Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/4366032-granost">Granost</a> (12 Lists)

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I, Claudius by Robert Graves

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

The Praise Singer by Mary Renault

The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault

Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves

Classical Studies

59 books — 7 voters

SPQR by Mary Beard

Rubicon by Tom Holland

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

The Histories by Herodotus

Ghost on the Throne by James Romm

Best Books About Ancient History

459 books — 128 voters

The Chronicle of Theophanes by Harry Turtledove

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers by Michael Psellus

The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos (Translated Texts f... by Sebeos

Maurice's Strategikon by Maurice

Genesios, On the Reigns of the Emperors by Joseph Genesius

Byzantine / Medieval Roman Primary Sources in Translation

104 books — 9 voters

Night by Elie Wiesel

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

1,807 books — 731 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Ou... by Philip Gourevitch

Best Books by Journalists

293 books — 110 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Night by Elie Wiesel

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography

6,600 books — 7,973 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes

Best Russian History Books

591 books — 426 voters

The Histories by Herodotus

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

THE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR by Ahmed Alshuwaikhat

John Adams by David McCullough

The Trigger by Tim Butcher

History as Literature

751 books — 651 voters

History of the Wars, Volume III by Procopius

The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen by Hermias Sozomen

History of the Wars, Volume 5. Books 7.36-8. Gothic War by Procopius

The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine by Eusebius Pamphilus

History of the Wars, Volume I by Procopius

Best Roman / Byzantine Primary Sources

18 books — 2 voters

The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

The Later Roman Empire by Ammianus Marcellinus

Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather

How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy

Books on the Later Roman Empire

166 books — 45 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

8 books — 6 voters

John Adams by David McCullough

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

1776 by David McCullough

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Best History Books

4,032 books — 4,516 voters

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