History 645 books by Laura

#103

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914

ByBarbara W. Tuchman

1965 • 5 Readers • 608 pages

#104

The Swerve

ByStephen Greenblatt

2011 • 20 Readers • 356 pages • 3.7

#105

Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I

ByTracy Borman

2011 • 3 Readers • 296 pages • 4

#106

#1 of 3 in The History of the World

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

BySusan Wise Bauer

2007 • 51 Readers • 896 pages • 4.2

#107

Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future

ByIan Morris

2010 • 25 Readers • 768 pages • 4.5

#108

Clash of Crowns: William the Conqueror, Richard Lionheart, and Eleanor of Aquitaine―A Story of Bloodshed, Betrayal, and Revenge

ByMary McAuliffe

2012 • 1 Reader • 3

#109

#1-3 of 1 in Europe: A History

Europe

ByNorman Davies

1996 • 22 Readers • 1,392 pages • 4

#110

The Isles: A History

ByNorman Davies

1999 • 6 Readers • 1,222 pages • 4

#111

The Maid and the Queen

ByNancy Goldstone

2011 • 2 Readers • 296 pages

#112

The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

ByWendy McClure

2011 • 3 Readers • 4

#113

An Edible History of Humanity

ByTom Standage

2009 • 14 Readers • 288 pages • 3

#114

The Story of English in 100 Words

ByDavid Crystal

2011 • 9 Readers • 260 pages • 3.3

#115

Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch

ByKate Williams

2008 • 1 Reader • 3

#116

Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

ByKate Summerscale

2012 • 10 Readers • 320 pages • 3.7

#117

The Big Oyster: A Molluscular History of New York

ByMark Kurlansky

2005 • 1 Reader • 336 pages • 2

#118

The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory

ByMichael S. Malone

2012 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#119

The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

ByEdward Hollis

2009 • 2 Readers • 352 pages • 4

#120

Leonardo and the Last Supper

ByRoss King

2012 • 4 Readers • 352 pages

#121

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

ByDiarmaid MacCulloch

2009 • 15 Readers • 1,016 pages • 3.5

#122

#1 of 5 in The History of England

Foundation: The History of England Volume I

ByPeter Ackroyd

2011 • 27 Readers • 500 pages • 4

#123

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution

ByCharles R. Morris

2012 • 2 Readers • 385 pages • 2

#124

Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters

ByMatt Kaplan

2012 • 7 Readers • 244 pages

#125

Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in the Middle Ages

ByJohn Freely

2012 • 1 Reader • 348 pages

#126

Mankind

ByPamela D. Toler

1 Reader

#127

The First Thousand Years

ByRobert Louis Wilken

#128

Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers

ByJohn J. Ross

2012 • 1 Reader • 305 pages • 3

#129

Ad Infinitum

ByNicholas Ostler

2007 • 2 Readers • 382 pages

#130

Blood Will Tell: A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII

ByKyra Cornelius Kramer

1 Reader

#131

Mad science

ByRandy Alfred

1 Reader

#132

To marry an English Lord

ByGail MacColl,Carol Wallace

1989 • 12 Readers • 403 pages • 3.7

#133

Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants

ByAlison Maloney

2011 • 3 Readers • 192 pages • 3.5

#134

What’s in a Word?

ByWebb Garrison

2000 • 1 Reader • 3

#135

The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

ByPaul Collins

2013 • 2 Readers • 484 pages

#136

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World

ByHugh Brewster

2012 • 9 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

#137

Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic

ByDaniel Allen Butler

1998 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 4

#138

On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks

BySimon Garfield

2012 • 14 Readers • 464 pages • 3.6

#139

The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

ByNeil Shubin

2013 • 5 Readers • 240 pages • 4

#140

Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome

ByRita J. Markel

2003 • 1 Reader • 104 pages • 4

#141

John Grant's Science

Bogus Science: Or, Some People Really Believe These Things

ByJohn Grant

2009 • 1 Reader • 304 pages • 2

#142

Panati's extraordinary origins of everyday things.

ByCharles Panati

1987 • 5 Readers • 482 pages • 3

#143

Angels and Ages: Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age

ByAdam Gopnik

2009 • 1 Reader • 258 pages • 2

#144

Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

BySarah Gristwood

2012 • 2 Readers • 432 pages • 3

#145

Holy bones, holy dust

ByCharles Freeman

#146

The Creation of Anne Boleyn

BySusan Bordo

2013 • 9 Readers • 343 pages • 4

#147

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live

ByMarlene Zuk

2013 • 7 Readers • 328 pages • 3

#148

The Year Without Summer

ByWilliam K. Klingaman,Nicholas P. Klingaman

2013 • 5 Readers • 338 pages • 5

#149

Holy Sh*t

ByMelissa Mohr

2013 • 17 Readers • 322 pages • 3.8

#150

The Lady and Her Monsters

ByRoseanne Montillo

2013 • 8 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5

#151

The Real Jane Austen : A Life in Small Things

ByPaula Byrne

2013 • 7 Readers • 380 pages • 4.3

#152

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

ByTom Standage,Ρούλα Κοκκολιού(Translator)

2005 • 55 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5

#153

The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy

ByLeonie Frieda

2012 • 1 Reader • 448 pages • 3

#154

Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat

ByBee Wilson

2012 • 1 Reader • 3

#155

And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Time of Jesus

BySelina O'Grady

2012 • 1 Reader • 416 pages

#156

Who Was Dracula?

