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Sister queens

ByJulia Fox

7 Readers • 5

Trials of Passion: Crimes Committed in the Name of Love and Madness

ByLisa Appignanesi

2014 • 3 Readers • 448 pages • 5

Shakespeare and the Countess

ByChris Laoutaris

1 Reader

Thieves, Rascals and Sore Losers: The Unsettling History of the Dirty Deals that Helped Settle Nebraska

ByMarilyn Coffey

2015 • 1 Reader • 317 pages

#3 of 3 in Operation Otherworld

A Midsummer Tempest

ByPoul Anderson

1974 • 10 Readers • 207 pages • 4

Escape from Camp 14

ByBlaine Harden

7 A Song of Ice and Fire

The World of Ice & Fire

ByGeorge R.R. Martin,Elio M. García Jr.,+1 more

2014 • 109 Readers • 326 pages • 4.1

Butterflies in November

ByAuður Ava Ólafsdóttir,Brian FitzGibbon(Translator)

2004 • 9 Readers • 296 pages • 3.8

Missoula

ByJon Krakauer

2015 • 75 Readers • 368 pages • 4.2

Romantic Outlaws

ByCharlotte Gordon

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

ByAnne de Courcy

2014 • 3 Readers • 376 pages • 4

Straight on Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham

ByMary S. Lovell

1983 • 3 Readers • 408 pages

The Great Imposter

ByRobert Crichton

1 Reader • 245 pages

Through the Keyhole: Sex, Scandal and the Secret Life of the Country House

BySusan C. Law

2015 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

The Wings of the Dove

ByHenry James,John Bayley,+1 more

1902 • 25 Readers • 518 pages

#1 of 8 in Dune

Dune

ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 3,091 Readers • 704 pages • 4.3

1920

ByEric Burns

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

ByGary Krist

2014 • 4 Readers • 4

The Zhivago Affair

ByPeter Finn,Petra Couvée

2014 • 5 Readers • 352 pages

Blood Work

ByHolly Tucker

2010 • 12 Readers • 304 pages • 3.5

He Knew He Was Right

ByAnthony Trollope

1869 • 10 Readers • 952 pages • 3.5

#1 of 4 in Kingsbridge

The Pillars of the Earth

ByKen Follett

1989 • 634 Readers • 1,008 pages • 4.1

The Metropolis

ByUpton Sinclair

1 Reader

America, 1908

America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation

ByJim Rasenberger

The Women of the House

The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty

ByJean Zimmerman

2006 • 1 Reader • 399 pages

Sisters of Fortune

Sisters of Fortune: The First American Heiresses to Take Europe by Storm

ByJehanne Wake

2010 • 1 Reader

Love in the Time of Cholera

ByGabriel García Márquez,Edith Grossman(Translator)

1985 • 389 Readers • 3.7

Scandalous Women

ByElizabeth Kerri Mahon

The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway

ByDoug Most

2014 • 1 Reader

The Secret Lives of Codebreakers: The Men and Women Who Cracked the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park

