Historical | 219 books
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Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City
4
12 min
Toni Morrison
Beloved
4
11 min
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel
4
9 min
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
4
11 min
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
4
12 min
James McBride
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
4
17 min
Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven
4
13 min
Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden Figures
4
11 min
Toni Morrison
Sula
4
15 min
Bill Bryson
At Home
4
15 min
John Hersey
Hiroshima
4
12 min
Joseph J. Ellis
Founding Brothers
4
19 min
John M. Barry
The Great Influenza
4
13 min
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
4
11 min
Mary Beard
Women and Power
4
13 min
Liza Mundy
Code Girls
4
19 min
Suetonius
The Twelve Caesars
4
29 min
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
4
18 min
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Romanovs
4
22 min
Penny LeCouter
Napoleon’s Buttons
4
13 min
Lesley Hazleton
The First Muslim
4
14 min
Graham Hancock
America Before
4.1
12 min
Bruce Springsteen
Renegades
4.3
19 min
Kassia St Clair
The Golden Thread
4.1
17 min
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Daughters of Kobani
4.1
23 min
Camilla Townsend
Fifth Sun
4.1
14 min
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
3.9
13 min
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
3.9
11 min
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
3.9
14 min
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
3.9
14 min