Hardcover

The Robe

ByLloyd C. Douglas

1942 • 17 Readers • 723 pages • 3.7

The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story

ByJohn Gimlette

2 Readers • 464 pages

On the Natural History of Destruction

ByW.G. Sebald,Anthea Bell(translator)

1999 • 7 Readers • 224 pages • 4

The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption

ByJ.C. Sharman

1 Reader

Treasure Islands

ByNicholas Shaxson

2011 • 6 Readers • 272 pages

#1 of 3 in The Hundred Years War

Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, Volume 1

ByJonathan Sumption

1990 • 5 Readers

The Poems of François Villon

ByFrançois Villon,Galway Kinnell(Translator)

1459 • 5 Readers • 246 pages • 4

Justinian's Flea

ByWilliam Rosen

The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money

ByFrederik Obermaier,Simon Pare(Translator),+2 more

2016 • 8 Readers • 4

Empires of the Normans: Conquerors of Europe

ByLevi Roach

2022 • 4 Readers • 301 pages

Lapvona

ByOttessa Moshfegh

2022 • 302 Readers • 320 pages • 3.6

Billion Dollar Whale

ByTom Wright,Bradley Hope

2018 • 72 Readers • 400 pages • 3.6

The Normans

ByLars Brownworth

2014 • 5 Readers • 3.5

Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus

ByDavid Quammen

2014 • 7 Readers • 4.5

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

ByNorman F. Cantor

2015 • 9 Readers • 256 pages • 3.5

Rome And The Barbarians

ByKenneth W. Harl

2004 • 2 Readers

Hyperspace

ByMichio Kaku

1994 • 68 Readers • 384 pages • 4.5

The Open Yale Courses Series

Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

ByFrank M. Snowden III

2019 • 6 Readers • 5

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

The Third Chimpanzee

ByJared Diamond

1991 • 32 Readers • 407 pages • 4.2

The Great Mortality

ByJohn Kelly

2005 • 33 Readers • 364 pages • 3.6

#4 of 5 in Captain Martin Bora

Tin Sky

ByBen Pastor

Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History

ByCharles J. Halperin

1985 • 3 Readers • 180 pages

Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

BySimon Garfield

The Sovereign Individual

ByJames Dale Davidson,Lord William Rees-Mogg

1999 • 58 Readers • 448 pages • 2

Forty-Ninth

ByBoris Pronsky,Craig Britton

2021 • 1 Reader

Flying Blind

ByPeter Robison

2021 • 25 Readers • 304 pages • 4.5

We Lie Here

ByRachel Howzell Hall

2022 • 22 Readers • 2.3

The Origin of Species

ByCharles Darwin

1859 • 228 Readers • 439 pages • 4.2

Hamnet

ByMaggie O'Farrell

2020 • 533 Readers • 321 pages • 4.2

#1 of 3 in Fin d’Empire

La Bataille

ByPatrick Rambaud

#1 of 4 in Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove

ByLarry McMurtry

1985 • 489 Readers • 858 pages • 4.6

Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

ByAlex Epstein

2022 • 8 Readers • 3.5

The Hong Kong Diaries

ByChris Patten

2022 • 2 Readers • 512 pages

The Proteus Operation

ByJames P. Hogan

1985 • 6 Readers • 428 pages • 4

The Death of Ivan Ilych

ByLeo Tolstoy,Aylmer Maude(Translator),+2 more

1866 • 387 Readers • 70 pages • 4.2

#3 of 3 in Mediterranean Epic Trilogy

City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

ByRoger Crowley

Los demonios de Berlín

#3 of 4 in Teniente Arturo Andrade

Los demonios de Berlín

ByIgnacio del Valle

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

ByStephen Hawking

Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness

1 Library of Arabic Literature

Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North

ByAhmad ibn Fadlān,أحمد بن فضلان,+2 more

921 • 7 Readers • 239 pages • 3.5

L'Ordre du jour

ByÉric Vuillard

The Old Man and His Sons

ByHeðin Brú,John F. West(Translator)

1940 • 3 Readers

#3 of 8 in John Wells

The Silent Man

ByAlex Berenson

River Kings

ByCat Jarman

The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War

ByWilliam Manchester

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

ByDavid Sedaris

2005 • 213 Readers • 308 pages • 4

Les Compagnies des Indes orientales

ByPhilippe Haudrere

1 Reader

#8 of 16 in Judge Dee

Le pavillon rouge

ByRobert van Gulik

#1 of 4 in Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club

ByRichard Osman

2020 • 974 Readers • 377 pages • 3.9

In Five Years

ByRebecca Serle

2020 • 312 Readers • 255 pages • 3.4

The Twenty Years' Crisis

ByEdward Hallett Carr

1939 • 1 Reader

#2 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Collapse

ByJared Diamond

Raiders of the Nile

BySteven Saylor

#1 of 1 in Armor of God

The Armor of God

ByDiego Valenzuela

2014 • 1 Reader • 344 pages

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

ByVladislav M. Zubok

2022 • 19 Readers • 535 pages • 4

Quicksilver

ByNeal Stephenson

223 Readers • 3.7

War in the History of Economic Thought: Economists and the Question of War

ByYukihiro Ikeda(Editor),Annalisa Rosselli(Editor)

