3.82 avg rating — 9,083 ratings 
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
by:
Judith Flanders
4.01 avg rating — 1,762 ratings 11. 
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.16 avg rating — 3,929 ratings 12. 
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,609 ratings 
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To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
by:
Gail MacColl
3.59 avg rating — 5,749 ratings 15. 
Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
by:
Hunter S. Jones
4.16 avg rating — 87 ratings 16. 
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
by:
M.J. Carter
4.03 avg rating — 4,253 ratings 
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The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
by:
James C. Whorton
4.04 avg rating — 294 ratings 19. 
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age 3.77 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
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Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898
by:
Stella Blum
4.17 avg rating — 239 ratings 21. 
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 4.33 avg rating — 15,703 ratings
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The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
by:
Henry Mayhew
4.06 avg rating — 322 ratings 25. 
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine 4.31 avg rating — 21,437 ratings
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Victoria and Albert: A Family Life at Osborne House
by:
Sarah Ferguson
4.27 avg rating — 101 ratings 
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Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
by:
James Ruddick
3.66 avg rating — 1,757 ratings 31. 
Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum
by:
Mark Stevens
3.52 avg rating — 2,415 ratings 32. 
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
by:
Neil McKenna
3.71 avg rating — 747 ratings 
34. 
Life Below Stairs: in the Victorian and Edwardian Country House
by:
Siân Evans
3.96 avg rating — 273 ratings 35. 
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England
by:
Sharon Marcus
3.95 avg rating — 339 ratings 
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Daily Life in Victorian London: An Extraordinary Anthology
by:
Lee Jackson
3.79 avg rating — 359 ratings 38. 
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
by:
Gillian Gill
3.85 avg rating — 8,726 ratings 40. 
Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.54 avg rating — 1,162 ratings 41. 
The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality
by:
Ronald Pearsall
3.71 avg rating — 82 ratings 41. 
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The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable: A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit
by:
Carol Baxter
3.55 avg rating — 186 ratings 44. 
Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation
by:
John Sutherland
3.29 avg rating — 66 ratings 
50. 
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by:
Tom Standage
3.95 avg rating — 3,526 ratings 51. 
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
by:
Les Standiford
3.63 avg rating — 3,846 ratings 52. 
Victorian and Edwardian Fashions from "La Mode Illustrée"
by:
JoAnne Olian
4.25 avg rating — 67 ratings 
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Contemplating Adultery: The Secret Life of a Victorian Woman
by:
Lotte Hamburger
3.50 avg rating — 34 ratings 56. 
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Servant!: A Thankless Job You'd Rather Not Have
by:
Fiona Macdonald
3.93 avg rating — 149 ratings 
59. 
Lost Victorian Britain: How The Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century's Architectural Masterpieces
by:
Gavin Stamp
4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings 
59. 
How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
by:
Ruth Goodman
4.25 avg rating — 7,475 ratings 63. 
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
by:
Judith Flanders
4.01 avg rating — 1,762 ratings 64. 
Washington, D. C. in 3D: A Look Back in Time: With Built-in Stereoscope Viewer - Your Glasses to the Past!
by:
Greg Dinkins
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 65. 
The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 3.37 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England
by:
Sarah Wise
3.81 avg rating — 506 ratings 67. 
Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
by:
Deborah Blum
3.69 avg rating — 1,177 ratings 
69. 
Victoria, The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
by:
Julia Baird
4.11 avg rating — 11,960 ratings 69. 
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London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God
by:
Jerry White
4.01 avg rating — 307 ratings 
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Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais 3.89 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
by:
Monte Reel
3.77 avg rating — 2,139 ratings 76. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 
77. 
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by:
Judith Flanders
3.41 avg rating — 4,258 ratings 
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The Poor Man's Picture Gallery: Stereoscopy versus Paintings in the Victorian Era
by:
Denis Pellerin
4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings 
87. 
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
by:
Mike Davis
4.20 avg rating — 2,037 ratings 88. 
Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year
by:
Greg King
3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings 
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The Clumsiest People in Europe: Or, Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World 3.29 avg rating — 310 ratings
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A London Child of the 1870s (Isis Reminiscence Series)
by:
Molly Hughes
4.03 avg rating — 346 ratings 
93. 
Victorian Pharmacy: Rediscovering Home Remedies and Recipes
by:
Jane Eastoe
3.94 avg rating — 176 ratings 94. 
The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age
by:
John Woolf
3.81 avg rating — 474 ratings 95. 
The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837
by:
Ben Wilson
3.86 avg rating — 148 ratings 96. 
Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey
by:
Alison Gernsheim
4.04 avg rating — 450 ratings 97. 
Dickens' Christmas: A Victorian Celebration
by:
Simon Callow
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 78 ratings 98. 
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Victorian Workhouse: The Diary of Edith Lorrimer, England, 1871
by:
Pamela Oldfield
3.67 avg rating — 401 ratings 