The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
By: James Gardner
3.88
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
Some nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incompa…
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1. The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
By: Ross King
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a sem… read more
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2. The Last Queen
By: C.W. Gortner
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Juana of Castile, the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country's throne, has been for cen… read more
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3. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
By: Ron Chernow
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morganis the most … read more
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4. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #8)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.07
Format: 253 pages,
THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 8 Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladie… read more
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5. Seven Ages of Paris
By: Alistair Horne
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this luminous portrait of Paris, celebrated historian Alistair Horne gives us the history, cultu… read more
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6. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
By: Sue Roe
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in b… read more
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7. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more
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8. Locked in Pursuit (Electra McDonnell #4)
By: Ashley Weaver
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The fourth instalment in the delightful series following safecracker Electra McDonnell fighting Naz… read more
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9. France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
By: John Julius Norwich
3.97
Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of Frenc… read more
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- audiobook
"With the Roman Empire effectively gone (...) Gaul disintegrated into a mass of small barbarian states under so-called kings, dukes, and counts. As we know however, nature abhors a vacuum, sooner or l…"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"In 1870, the throne was offered to Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Had the Prince rejected the offer at once, there might have been no Franco-Prussian war, and Napoleon III might have end…"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"Martyrs were innumerable, among them, Saint Denis, 3rd century bishop of Paris, who, when beheaded, calmly picked up his severed head and walked several miles to the site of the abbey that bears his …"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"[The Gauls] were carnivores through and through and they loved fighting. Their horsemanship probably outclassed even that of the Romans and, though they lacked the more sophisticated Roman weaponry, …"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
10. Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
By: Ken Follett
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civil… read more
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- art
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- france
- audiobook
"I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the Bible, and the sense of sharing something profound with other people. I have long f…"-Ken Follett, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
11. Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
By: Joseph Luzzi
3.77
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of uneart… read more
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- european history
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12. The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
By: James Gardner
3.88
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
Some nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incompa… read more
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- art
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- nonfiction
- france
- european history
- audiobook
13. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
By: Tom Breihan
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through th… read more
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- history
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14. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
By: Prudence Peiffer
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at t… read more
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- art history
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- audiobook
15. Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights
By: Martin Dugard
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O'Re… read more
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- nonfiction
- france
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16. A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12)
By: Anna Lee Huber
4.24
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, hope they’ve finally found peace after a … read more
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17. City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
By: Rupert Christiansen
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting … read more
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18. Winslow Homer: American Passage
By: William R. Cross
4.13
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, … read more
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19. Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved
By: Steven Naifeh
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The compelling story of how Vincent van Gogh developed his audacious, iconic style by immersing him… read more
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20. Back From the Future: A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told
By: Brad Gilmore
3.53
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
The Back to the Future series is a timeless collection of movies, Saturday morning cartoons, collec… read more
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21. Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
By: William E. Wallace
4.11
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades--and his transformation into one of the greatest a… read more
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