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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,893,949 ratings — published 1590
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 594,619 ratings — published 1595
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,598 ratings — published 1513
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 157 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 241,217 ratings — published 2009
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,647 ratings — published 1596
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.06 — 263,687 ratings — published 1598
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.72 — 226,284 ratings — published 1599
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.55 — 85,992 ratings — published 1516
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.73 — 184,071 ratings — published 1593
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 98 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 519,397 ratings — published 2001
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,240 ratings — published 1588
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
by (shelved 96 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.31 — 108,101 ratings — published 2012
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,472 ratings — published 1593
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 518,186 ratings — published 2020
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,492 ratings — published 1599
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,092,364 ratings — published 1601
Richard II (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 29,015 ratings — published 1597
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,686 ratings — published 1594
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.06 — 63,811 ratings — published 2003
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,548 ratings — published 1532
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 34,415 ratings — published 1597
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,536 ratings — published 1590
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,762 ratings — published 1580
The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
by (shelved 62 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 96,694 ratings — published 2006
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,750 ratings — published 1594
Innocent Traitor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,424 ratings — published 2006
Praise of Folly (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,162 ratings — published 1508
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,524 ratings — published 1599
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.01 — 222,952 ratings — published 2022
The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)
by (shelved 52 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 168,645 ratings — published 2005
In the Company of the Courtesan (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.80 — 26,599 ratings — published 2006
Love's Labour's Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.52 — 16,602 ratings — published 1598
The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
by (shelved 49 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.41 — 49,270 ratings — published 2020
The Virgin's Lover (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
by (shelved 47 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.74 — 58,263 ratings — published 2004
The Last Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,101 ratings — published 2006
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 73,873 ratings — published 1992
The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #13)
by (shelved 44 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 101,763 ratings — published 2003
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.53 — 37,594 ratings — published 1554
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.39 — 17,923 ratings — published 1594
The Lady Elizabeth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 28,935 ratings — published 2008
The Other Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #16)
by (shelved 41 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.71 — 50,369 ratings — published 2008
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,057,786 ratings — published 1623
Henry IV, Part Two (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.77 — 21,847 ratings — published 1598
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 11,202 ratings — published 2010
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 449,296 ratings — published 1603
The Game of Kings (The Lymond Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,359 ratings — published 1961
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.03 — 33,003 ratings — published 1998
Isola (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.99 — 131,148 ratings — published 2025
Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,084 ratings — published 2004
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as 16th-century)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,599 ratings — published 2009
“Dirty water will quench fire -”
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“Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later.”
― Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
― Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
