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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings

ByLars Brownworth

2014 • 15 Readers • 266 pages • 4.1

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul

ByCharles King

2014 • 6 Readers • 480 pages • 5

Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight

ByWinston Groom

2013 • 4 Readers • 4

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

ByAlexandra Fuller

2011 • 11 Readers • 256 pages • 4.5

Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi

ByTimothy R. Pauketat

2009 • 4 Readers • 194 pages

Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil

ByJeffrey Moussaieff Masson

2013 • 2 Readers • 4

Becoming Queen

ByKate Williams

2008 • 4 Readers • 4

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

ByMax Hastings

2013 • 7 Readers • 628 pages • 4.7

Charlotte and Leopold

ByJames Chambers

2007 • 1 Reader

#10

Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten

ByLady Pamela Hicks

2012 • 9 Readers • 256 pages • 3.5

#11

Custer's Trials

ByT.J. Stiles

2015 • 5 Readers • 608 pages

#12

The Family

ByDavid Laskin

2013 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

#13

First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

ByBee Wilson

2015 • 1 Reader • 432 pages • 4

#14

Five Came Back : A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

ByMark Harris

2014 • 7 Readers • 511 pages • 4

#15

Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook

ByDavid M. Carroll

2009 • 1 Reader

#16

Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy

ByPaul Thomas Murphy

2012 • 8 Readers • 669 pages

#17

Wings: One Hundred Years of British Aerial Warfare

ByPatrick Bishop

2012 • 1 Reader • 402 pages

#18

When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940

ByRobin Prior

2015 • 1 Reader

#19

#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

#20

Mourning Lincoln

ByMartha Elizabeth Hodes

2 Readers

#21

The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis

BySimon Goodman

2015 • 1 Reader • 5

#22

A murder of magpies

ByJudith Flanders

2015 • 7 Readers • 277 pages • 3.3

#23

Thin Air

ByAnn Cleeves

2016 • 12 Readers • 400 pages • 3.6

#24

The Bletchley Girls

ByTessa Dunlop

2015 • 9 Readers • 352 pages • 4

#25

The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession

ByEdmund de Waal

2015 • 1 Reader

#26

#2 of 6 in The China Thrillers

The Fourth Sacrifice

ByPeter May

2000 • 1 Reader • 4

#27

Sicily

ByJohn Julius Norwich

2015 • 4 Readers • 362 pages

#28

Looking for the Goshawk

ByConor Mark Jameson

2013 • 2 Readers • 288 pages • 3.5

#29

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

ByKatarina Bivald

2013 • 28 Readers • 435 pages • 3.7

#30

No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money

ByDavid Lough

2015 • 5 Readers • 480 pages

#31

The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

ByRobert Penn(Reading)

2 Readers • 5

#32

Our Zoo

ByJune Mottershead

2014 • 5 Readers • 288 pages • 4.7

#33

A Year of Marvellous Ways

BySarah Winman

2015 • 16 Readers • 310 pages • 3.8

#34

The Shark and the Albatross: A Wildlife Filmmaker Reveals Why Nature Matters to Us All

ByJohn Aitchison

2015 • 2 Readers

#35

Farthest field

ByRaghu Karnad

3 Readers

#36

Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil

ByJames Runcie

3 Readers • 4

#37

#1 of 3 in Don Tillman

The Rosie Project

ByGraeme Simsion

2013 • 312 Readers • 295 pages • 3.9

#38

Parting the desert

ByZachary

2003 • 1 Reader • 310 pages

#39

The Summer Before the War

ByHelen Simonson

2016 • 28 Readers • 481 pages • 3.9

#40

The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two

ByPiers Paul Read

2012 • 1 Reader

#41

The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War

ByDaniel Stashower

2013 • 5 Readers • 368 pages

#42

Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way

ByHasia R. Diner

2015 • 1 Reader

#43

The Jew Who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and How We Won The War

ByPeter Moreira

2014 • 1 Reader

#44

Old School

ByTobias Wolff

2003 • 27 Readers • 195 pages • 4

#45

Landmarks

ByRobert Macfarlane

2015 • 22 Readers • 448 pages • 4.5

#46

Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village

ByStephen Moss

2011 • 1 Reader

#47

A Buzz in the Meadow

ByDave Goulson

2015 • 2 Readers • 4

#48

Centuries of Change: Which Century Saw the Most Change and Why it Matters to Us

ByIan Mortimer

3 Readers

#49

Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa

ByTony Fitzjohn

2010 • 1 Reader

#50

Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

ByKim Todd

2007 • 6 Readers • 328 pages • 4

#51

Counting Sheep

ByPhilip Walling

2014 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

#52

Encounters in the Wild

Fox

ByJim Crumley(contributor)

