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From Primitive Shack to Premier’s Wife: The Constance Davie Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.98 — 53 ratings — published
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.09 — 386,095 ratings — published 2001
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,088 ratings — published 2001
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.95 — 109,540 ratings — published 2011
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 206,001 ratings — published 2005
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.03 — 33,050 ratings — published 1998
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,445 ratings — published 1998
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,408,679 ratings — published 2012
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,957 ratings — published 1999
Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,718 ratings — published 1969
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 208,568 ratings — published 2004
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,021,069 ratings — published 2010
Henry VIII: The King and His Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,992 ratings — published 2001
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 73,987 ratings — published 1992
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,347,777 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 — 786,057 ratings — published 2003
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,368 ratings — published 1992
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 101,891 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,912 ratings — published 1959
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,737 ratings — published 2010
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 93,261 ratings — published 1992
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,916 ratings — published 2009
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,385 ratings — published 1967
The Children of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,648 ratings — published 1996
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.74 — 126,071 ratings — published 2010
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,479 ratings — published 2010
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,577 ratings — published 2005
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,294 ratings — published 2013
The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,554 ratings — published 1995
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,775 ratings — published 2003
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,300 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 — 88,334 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 — 124,869 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 832,197 ratings — published 2010
Sailors, Settlers & Sinners: The Hall Family in Hull and New Zealand, 1795-1907 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.88 — 34 ratings — published
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,187 ratings — published 2014
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 47,165 ratings — published 2017
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,994 ratings — published 2012
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 — 372,994 ratings — published 2013
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,735 ratings — published 2012
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 155,046 ratings — published 2003
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,844 ratings — published 2000
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,149,563 ratings — published 1997
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,181 ratings — published 2006
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,989 ratings — published 2005
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 230,645 ratings — published 2022
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 — 145,190 ratings — published 2020
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 210,818 ratings — published 2007
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 946,566 ratings — published 1946
Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 52,023 ratings — published 2001
“She said, “My people of Oxford, you are suffering from the administration of Hugh le Despencer the Elder and his son called Hugh le Despencer the Younger! I have issued warrants for their arrest and bringing to trial for crimes of High Treason against both men and their partner in crime called Edmund Fitzalan! I urge all of you to inform my soldiers of the where-abouts of these men!”
― Isabella Warrior Queen
― Isabella Warrior Queen
“I sometimes think with Moliere, Mr. Ridge, that ‘there is no folly equal to he who attempts to mend the world.’”
A single, unsuppressed laugh escaped him. “Yes,” he reluctantly replied, “but I cannot but help to attempt it, nonetheless.”
― Red Clay, Running Waters
A single, unsuppressed laugh escaped him. “Yes,” he reluctantly replied, “but I cannot but help to attempt it, nonetheless.”
― Red Clay, Running Waters
