Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanMarie Antoinette by Antonia FraserNicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Best History Books
3,691 books — 3,728 voters
Byzantine Empresses by Lynda GarlandTheodora by Clara UnderhillCleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Queen Regnant
82 books — 11 voters

Empires and Barbarians by Peter HeatherThe Later Roman Empire by Ammianus MarcellinusThe 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. WoodThe Dark Ages 476-918 A.D. by Charles OmanBefore France and Germany by Patrick J. GearyFraming the Early Middle Ages by Chris WickhamEmpires and Barbarians by Peter Heather
Dark age European history
202 books — 67 voters

Medieval Civilization 400-1500 by Jacques Le GoffQueen of the Conqueror by Tracy BormanThe Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
Best Medieval History Books
809 books — 328 voters
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, 350-950 by Robert FossierThe Early Middle Ages by Xavier Barral i AltetMedieval Architecture in Eastern Europe by Heinrich L. NickelThe Origins of Medieval Architecture by Charles McClendonMedieval Architecture, Medieval Learning by Charles M. Radding
Medieval Architecture (nonfiction)
89 books — 19 voters

The Rival Queens by Nancy  GoldstoneGame of Queens by Sarah GristwoodQueen Emma and Queen Edith by Pauline StaffordThe Warrior Queens by Antonia FraserQueen Emma And The Vikings by Harriet O'Brien
Medieval Queens of England
34 books — 25 voters
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëAgnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Best Books of the Decade: 1840s
280 books — 383 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyFar From the Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyDaniel Deronda by George Eliot
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
258 books — 345 voters
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesBel-Ami by Guy de MaupassantThe Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Best Books of the Decade: 1880s
377 books — 411 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,129 books — 3,678 voters
The Lover by Marguerite DurasThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,257 books — 2,433 voters

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob BurckhardtThe Italian Renaissance by J.H. PlumbIsabella of Castile by Nancy Rubin StuartThe Deadly Sisterhood by Leonie FriedaCatherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda
Best Books on the Renaissance
187 books — 104 voters
Love and Louis XIV by Antonia FraserThe Sun King by Nancy MitfordThe Secret Wife of Louis XIV by Veronica BuckleyThe Affair of the Poisons by Anne SomersetA Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar
Louis XIV
64 books — 28 voters

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de BernièresThe Girl Under the Olive Tree by Leah Fleming
Best Books Set In Greece
152 books — 201 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassieCatherine the Great by Virginia RoundingGreat Catherine by Carolly EricksonThe Memoirs of Catherine the Great by Catherine II
Best Russian History Books
550 books — 384 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Tsarina's Daughter by Carolly EricksonThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Historical Fiction: Russia
307 books — 477 voters

The Beautiful American by Jeanne MackinZ by Therese Anne FowlerDollface by Renée RosenThe Chaperone by Laura MoriartyMagnolia City by Duncan W. Alderson
Jazz Age Covers
77 books — 22 voters

Suite Française by Irène NémirovskyCharlotte Gray by Sebastian FaulksAt the Water's Edge by Sara GruenShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeInto The Unknown by Lorna Peel
Fiction Set in 1940s
267 books — 64 voters
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAtonement by Ian McEwanFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Fiction Set in 1930s
173 books — 77 voters

A Room with a View by E.M. ForsterThe House of Mirth by Edith WhartonThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyThe Cherry Orchard by Anton ChekhovThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Best Books of the Decade: 1900s
465 books — 855 voters
The Wings of the Dove by Henry JamesThe Royal Nanny by Karen HarperFalling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Fiction Set in 1900s
19 books — 17 voters


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