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China's Last Empire

China's Last Empire: The Great Qing

ByWilliam T. Rowe, Timothy Brook

1 Reader

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

ByJared M. Diamond

1998 • 743 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

City Of The Sharp Nosed Fish

City Of The Sharp Nosed Fish: Greek Lives In Roman Egypt

ByPeter Parsons

1 Reader

Dis-Enclosure

Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity

ByGabriel Malenfant, Jean-Luc Nancy,Bettina Bergo(Translator)

1 Reader

Growing Up in Medieval London

Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History

ByBarbara A. Hanawalt

1 Reader

Facundo

Facundo: or Civilization and Barbarism

ByDomingo Faustino Sarmiento, Mary Peabody Mann, Ilan Stavans

2 Readers

China's Cosmopolitan Empire

China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty

ByMark Edward Lewis

2 Readers

#1-3 of 1 in A History of Western Philosophy

A History of Western Philosophy

ByBertrand Russell

1945 • 172 Readers • 895 pages • 4

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus

ByMichael Psellus, E.R.A. Sewter

1 Reader

Ancient Warfare and Civilization

In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire

ByRobert G. Hoyland

2014 • 4 Readers

Over the Edge of the World

ByLaurence Bergreen

2003 • 28 Readers • 500 pages

#5 of 4 in History of Imperial China

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

ByTimothy Brook

2010 • 5 Readers • 337 pages • 4

The Age of Confucian Rule

The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China

ByDieter Kuhn, Timothy Brook

1 Reader

Blood royal

ByEric Jager

2014 • 12 Readers • 323 pages • 3.5

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

ByTimothy Brook

3 Readers

Wealth and Democracy : A Political History of the American Rich

ByKevin Phillips

2002 • 3 Readers • 496 pages

The Year of Magical Thinking

ByJoan Didion

2005 • 504 Readers • 5h 1m • 4

Goethe

ByHermann Grimm

1 Reader

Der Tunnel, Roman Von Bernhard Kellermann

ByBernhard Kellermann

1 Reader

#1 of 4 in Gilead

Gilead

ByMarilynne Robinson

2004 • 268 Readers • 289 pages • 4

#1 of 12 in The Elric Saga

Elric of Melniboné

ByMichael Moorcock

1972 • 299 Readers • 24h 12m • 3.4

Lost in the Funhouse

ByJohn Barth

1988 • 28 Readers • 212 pages • 3.5

The Sea-Hawk (Dodo Press)

ByRafael Sabatini

1915 • 11 Readers • 374 pages • 3.7

Grand Babylon Hotel

ByArnold Bennett

1902 • 6 Readers • 200 pages • 3.3

#20.5 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

The Labors of Hercules (Hercule Poirot)

