Non Fiction 352 books by Kati

#1 of 2 in Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores

ByJennifer Campbell

2012 • 63 Readers • 125 pages • 3.6

#10

To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery

ByGail MacColl,Carol Wallace

1989 • 1 Reader • 403 pages

#17

#1 of 4 in Time Traveller's Guides

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

ByIan Mortimer

2008 • 1 Reader

#44

The Mistress of Paris

ByCatherine Hewitt

2017 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

#57

Stupid History

ByLeland Gregory

2009 • 1 Reader • 274 pages

#106

King, Kaiser, Tsar

ByCatrine Clay

2006 • 4 Readers • 359 pages

#173

Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War

ByEdward Stourton

2017 • 2 Readers • 432 pages • 4

#236

The Barbizon

ByPaulina Bren

13 Readers • 3

#248

Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies

ByMark A. Vieira

2019 • 1 Reader • 263 pages • 4

#262

Pearls before Poppies: The Story of the Red Cross Pearls

ByRachel Trethewey

2 Readers

#264

The Duchess Countess

ByCatherine Ostler

2022 • 2 Readers • 440 pages

#268

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

ByAlfred Lansing

1959 • 368 Readers • 270 pages • 4.5

#283

Agatha Christie

ByLucy Worsley

2022 • 8 Readers • 562 pages • 4

#319

How to Piss Off Men: 109 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego

ByKyle Prue

7 Readers • 4

#320

Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

ByDr. Lisa Kaltenegger

2024 • 19 Readers • 288 pages • 4

#321

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

ByDavid Gibbins

2024 • 16 Readers • 289 pages • 2.3

#322

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

ByGlynnis MacNicol

2024 • 23 Readers • 289 pages • 3.9

#323

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

ByHannah Carlson

2023 • 14 Readers • 367 pages • 3

#324

Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

ByRichard Ratay

2018 • 11 Readers • 288 pages • 4

#325

Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

ByJoshua Zeitz

3 Readers • 4

#326

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

ByKathleen Sheppard

2024 • 17 Readers • 320 pages • 4

#327

The Science of Superwomen: An Evolution from Wonder Woman to WandaVision

ByMark Brake

1 Reader

#328

Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women

ByMichael Rutter

2014 • 1 Reader • 195 pages

#329

Höhenrausch: Das kurze Leben zwischen den Kriegen

ByHarald Jähner

2022 • 2 Readers • 573 pages

#330

Vertigo

ByHarald Jähner

2022 • 1 Reader

#331

Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration

ByNadine Akkerman,Pete Langman

2024 • 2 Readers • 367 pages

#332

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

ByElyse Graham

2024 • 1 Reader • 531 pages

#333

A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food

ByBen Gazur

2024 • 2 Readers • 267 pages

#334

Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America

ByKelly Florence,Meg Hafdahl

2024 • 2 Readers • 338 pages • 4

#335

The Secret Lives of Color

ByKassia St. Clair

2016 • 15 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4

#336

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity

ByAmy Brady

2023 • 2 Readers • 336 pages

#337

The Astronaut Wives Club

ByLily Koppel

2013 • 14 Readers • 288 pages • 3.4

#338

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans – A Story of Love and War

ByCatherine Grace Katz

2020 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

#339

Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus

ByJohn Haywood

2024 • 1 Reader • 636 pages

#340

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

ByEmily C. Hughes

2024 • 1 Reader • 273 pages • 4

#341

Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time

ByHelen Molesworth

2024 • 1 Reader • 289 pages • 4

#342

Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places

ByAmy Bruni

2024 • 2 Readers • 289 pages • 4

Southern Lady Code

ByHelen Ellis

2020 • 1 Reader • 226 pages

Hollywood

ByJeanine Basinger,Sam Wasson

2022 • 3 Readers • 5

50 Museums to Blow Your Mind

ByBen Handicott

2016 • 1 Reader

Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, 1928-1937

ByDarrell Rooney,Mark A. Vieira

1 Reader

Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire

ByLeslie Carroll

2009 • 2 Readers • 528 pages

Doris Day Confidential: Hollywood, Sex and Stardom

ByTamar Jeffers Mcdonald

2013 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

ByJoseph T. Shipley

1984 • 1 Reader

The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream

ByStefan Al

2017 • 1 Reader

How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (But True) Stories of Common Vegetables

ByRebecca Rupp

2011 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince

ByMark A. Vieira

2009 • 2 Readers

Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips

ByMichael G. Ankerich(Brand),Kevin Brownlow(Foreword)

