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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 — 52 ratings — published
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 381,542 ratings — published 2001
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,799 ratings — published 2001
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 108,901 ratings — published 2011
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 202,988 ratings — published 2005
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,893 ratings — published 1998
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,388,444 ratings — published 1956
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,811 ratings — published 1999
Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,595 ratings — published 1969
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 204,063 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 — 1,009,998 ratings — published 2010
Henry VIII: The King and His Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,830 ratings — published 2001
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,328 ratings — published 1998
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 73,496 ratings — published 1992
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,271,898 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 — 773,040 ratings — published 2003
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,238 ratings — published 1992
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,119 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 174,196 ratings — published 1959
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,328 ratings — published 2010
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 92,332 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 — 30,118 ratings — published 1967
The Children of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,558 ratings — published 1996
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 124,635 ratings — published 2010
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,530 ratings — published 2005
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,203 ratings — published 2013
The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,463 ratings — published 1995
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,677 ratings — published 2003
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 57,620 ratings — published 2008
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,212 ratings — published 2004
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,852 ratings — published 2009
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,126 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 — 33 ratings — published
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.26 — 29,735 ratings — published 2014
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 85,062 ratings — published 2010
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 45,415 ratings — published 2017
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 — 367,624 ratings — published 2013
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,860 ratings — published 2012
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,772 ratings — published 2000
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.84 — 123,299 ratings — published 1998
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,130,147 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 3.87 — 8,098 ratings — published 2006
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,947 ratings — published 2005
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 219,036 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 — 141,402 ratings — published 2020
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 206,270 ratings — published 2007
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 913,434 ratings — published 1946
Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 51,541 ratings — published 2001
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.48 — 363,508 ratings — published 1971
Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 49,103 ratings — published 1995
“Conventional belief holds that after triumphing over a mid-career bout with polio, FDR went on to serve two vigorous terms as gov- ernor of New York and three-plus more as president of the United States, succumbing unexpectedly to a stroke on April 12, 1945. In truth, Franklin spent those eventful twenty-four years battling swarms of maladies including polio’s ongoing crippling effects, life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding, two incurable cancers, severe cardiovascular disease, and epilepsy.”
― FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
― FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
“Both through his paternal education and natural make-up, he treated his patients not as ‘cases’ but as friends. He never hesitated to take them for a walk arm in arm, or to invite them for a cup of coffee at his house.”
― Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait of a Pioneer in Sexology
― Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait of a Pioneer in Sexology
