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The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough
4.13 average rating, · 26.2k ratings
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The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
Arthur Schopenhauer
4.22 average rating, · 11.4k ratings
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Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Søren Kierkegaard
4.17 average rating, · 10.7k ratings
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Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.14 average rating, · 10k ratings
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Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer
4.16 average rating, · 9.3k 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 World as Will and Representation, Volume II
Arthur Schopenhauer
4.26 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
Jerome K. Jerome
4.01 average rating, · 4.3k 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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Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
John Keats
4.29 average rating, · 3.2k 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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On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.22 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
Misha Glenny
4.15 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Untimely Meditations
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.11 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.16 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
4.22 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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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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