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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 18 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.09 — 383,950 ratings — published 2001
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,970 ratings — published 2001
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.95 — 109,243 ratings — published 2011
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,659 ratings — published 2005
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,957 ratings — published 1998
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,387 ratings — published 1998
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,400,980 ratings — published 1956
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,875 ratings — published 1999
Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,654 ratings — published 1969
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 206,437 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 — 1,016,892 ratings — published 2010
Henry VIII: The King and His Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,917 ratings — published 2001
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 73,751 ratings — published 1992
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,323,787 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 — 781,553 ratings — published 2003
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,310 ratings — published 1992
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,955 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 179,113 ratings — published 1959
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,175 ratings — published 2010
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 92,857 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 3.86 — 5,886 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 — 30,248 ratings — published 1967
The Children of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,598 ratings — published 1996
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,504 ratings — published 2010
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,561 ratings — published 2005
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,256 ratings — published 2013
The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,524 ratings — published 1995
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,722 ratings — published 2003
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,026 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 — 87,566 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 — 124,290 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 827,280 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 — 30,485 ratings — published 2014
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 86,503 ratings — published 2010
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.51 — 46,248 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 — 371,117 ratings — published 2013
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,319 ratings — published 2012
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,794 ratings — published 2000
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,143,508 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 — 8,129 ratings — published 2006
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,949 ratings — published 2005
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 226,815 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 — 143,927 ratings — published 2020
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 208,616 ratings — published 2007
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 935,112 ratings — published 1946
Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 51,786 ratings — published 2001
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,663 ratings — published 2006
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 — 366,986 ratings — published 1971
“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
