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Slaves to Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.19 — 111 ratings — published
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 207,017 ratings — published 2004
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.82 — 312,169 ratings — published 2009
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,696 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,945 ratings — published 1965
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.16 — 209,287 ratings — published 2007
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,802 ratings — published 2004
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,331,879 ratings — published 1947
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,018 ratings — published 2011
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.05 — 154,316 ratings — published 2003
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,635 ratings — published 2016
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 82,303 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,669 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 62,959 ratings — published 1979
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.20 — 73,282 ratings — published 1998
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,849 ratings — published 2006
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,950 ratings — published 2014
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 384,549 ratings — published 2001
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.00 — 782,979 ratings — published 2003
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.95 — 109,329 ratings — published 2011
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 519,173 ratings — published 2001
The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.60 — 14,751 ratings — published 2012
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.30 — 144,358 ratings — published 2020
America's First Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.23 — 71,883 ratings — published 2016
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.29 — 45,697 ratings — published 2021
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,774 ratings — published 2010
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.28 — 205,013 ratings — published 2005
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,918 ratings — published 2017
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.15 — 40,112 ratings — published 1998
The Undefeated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.61 — 7,518 ratings — published 2019
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.20 — 514,939 ratings — published 2020
Code Name Hélène (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.40 — 93,530 ratings — published 2020
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.08 — 73,386 ratings — published 2019
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,790 ratings — published 2013
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.74 — 185,548 ratings — published 2017
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,002 ratings — published 2001
Doc (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,876 ratings — published 2011
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.21 — 292,844 ratings — published 1932
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.85 — 94,228 ratings — published 1791
Alexander the Great (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,494 ratings — published 2010
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,181,238 ratings — published 2011
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,330 ratings — published 1992
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,895 ratings — published 2001
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.20 — 21,834 ratings — published 1997
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,183 ratings — published 1994
Madame Tussaud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,698 ratings — published 2011
Alexander the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,585 ratings — published 1962
From Primitive Shack to Premier’s Wife: The Constance Davie Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.98 — 53 ratings — published
Who Was Blackbeard? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,282 ratings — published 2015
Who Was Georgia O'Keeffe? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.03 — 126 ratings — published
“Every great life should have a mystery at its center.”
― The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius
― The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius
“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now, and because of his impermeable skin, which seems designed to resist rain as well as sun, people sneer that his father was an Irishman, though really he was a brewer and a blacksmith at Putney, a shearsman too, a man with a finger in every pie, a scrapper and a brawler, a drunk and a bully, a man often hauled before the justices for punching someone, for cheating someone. How the son of such a man has achieved his present eminence is a question all Europe asks.”
― Bring Up the Bodies
― Bring Up the Bodies
