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John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 375,045 ratings — published 2001
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,250 ratings — published 2001
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 107,855 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 196,983 ratings — published 2004
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 197,807 ratings — published 2005
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,729 ratings — published 1998
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,344,542 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,116,848 ratings — published 1947
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,618 ratings — published 1999
Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,388 ratings — published 1969
Henry VIII: The King and His Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,482 ratings — published 2001
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,221 ratings — published 1998
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 72,476 ratings — published 1992
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 159,089 ratings — published 1959
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 747,012 ratings — published 2003
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,082 ratings — published 1992
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 97,655 ratings — published 2015
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 90,788 ratings — published 1992
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 995,170 ratings — published 2010
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,656 ratings — published 1967
The Children of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,422 ratings — published 1996
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 122,271 ratings — published 2010
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 81,112 ratings — published 2010
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 42,767 ratings — published 2017
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,448 ratings — published 2005
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,103 ratings — published 2013
The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,253 ratings — published 1995
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 42,659 ratings — published 2012
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,410 ratings — published 2010
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,470 ratings — published 2003
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,096 ratings — published 1998
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,755 ratings — published 2009
Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,337 ratings — published 1995
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 148,624 ratings — published 2003
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,720 ratings — published 2000
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,355 ratings — published 2008
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,093,142 ratings — published 1997
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,792 ratings — published 2010
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,034 ratings — published 2006
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,877 ratings — published 2005
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 191,617 ratings — published 2022
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,489 ratings — published 2018
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 133,999 ratings — published 2020
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 199,518 ratings — published 2007
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.24 — 27,643 ratings — published 2014
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 848,578 ratings — published 1946
Theodore Rex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,902 ratings — published 2001
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 245,260 ratings — published 2005
The Princes in the Tower (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,682 ratings — published 1992
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,275 ratings — published 2009
“The King ruled in consultation with his chief nobles, who fromed the nucleus of what was in effect a military aristocracy, whose power was centered on the castles they used to subdue and dominate the land.”
― Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
― Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
“Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?”
― Isabella Warrior Queen
― Isabella Warrior Queen
