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Love in the Time of Cholera

ByGabriel García Márquez,Edith Grossman(Translator)

1985 • 523 Readers • 3.7

The Secret Lives of Codebreakers: The Men and Women Who Cracked the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park

BySinclair McKay

2010 • 4 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Code Breaking

Code Breaking: A History and Explanation

ByRudolph Kippenhahn

1999 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America

ByGeoffrey O'Brien

2010 • 3 Readers • 368 pages

Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and Infamous

ByMarlene Wagman-Geller

2015 • 2 Readers

The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway

ByDoug Most

2014 • 1 Reader

The sandcastle girls

ByChris Bohjalian

2012 • 25 Readers • 299 pages • 3.9

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century

ByPeter Pringle

2008 • 2 Readers • 370 pages

Quicksand

ByNella Larsen

1928 • 22 Readers • 192 pages • 2.3

#2 of 3 in Thomas Cromwell

Bring Up the Bodies

ByHilary Mantel

2012 • 170 Readers • 432 pages • 4.3

Beyond Belief

ByJenna Miscavige Hill,Lisa Pulitzer

2013 • 43 Readers • 416 pages • 3.9

#1 of 3 in Thomas Cromwell

Wolf Hall

ByHilary Mantel

2009 • 446 Readers • 26 pages • 3.9

My Own Story

ByEmmeline Pankhurst

1914 • 8 Readers • 364 pages • 5

Bad Girls

ByJan Stradling

2008 • 2 Readers • 287 pages

Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952

ByLady Diana Cooper

2013 • 1 Reader • 528 pages

#1 of 2 in Triffids

The Day of the Triffids

ByJohn Wyndham

1967 • 247 Readers • 191 pages • 3.8

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

ByTom Standage

1998 • 38 Readers • 3.8

What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

ByAbby Fisher,Karen Hess,+1 more

1995 • 1 Reader • 96 pages

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

ByA'Lelia Perry Bundles

2 Readers

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

ByElizabeth Taylor

1971 • 4 Readers • 232 pages • 5

Storyteller

ByDonald Sturrock

2010 • 3 Readers • 672 pages

Digging for Richard III

Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King

ByMike Pitts

2014 • 1 Reader

Madame Tussaud

ByKate Berridge

2 Readers

A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing

ByAnna Thomasson

2015 • 2 Readers • 432 pages

Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth

ByLee Jackson

2014 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

ByDavid Grann

2010 • 27 Readers • 418 pages • 3.2

How to Be a Heroine

BySamantha Ellis

2014 • 10 Readers • 272 pages • 3

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

ByB.J. Novak

2014 • 2 Readers • 4

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

ByErik Larson

2015 • 225 Readers • 450 pages • 4

How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

ByFrances Wilson

2011 • 1 Reader

Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr

ByStephen Michael Shearer

2010 • 2 Readers • 480 pages

Lady on the Hill

Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon

ByHoward E. Covington Jr.,The Biltmore Company

2006 • 2 Readers

Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic

ByElizabeth Kaye

2012 • 3 Readers • 70 pages • 5

The Lives of the Muses

The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired

ByFrancine Prose

2002 • 1 Reader

Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power

ByVirginia Rounding

2006 • 2 Readers • 566 pages

Seeing Fairies: From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society, Authentic Reports of Fairies in Modern Times

ByMarjorie T. Johnson

2014 • 1 Reader

Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans

ByVirginia Rounding

2003 • 4 Readers • 352 pages

Alix and Nicky

ByVirginia Rounding

2 Readers

Cranky Ladies of History

ByGarth Nix,Juliet Marillier,+20 more

2015 • 6 Readers • 320 pages

The Code of Love: An Astonishing True Tale of Secrets, Love, and War

ByAndro Linklater

2000 • 1 Reader • 324 pages

Living in the Shadow of Death

Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History

BySheila M. Rothman

1994 • 2 Readers

Monsters

Monsters: History's Most Evil Men And Women

BySimon Sebag Montefiore

2008 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Trigger Warning

ByNeil Gaiman

2001 • 250 Readers • 250 pages • 3.8

Almost Famous Women: Stories

ByMegan Mayhew Bergman

2015 • 14 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

Close to shore

ByMichael Capuzzo

2001 • 5 Readers • 336 pages • 4

Sophia

ByAnita Anand

2015 • 8 Readers • 416 pages

The Hounds of the Mórrígan

ByPat O'Shea

1985 • 10 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

#1 of 3 in A Scots Quair

Sunset Song

ByLewis Grassic Gibbon

1932 • 18 Readers • 272 pages • 4.5

Time to Dance, a Time to Die

ByJohn Waller

2008 • 4 Readers • 267 pages

What Good Are the Arts?