ByHugh Fraser,Agatha Christie

1947 • 75 Readers • 119 pages • 3.6

#11 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

Three Act Tragedy

ByAgatha Christie

1934 • 97 Readers • 230 pages • 3.5

Aztecs

Aztecs: An Interpretation

ByInga Clendinnen

1 Reader

Le Morte Darthur

Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript

BySir Thomas Malory, Helen Cooper

1 Reader

A Journal of the Plague Year

ByDaniel Defoe

1722 • 59 Readers • 328 pages • 3.5

The Great God Pan

ByArthur Machen

1890 • 96 Readers • 76 pages • 3.7

The manual of detection

ByJedediah Berry

2009 • 20 Readers • 296 pages • 3.8

Sometimes a Great Notion

ByKen Kesey

1964 • 68 Readers • 715 pages • 4.3

Raffles

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

ByRichard Lancelyn Green, E.W. Hornung

2 Readers

#1 of 2 in Melbourne Trilogy

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

ByFergus Hume

1886 • 9 Readers • 260 pages • 3.3

#15 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

Cards on the Table

ByAgatha Christie

1936 • 149 Readers • 192 pages • 3.8

#1 of 2 in Firefall

Blindsight

ByPeter Watts

2006 • 619 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

#1 of 1 in The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers

ByHermann Broch

1964 • 15 Readers • 648 pages • 5

Eminent Victorians

ByLytton Strachey, John Sutherland

2 Readers

#4 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

ByAgatha Christie

197 • 620 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

Robinson Crusoe

ByDaniel Defoe,George Stade

19 • 417 Readers • 3.4

Please, Mr. Einstein

ByJean-Claude Carrière, John Brownjohn

1 Reader

#1 of 3 in The Rise and Fall

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

ByStephen Brusatte

2018 • 289 Readers • 416 pages • 4.2

#37 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

The Clocks

ByAgatha Christie

1960 • 89 Readers • 230 pages • 3.8

Women, Compulsion, Modernity

Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism

ByJennifer L. Fleissner

1 Reader

Ethan Frome

ByEdith Wharton

1911 • 173 Readers • 178 pages • 3.2

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

ByErnest Shackleton

1919 • 6 Readers • 374 pages • 3

The Golden Peaches of Samarkand

The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of t'Ang Exotics

ByEdward H. Schafer

3 Readers

#33 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

Hickory Dickory Dock

ByAgatha Christie

1955 • 90 Readers • 192 pages • 3.6

#11 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

Crima din Orient Express

ByAgatha Christie

1933 • 1,147 Readers • 288 pages • 4

Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

ByWilliam Hazlitt

1822 • 2 Readers • 376 pages • 2

#13 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

The A.B.C. Murders

ByAgatha Christie

1936 • 19 Readers • 224 pages • 4.2

Just So Stories

ByRudyard Kipling

1902 • 54 Readers • 212 pages • 3.6

#1 of 10 in Barsoom

A Princess of Mars

ByEdgar Rice Burroughs

1912 • 205 Readers • 384 pages • 3.4

Legends of Vancouver

ByE. Pauline Johnson

2018 • 1 Reader • 76 pages

The Midnight Library

ByMatt Haig

2020 • 2,911 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8

Zuleika Dobson

Zuleika Dobson: Or, An Oxford Love Story

ByMax Beerbohm

1 Reader

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

ByAnne Brontë

1847 • 245 Readers • 352 pages • 4

#8 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

Peril at End House

ByAgatha Christie

1932 • 157 Readers • 204 pages • 4

Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents

ByDavid C. Martin

3 Readers

The Tale of Sinuhe, and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 B.C.

ByR.B. Parkinson

1 Reader

Murder in the Gunroom

ByH. Beam Piper

1953 • 2 Readers • 168 pages

Monkey

Monkey: A Journey to the West

ByArthur Waley, Wu Ch'eng-En

2 Readers

#2 of 3 in The Growth Trilogy

The Magnificent Ambersons

ByBooth Tarkington

1918 • 32 Readers • 242 pages • 3.9

Comics and Sequential Art

Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist

ByWill Eisner

1 Reader

Complete Ghost Stories

ByM.R. James

1936 • 6 Readers • 593 pages

#19 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

Appointment with Death

ByAgatha Christie

1938 • 124 Readers • 303 pages • 3.7

Seven Men

ByMax Beerbohm

1919 • 5 Readers • 232 pages

#1 of 4 in Professor Challenger

The Lost World

ByArthur Conan Doyle

1900 • 130 Readers • 348 pages • 3.8

Through the Language Glass

ByGuy Deutscher

2010 • 83 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

The Art of Reading

ByDamon Young

4 Readers • 3.5

The Long Afternoon of Earth

ByBrian W. Aldiss

3 Readers • 3.3

What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

ByErwin Schrödinger

1944 • 20 Readers • 184 pages • 4

Magic

ByG. K. Chesteron

1 Reader

Chemical History of a Candle

Chemical History of a Candle: Twenty-two Experiments and Six Classic Lectures

ByMichael Faraday

1 Reader

Einstein's Dreams

ByAlan Lightman

150 Readers • 4

The Rediscovery of the Mind

ByJohn Rogers Searle

3 Readers • 4

Philosophical Letters

Philosophical Letters: Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation

ByPrudence L. Steiner, Voltaire

1 Reader

The Character of Physical Law

ByRichard Feynman

1 Reader

Flatland

ByEdwin A. Abbott

1884 • 5 Readers • 125 pages

The Complete Essays

ByM.A. Screech, Michel de Montaigne

2 Readers

The Right to Be Lazy

The Right to Be Lazy: Essays by Paul Lafargue

ByKari Lyndersen, Fred Thompson, Paul Lafargue, Bernard Marszalek

1 Reader

A Mathematician's Apology

ByG.H. Hardy

1940 • 38 Readers • 97 pages • 3.2

Passing

ByNella Larsen

1929 • 228 Readers • 160 pages • 3.9

The Great Stone Face

ByNathaniel Hawthorne, Beatriz Scaglia

1 Reader

Surreal Numbers

ByDonald Knuth

5 Readers • 4

#1 of 3 in Auschwitz Trilogy

Survival in Auschwitz

ByPrimo Levi,Stuart J. Woolf(Translator)

1947 • 68 Readers • 198 pages • 4.3

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

ByChristopher de Hamel

2016 • 19 Readers • 632 pages • 4.5

The Periodic Table

ByPrimo Levi

1975 • 62 Readers • 279 pages • 3.8

Nightwood

ByDjuna Barnes

1936 • 74 Readers • 224 pages • 3.4

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

ByW. S. Merwin

2005 • 4 Readers • 152 pages • 4

The Invention of Morel

ByAdolfo Bioy Casares,Ruth L.C. Simms(Translator)

1940 • 135 Readers • 122 pages • 3.8

A High Wind in Jamaica

ByRichard Hughes

1929 • 32 Readers • 192 pages • 3

#3 of 3 in Empire Trilogy

The Singapore Grip

ByJ.G. Farrell

1978 • 9 Readers • 584 pages

Lolly Willowes

BySylvia Townsend Warner

1926 • 54 Readers • 264 pages • 3.8

Lucky Jim

ByKingsley Amis

5 Readers • 3

Jakob von Gunten

ByRobert Walser

1909 • 38 Readers • 212 pages • 3.4

The True Deceiver

ByTove Jansson,Thomas Teal(Translator)

1982 • 20 Readers • 181 pages • 3.6

Augustus

ByJohn Williams

1972 • 111 Readers • 336 pages • 4.3

#3 of 17 in Lew Archer

The Way Some People Die

ByRoss Macdonald

1951 • 7 Readers • 245 pages • 3.7

#1 of 1 in Röde Orm

The Long Ships

ByAlan Agresti,Chris Franklin,+1 more

1941 • 43 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

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