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From Primitive Shack to Premier’s Wife: The Constance Davie Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.96 — 50 ratings — published
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 378,836 ratings — published 2001
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,545 ratings — published 2001
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 108,442 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 201,290 ratings — published 2004
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 200,880 ratings — published 2005
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,821 ratings — published 1998
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,371,191 ratings — published 1956
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,722 ratings — published 1999
Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,515 ratings — published 1969
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,001,337 ratings — published 2010
Henry VIII: The King and His Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,685 ratings — published 2001
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,280 ratings — published 1998
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 73,097 ratings — published 1992
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,215,919 ratings — published 1947
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 763,008 ratings — published 2003
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,167 ratings — published 1992
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 99,114 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 168,234 ratings — published 1959
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 83,167 ratings — published 2010
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 91,734 ratings — published 1992
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,899 ratings — published 1967
The Children of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,509 ratings — published 1996
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 123,551 ratings — published 2010
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 83,409 ratings — published 2010
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 44,414 ratings — published 2017
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,500 ratings — published 2005
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,156 ratings — published 2013
The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,380 ratings — published 1995
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,385 ratings — published 2012
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,591 ratings — published 2003
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 57,124 ratings — published 2008
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,592 ratings — published 2004
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,092 ratings — published 1998
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,818 ratings — published 2009
Sailors, Settlers & Sinners: The Hall Family in Hull and New Zealand, 1795-1907 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.94 — 32 ratings — published
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.25 — 28,893 ratings — published 2014
Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,798 ratings — published 1995
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 363,524 ratings — published 2013
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 150,923 ratings — published 2003
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,748 ratings — published 2000
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,116,303 ratings — published 1997
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 808,755 ratings — published 2010
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,070 ratings — published 2006
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,916 ratings — published 2005
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 207,802 ratings — published 2022
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,761 ratings — published 2018
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 138,503 ratings — published 2020
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 203,429 ratings — published 2007
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 888,348 ratings — published 1946
“The King ruled in consultation with his chief nobles, who fromed the nucleus of what was in effect a military aristocracy, whose power was centered on the castles they used to subdue and dominate the land.”
― Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
― Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
“Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?”
― Isabella Warrior Queen
― Isabella Warrior Queen