ByJohn Carey

2005 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 3

An Adventure

ByC.A.E. Moberly,Eleanor F. Jourdain

1910 • 1 Reader

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

ByE.L. Konigsburg

1967 • 21 Readers • 176 pages • 4.3

Princesses on the Wards: Royal Women in Nursing through Wars and Revolutions

ByCoryne Hall

2014 • 1 Reader

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

ByJacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

2014 • 26 Readers • 568 pages • 4

The Blue Tattoo

ByMargot Mifflin

2009 • 6 Readers • 280 pages • 3

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

ByEdmund de Waal

2010 • 29 Readers • 368 pages • 3.9

Station X

Pan Grand Strategy Series

Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

ByMichael Smith(Editor)

1998 • 1 Reader • 184 pages

The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole

ByAnthony Galvin

2014 • 1 Reader • 351 pages

The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War

ByDick Lehr

2014 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

ByMargalit Fox

2013 • 5 Readers • 3

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel

ByFrancine Prose

2014 • 9 Readers • 448 pages

#1 of 6 in The Lymond Chronicles

The Game of Kings

ByDorothy Dunnett

1961 • 80 Readers • 512 pages • 4.3

Vanity Fair Selections From America's Most Memorable Magazine: A Cavalcade of the 1920s and 1930s

ByCleveland Amory,F. Bradlee

1960 • 1 Reader

A Magnificent Obsession

A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy

ByHelen Rappaport

2011 • 4 Readers • 336 pages

Indiana

ByGeorge Sand

1832 • 6 Readers • 395 pages • 4

AC/DC

ByTom McNichol

2 Readers

Elsa Schiaparelli

ByMeryle Secrest

1 Reader

Discworld Companion Books

The Compleat Ankh-Morpork

ByTerry Pratchett

2012 • 2 Readers • 128 pages • 5

#2 of 4 in Catharine Arnold's London

Bedlam: London and Its Mad

ByCatharine Arnold

2008 • 6 Readers • 277 pages • 2.5

The Female Malady

The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980

ByElaine Showalter

1985 • 5 Readers • 308 pages

Inconvenient People

BySarah Wise

2012 • 5 Readers • 496 pages

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

Parable of the Sower

ByOctavia E. Butler

1993 • 967 Readers • 350 pages • 4.2

Winterbound

ByMargery Williams Bianco

1936 • 2 Readers • 234 pages

The House of Mitford

ByJonathan Guinness

1985 • 1 Reader

#1 of 5 in Jackaby

Jackaby

ByWilliam Ritter

2014 • 113 Readers • 299 pages • 3.6

The Sleeper and the Spindle

ByNeil Gaiman

2013 • 159 Readers • 72 pages • 3.8

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

ByAngela Carter

1978 • 176 Readers • 164 pages • 3.7

Travelling to infinity

ByJane Hawking

2014 • 5 Readers • 487 pages • 4

The Brilliant History of Color in Art

ByVictoria Finlay

2014 • 2 Readers • 166 pages

Any Human Heart

ByWilliam Boyd

2002 • 40 Readers • 498 pages • 3.7

#2 of 25 in Roderick Alleyn

Enter a Murderer

ByNgaio Marsh,James Saxom

1935 • 11 Readers • 245 pages • 3.7

Children of the Sun

Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918

ByMartin Burgess Green

1976 • 1 Reader • 518 pages

The Penguin Book of Witches

ByKatherine Howe(Editor)

2014 • 18 Readers • 322 pages • 4

Yes Please

ByAmy Poehler

2014 • 371 Readers • 329 pages • 3.8

Hetty

ByCharles Slack

1 Reader

The Birth of the Pill

ByJonathan Eig

2014 • 14 Readers • 400 pages • 4.1

Bomber Girls

ByM.J. Foreman

2014 • 1 Reader

Wild Girls

ByDiana Souhami

2004 • 2 Readers • 240 pages

Women of Action

Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics

ByKathryn J. Atwood

2014 • 2 Readers • 256 pages

No Plot? No Problem!

ByChris Baty

2004 • 25 Readers • 176 pages • 4

The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten

ByJeffrey Kacirk

2000 • 3 Readers • 234 pages

The Fellowship

ByRoger Friedland,Harold Zellman

2005 • 1 Reader • 704 pages

A Chosen Exile

ByAllyson Hobbs

2014 • 2 Readers • 394 pages

The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

ByCharlotte Mosley,Evelyn Waugh

1996 • 2 Readers • 527 pages

The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

Odd Thomas

ByJohn Tayman

2005 • 158 Readers • 435 pages • 3.9

Bad Feminist

ByRoxane Gay

2014 • 253 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

#1 of 7 in Tomorrow

Tomorrow, When the War Began

ByJohn Marsden

1993 • 87 Readers • 293 pages • 3.7

America 1844

ByJohn Bicknell

1 Reader

The Evolution Man

The Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father

ByRoy Lewis

1960 • 4 Readers • 3

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

ByEbenezer Cobham Brewer,Adrian Room

1870 • 5 Readers • 1,326 pages • 4

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