ByJim Steinmeyer

2013 • 3 Readers • 318 pages • 3

#157

The Children of Henry VIII

ByJohn Guy

3 Readers • 2

#158

The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire

BySusan P. Mattern

2013 • 2 Readers

#159

The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

ByMichael Haag

2012 • 2 Readers • 433 pages • 3

#160

#2 of 4 in Time Traveller's Guides

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

ByIan Mortimer

2010 • 18 Readers • 4

#161

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

ByReza Aslan

2013 • 96 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

#162

The twelve caesars

ByMatthew Dennison

#163

How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity

ByNigel Spivey

2005 • 2 Readers • 416 pages • 3

#164

Jane Austen's England

ByRoy A. Adkins,Lesley Adkins

2013 • 10 Readers • 422 pages • 3.5

#165

#3 of 3 in The History of the World

The History of the Renaissance World

BySusan Wise Bauer

2013 • 8 Readers • 785 pages • 5

#166

Shakespeare's Restless World

ByNeil MacGregor

2012 • 3 Readers • 336 pages • 5

#167

Heretics and Heroes

ByThomas Cahill

2014 • 3 Readers • 410 pages • 3

#168

History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

ByBrad Meltzer,Keith Ferrell

2013 • 6 Readers • 152 pages • 3.5

#169

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

ByMatthew Goodman

2013 • 4 Readers • 481 pages • 3

#170

Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm

ByMonte Reel

1 Reader

#171

#2 of 5 in The History of England

Tudors

ByPeter Ackroyd

2012 • 12 Readers • 535 pages

#172

The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects

ByRichard Kurin

2016 • 2 Readers • 786 pages

#173

The Infographic History of the World

ByValentina D'Efilippo,James Ball

2013 • 1 Reader • 224 pages • 3

#174

Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years

ByTom Standage

2013 • 13 Readers • 289 pages • 3.3

#175

Servants

ByLucy Lethbridge

2013 • 5 Readers • 400 pages • 3

#176

Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World

ByAlison Weir

2013 • 15 Readers • 572 pages • 3.3

#177

The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story

ByDimitra Papagianni,Michael A. Morse

2013 • 4 Readers • 3.5

#178

A History of the World in 12 Maps

ByJerry Brotton

2012 • 9 Readers • 521 pages • 3.3

#179

America The Story of Us: An Illustrated History

ByKevin Baker

2010 • 1 Reader • 4

#180

A Short History of Christianity

ByGeoffrey Blainey

2011 • 1 Reader • 613 pages • 2

#181

The World of Downton Abbey

ByJessica Fellowes

2011 • 4 Readers • 304 pages

#182

Princesses Behaving Badly

ByLinda Rodríguez McRobbie

2013 • 27 Readers • 303 pages • 3.4

#183

The chronicles of Downton Abbey

ByJessica Fellowes,Matthew Sturgis

2012 • 3 Readers • 320 pages • 3.5

#184

#1 of 2 in The Women of the Real Downton Abbey

Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle

ByFiona Carnarvon

2011 • 17 Readers • 310 pages • 3.9

#185

A History of the World in 100 Objects

ByNeil MacGregor

2010 • 39 Readers • 614 pages • 4

#186

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I

ByRichard Ned Lebow

2014 • 1 Reader

#187

Holy Holidays!: The Catholic Origins of Celebration

ByGreg Tobin

2011 • 1 Reader • 257 pages • 4

#188

This Saint's for You!: 300 Heavenly Allies Who Will Change Your Life

ByThomas J. Craughwell

2007 • 1 Reader • 486 pages • 4

#189

The Etymologicon

ByMark Forsyth

2012 • 52 Readers • 279 pages • 3.8

#190

The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family

BySusan Higginbotham

2013 • 5 Readers • 224 pages • 3

#191

Terry Jones' Barbarians

ByTerry Jones,Alan Ereira

2006 • 2 Readers • 3.5

#192

Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

ByMark Forsyth

2012 • 3 Readers • 286 pages • 3

#193

The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court

ByAnna Whitelock

2012 • 2 Readers

#194

The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History

ByChris Skidmore

2013 • 1 Reader

#195

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

ByTerry Jones,Alan Ereira

2004 • 2 Readers • 242 pages • 4

#196

The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors

ByEdward Hollis

2013 • 2 Readers • 351 pages • 3

#197

Star Wars and History

ByNancy R. Reagin(editor),Janice Liedl(editor)

2012 • 1 Reader • 382 pages

#198

Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family

ByLeanda de Lisle

2013 • 2 Readers • 578 pages • 3

#199

Gods of Olympus a History

ByBarbara Graziosi

2013 • 2 Readers • 273 pages

#200

#2 of 7 in Reflections in Natural History

THE PANDA'S THUMB: More Refelctions in Natural History

ByStephen Jay Gould

1980 • 1 Reader • 343 pages • 4

#201

#1 of 7 in Reflections in Natural History

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History

ByStephen Jay Gould

1977 • 1 Reader • 285 pages • 4

#202

The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason. The Secret Wars against the Tudors

ByDesmond Seward

5 Readers

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