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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,328,505 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,402,092 ratings — published 1956
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 782,378 ratings — published 2003
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as true-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 21,919 ratings — published 2013
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as true-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 109,892 ratings — published 2011
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,327,850 ratings — published 2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,017,583 ratings — published 2010
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 273,896 ratings — published 1980
1776 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 257,154 ratings — published 2005
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 384,270 ratings — published 2001
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as true-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,903 ratings — published 2018
A True History of the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 863 ratings — published
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 48,553 ratings — published 2017
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 36,715 ratings — published 1981
Killing Mohammed: The Story of a So Called Prophet (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 2014
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 17,284 ratings — published 2023
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.64 — 1,351 ratings — published 2022
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 470,324 ratings — published 2017
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 80,603 ratings — published 2002
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 45,601 ratings — published 2021
TERRA-INFINITA, Mundos Extraterrestres y Sus Civilizaciones: Historia Contada por la Mujer que Nació en Tierras detrás de Las Murallas de Hielo (TERRA INFINITA (Español) nº 2) (Spanish Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 66 ratings — published
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
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avg rating 4.23 — 127,163 ratings — published 1853
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,760 ratings — published 2010
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 197,673 ratings — published 2016
The Rough Riders (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 3,692 ratings — published 1899
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 30,268 ratings — published 1967
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter (Frontier Lawmen)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,679 ratings — published 2019
Valley Forge (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,278 ratings — published 2018
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West (Frontier Lawmen)
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avg rating 3.83 — 4,576 ratings — published 2017
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 6,767 ratings — published 2013
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 4,804 ratings — published 2008
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 31,408 ratings — published 2017
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 120,738 ratings — published 1997
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 49,758 ratings — published 1999
Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,235 ratings — published 1993
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 115,615 ratings — published 2009
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 53,061 ratings — published 2009
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
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avg rating 3.89 — 47,149 ratings — published 2006
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 69,829 ratings — published 1996
Norwegian Folk Tales: From the Collection of Peter Christen Asbjornsen (The Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library) by Peter Christen Asbjornsen
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 5,439 ratings — published 1984
The Norse Myths (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,691 ratings — published 1980
Latin American Folktales (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 252 ratings — published 2001
Russian Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 4,720 ratings — published 1855
Irish Folk Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 548 ratings — published 1985
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 68,445 ratings — published 2021
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 73,018 ratings — published 2008
The Autobiography and Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,692 ratings — published 1791
The Journal Of John Woolman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.48 — 850 ratings — published 1773
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages (Brief Histories)
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avg rating 3.62 — 467 ratings — published 2009
“There are no absolute truths, and the best historians know that. You strive to capture a moment of time, and if your work is done properly, history becomes a written photograph.”
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“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses.”
― The Midnight Palace
― The Midnight Palace
