Luke's votes on the list History & Biography Published in Decade: 2000s

Listopia > Luke's votes on the list History & Biography Published in Decade: 2000s (57 Books)

1	Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon 3.86 avg rating — 1,204 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 32,746 ratings Luke rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter 4.10 avg rating — 329 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 2,273 ratings Luke rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism by David Olusoga 4.31 avg rating — 571 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Sojourner Truth's America by Margaret Washington 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story by Andrea Weiss 4.22 avg rating — 91 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken 4.20 avg rating — 6,823 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah 4.16 avg rating — 194,736 ratings Luke rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History by Linwood Custalow 3.99 avg rating — 676 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington 4.43 avg rating — 10,163 ratings Luke rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 453 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Unbowed by Wangari Maathai 4.07 avg rating — 7,102 ratings Luke rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Raicho Hiratsuka 3.94 avg rating — 54 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Rape and Sexual Power in Early America by Sharon Block 4.08 avg rating — 167 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 203,483 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Rebel Girls: Their Fight For the Vote by Jill Liddington 4.09 avg rating — 67 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal by Afua Cooper 3.81 avg rating — 673 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 4.20 avg rating — 92,809 ratings Luke rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Dossier K: A Memoir by Imre Kertész 3.85 avg rating — 313 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Necropolis: London and Its Dead by Catharine Arnold (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 2,232 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey 3.71 avg rating — 2,378 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez: 1893-1923 by David Dorado Romo 4.31 avg rating — 104 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 1,371,410 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding by Dorothy Ko 3.94 avg rating — 218 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (Volume 17) (American Crossroads) by Alexandra Minna Stern 3.96 avg rating — 134 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Stone Fields: Love and Death in the Balkans by Courtney Angela Brkic (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 145 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford 3.73 avg rating — 4,696 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 8,355 ratings Luke rated it 1 star See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life by Caroline Moorehead 4.08 avg rating — 792 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Step-daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary by Jane Garrity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars by Whitney Chadwick 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 1,557 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Black Victorians, Black Victoriana by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy by Anna Politkovskaya 4.18 avg rating — 3,870 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories (Volume 8) (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) by Madeleine Yue Dong 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 4.40 avg rating — 206,970 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin 4.14 avg rating — 32,664 ratings Luke rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki 3.93 avg rating — 27,645 ratings Luke rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA – A Powerful Biography of the Woman Airbrushed Out of Scientific History by Brenda Maddox 4.12 avg rating — 2,614 ratings Luke rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz 4.04 avg rating — 428 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary: A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India by Amar Singh 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933 by Amos Elon 4.38 avg rating — 941 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism by Nicola Humble 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaya 4.32 avg rating — 1,053 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones 3.79 avg rating — 119 ratings Luke rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner 4.04 avg rating — 258 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana Byrd 4.24 avg rating — 1,011 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Indira by Katherine Frank (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 2,397 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Poison Principle: A memoir about family secrets and literary poisonings by Gail Bell 3.37 avg rating — 282 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village by Dongping Han 4.32 avg rating — 153 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against Their Own People – In Their Own Words by Liang Zhang (Compiler) 4.08 avg rating — 200 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Not Even My Name by Thea Halo 4.28 avg rating — 1,445 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli 4.23 avg rating — 3,441 ratings Luke rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan 4.12 avg rating — 11,523 ratings Luke rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont 3.78 avg rating — 181 ratings Luke added it to to-read-actual See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade by Jasmina Tešanović 3.70 avg rating — 151 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars