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Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
by
Dan Jones
533 members
7 reviews
4.2
Score 4
Added 2025-07-20, 05:16 AM
Member
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2
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
by
James Vincent
312 members
4 reviews
3.8
Score 3.36
Added 2025-07-20, 05:16 AM
Member
101skaz
3
Tutankhamun: Pharoah, Icon, Enigma
by
Joyce Tyldesley
64 members
1 review
½
4.4
Score 3.04
Added 2025-07-20, 05:17 AM
Member
101skaz
4
River Kings: A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
by
Cat Jarman
565 members
13 reviews
4
Score 2.83
Added 2025-07-20, 05:17 AM
Member
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5
The Coming Storm: A Journey into the Heart of the Conspiracy Machine
by
Gabriel Gatehouse
25 members
4
Score 2.68
Added 2025-07-20, 05:17 AM
Member
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6
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
by
Alice Roberts
173 members
5 reviews
½
4.4
Score 2.56
Added 2025-07-20, 05:17 AM
Member
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7
A Spy Alone
by
Charles Beaumont
129 members
8 reviews
3.9
Score 2.46
Added 2025-07-20, 05:17 AM
Member
101skaz
8
The White Ship : conquest, anarchy and the wrecking of Henry I's dream
by
Charles Spencer
403 members
15 reviews
3.8
Score 2.38
Added 2025-07-20, 09:14 AM
Member
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9
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
by
Eleanor Barraclough
263 members
3 reviews
4.1
Score 2.31
Added 2025-07-20, 09:15 AM
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10
To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape
by
Charles Spencer, Earl Spencer
165 members
2 reviews
½
4.3
Score 2.25
Added 2025-07-20, 09:15 AM
Member
101skaz
11
Rigged: The Incredible True Story of the Whistleblowers Jailed after Exposing the Rotten Heart of the Financial System
by
Andy Verity
9 members
4
Score 2.2
Added 2025-07-20, 09:15 AM
Member
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12
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
by
Dan Cruickshank
15 members
Score 2.15
Added 2025-07-20, 09:15 AM
Member
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13
Athelstan: The Making of England
by
Tom Holland
211 members
3 reviews
3.9
Score 2.11
Added 2025-07-20, 09:15 AM
Member
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14
Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (Borgata Trilogy)
by
Louis Ferrante
41 members
1 review
4
Score 2.07
Added 2025-07-20, 09:17 AM
Member
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15
Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata Trilogy
by
Louis Ferrante
15 members
1 review
4
Score 2.03
Added 2025-07-20, 09:17 AM
Member
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16
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
by
Catherine Hanley
140 members
2 reviews
½
4.4
Score 2
Added 2025-07-20, 09:17 AM
Member
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17
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
by
Thomas Penn
1,029 members
42 reviews
3.8
Score 1.97
Added 2025-07-20, 09:18 AM
Member
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18
Abys : The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
by
Max Hastings
256 members
5 reviews
4.2
Score 1.94
Added 2025-07-20, 09:18 AM
Member
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19
Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights In England
by
Myke Cole
9 members
4
Score 1.92
Added 2025-07-20, 09:18 AM
Member
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20
The Shortest History of Democracy
by
John Keane
63 members
1 review
½
3.6
Score 1.89
Added 2025-07-20, 09:18 AM
Member
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21
Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens
by
Chris Lintott
13 members
3
Score 1.87
Added 2025-07-20, 09:19 AM
Member
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22
The Shortest History of India
by
John Zubrzycki
71 members
1 review
3.9
Score 1.85
Added 2025-07-20, 09:19 AM
Member
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23
The Shortest History of Japan: From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse―The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation (The Shortest History Series)
by
Lesley Downer
78 members
1 review
½
4.6
Score 1.83
Added 2025-07-20, 09:19 AM
Member
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24
The Shortest History of Migration
by
Ian Goldin
33 members
4
Score 1.81
Added 2025-07-20, 09:19 AM
Member
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25
The Mercian Chronicles: King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State, AD 630–918 (Bloomsbury Publishing)
by
Max Adams
32 members
½
4.3
Score 1.79
Added 2025-07-20, 09:19 AM
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26
The Shortest History of Economics
by
Andrew Leigh
56 members
1 review
3.8
Score 1.77
Added 2025-07-20, 01:21 PM
Member
101skaz
27
The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government
by
David Torrance
20 members
1 review
4
Score 1.76
Added 2025-07-20, 01:26 PM
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28
The Shortest History of Germany
by
James Hawes
535 members
18 reviews
½
3.5
Score 1.74
Added 2025-07-20, 01:26 PM
Member
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29
The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
by
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
103 members
1 review
½
3.4
Score 1.72
Added 2025-07-20, 01:26 PM
Member
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30
The Greeks: A Global History
by
Roderick Beaton
249 members
4 reviews
½
4.3
Score 1.71
Added 2025-07-20, 01:26 PM
Member
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31
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
by
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
425 members
6 reviews
4
Score 1.7
Added 2025-07-20, 01:27 PM
Member
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32
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII’s Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
by
Robert Verkaik
32 members
4
Score 1.68
Added 2025-07-20, 01:27 PM
Member
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33
King John : treachery, tyranny and the road to Magna Carta
by
Marc Morris
285 members
7 reviews
3.9
Score 1.67
Added 2025-07-20, 01:27 PM
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34
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece
by
Robin Waterfield
174 members
½
4.4
Score 1.66
Added 2025-07-20, 01:27 PM
Member
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35
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
by
Adrian Goldsworthy
314 members
3 reviews
3.9
Score 1.65
Added 2025-07-20, 01:28 PM
Member
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36
The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It
by
Iain MacGregor
41 members
4
Score 1.63
Added 2025-07-20, 01:28 PM
Member
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37
The Real Lives of Roman Britain
by
Guy De la Bédoyère
62 members
3 reviews
3.9
Score 1.62
Added 2025-07-20, 01:29 PM
Member
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38
Three Weeks in July: 7/7, the aftermath and the deadly manhunt
by
Adam Wishart
5 members
4
Score 1.61
Added 2025-07-20, 01:29 PM
Member
101skaz
39
Military History: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Objects of Warfare
by
DK
192 members
½
4.5
Score 1.6
Added 2025-07-20, 02:58 PM
Member
101skaz
40
Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
by
Jonathan Glancey
6 members
Score 1.59
Added 2025-07-20, 02:58 PM
Member
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41
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
by
Michael Taylor
115 members
3 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1.58
Added 2025-07-20, 02:59 PM
Member
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42
Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
by
Guy De la Bédoyère
118 members
3 reviews
3.9
Score 1.57
Added 2025-07-21, 03:55 PM
Member
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43
Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
by
Guy De la Bédoyère
154 members
3 reviews
4
Score 1.56
Added 2025-07-21, 03:56 PM
Member
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44
The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies
by
Guy De la Bédoyère
68 members
3 reviews
3.2
Score 1.55
Added 2025-07-21, 03:56 PM
Member
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45
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by
Mary Beard
6,193 members
106 reviews
4.1
Score 1.54
Added 2025-07-21, 03:56 PM
Member
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46
Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
by
Guy De la Bédoyère
124 members
4 reviews
3.8
Score 1.54
Added 2025-07-21, 03:56 PM
Member
101skaz
47
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
by
Tom Holland
1,052 members
16 reviews
4
Score 1.53
Added 2025-07-21, 03:56 PM
Member
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48
The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine
by
Michael Kulikowski
145 members
2 reviews
3.9
Score 1.52
Added 2025-07-21, 03:57 PM
Member
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49
A Military Life of Constantine the Great
by
Ian Hughes
19 members
Score 1.51
Added 2025-07-21, 03:57 PM
Member
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50
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
by
Peter Frankopan
4,143 members
68 reviews
4
Score 1.5
Added 2025-07-21, 03:57 PM
Member
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51
All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
by
Kate Winkler Dawson
168 members
4 reviews
3.2
Score 1.5
Added 2025-07-21, 03:58 PM
Member
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52
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
by
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
329 members
4 reviews
3.9
Score 1.49
Added 2025-07-21, 03:58 PM
Member
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53
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
by
Justin Marozzi
198 members
1 review
4.1
Score 1.48
Added 2025-07-21, 03:58 PM
Member
101skaz
54
The Arab Conquests
by
Justin Marozzi
25 members
1
Score 1.48
Added 2025-07-21, 03:58 PM
Member
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55
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
by
Janet L. Nelson
217 members
2 reviews
3.9
Score 1.47
Added 2025-07-21, 03:59 PM
Member
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56
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by
Joseph Henrich
651 members
16 reviews
4
Score 1.46
Added 2025-07-21, 03:59 PM
Member
101skaz
57
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
by
Neil S. Price
1,264 members
37 reviews
4.2
Score 1.46
Added 2025-07-21, 03:59 PM
Member
101skaz
58
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
by
Seb Falk
536 members
19 reviews
3.8
Score 1.45
Added 2025-07-21, 04:00 PM
Member
101skaz
59
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World―and Globalization Began
by
Valerie Hansen
402 members
8 reviews
½
3.5
Score 1.44
Added 2025-07-21, 04:00 PM
Member
101skaz
60
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People
by
Michael Wood
327 members
8 reviews
½
4.3
Score 1.44
Added 2025-07-21, 04:00 PM
Member
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61
España: A Brief History of Spain
by
Giles Tremlett
84 members
3 reviews
4.1
Score 1.43
Added 2025-07-21, 04:00 PM
Member
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62
The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe
by
Judith A. Green
99 members
3 reviews
2.9
Score 1.43
Added 2025-07-21, 04:00 PM
Member
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63
The Crusader Armies: 1099-1187
by
Steve Tibble
66 members
1 review
3.8
Score 1.42
Added 2025-07-21, 04:01 PM
Member
101skaz
64
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, His Heirs and the Founding of Modern China
by
John Man
179 members
3 reviews
3.8
Score 1.41
Added 2025-07-21, 04:01 PM
Member
101skaz
65
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
by
Nicholas Morton
146 members
2 reviews
4
Score 1.41
Added 2025-07-21, 04:01 PM
Member
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66
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
by
Thomas Asbridge
1,286 members
16 reviews
4
Score 1.4
Added 2025-07-21, 04:00 PM
Member
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67
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
by
Richard M. Eaton
157 members
3 reviews
4.1
Score 1.4
Added 2025-08-16, 10:00 AM
Member
101skaz
68
The Story of Russia
by
Orlando Figes
429 members
10 reviews
4.1
Score 1.39
