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The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough
4.13 average rating, · 26.2k ratings
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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
4.23 average rating, · 15.9k ratings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.06 average rating, · 12.1k ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848
Daniel Walker Howe
4.17 average rating, · 8.9k ratings
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How to Be a Victorian
Ruth Goodman
4.25 average rating, · 8k ratings
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The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.17 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
Judith Flanders
4.18 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Jane Austen's Letters
Jane Austen
4.15 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Thomas Pakenham
4.15 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
Misha Glenny
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Untimely Meditations
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.11 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Stephen R. Platt
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 - 1914
Richard J. Evans
4.15 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
Stella Tillyard
4.10 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Mark Twain: A Life
Ron Powers
4.06 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
H.W. Brands
4.05 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
Frederic Morton
4.01 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Trouble the Water
Rebecca Dwight Bruff
4.37 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
Phyllis Rose
4.05 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
Liza Picard
4.03 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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El 19 de marzo y el 2 de mayo
Benito Pérez Galdós
4.10 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Orlando Figes
4.25 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
Christopher Clark
4.21 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849
Cecil Woodham-Smith
4.17 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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