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#110

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

ByAndrew L. Erdman

2012 • 2 Readers • 4

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Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

2023 • 6 Readers • 4.5

#1

My Lobotomy: A Memoir

ByHoward Dully,Charles Fleming

2007 • 25 Readers • 288 pages • 3.9

#1

Maud: The Early Years of L.M. Montgomery

1992 • 1 Reader • 125 pages

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A perfect union

ByCatherine Allgor

2006 • 2 Readers • 509 pages

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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

1982 • 14 Readers • 426 pages • 4

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Scandalous Women

ByElizabeth Kerri Mahon

2011 • 2 Readers • 304 pages • 4

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Daughters and rebels: An autobiography

ByJessica Mitford

1960 • 11 Readers • 284 pages • 4

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

1966 • 335 Readers • 460 pages • 4.5

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Florence Harding

ByCarl Sferrazza Anthony

1998 • 4 Readers • 672 pages • 4

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#1 of 3 in Testament Trilogy

Testament of Youth: One Woman's Haunting Record of the First World War

ByVera Brittain

1933 • 28 Readers • 661 pages • 4.5

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#1 of 3 in The Autobiographies

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

ByFrederick Douglass

1845 • 167 Readers • 98 pages • 4.2

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Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly

ByJennifer Fleischner

2003 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

2007 • 88 Readers • 238 pages • 4

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Go Down Together

2009 • 12 Readers • 468 pages • 3.5

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Dr. Mèutter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine

ByCristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

2014 • 18 Readers • 371 pages • 4.4

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Down and Out in Paris and London

ByGeorge Orwell

1933 • 164 Readers • 256 pages • 4

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ByMary S. Lovell

2001 • 10 Readers • 611 pages • 4.5

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I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

2020 • 47 Readers • 5 pages • 3.7

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ByBill Dedman,Paul Clark Newell Jr.

2013 • 35 Readers • 456 pages • 3.8

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

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey

ByFiona Carnarvon

2013 • 8 Readers • 368 pages • 3.8

#1

ByPaula Uruburu

2008 • 6 Readers • 386 pages • 4

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Fathers and Sons

ByAlexander Waugh

2008 • 2 Readers • 3

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ByLaura Claridge

2008 • 2 Readers • 544 pages • 4

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ByLouisa Thomas

2016 • 5 Readers • 512 pages • 5

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American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson

1990 • 1 Reader

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Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais

BySuzanne Fagence Cooper

2010 • 2 Readers • 276 pages • 4

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The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris

ByJonathan Kirsch

2013 • 2 Readers • 352 pages • 4

#1

Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages

2007 • 1 Reader • 4

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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

ByPhilip Zaleski,Carol Zaleski

2015 • 4 Readers • 644 pages • 4

#1

ByLaura Thompson

2022 • 11 Readers • 384 pages • 3.3

#1

The Wheel of Things: A Biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

ByMollie Gillen

1975 • 1 Reader

#1

Voltaire in Love

ByNancy Mitford

1957 • 4 Readers • 244 pages

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Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham

ByEmily S. Bingham

2015 • 1 Reader • 384 pages • 4

#1

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes* * The Official Biography

2022 • 35 Readers • 480 pages • 4.7

#1

Flaubert and Madame Bovary

ByFrancis Steegmuller

1977 • 2 Readers

#1

The Curse of Beauty

2016 • 2 Readers • 336 pages • 3

#1

An Ordinary Man

ByPaul Rusesabagina

2 Readers • 4

#1

The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects

2015 • 1 Reader • 5

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The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

2018 • 6 Readers • 3

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The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

ByLaura Thompson

2015 • 3 Readers • 416 pages • 4

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The House of Mitford

ByJonathan Guinness

1985 • 1 Reader

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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel

ByAnne de Courcy

2003 • 3 Readers • 4

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Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women: Elisabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Vanderbilt, and Their Times

ByAlfred Allan Lewis

2000 • 1 Reader

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Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice

2014 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 4

#1

Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting

ByAnn Hood(Editor)

2013 • 2 Readers • 3.5

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The Wheel of Fortune: The Autobiography of Edith Piaf

ByÉdith Piaf,Andree Masoin de Virton(Translator),+1 more

1958 • 1 Reader

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The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein

