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1984
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1776
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11/22/63
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1066 and all that: A memorable history of England
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
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1066: The Year of the Conquest
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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Fever 1793
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2010: Odyssey Two
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The Year of Decision 1846
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
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The Great Crash 1929
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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Hamlet, The Texts of 1603 and 1623
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Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
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2061: Odyssey Three (Space Odyssey, #3)
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943
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Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914
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Carolyn Meyer (Goodreads Author)
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1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls
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November 1916 (The Red Wheel, #2)
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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1968: The Year that Rocked the World
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3001: The Final Odyssey
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
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December 6
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Lockdown 2020: 5 Minute Poems
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Chris Mark Thomson (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years
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August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1)
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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
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1985
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The Making of the President 1960
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
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Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466
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Carolyn Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 6,545 ratings
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Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595
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America at 1750: A Social Portrait
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
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1966 and All That
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The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm
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Het Achterhuis: dagboekbrieven 12 juni 1942 - 1 augustus 1944
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4.20 avg rating — 4,120,788 ratings
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TWAS The Year 2020
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Karl Wiggins (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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2312
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3.52 avg rating — 21,603 ratings
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1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion
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4.08 avg rating — 4,005 ratings
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Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s
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Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
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David Maraniss (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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Revolt in 2100
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136
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Kristiana Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 5,318 ratings
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Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth
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June 29, 1999
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Born on the Fourth of July
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Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria, France, 1769
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Holy Bible: 1599 Geneva Bible
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4.61 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria - Hungary, 1853
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I Will Bear Witness 1933-41: A Diary of the Nazi Years
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Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889
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1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World
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3.89 avg rating — 211 ratings
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The Year of Three Kings, 1483
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Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
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1848: Die Geschichte von Jette und Frieder
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The Invasion of Canada: 1812-1813
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The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914
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The Naval War of 1812
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In the Year 2889
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The Debate on the Constitution, Part 1: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: September 1787 to February 1788
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Benjamin Franklin (Contributor)
4.35 avg rating — 316 ratings
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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
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The Debate on the Constitution, Part 2: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: January to August 1788
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Bernard Bailyn (Editor)
4.38 avg rating — 219 ratings
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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
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David O. Stewart (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 2,578 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author)
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The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies & Possibilities
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Guinness World Records 2010: The Book of the Decade
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Craig Glenday (Editor-in-Chief)
4.23 avg rating — 704 ratings
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A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry
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3.39 avg rating — 251 ratings
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
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1901
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1923: A Memoir
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2012: The War for Souls
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Whitley Strieber (Goodreads Author)
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1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America
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David Pietrusza (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Summer of '69
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Elin Hilderbrand (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 163,888 ratings
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America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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Ian Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 26,167 ratings
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
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David Pietrusza (Goodreads Author)
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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Summer of '42
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Herman Raucher (Goodreads Author)
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Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
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1919, The Year Our World Began
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Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg
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The 31st Of February
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Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Red Bird of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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Eric H. Cline (Goodreads Author)
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This list has books that certainly look like interesting reads.
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