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#2

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

2013 • 96 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

#3

Columbine

2009 • 229 Readers • 417 pages • 4.4

#4

Che

2008 • 2 Readers • 106 pages • 3

#5

In Cold Blood

1959 • 811 Readers • 370 pages • 4.1

#6

Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire

2015 • 2 Readers • 314 pages • 3

#7

Rasputin

2016 • 8 Readers • 848 pages • 4

#8

Cannibal Killers: Monsters with an Appetite for Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh

2010 • 1 Reader • 320 pages • 3

#9

Culture and Imperialism

1993 • 35 Readers • 422 pages • 4.3

#10

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

2016 • 382 Readers • 404 pages • 4.2

#11

Rejected Princesses

2016 • 18 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

#12

Parkland

2019 • 40 Readers • 3.6

#13

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

2019 • 21 Readers • 400 pages • 3.2

#14

Cover 8

2017 • 8 Readers • 3.5

#15

Mortal Remains: Death in Early America

2002 • 1 Reader • 265 pages

#16

Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

2015 • 7 Readers • 4

#17

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

2014 • 35 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#18

Gracefully Insane : The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

2001 • 12 Readers • 296 pages • 4.3

#19

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

2016 • 17 Readers • 384 pages • 4.5

#20

Voices from Chernobyl

1989 • 129 Readers • 236 pages • 4.4

#21

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

2008 • 10 Readers • 205 pages • 3.5

#22

Five Days at Memorial

2013 • 50 Readers • 558 pages • 4.2

#23

Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity

1975 • 5 Readers • 304 pages

#24

Sybil

1973 • 58 Readers • 481 pages • 3.6

#25

The Great Pretender

2019 • 63 Readers • 416 pages • 3.7

#26

The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women

2023 • 11 Readers • 208 pages • 4

#27

Merchants of Doubt

2010 • 95 Readers • 362 pages • 3.8

#28

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

2009 • 51 Readers • 4.5

#29

Spare Parts

2021 • 4 Readers • 320 pages

#30

Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases

2023 • 1 Reader • 161 pages

#31

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

2017 • 72 Readers • 305 pages • 4.2

#32

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

2022 • 27 Readers • 235 pages • 4.2

#33

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

2023 • 598 Readers • 9 pages • 4.1

#34

The Disappearing Spoon

2010 • 129 Readers • 394 pages • 4.2

#35

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

4 Readers • 4

#36

River of the Gods

2022 • 52 Readers • 368 pages • 3.8

#37

Soldiers First

1 Reader

#38

Beneath a Ruthless Sun

2019 • 434 pages

#39

Femina

2022 • 38 Readers • 464 pages • 4

#40

The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry

1992 • 2 Readers • 270 pages

#41

American Warlord: A True Story

2015 • 1 Reader • 4

#42

The rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell

2 Readers

#43

Fasting Girls

1988 • 3 Readers • 400 pages • 4

#44

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

2003 • 8 Readers • 390 pages • 5

#45

The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

1998 • 223 Readers • 200 pages • 3.9

#46

Cover 8

2 Readers

#47

The Inkblots

2017 • 8 Readers • 544 pages

#48

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

2010 • 111 Readers • 319 pages • 4.1

#49

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

2016 • 29 Readers • 288 pages • 3.5

#50

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

2019 • 254 Readers • 546 pages • 4.5

#51

The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England

2020 • 7 Readers • 352 pages

#52

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

2019 • 55 Readers • 530 pages • 4.5

#53

The Great Mortality

2005 • 43 Readers • 364 pages • 3.5

#54

Rebel Yell

2014 • 13 Readers • 672 pages • 5

#55

The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

2013 • 8 Readers • 432 pages • 4

#56

Assata: An Autobiography

1987 • 87 Readers • 274 pages • 4.6

#57

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

1966 • 365 Readers • 460 pages • 4.5

#58

Medical Apartheid

2007 • 79 Readers • 501 pages • 4.3

#59

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

2019 • 177 Readers • 513 pages • 4.4

#60

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing

1999 • 2 Readers • 205 pages

#61

For Her Own Good

1976 • 11 Readers • 410 pages

#62

Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

2018 • 37 Readers • 304 pages • 3.4

#63

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 1,888 Readers • 443 pages • 4.2

#64

The Splendid and the Vile

2020 • 269 Readers • 546 pages • 4.2

#65

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

2005 • 291 Readers • 578 pages • 4.1

#66

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

1552 • 10 Readers • 143 pages • 4.7

#67

Empire of the Summer Moon

2010 • 120 Readers • 371 pages • 3.9

#68

Trail of Tears

1988 • 18 Readers • 424 pages • 3

#69

A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

1985 • 13 Readers • 670 pages • 4

#70

Before and After

2019 • 27 Readers • 320 pages • 5

#71

The Devil's Highway

2008 • 22 Readers • 256 pages • 4.5

#72

The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found

2008 • 12 Readers • 360 pages • 3.7

#73

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

2020 • 237 Readers • 382 pages • 4.2

#74

Cover 1

1 Reader

#75

Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

2021 • 9 Readers • 256 pages

#76

The Story of Jane

2016 • 12 Readers • 336 pages • 5

#77

Memoirs of Hadrian

1951 • 116 Readers • 313 pages • 4.1

#78

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2011 • 599 Readers • 384 pages • 4.2

#79

Salt to the Sea

2016 • 282 Readers • 402 pages • 4.2

#80

Romantic Outlaws

2016 • 48 Readers • 674 pages • 5

#81

Cover 3

1989 • 13 Readers • 242 pages • 3.7

#82

Deranged

1990 • 6 Readers • 242 pages • 4.5

#83

Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer

1994 • 13 Readers • 373 pages • 3.5

#84

The devil's gentleman

2006 • 7 Readers • 514 pages • 4

#85

The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation

2014 • 3 Readers • 5

#86

Fiend : The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Serial Killer

2000 • 6 Readers • 320 pages • 5

#87

Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

1998 • 7 Readers • 398 pages • 3.3

#88

Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer

2003 • 3 Readers • 347 pages • 5

#89

Bolshoi Confidential

2016 • 3 Readers • 507 pages

#90

Cover 2

3 Readers • 4

#91

The Stranger in the Woods

2017 • 80 Readers • 224 pages • 4

#92

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick

2000 • 168 Readers • 340 pages • 4

#93

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

2023 • 12 Readers • 352 pages • 4

#94

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

1 • 372 Readers • 4

#95

Doctors from hell

2005 • 4 Readers • 354 pages

#96

The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

2018 • 19 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

#97

Brazen

2018 • 32 Readers • 296 pages • 4.3

#98

Birth Strike

2019 • 2 Readers • 240 pages

#99

The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

11 Readers • 4

#100

Death Comes for the Cathedrals

2021 • 52 pages

#101

A Factotum in the Book Trade

2022 • 4 Readers • 231 pages

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