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A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison WeirMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserCitizens by Simon SchamaThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
French History
269 books — 82 voters
Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold M. PackardWe Two by Gillian GillQueen Victoria by Christopher HibbertQueen Victoria by Elizabeth LongfordThe Young Victoria by Alison Plowden
Best Queen Victoria Books
72 books — 71 voters

Johnny Tremain by Esther ForbesThe Fourth of July Story by Alice DalglieshThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIndependent Dames by Laurie Halse AndersonFelicity by Valerie Tripp
What to Read with a Child on the 4th of July
53 books — 71 voters
The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraGettysburg by Stephen W. SearsStars in Their Courses by Shelby FooteGettysburg by Allen C. GuelzoThe Gettysburg Campaign by Edwin B. Coddington
Battle of Gettysburg Books (nonfiction)
77 books — 67 voters

The Coldest Winter by David HalberstamThe Korean War by Max HastingsOn Desperate Ground by Hampton SidesFrozen Chosin by Edwin H. SimmonsThis Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach
Korean War
135 books — 51 voters
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserEleanor of Aquitaine by Alison WeirInnocent Traitor by Alison WeirMarie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser and Alison Weir
45 books — 45 voters

On Writing by Stephen KingBullies, Bastards and Bitches by Jessica Page MorrellWriting Fiction for Dummies by Randy IngermansonHooked by Les EdgertonTechniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain
Writing Can Be Taught Books
53 books — 44 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherChasing the Devil by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherMayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
History books
67 books — 44 voters

The Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroMarley & Me by John Grogan
Toronto Public Library Great Reads Vol. 3 2006
104 books — 38 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacSummer of '69 by Todd StrasserDays in the Life by Jonathon GreenThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom WolfeIt Was Twenty Years Ago Today by Derek Taylor
Barry Miles' Top 10 Counterculture Books
36 books — 35 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Discoverers by Daniel J. BoorstinThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumThe Age of Wonder by Richard HolmesIngenious Pursuits by Lisa Jardine
Social Histories of Science
57 books — 33 voters
Sink the Belgrano by Mike RossiterThe Battle for the Falklands by Max HastingsOne Hundred Days by Sandy WoodwardAmphibious Assault Falklands by Ewen Southby-Tailyour Clapp...Operation Corporate by Martin Middlebrook
Falklands War
95 books — 29 voters

D-Day, June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbrosePegasus Bridge by Stephen E. AmbroseD-Day by Antony Beevor
Books about D-Day
99 books — 25 voters
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du BoisReconstruction by Eric FonerThe Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann WoodwardA Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Eric FonerReconstruction after the Civil War by John Hope Franklin
Civil War Reconstruction (nonfiction)
90 books — 22 voters

Reading Early American Handwriting by Kip Sperry300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late by Shannon L. AlderWho Do You Think You Are? by Megan SmolenyakThe Sleuth Book for Genealogists by Emily Anne CroomThe Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy by Val D. Greenwood
Books Useful to Genealogists
34 books — 19 voters
The Mummy Congress by Heather PringleThe Bog People by P.V. GlobMummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures by Thomas Aidan CockburnEgyptian Mummies by Bob BrierMummy by James Putnam
Mummy Science
66 books — 17 voters

Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands by George E. BukerReign of Iron by James L. NelsonWar on the Waters by James M. McPhersonSea of Gray by Tom ChaffinLast Flag Down by John Baldwin
A Civil War Naval Booklist
139 books — 16 voters
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis PetersOne Corpse Too Many by Ellis PetersThe Virgin in the Ice by Ellis PetersSt. Peter's Fair by Ellis PetersMonk's Hood by Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters (a/k/a Edith Pargeter)
89 books — 14 voters

Nowhere Else I Want to Be by Carol D. MarshBloody Bill Anderson by Thomas GoodrichThe Uncivil War by Robert R. MackeyMosby's Memoirs by John Singleton MosbyGray Ghosts of the Confederacy by Richard S. Brownlee
Guerrillas in the Civil War
30 books — 11 voters
Down the Common by Ann BaerSwearing by Geoffrey HughesEnglish Medieval House by Margaret E. WoodHow To Be a Tudor by Ruth GoodmanThe Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian ... by Kristine Hughes
Historical Research for Writers: England
41 books — 11 voters

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe Odyssey by HomerThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliHow the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas CahillHard Times by Charles Dickens
AP European History/Western Civ Books
11 books — 9 voters
Burning Man by A. Leo NashThis Is Burning Man by Brian DohertyDrama in the Desert by Holly KreuterBurning Book by Jessica BruderThe Tribes of Burning Man by Steven T. Jones
Burning Man and related
17 books — 9 voters

The Story of My Misfortunes by Pierre AbélardThe Letters of Abélard and Héloïse by Pierre AbélardForbidden Fruit by Pierre AbélardHeloise & Abelard by James BurgeThe love sonnets of Abelard and Heloise by Pierre Abélard
Famous Literary Couples: Abelard and Héloïse
32 books — 8 voters
Gales of November by Robert J. HemmingWhite Hurricane by David G. BrownGreat Lakes by William RatiganSole Survivor by Dennis HaleIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Great Lakes Storms And Shipwrecks
20 books — 8 voters

Macbeth by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
St. John's College Reading List (Freshmen to Juniors)
96 books — 8 voters
Vicksburg by Michael B. BallardThe Beleaguered City by Shelby FooteVicksburg by A.A. HoehlingNinety-Eight Days by Warren E. GrabauTriumph and Defeat by Terrence J. Winschel
Civil War - Vicksburg
39 books — 6 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraAlways a River by Todd Allen HendersonThe Battle of New Market by William C. DavisField of Lost Shoes by David KennedyGods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
Best Books About VMI
62 books — 6 voters
Huey Long by T. Harry WilliamsThe Earl of Louisiana by A.J. LieblingKingfish by Richard D. White Jr.The Day Huey Long Was Shot by David ZinmanEarl K. Long by Michael L. Kurtz
Books about the Long Family of Louisiana
40 books — 2 voters

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