BySinclair McKay

2010 • 4 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Code Breaking

Code Breaking: A History and Explanation

ByRudolph Kippenhahn

1999 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America

ByGeoffrey O'Brien

2010 • 3 Readers • 368 pages

Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and Infamous

ByMarlene Wagman-Geller

2015 • 2 Readers

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

ByM.T. Anderson

The Sandcastle Girls

ByChris Bohjalian

2012 • 15 Readers • 299 pages • 4.5

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century

ByPeter Pringle

2008 • 2 Readers • 370 pages

Quicksand

ByNella Larsen

1928 • 22 Readers • 192 pages • 2.3

Passing

ByNella Larsen

#2 of 3 in Thomas Cromwell

Bring Up the Bodies

ByHilary Mantel

2012 • 138 Readers • 432 pages • 4.3

#1 of 4 in Peter

The Snowy Day

ByEzra Jack Keats,Taner Baybars

1962 • 29 Readers • 32 pages • 4.1

Bad Girls

ByJan Stradling

2008 • 2 Readers • 287 pages

Going Clear

ByLawrence Wright

Beyond Belief

ByJenna Miscavige Hill,Lisa Pulitzer

2013 • 40 Readers • 416 pages • 3.9

My Own Story

ByEmmeline Pankhurst

1914 • 8 Readers • 364 pages • 5

#1 of 3 in Thomas Cromwell

Wolf Hall

ByHilary Mantel

2009 • 354 Readers • 26 pages • 3.9

Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952

ByLady Diana Cooper

2013 • 1 Reader • 528 pages

#1 of 2 in Triffids

The Day of the Triffids

ByJohn Wyndham

1967 • 210 Readers • 191 pages • 3.8

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

ByTom Standage

1998 • 35 Readers • 3.8

What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

ByAbby Fisher,Karen Hess,+1 more

1995 • 1 Reader • 96 pages

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

ByA'Lelia Perry Bundles

2 Readers

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

ByElizabeth Taylor

1971 • 4 Readers • 232 pages • 5

Madame Tussaud

ByKate Berridge

2 Readers

Digging for Richard III

Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King

ByMike Pitts

2014 • 1 Reader

Storyteller

ByDonald Sturrock

2010 • 3 Readers • 672 pages

A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing

ByAnna Thomasson

2015 • 2 Readers • 432 pages

Stoner

ByJohn Williams

Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth

ByLee Jackson

2014 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

ByDavid Grann

2010 • 27 Readers • 418 pages • 3.2

How to Be a Heroine

BySamantha Ellis

2014 • 10 Readers • 272 pages • 3

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

ByB.J. Novak

2014 • 2 Readers • 4

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

ByErik Larson

2015 • 182 Readers • 450 pages • 4

The Book with No Pictures

ByB.J. Novak

How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

ByFrances Wilson

2011 • 1 Reader

Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr

ByStephen Michael Shearer

2010 • 2 Readers • 480 pages

Behind the mask

ByMatthew Dennison

#3 of 3 in Barbara Buncle

The Two Mrs. Abbotts

ByD.E. Stevenson

Lady on the Hill

Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon

ByHoward E. Covington Jr.,The Biltmore Company

2006 • 2 Readers

Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic

ByElizabeth Kaye

2012 • 3 Readers • 70 pages • 5

The Lives of the Muses

The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired

ByFrancine Prose

2002 • 1 Reader

Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power

ByVirginia Rounding

2006 • 2 Readers • 566 pages

Alix and Nicky

ByVirginia Rounding

2 Readers

Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans

ByVirginia Rounding

2003 • 2 Readers • 352 pages

Seeing Fairies: From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society, Authentic Reports of Fairies in Modern Times

ByMarjorie T. Johnson

2014 • 1 Reader

Cranky Ladies of History

ByGarth Nix,Juliet Marillier,+20 more

2015 • 6 Readers • 320 pages

Strapless

ByDeborah Davis

The Code of Love: An Astonishing True Tale of Secrets, Love, and War

ByAndro Linklater

2000 • 1 Reader • 324 pages

Living in the Shadow of Death

Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History

BySheila M. Rothman

1994 • 2 Readers

Monsters

Monsters: History's Most Evil Men And Women

BySimon Sebag Montefiore

2008 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Almost Famous Women: Stories

ByMegan Mayhew Bergman

2015 • 14 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

#2 of 1 in Locked Out

Taking Sides

ByPatrick Jones

Trigger Warning

ByNeil Gaiman

2001 • 219 Readers • 250 pages • 3.9

Close to shore

ByMichael Capuzzo

2001 • 5 Readers • 336 pages • 4

Sophia

ByAnita Anand

2015 • 8 Readers • 416 pages

The Hounds of the Mórrígan

ByPat O'Shea

1985 • 10 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

ByAndrew L. Erdman

#1 of 3 in A Scots Quair

Sunset Song

ByLewis Grassic Gibbon

1932 • 18 Readers • 272 pages • 4.5

Time to Dance, a Time to Die

ByJohn Waller

2008 • 4 Readers • 267 pages

What Good Are the Arts?

ByJohn Carey

2005 • 2 Readers • 304 pages • 3

An Adventure

ByC.A.E. Moberly,Eleanor F. Jourdain

1910 • 1 Reader

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

ByE.L. Konigsburg

1967 • 18 Readers • 176 pages • 4.3

Princesses on the Wards: Royal Women in Nursing through Wars and Revolutions

ByCoryne Hall

2014 • 1 Reader

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

ByJacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

2014 • 26 Readers • 568 pages • 4

Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages

ByKatie Roiphe

The Blue Tattoo

ByMargot Mifflin

2009 • 6 Readers • 280 pages • 3

Nine Days to Christmas: A Story of Mexico

ByMarie Hall Ets,Aurora Labastida

1959 • 2 Readers • 48 pages • 4

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

ByEdmund de Waal

2010 • 21 Readers • 368 pages • 3.9

Station X

Pan Grand Strategy Series

Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

ByMichael Smith(Editor)

1998 • 1 Reader • 184 pages

Underground

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

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

ByMargalit Fox

2013 • 5 Readers • 3

The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War

ByDick Lehr

2014 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

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