Added 2025-07-21, 03:59 PM
Member
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69
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
by
Marie Favereau
285 members
5 reviews
3.9
Score 1.39
Added 2025-08-21, 08:26 AM
Member
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70
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
by
Martyn Rady
576 members
12 reviews
3.9
Score 1.38
Added 2025-08-14, 09:55 AM
Member
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71
American Heroes: From the #1 bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots (Heroes Among Us, 5)
by
James Patterson
55 members
½
3.3
Score 1.38
Added 2025-08-24, 11:07 AM
Member
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72
Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks
by
Geoff White
30 members
½
2.5
Score 1.37
Added 2025-08-24, 11:08 AM
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73
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by
Norman F. Cantor
2,175 members
57 reviews
½
3.3
Score 1.37
Added 2025-08-28, 04:17 PM
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74
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
by
David Abulafia
421 members
3 reviews
½
4.3
Score 1.36
Added 2025-07-21, 03:58 PM
Member
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75
Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
by
Mary Hollingsworth
54 members
1 review
Score 1.36
Added 2025-09-04, 09:12 AM
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76
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
by
Jerry Brotton
159 members
5 reviews
3.9
Score 1.36
Added 2025-09-07, 02:25 PM
Member
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77
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology of the World: A Comprehensive A-Z of the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World
by
Arthur Cotterell
14 members
Score 1.35
Added 2025-09-07, 02:25 PM
Member
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78
The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds
by
Edward Brooke-Hitching
171 members
2 reviews
3.8
Score 1.35
Added 2025-09-07, 02:25 PM
Member
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79
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas
by
Maria Garcia Esperon
145 members
3 reviews
4.2
Score 1.34
Added 2025-09-07, 02:26 PM
Member
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80
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
by
Catherine Fletcher
170 members
1 review
4
Score 1.34
Added 2025-09-04, 09:10 AM
Member
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81
The Medici
by
Mary Hollingsworth
172 members
1 review
3.8
Score 1.33
Added 2025-09-21, 02:24 PM
Member
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82
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
by
Paul Strathern
143 members
4 reviews
4
Score 1.33
Added 2025-09-21, 02:24 PM
Member
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83
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
by
John Julius Norwich
448 members
14 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1.33
Added 2025-09-21, 02:25 PM
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84
Leonardo da Vinci
by
Walter Isaacson
4,086 members
84 reviews
4.2
Score 1.32
Added 2025-09-21, 02:26 PM
Member
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85
The Defector
by
Richard Kerbaj
17 members
Score 1.32
Added 2025-09-26, 05:06 PM
Member
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86
The Life and Death of King Richard III
by
Anthony Cheetham
7 members
1 review
4
Score 1.31
Added 2025-09-26, 05:08 PM
Member
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87
The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy
by
James Patterson
173 members
5 reviews
3.8
Score 1.31
Added 2025-09-30, 08:28 AM
Member
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88
Queens at War
by
Alison Weir
59 members
1 review
Score 1.31
Added 2025-09-30, 08:28 AM
Member
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89
Queens of the Crusades
by
Alison Weir
307 members
5 reviews
3.9
Score 1.3
Added 2025-10-02, 02:45 AM
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90
Violencia: A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West
by
Jason Webster
27 members
1 review
4
Score 1.3
Added 2025-10-02, 02:46 AM
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91
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
by
Paul Preston
161 members
5 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1.3
Added 2025-10-02, 02:46 AM
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92
After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain
by
Tobias Buck
11 members
Score 1.29
Added 2025-10-02, 02:46 AM
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93
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by
Yuval Noah Harari
1,504 members
34 reviews
4.1
Score 1.29
Added 2025-10-10, 12:08 PM
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94
Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee
by
Charlie Higson
16 members
2 reviews
4.2
Score 1.29
Added 2025-10-13, 06:53 AM
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95
Augustus The Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco
by
Tim Blanning
49 members
1 review
3.9
Score 1.28
Added 2025-10-13, 06:55 AM
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96
Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939
by
Robert Forczyk
91 members
4 reviews
4.2
Score 1.28
Added 2025-10-13, 06:55 AM
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97
The Baltic Story: A Thousand-Year History of Its Lands, Sea and Peoples
by
Caroline Boggis-Rolfe
20 members
½
3.3
Score 1.28
Added 2025-10-13, 06:56 AM
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98
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
by
Peter H. Wilson
764 members
10 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1.27
Added 2025-10-13, 06:56 AM
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99
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
by
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
55 members
2 reviews
½
4.4
Score 1.27
Added 2025-10-15, 05:43 PM
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100
Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World
by
Lubaaba Al-Azami
15 members
Score 1.27
Added 2025-10-15, 05:43 PM
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