History Books 2014
1. 
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
by:
Dan Jones
4.26 avg rating — 14,095 ratings 
3. 
Everyday Life in Medieval London: From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors
by:
Toni Mount
4.12 avg rating — 408 ratings 
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
by:
Eric Jager
3.82 avg rating — 1,690 ratings 6. 
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,078 ratings 
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
by:
Kara Cooney
3.65 avg rating — 7,513 ratings 9. 
The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
by:
Chris Skidmore
3.94 avg rating — 502 ratings 10. 
The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Womens' Stories
by:
Amy Licence
4.06 avg rating — 346 ratings 11. 
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
by:
Dan Jones
4.25 avg rating — 22,357 ratings 12. 
The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217
by:
Richard Brooks
3.86 avg rating — 242 ratings 
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Cross and Scepter: The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation
by:
Sverre Bagge
3.35 avg rating — 46 ratings 15. 
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
by:
Hampton Sides
4.29 avg rating — 24,753 ratings 16. 
The Demon's Brood: A Plantagenet History from Anjou to Bosworth
by:
Desmond Seward
3.58 avg rating — 520 ratings 17. 
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
by:
Sarah Churchwell
3.63 avg rating — 2,229 ratings 
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Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution (The History of England, #3)
by:
Peter Ackroyd
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,393 ratings 25. 
Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters
by:
Diane Jacobs
3.89 avg rating — 511 ratings 
28. 
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
by:
S.C. Gwynne
4.28 avg rating — 8,559 ratings 29. 
A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
by:
Janice Hadlow
4.12 avg rating — 1,266 ratings 30. 
Tudor Wales: Full-Colour Guide to the Many Places in Wales Associated with This Famous Dynasty
by:
Nathen Amin
4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings 
32. 
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
by:
Karen Abbott
3.76 avg rating — 16,840 ratings 33. 
Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris
by:
Nina Kushner
3.88 avg rating — 80 ratings 34. 
James and Dolley Madison: America's First Power Couple
by:
Bruce Chadwick
3.16 avg rating — 82 ratings 35. 
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
by:
Tracy Borman
4.20 avg rating — 2,581 ratings 36. 
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
by:
Peter Stark
4.09 avg rating — 12,326 ratings 
38. 
God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England
by:
Jessie Childs
3.91 avg rating — 321 ratings 39. 
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.19 avg rating — 28,142 ratings 40. 
Lordship in four realms: The Lacy family, 1166–1241 (Manchester Medieval Studies, 12)
by:
Colin Veach
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
42. 
Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of Aquitaine
by:
Michael R. Evans
4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings 43. 
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
by:
Toni Mount
4.19 avg rating — 157 ratings 47. 
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II 4.27 avg rating — 11,420 ratings
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Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941
by:
John C.G. Röhl
4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings 50. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 504 ratings 51. 
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
by:
Michael Farquhar
3.89 avg rating — 1,327 ratings 52. 
The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark
by:
Meryl Gordon
3.81 avg rating — 2,190 ratings 
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
by:
Hubert Wolf
3.27 avg rating — 800 ratings 56. 
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
by:
Harold Holzer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 222 ratings 58. 
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,505 ratings
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61. 
Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
by:
Carol Berkin
3.67 avg rating — 308 ratings 
63. 
Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (1295-1360): Household and Other Records (Suffolk Records Society, 57)
by:
Jennifer Ward
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 64. 
The Marcher Lords: Their Treacheries and Troubles in Wales
by:
Roger Turvey
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 65. 
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
by:
Joan DeJean
3.83 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 66. 
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age
by:
Vic Gatrell
3.75 avg rating — 122 ratings 66. 
Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures During World War II
by:
Gerri Chanel
4.06 avg rating — 532 ratings 68. 
The Medieval Housewife: & Other Women of the Middle Ages
by:
Toni Mount
4.03 avg rating — 87 ratings 69. 
69. 
Richard III King of Controversy: Updated 2015
by:
Toni Mount
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings 
72. 
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
by:
Mark Harris
4.12 avg rating — 2,102 ratings 73. 
America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election That Transformed the Nation
by:
John Bicknell
3.93 avg rating — 101 ratings 74. 
Proud and Determined: a History of the Stockbridge Mohicans 1734-2014
by:
Jeffrey Siemers
3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings 75. 
Inglorious Royal Marriages: A Demi-Millennium of Unholy Mismatrimony
by:
Leslie Carroll
3.84 avg rating — 455 ratings 
77. 
The Man Who Killed Richard III: Who Dealt the Fatal Blow at Bosworth?
by:
Susan Fern
3.10 avg rating — 20 ratings 79. 
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
by:
Peter Finn
3.74 avg rating — 1,472 ratings 79. 
Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
by:
Brooks Simpson
4.10 avg rating — 153 ratings 81. 
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
by:
Clay Risen
4.01 avg rating — 209 ratings 81. 
Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics
by:
Donald Jeffries
4.01 avg rating — 339 ratings 83. 
Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
by:
Claudia Renton
3.53 avg rating — 451 ratings 83. 
Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America
by:
Brian Connolly
2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
86. 
The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
by:
Richard Stites
3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings 87. 
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
by:
George Prochnik
3.86 avg rating — 420 ratings 88. 
American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague — Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal
by:
John Oller
3.63 avg rating — 209 ratings 
91. 
The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
by:
John F. Kasson
3.40 avg rating — 548 ratings 
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The Bank Holiday Murders: The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders
by:
Tom Wescott
3.81 avg rating — 448 ratings 91. 
Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art
by:
John Kisch
4.79 avg rating — 19 ratings 