20 best-selling history books like Wiped: The Curious History of Toilet Paper by Ronald H. Blumer

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Wiped: The Curious History of Toilet Paper

By: Ronald H. Blumer

4.06

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

How did people clean their rear ends before the invention of paper? The ancient Greeks used stones!…

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1. Crazy Horse and Custer

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.22

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

On June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode towards the banks of the Little Big… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Funerals to Die For: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever by Kathy Benjamin, Kathy  Benjamin

2. Funerals to Die For: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever

By: Kathy Benjamin , Kathy Benjamin

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The hereafter may still be part of the great unknown, but with Six Feet Blunder, you can unearth th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity by Jason Lucky Morrow

3. Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity

By: Jason Lucky Morrow

3.75

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

Tired of Reading About the Same Crimes and Criminals Over and Over? Are You Looking for Something C… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey, #1)

By: Diana Gabaldon

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Includes a sneak preview of the next Outlander novel, An Echo in the Bone . Adored bestselling aut… read more

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"Oh God. It isn’t Wednesday, is it, Hardy?"

-Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey, #1)

"Do what must be done, and then deal with the consequences."

-Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey, #1)

"Got to go to dinner at my brother’s house tomorrow - my sister-in-law is having Lord Worplesdon."

-Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey, #1)

"What sort of mother talks about whores on her deathbed? Your mother wouldn’t do that, would she?" "I have no idea,"

-Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey, #1)

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5. Someone Named Eva

By: Joan M. Wolf

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken from her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, along with other … read more

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6. 1000 Random Things You Always Believed That Are Not True

By: John Brown

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood? by Dee Gordon

7. Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood?

By: Dee Gordon

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

You won't be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all, f… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

8. The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men

By: Eric Lichtblau

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis Thousan… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

9. King Arthur: A Life From Beginning to End (Royalty Biography Book 4)

By: Hourly History

3.47

Format: 185 pages,

Dating back to the fifth century, the legend of King Arthur, his Queen Guinevere, and the Knights o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

10. Walking the Nile

By: Levison Wood

3.87

Format: 144 pages, ebook

A major Channel 4 series and a Sunday Times bestseller His journey is 4,250 miles long. He is walki… read more

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11. The Johnstown Flood

By: David McCullough

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

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12. Three Little Words: A Memoir

By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but s… read more

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13. Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages

By: Nathan Belofsky

3.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

An irreverent jaunt through medical history's most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest b… read more

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14. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

By: Timothy Egan

4.05

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."

-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"

-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

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15. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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16. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"

-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Cover of Well, Doc, It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time!: The Unexpected Adventures of a Trauma Surgeon by J. Paul Waymack

17. Well, Doc, It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time!: The Unexpected Adventures of a Trauma Surgeon

By: J. Paul Waymack

4.08

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1976, Paul Waymack began chronicling his experience as a third-year medical student, and for the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals

By: James McMurtry Longo

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsbur… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Hey, Idiot!: Chronicles of Human Stupidity

By: Leland Gregory

3.85

Format: 482 pages, Kindle Edition

It's not feelings of superiority that make us suspect the universe is filled with dumb people: The … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The Stone Age: A History from Beginning to End (Prehistory)

By: Hourly History

4.22

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable history of the Stone Age...Free BONUS Inside!The cave dwellers of the Stone… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Black Death: An Enthralling Overview of a Major Event in the Middle Ages (Europe) by Billy Wellman

21. The Black Death: An Enthralling Overview of a Major Event in the Middle Ages (Europe)

By: Billy Wellman

3.96

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

Boils, religion, and Living with the Black Death in the Middle AgesThe Black Death, also known as … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Wiped: The Curious History of Toilet Paper

By: Ronald H. Blumer

4.06

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

How did people clean their rear ends before the invention of paper? The ancient Greeks used stones!… read more

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23. The Weird Middle Ages: A Collection of Mysterious Stories, Odd Customs, and Strange Superstitions from Medieval Times

By: Charles River Editors

3.38

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of medieval accounts *Includes a bibliography for further rea… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of United States of True Crime: Connecticut: The Most Chilling Cases in All 50 States by Ashley Hudson

24. United States of True Crime: Connecticut: The Most Chilling Cases in All 50 States

By: Ashley Hudson

3.95

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

United States of True The Most Chilling Cases In All 50 States United States of True Crime is … read more

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25. History's Most Bizarrely Entertaining Facts Explained (Volume 3): Stories behind Fascinating Sagas and Weird Biographies of Kings and Queens

By: Gerald Burns

4.04

Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition

Read about stories behind fascinating sagasand weird biographies of Kings and Queens.Here are three… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19 by Frederick F. Cartwright

26. Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19

By: Frederick F. Cartwright

3.87

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

A newly updated edition of a classic in the history of medicine with information on Covid-19. Arisi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot by Martin W. Sandler

27. Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot

By: Martin W. Sandler

3.84

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

“A splendid book, full of fascinating, well-told tales . . . a diverse and bafflingly overlooked co… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Alan Watts: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History

28. Alan Watts: A Life from Beginning to End

By: Hourly History

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable life of Alan Watts...Free BONUS Inside!In the world of philosophy and spiri… read more

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29. Bedbugs and Chamberpots: A History of Human Hygiene

By: Elizabeth Poynter

3.71

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

When you watch those stunning TV period dramas, do you ever wonder about the bits they DON'T show -… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Colonial New England Curiosities: Remarkable Occurrences, Miracles & Madness

By: Robert A. Geake

3.15

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

The New World was full of unusual occurrences and strange trials for the early colonists of New Eng… read more

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3.72

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Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity

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3.75

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