ByDorothy Hoobler,Thomas Hoobler

2006 • 1 Reader • 4

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Nine Suitcases: A Memoir

1946 • 2 Readers

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The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons

ByGraham Chapman,John Cleese,+4 more

2003 • 7 Readers • 359 pages • 4

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The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum

ByRebecca Loncraine

2009 • 2 Readers • 352 pages • 4

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A Little Learning

1964 • 1 Reader

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Shopping, seduction & Mr. Selfridge

ByLindy Woodhead

2007 • 3 Readers • 353 pages • 3.5

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Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

ByJudith Mackrell

2013 • 7 Readers • 512 pages • 5

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Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife

ByGioia Diliberto

1992 • 1 Reader • 5

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Hitch-22: A Memoir

ByChristopher Hitchens

2010 • 2 Readers • 434 pages • 4

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When the going was good

1 Reader

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ByRichard Rhodes

2011 • 9 Readers • 261 pages • 2.8

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Belles on Their Toes (Cheaper by the Dozen #2)

ByFrank B. Gilbreth, Jr.

1 Reader • 3

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ByNancy Milford

2002 • 20 Readers • 4

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ByJennet Conant

2008 • 6 Readers • 393 pages • 4.5

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The forgotten founding father

ByJoshua C. Kendall

4 Readers • 3

#1

ByDeborah Davis

2004 • 13 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne

ByDavid Starkey

2000 • 14 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

#1

The scarlet sisters

ByMyra MacPherson

3 Readers • 4

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#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

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Behind the Mask

ByMatthew Dennison

2015 • 2 Readers • 384 pages • 3

#1

2 Readers

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Marmee & Louisa

2012 • 6 Readers • 386 pages

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Lucrezia Borgia : Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy

BySarah Bradford

2004 • 11 Readers • 366 pages • 3.3

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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

ByCarmela Ciuraru

2023 • 3 Readers • 4

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Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

ByDevoney Looser

4 Readers

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The President and the Assassin

2013 • 4 Readers • 452 pages • 3

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Romantic Outlaws

ByCharlotte Gordon

2016 • 48 Readers • 674 pages • 5

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#2 of 3 in The Romanov Sisters

The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra

ByHelen Rappaport

2014 • 42 Readers • 513 pages • 4

#1

2007 • 58 Readers • 260 pages • 3.5

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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

2014 • 35 Readers • 544 pages • 3.7

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Charity and Sylvia

ByRachel Hope Cleves

2014 • 8 Readers • 336 pages • 5

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A Tale of Two Murders

ByLaura Thompson

2018 • 2 Readers • 448 pages • 5

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ByNancy Mitford

1966 • 3 Readers • 272 pages

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Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia

1998 • 4 Readers

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#2 of 4 in The Romanovs

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

ByRobert K. Massie

2011 • 79 Readers • 625 pages • 4.1

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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

ByClaudia Renton

2014 • 5 Readers • 4

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Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

ByStacy A. Cordery

2007 • 6 Readers • 4

#1

Cheaper by the dozen

ByFrank B. Gilbreth, Jr.

2 Readers • 4

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The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce

ByHallie Rubenhold

2008 • 3 Readers • 4

#1

Zelda: a Biography

ByNancy Milford

1970 • 1 Reader • 424 pages

#1

Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

ByMarc Peyser,Timothy D. Dwyer

2015 • 3 Readers • 332 pages • 4.5

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The Wright Brothers

ByDavid McCullough

2015 • 101 Readers • 336 pages • 4

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ByWilliam McBrien

1998 • 1 Reader • 3

#1

The World That Was Ours

ByHilda Bernstein

1967 • 2 Readers • 394 pages

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Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman

ByJulia Scheeres,Allison Gilbert

1 Reader • 352 pages • 4

#1

Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic

2007 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 4

#1

Orange Is the New Black

2010 • 117 Readers • 298 pages • 3.6

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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

ByM.T. Anderson

2015 • 19 Readers • 4.3

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Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby

ByGeoffrey Wolff

1976 • 4 Readers • 379 pages

#1

Frederick the Great

ByNancy Mitford

1970 • 4 Readers • 304 pages

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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

1998 • 5 Readers • 470 pages • 4

#1

The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

2012 • 1 Reader • 464 pages • 4

#1

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

ByKate Summerscale

2012 • 10 Readers • 320 pages • 3.7