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The Map Catalog by Joel Makower (9), The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography - From Antiquity to the Space Age {Revised Edition} by John Noble Wilford (13), Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden (12), Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings (9), The Thirty Years War by Cicely V. Wedgwood (12), At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries by Estelle Ellis (15), The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey (18), How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier (9), The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo (23), Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson (10), The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (15), Collins German Dictionary by Peter Terrell (13), Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey (9), The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch (11), The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead (9), Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay (9), You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination by Katharine Harmon (9), Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (18), The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford (11), A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (18), The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff (11), Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World by Nicholas A. Basbanes (9), Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson (9), Atlas of World History, Volume 2: From the French Revolution to the Present by Hermann Kinder (10), The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg (12)
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The Odyssey by Homer (74), The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (66), Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (66), Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (63), The Iliad by Homer (62), Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (61), William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare (57), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling (56), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (53), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (52), The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (51), A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking (50), Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (50), Beowulf by Beowulf Poet (50), The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (49), The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien (49), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (48), The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (48), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (48), Animal Farm by George Orwell (48), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (48), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (48), Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (47), The Aeneid (translations) by Virgil (47), Dune by Frank Herbert (47)