2012 • 1 Reader

The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince

ByJane Ridley

2010 • 6 Readers • 768 pages • 5

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household

ByKate Hubbard

2012 • 5 Readers • 448 pages

And the Show Went On

ByAlan Riding

2010 • 3 Readers

White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll

ByJames Fox

1982 • 1 Reader • 5

The Golden Age of Murder

ByMartin Edwards

2015 • 6 Readers • 528 pages • 3.8

The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie

ByCharles Osborne

1982 • 1 Reader • 434 pages

In Search of Jane Austen: The Language of the Letters

ByIngrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

2014 • 1 Reader • 297 pages

Famous Americans: A Directory of Museums, Historic Sites, and Memorials

ByVictor J. Danilov

2013 • 1 Reader

50 Beaches to Blow Your Mind

ByLonely Planet,Ben Handicott

2016 • 1 Reader

Bright Young People

ByD. J. Taylor

2009 • 1 Reader • 384 pages • 2

The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame: A Life of Louise Arner Boyd

ByJoanna Kafarowski

2 Readers

The Movie Book

ByDK

2016 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

The Mythology Book

ByDK

2018 • 2 Readers • 352 pages

Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century

ByPhilip Hoare

1997 • 4 Readers • 256 pages

The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret

ByCatherine Hewitt

2015 • 3 Readers

The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s

ByJoseph Egan

2016 • 1 Reader • 2

The bolter

ByFrances Osborne

3 Readers • 5

We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie

ByNoah Isenberg

2017 • 8 Readers • 334 pages • 3

The Shakespeare Book

ByDK

2015 • 2 Readers • 352 pages

P.D. James: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

ByLaurel A. Young

1 Reader

The Kingdom of Wurttemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871

ByBodie A. Ashton

2017 • 1 Reader

Murder in the Closet

ByCurtis Evans

2017 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

The Riviera Set

ByMary S. Lovell

2017 • 2 Readers • 448 pages

Sex In the Cinema: The ‘Pre-Code’ Years

ByLou Sabini

1 Reader

Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class

ByLuke Barr

2018 • 1 Reader

Seduction

ByKarina Longworth

2018 • 9 Readers • 576 pages • 4

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation

ByAnne Sebba

2016 • 1 Reader • 480 pages

Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

ByJerry Roberts

2017 • 1 Reader

The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London

ByPenrose Halson

3 Readers • 3

Ma’am Darling

ByCraig Brown

2017 • 6 Readers • 3.5

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

ByDeborah Cadbury

2017 • 11 Readers • 382 pages

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

ByCatherine Kerrison

2018 • 2 Readers • 4

Book Lust

Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers

ByNancy Pearl

2010 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Last Night of the Proms: An Official Miscellany

ByKatie Derham(Foreword)

1 Reader

Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film

ByDon Graham

2018 • 1 Reader

The Oldest House in London

ByFiona Rule

1 Reader

It's All a Game

ByTristan Donovan

2017 • 12 Readers • 303 pages • 3.8

Blood, Fire and Gold

ByEstelle Paranque

2022 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 5

Rogues' Gallery: The Rise (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers, the Hidden Players in the History of Art

ByPhilip Hook

2017 • 1 Reader

Bizarre World: A Collection of the World's Creepiest, Strangest, and Sometimes Most Hilarious Traditions

ByE. Reid Ross

2019 • 2 Readers • 272 pages • 3

The Last Castle

ByDenise Kiernan

2017 • 17 Readers • 3.7

199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die

ByLoren Rhoads

2017 • 3 Readers • 240 pages

A is for Arsenic

ByKathryn Harkup

2015 • 15 Readers • 288 pages • 4.3

The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice

ByJudith Mackrell

2017 • 2 Readers

The Fabric of Civilization

ByVirginia Postrel

2021 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 4

The Sun and Her Stars

ByDonna Rifkind

2020 • 3 Readers • 352 pages

New York Behind Closed Doors

ByPolly Devlin

2017 • 1 Reader • 386 pages

A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould

BySusan Ronald

1 Reader

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books

ByMartin Edwards

2017 • 3 Readers • 357 pages • 4

Paris: An Inspired Wander Through the City of Lights

ByAlexandra Carroll

1 Reader

The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry

ByWendy Doniger

2017 • 1 Reader • 4

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood

ByHilary A. Hallett

2022 • 3 Readers • 396 pages • 4

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