Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/25257928-stefi">Stefi</a> (124 Lists)

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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman

Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

Best History Books

3,919 books — 4,020 voters

Byzantine Empresses by Lynda Garland

Theodora by Clara Underhill

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

82 books — 11 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Women on the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" List

289 books — 168 voters

The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer

The Greeks by H.D.F. Kitto

Ancient Worlds by Richard Miles

Ancient Greece by Thomas R. Martin

Ancestral Journeys by Jean Manco

Best Books About Ancient History

459 books — 139 voters

Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather

The Later Roman Empire by Ammianus Marcellinus

The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750 by Peter Brown

Books on the Later Roman Empire

166 books — 45 voters

The Merovingian Kingdoms 450 – 751 by Ian N. Wood

The Dark Ages 476-918 A.D. by Charles Oman

Before France and Germany by Patrick J. Geary

Framing the Early Middle Ages by Chris Wickham

Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather

Dark age European history

202 books — 67 voters

Medieval Civilization 400-1500 by Jacques Le Goff

Queen of the Conqueror by Tracy Borman

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Best Medieval History Books

830 books — 390 voters

The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, 350-950 by Robert Fossier

The Early Middle Ages by Xavier Barral i Altet

Medieval Architecture in Eastern Europe by Heinrich L. Nickel

The Origins of Medieval Architecture by Charles McClendon

Medieval Architecture, Medieval Learning by Charles M. Radding

Medieval Architecture (nonfiction)

89 books — 19 voters

The Rival Queens by Nancy Goldstone

Game of Queens by Sarah Gristwood

Queen Emma and Queen Edith by Pauline Stafford

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Queen Emma And The Vikings by Harriet O'Brien

Medieval Queens of England

34 books — 25 voters

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Best Books of the Decade: 1840s

280 books — 389 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Best Books of the Decade: 1870s

259 books — 350 voters

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Best Books of the Decade: 1880s

378 books — 415 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Best Books of the Decade: 1990s

3,156 books — 3,682 voters

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Best Books of the Decade: 1980s

2,257 books — 2,436 voters

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Best Books of the Decade: 1970s

1,957 books — 1,886 voters

She-Wolves by Helen Castor

The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle

Queen Emma And The Vikings by Harriet O'Brien

Emma by Isabella Strachan

Queen Emma and Queen Edith by Pauline Stafford

From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

280 books — 136 voters

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

The Italian Renaissance by J.H. Plumb

Isabella of Castile by Nancy Rubin Stuart

The Deadly Sisterhood by Leonie Frieda

Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda

Best Books on the Renaissance

187 books — 104 voters

Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser

The Sun King by Nancy Mitford

The Secret Wife of Louis XIV by Veronica Buckley

The Affair of the Poisons by Anne Somerset

A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar

64 books — 28 voters

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

I am Sophie Tucker by Susan Ecker

City of Light by Lauren Belfer

Fiction Set in Turn-of-the-century New York City

110 books — 119 voters

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

The Girl Under the Olive Tree by Leah Fleming

Best Books Set In Greece

152 books — 195 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great by Virginia Rounding

Great Catherine by Carolly Erickson

The Memoirs of Catherine the Great by Catherine II

Best Russian History Books

579 books — 445 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

The Tsarina's Daughter by Carolly Erickson

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

Historical Fiction: Russia

316 books — 489 voters

Katherine by Anya Seton

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Favorite Historical Romance Novels

3,460 books — 6,090 voters

Matilda's Freedom by Tea Cooper

Passionfruit & Poetry by Tea Cooper

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Romance in Australia/New Zealand (and/or) Australian/New Zealander Heroes and Heroines

373 books — 202 voters

The Beautiful American by Jeanne Mackin

Z by Therese Anne Fowler

Dollface by Renée Rosen

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

Magnolia City by Duncan W. Alderson

Jazz Age Covers

77 books — 22 voters

Ladies In Waiting by Anne Somerset

Margaret Beaufort by Elizabeth Norton

Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser

Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig

Five Empresses by Evgenii V. Anisimov

Nonfiction Books on Life at Royal Courts

219 books — 19 voters

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Into The Unknown by Lorna Peel

Fiction Set in 1940s

268 books — 65 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Atonement by Ian McEwan

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Fiction Set in 1930s

177 books — 79 voters

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Best Books of the Decade: 1900s

483 books — 859 voters

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

The Royal Nanny by Karen Harper

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

Fiction Set in 1900s

19 books — 17 voters

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