History 1,067 books by Carla

Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood

ByGreg Merritt

1 Reader • 5

Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

ByLucette Matalon Lagnado,Sheila Cohn Dekel

1991 • 5 Readers

Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory

ByKimberly L. Craft

2009 • 3 Readers

Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes

ByEmily Craig

2004 • 2 Readers • 3

The Last Lincolns: The RiseFall of a Great American Family

ByCharles Lachman

1 Reader

Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory, and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk

ByMatthew Von Unwerth

1 Reader

Weird Texas: Your travel guide to Texas's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

ByRob Riggs, Mark Sceurman, Wesley Treat, Heather Shade, Mark Moran

1 Reader • 3

Them That Believe: The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition

ByW. Paul Williamson, Ralph W. Hood Jr.

1 Reader

The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation

ByHarold Schechter

2014 • 3 Readers • 5

Black Dahlia White Rose: Stories

ByJoyce Carol Oates

2011 • 3 Readers • 274 pages • 4

Zelda

ByNancy Milford

1970 • 22 Readers • 511 pages • 4.3

Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

ByHenry VIII King of England

1 Reader • 4

The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End

ByHarold Schechter

1 Reader • 4

#3 of 3 in The Forest of Hands and Teeth

The Dark and Hollow Places

ByCarrie Ryan

2011 • 17 Readers • 376 pages • 3.4

Why They Kill

ByRichard Rhodes

3 Readers

The Year of Living Biblically

ByA. J. Jacobs

2008 • 5 Readers • 416 pages • 3.3

Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness, and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World

ByDavid King

1 Reader

An Anatomy of Addiction

ByHoward Markel

2011 • 2 Readers • 352 pages

Dead Girls

ByErik German

1 Reader • 4

The Women Jefferson Loved

ByVirginia Scharff

1 Reader

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

ByHampton Sides

2010 • 28 Readers • 397 pages • 4.3

mental_floss: The Book: The Greatest Lists in the History of Listory

ByMangesh Hattikudur, Will Pearson

1 Reader • 4

Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

ByKate Cooper

1 Reader

Trial by Fury: Internet Savagery and the Amanda Knox Case

ByDouglas Preston

1 Reader • 5

How to survive the Titanic

ByFrances Wilson

2 Readers

Isaac's Storm

ByErik Larson

2000 • 90 Readers • 338 pages • 4.2

Monica's Story

ByAndrew Morton

1999 • 2 Readers • 432 pages • 4

New Religions and the Nazis

ByKarla Poewe

1 Reader

Thunderstruck

ByErik Larson

2006 • 117 Readers • 481 pages • 3.7

Saints and Sinners: Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell , Matthew Fox

ByLawrence Wright

1993 • 2 Readers • 288 pages

God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story

ByJames McIvor

1 Reader

The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

ByGary B. Nash

2005 • 1 Reader • 548 pages

Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme

ByChris Roberts

1 Reader

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

ByJames Shapiro

2005 • 13 Readers • 333 pages • 3.6

Upon the altar of the nation

ByHarry S. Stout

1 Reader

Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed

ByLaurence Gardner

1 Reader

The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation

Bymartin- davidson

2010 • 2 Readers

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack And The Japanese Psyche

ByHaruki Murakami,Alfred Birnbaum(Translator),+1 more

1997 • 117 Readers • 400 pages • 3.8

The Inventor and the Tycoon

ByEdward Ball

2012 • 3 Readers • 447 pages • 3

Fanny and Stella

ByNeil McKenna

2013 • 9 Readers • 416 pages

Searching for Calamity: The Life and Times of Calamity Jane

ByLinda Jucovy

1 Reader

What Killed Jane Austen?: And Other Medical Mysteries

ByJim Leavesley, George Biro

1 Reader

Violette Nozière: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris

BySarah Maza

1 Reader

Going Clear

ByLawrence Wright

2013 • 127 Readers • 450 pages • 4

God's War: A New History of the Crusades

ByChristopher Tyerman

2 Readers

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

ByLaura Amy Schlitz

2007 • 15 Readers • 96 pages • 3.5

Mortal Evidence: The Forensics Behind Nine Shocking Cases

ByCyril H. Wecht,Mark Curriden,+1 more

2003 • 2 Readers

#1 of 3 in Slains

The Winter Sea

BySusanna Kearsley

2008 • 84 Readers • 3.9

Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner

ByMichael Baden,Judith Adler Hennessee

1989 • 4 Readers • 240 pages • 3

#1 of 5 in The Hinges of History

How the Irish Saved Civilization

ByThomas Cahill

1995 • 97 Readers • 274 pages • 3.5

#2 of 2 in Richard P. Feynman

What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character

ByRichard P. Feynman,Ralph Leighton

1988 • 75 Readers • 342 pages • 4

Deranged

ByHarold Schechter

1990 • 12 Readers • 242 pages • 4

Curran Vs. Catholic University: A Study Of Authority And Freedom In Conflict

ByLarry Witham

1 Reader

Unsolved Mysteries of the Past

ByReader's Digest Association

1 Reader

Mysteries of the Unexplained

ByRichard Marshall, Carroll C. Calkins

1 Reader

The Monster of Florence

ByDouglas Preston

2008 • 76 Readers • 354 pages • 3.6

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

ByJason Zinoman

15 Readers • 4

The Women Of Mormonism: Or The Story Of Polygamy As Told By The Victims Themselves

ByJennie Anderson Froiseth

1 Reader

American Folkways

Mormon Country

ByWallace Stegner

1942 • 2 Readers • 362 pages

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

BySarah Barringer Gordon

1 Reader

Emma Lee

ByJuanita Brooks

1 Reader

Calico Captive

ByElizabeth George Speare

1957 • 9 Readers • 288 pages • 3

A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof

ByRoger Clarke

2012 • 6 Readers • 349 pages • 3.5

Boundaries of the Soul

ByJune K. Singer

1972 • 4 Readers • 528 pages • 4

Weird New England

ByJoseph A. Citro, Mark Sceurman, Mark Moran

1 Reader • 4

The Bronze Bow

ByElizabeth George Speare

1961 • 28 Readers • 256 pages • 4.1

The Testament of Mary

ByColm Tóibín

2012 • 52 Readers • 81 pages • 3.6

True Crime History

The Good-Bye Door

ByDiana Britt Franklin

2006 • 2 Readers • 244 pages • 4

The Lincolns

ByDaniel Mark Epstein

2009 • 1 Reader • 586 pages

The Story of My Life

ByHelen Keller

1903 • 106 Readers • 240 pages • 3.9

The Miracle Worker

ByWilliam Gibson

1956 • 26 Readers • 122 pages • 4.1

Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller

ByKim E. Nielsen

1 Reader

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

ByAsti Hustvedt

2011 • 3 Readers • 372 pages

The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America

ByPaul Harvey, Edward J. Blum

1 Reader

#1 of 3 in The Theban Plays

The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

ByPaul Roche,Sophocles

-450 • 4 Readers • 4

The Crimes of England

ByG.K. Chesterton

2 Readers

Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum

ByMark Stevens

1 Reader • 4

Exploring the Nicene Creed

ByM.R. Hyde

1 Reader

Psycho USA

ByHarold Schechter

2012 • 4 Readers • 417 pages • 5

American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles

ByThomas Keneally

2002 • 1 Reader • 418 pages

Eugenics and Other Evils

ByG.K. Chesterton

1922 • 3 Readers • 180 pages • 3.5

Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories

ByBarbara T. Gates

1988 • 2 Readers • 190 pages

God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible

ByAdam Nicolson

2003 • 6 Readers • 332 pages • 3

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

ByEamon Duffy

1992 • 13 Readers • 700 pages

Falling in Love with Joseph Smith: My Search for the Real Prophet

ByJane Barnes

1 Reader

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

ByJohn Boswell

3 Readers

Marmee & Louisa

ByEve LaPlante

2012 • 6 Readers • 386 pages

American Lives

Searching for Tamsen Donner

ByGabrielle Burton

2009 • 2 Readers • 328 pages

The Bronte Myth

ByLucasta Miller

2001 • 5 Readers • 368 pages

Stories in Stone

ByDouglas Keister

2004 • 4 Readers

Dr. Johnson's London

ByLiza Picard

2000 • 4 Readers • 384 pages

#1 of 7 in David Hunter

The Chemistry of Death

BySimon Beckett

2006 • 56 Readers • 313 pages • 3.6

#1 of 5 in Catharine Arnold's London

Necropolis

ByCatharine Arnold

2006 • 6 Readers • 328 pages • 3

Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain

ByMichael Farquhar

2011 • 2 Readers • 321 pages • 4

London: The Biography

ByPeter Ackroyd

2000 • 25 Readers • 801 pages • 3.3

From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era

ByStephen Kent

1 Reader

Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History

ByPhilip Jenkins

2 Readers

Feet of Clay

ByAnthony Storr

1996 • 3 Readers • 288 pages

Petals in the Ashes

ByMary Hooper

1 Reader • 4

Malcolm X: Speeches at Harvard

ByArchie C. Epps, Malcolm X

1 Reader

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