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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 10,428 ratings
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Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots
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3.58 avg rating — 404 ratings
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A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer
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4.03 avg rating — 719 ratings
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Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
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3.85 avg rating — 2,690 ratings
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Camp!: The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World
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Exploring the Cultural Phenomenon of the Dick Pic
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
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3.75 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister
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4.04 avg rating — 3,990 ratings
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Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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4.19 avg rating — 47 ratings
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A Short History of Queer Women
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3.60 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers
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3.30 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
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3.81 avg rating — 14,827 ratings
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Life in the Georgian Court
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3.77 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Real Queen Charlotte
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3.81 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
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4.20 avg rating — 2,984 ratings
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Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness
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3.65 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
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3.88 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America
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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party
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4.24 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
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A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
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3.72 avg rating — 669 ratings
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The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship
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3.84 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe
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3.96 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond
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3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?
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4.03 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
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3.79 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Abandoned London: Discover the hidden secrets of the city in photographs
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Look Up London: Discover the details you have never noticed before in 10 walks
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4.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
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3.76 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty
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4.23 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
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4.06 avg rating — 3,155 ratings
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
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4.13 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
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3.71 avg rating — 1,713 ratings
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The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses
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3.88 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
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4.20 avg rating — 131 ratings
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What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Kitsch!: Cultural politics and taste
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Bedlam: London and Its Mad
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3.57 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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3.74 avg rating — 1,134 ratings
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Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
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4.07 avg rating — 725 ratings
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When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
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4.28 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
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3.44 avg rating — 5,166 ratings
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Virgins: A Cultural History
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3.70 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
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3.91 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
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River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
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4.04 avg rating — 4,085 ratings
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Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
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4.48 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II
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3.84 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women
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3.60 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God
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3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
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3.93 avg rating — 3,947 ratings
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Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs
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3.71 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Black Victorians: Hidden in History
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4.43 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
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3.48 avg rating — 6,672 ratings
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The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession
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3.59 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
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3.71 avg rating — 760 ratings
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The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All
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3.42 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
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4.06 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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