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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 — 205,282 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 — 309,835 ratings — published 2009
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.37 — 297,847 ratings — published 1965
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.16 — 207,505 ratings — published 2007
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,889 ratings — published 2004
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.26 — 30,084 ratings — published 2014
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,298,129 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 — 89,039 ratings — published 2011
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.05 — 153,290 ratings — published 2003
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,008 ratings — published 2016
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,173 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,080 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 62,473 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 4.19 — 72,302 ratings — published 1998
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,679 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 — 24,854 ratings — published 2014
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 382,739 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 — 777,459 ratings — published 2003
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.94 — 109,087 ratings — published 2011
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 518,000 ratings — published 2001
The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.60 — 14,686 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 — 142,637 ratings — published 2020
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 — 44,745 ratings — published 2021
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.17 — 85,804 ratings — published 2010
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,855 ratings — published 2005
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,887 ratings — published 2017
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.15 — 39,519 ratings — published 1998
The Undefeated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.62 — 7,481 ratings — published 2019
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.20 — 492,663 ratings — published 2020
Code Name Hélène (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.40 — 89,714 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 — 71,439 ratings — published 2019
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,524 ratings — published 2013
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.75 — 183,477 ratings — published 2017
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,886 ratings — published 2001
Doc (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,773 ratings — published 2011
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.21 — 290,784 ratings — published 1932
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,661 ratings — published 1791
Alexander the Great (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,329 ratings — published 2010
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,127,591 ratings — published 2011
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,273 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 — 12,886 ratings — published 2001
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,586 ratings — published 1994
Madame Tussaud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,628 ratings — published 2011
Alexander the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,550 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 — 52 ratings — published
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,109 ratings — published 2012
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,174 ratings — published 2016
Once Upon a Wardrobe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.33 — 33,267 ratings — published 2021
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,043 ratings — published 2017
“To know and admire history’s heroes involves a knowledge of the full historical context they lived in, warts and all, in order to see clearly how they changed that world for the better.”
― Why Ancient History Matters
― Why Ancient History Matters
“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