2014 • 2 Readers • 64 pages • 5

#53

The Music Room

ByWilliam Fiennes

2 Readers

#54

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

ByRichard Conniff

2010 • 3 Readers

#55

Spirals in Time

ByHelen Scales

2015 • 8 Readers • 288 pages • 3

#56

The German War: A Nation Under Arms

ByNicholas Stargardt

2013 • 7 Readers • 704 pages

#57

First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

BySonia Purnell

2015 • 1 Reader

#58

Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life

ByStanley Weintraub

2012 • 1 Reader

#59

Journey to Munich

ByJacqueline Winspear

2016 • 12 Readers • 287 pages • 3.8

#60

Blood safari

ByDeon Meyer

4 Readers • 4

#61

Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley

ByGeoffrey C. Ward(editor)

1995 • 1 Reader

#62

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

ByNathalia Holt

2016 • 37 Readers • 326 pages • 3.6

#63

The sphinx

ByNicholas Wapshott

1 Reader

#64

One Child

ByMei Fong

2016 • 15 Readers • 272 pages • 3.3

#65

The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town . . . and the World

ByJan Louch,Lisa Rogak

2015 • 1 Reader • 274 pages

#66

Five Presidents

ByClint Hill,Lisa McCubbin

2016 • 10 Readers • 464 pages • 5

#67

Sea Room

ByAdam Nicolson

2001 • 3 Readers • 391 pages

#68

First Women

ByKate Andersen Brower

2017 • 15 Readers • 416 pages • 4.5

#69

The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure

ByKaren Masterson

2014 • 1 Reader

#70

The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942

ByNigel Hamilton

3 Readers • 4

#71

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

ByPeter Clarke

1 Reader

#72

Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot

ByJ. Randy Taraborrelli

2000 • 1 Reader • 4

#73

After Camelot

ByJ. Randy Taraborrelli

1 Reader • 5

#74

The Bushes

ByPeter Schweizer

1 Reader • 4

#75

The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

ByDan Barry

2016 • 1 Reader • 5

#76

The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism

ByMark Zwonitzer

2016 • 4 Readers

#77

Among the Bears

ByBenjamin Kilham,Ed Gray

2003 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

#78

In Command of History

ByDavid Reynolds

1 Reader

#79

The Blue Tattoo

ByMargot Mifflin

2009 • 6 Readers • 280 pages • 3

#80

A House Full of Daughters, A

ByJuliet Nicolson

2016 • 2 Readers • 336 pages • 4

#81

The woman who walked into the sea

ByMark Douglas-Home

2013 • 5 Readers • 340 pages • 3.3

#82

Paper

ByMark Kurlansky

2017 • 14 Readers • 416 pages • 3.3

#83

Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back

ByJanice P. Nimura

2015 • 6 Readers

#84

East West Street

ByPhilippe Sands

2017 • 28 Readers • 466 pages • 4.1

#85

Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth

ByPaula Byrne

2016 • 1 Reader • 3

#86

Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human

ByGeorge Michelsen Foy

2016 • 1 Reader

#87

Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years

ByDavid Talbot

2007 • 2 Readers • 494 pages

#88

The Wood for the Trees : The Long View of Nature From a Small Wood

ByRichard Fortey

2016 • 5 Readers • 320 pages

#89

#5 of 2 in The Grantchester Mysteries

Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation

ByJames Runcie

2016 • 2 Readers • 336 pages • 4

#90

Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World

ByLeif Wenar

2016 • 1 Reader

#91

The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials

ByChristiane Kohl

2 Readers

#92

Bush

ByJean Edward Smith

2016 • 8 Readers • 832 pages • 4

#93

Everydata

ByJohn H. Johnson,Mike Gluck

2016 • 6 Readers • 240 pages • 2

#94

The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

ByLaura Thompson

2015 • 3 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#95

The Fellowship

ByPhilip Zaleski,Carol Zaleski

2015 • 10 Readers • 656 pages • 3.5

#96

The Great Departure

ByTara Zahra

2016 • 2 Readers • 320 pages

#97

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

ByEugene Rogan

2015 • 10 Readers • 512 pages

#98

The Arabs: A History

ByEugene Rogan

2009 • 9 Readers • 513 pages • 4

#99

Eve of a Hundred Midnights

ByBill Lascher

2016 • 4 Readers • 408 pages • 4

#100

The Roosevelts and the Royals: Franklin and Eleanor, the King and Queen of England, and the Friendship That Changed History

ByWill Swift

2004 • 1 Reader • 4

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