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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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John Adams
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Nicholas And Alexandra
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The Histories
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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Confessions
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
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The Origin of Species
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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The Guns of August
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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The Last Days of the Incas
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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Washington: A Life
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The Civil War: A Narrative
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Mary Queen of Scots
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Story of Civilization
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Alexander Hamilton
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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The Federalist Papers
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Democracy in America
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4.05 avg rating — 27,018 ratings
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Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
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4.28 avg rating — 3,066 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.30 avg rating — 53,587 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
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London: The Biography
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Truman
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
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The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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The Weaker Vessel
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Washington's Crossing
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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A Man on the Moon
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume V (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire #5)
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Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris
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Reclaiming History – The Assassination of John F Kennedy
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
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Thames: Sacred River
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Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)
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Annals of the Former World
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My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
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City of God
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
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A History of the American People
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Essays
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The Second World War: The Nobel Prize-Winning History of World War II
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The Year of Decision 1846
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The Course Of Empire: The Dramatic History of Exploration That Defined America―From Balboa to Lewis and Clark
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Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
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Edith Wharton
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Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
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The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story
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Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
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Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation
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Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
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The Torn Trilogy
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Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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Of the Andromeda Martian Catastrophe
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
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Ashtavakra Gita: The Ultimate Solace
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
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A History of Philosophy, 11 Vols
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Mandela
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The Test of Courage: Michel Thomas
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 2
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The Untold History of The United States
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
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