19 must-read nonfiction books like Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler

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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

By: Elizabeth Winkler

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shak…

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1. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By: Stephen Greenblatt

3.87

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Named One of Esquire 's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • literary criticism
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2. "Shakespeare" Identified in Edward De Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford

By: J. Thomas Looney

4.25

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge … read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Crewel Lye (Xanth #8)

By: Piers Anthony

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now. Although once he had been the most valorus of knights--tha… read more

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4. Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare

By: Derek Jacobi , Mark Anderson

3.95

Format: None pages,

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5. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

By: Tom Chivers

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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8. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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9. Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

By: Jane Draycott

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

By: Elizabeth Winkler

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shak… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • literary criticism
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11. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham

12. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

By: Lauren Markham

4.08

Format: 263 pages, ebook

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

13. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

By: Ramie Targoff

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Stalking Shakespeare

By: Lee Durkee

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes

By: Kate Strasdin

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

16. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper

17. The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

By: Farah Karim-Cooper

4.07

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still rel… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • literary criticism
Cover of The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner

18. The Wife of Bath: A Biography

By: Marion Turner

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous characte… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • literature
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • literary criticism
Cover of First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent by Lorissa Rinehart

19. First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent

By: Lorissa Rinehart

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"There is no revolution without domestic labor."

-Lorissa Rinehart, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent

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20. A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

By: Vanessa Wilkie

4.11

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

This “engrossing, fast-paced, extremely well-researched biography” (Booklist) transports us to Tudo… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion by Nancy MacDonell

21. Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

By: Nancy MacDonell

4.10

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Barbizon and The Girls of Atomic City, fashion historian and journalist Nan… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

15 Top audiobook books like Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler

Transform Your Habits

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Michael Finkel

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Judi Dench

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

Jane Draycott

3.77

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21 Top audiobook books like Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen by Jane Draycott

Transform Your Habits

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

John Guy

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood

Alistair Moffat

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard

4.11

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