History of the Ancient World

New Rome: The Empire in the East

ByPaul Stephenson

2022 • 3 Readers • 432 pages

A History of Money

A History of Money: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

ByGlyn Davies

2002 • 2 Readers • 735 pages

The White Ship

ByCharles Spencer

2020 • 22 Readers • 304 pages • 3.9

Anathem

ByNeal Stephenson

2008 • 492 Readers • 1,092 pages • 4.2

Antarctica

Antarctica: or, Two Years Amongst the Ice of the South Pole

ByOtto Nordenskjöld

1904 • 1 Reader

The Sea Shall Embrace Them

The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic

ByDavid W. Shaw

2002 • 1 Reader

The Opium Wars

The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another

ByW. Travis Hanes III

2003 • 2 Readers

Naufrágios

ByJosé Espadeiro Martins(Translator),Francisco Coloane

The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics

ByEric D. Beinhocker

2006 • 16 Readers • 527 pages • 5

Permanent Record

ByEdward Snowden

2019 • 274 Readers • 339 pages • 4.5

American Empire Project

Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

ByGreg Grandin

2006 • 7 Readers

Vietnam in the Global Economy: The Dynamics of Integration, Decentralization, and Contested Politics

ByThomas Jandl

2013 • 1 Reader

The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990

ByMarilyn B. Young

The Iron Triangle

The Iron Triangle: A Novel of the Vietnam War

ByDouglas L. Edwards

2 Readers

Ship of Ghosts

ByJames D. Hornfischer

4 Readers

#1 of 3 in The Salterton Trilogy

Tempest-Tost

ByRobertson Davies

1951 • 6 Readers • 248 pages • 3.7

The tiger warrior

ByDavid J. L. Gibbins

A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918

ByRobert A. Kann

1974 • 1 Reader • 646 pages

The Issue of War

The Issue of War: States, Societies, and the Far Eastern Conflict, 1941-1945

ByChristopher G. Thorne

1985 • 1 Reader

Political Economy of the Raj 1914-1947

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

Political Economy of the Raj 1914-1947: The Economics of Decolonization in India

ByB.R. Tomlinson

1979 • 1 Reader • 202 pages

#18 of 2 in The Rise of Modern Europe

The World in the Crucible, 1914-1919

ByBernadotte E. Schmitt,Harold C. Vedeler

1984 • 1 Reader

Histoire économique de la France du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours, tome 1 : De l'Ancien Régime à la Première Guerre mondiale

ByJean-Charles Asselain

1984 • 1 Reader • 221 pages

Mussolini's Roman Empire

ByDenis Mack Smith

1976 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

Histoire Économique et Financière de la France d'Ancien Régime

ByYves Leclercq

1 Reader • 185 pages

The Global Conflict

The Global Conflict: The International Rivalry of the Great Powers, 1880-1990

ByChristopher John Bartlett

1984 • 1 Reader • 433 pages

China Market

China Market: America's Quest for Informal Empire, 1893-1901

ByThomas J. McCormick

1967 • 1 Reader

Design for Total War, Arms, and Economics in the Third Reich

ByBerenice Carroll

1 Reader

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

ByJoel Bakan

2003 • 22 Readers • 228 pages • 4

#1 of 10 in Malazan Book of the Fallen

Gardens of the Moon

BySteven Erikson

1999 • 979 Readers • 559 pages • 3.9

War

ByMargaret MacMillan

2020 • 17 Readers • 332 pages • 3

#1 of 3 in RAF

Piece of Cake

ByDerek Robinson

1983 • 1 Reader • 569 pages

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

ByG.K. Chesterton,José Laurênio de Mello

1908 • 134 Readers • 182 pages • 3.7

The True Believer

ByEric Hoffer

1951 • 63 Readers • 188 pages • 3.4

Cipião, o Africano

#2 of 2 in The Carthage Trilogy

Cipião, o Africano

ByRoss Leckie,Francisco de Oliveira Faia(Translator)

#1 of 3 in Bosnian Trilogy

The Bridge on the Drina

ByIvo Andrić,Lovett F. Edwards(Translator)

1959 • 49 Readers • 320 pages • 3.9

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

BySamuel Taylor Coleridge

Literature or Life

ByJorge Semprún,Linda Coverdale(Translator)

1994 • 2 Readers

Gunnar's Daughter

BySigrid Undset,Arthur G. Chater(Translator)

1909 • 4 Readers • 161 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in Alain Lausard Adventures

Bonaparte's Sons

ByRichard Howard

1997 • 1 Reader

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

ByT.S. Eliot

1963 • 15 Readers • 240 pages • 4

Railroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology and the Unification of Germany

ByDennis E. Showalter

1975 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present

ByDavid S. Landes

1969 • 2 Readers

The tools of Empire : technology and European imperialism in the nineteenth century

ByDaniel R. Headrick

1981 • 2 Readers • 224 pages

Industrial Revolution on the Continent

Industrial Revolution on the Continent: Germany, France, Russia 1800-1914

ByW.O. Henderson

1961 • 1 Reader

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