9 must-read ancient history books like The Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series) by Joanna Berry

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The Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series)

By: Joanna Berry

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gloriously illustrated and comprehensive survey of the most famous ancient site in the world. The…

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1. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

By: Rick Atkinson

4.29

Format: 681 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental tri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"In battle, topography is fate."

-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

"Troops caught nibbling their emergency D- ration chocolate bars were dubbed Chocolate Soldiers and punished by forfeiting two meals. This was a happy penance. The galleys served so much fatty mutton …"

-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)

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2. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • classics
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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3. Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the road a… read more

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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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5. Central Station

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.51

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Culture… read more

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"...these fragile, worn, faded, thin, cheap paper-bound books. They smelled of dust, and mould, and age. They smelled, faintly, of pee, and tobacco, and spilled coffee. They smelled like things which …"

-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station

"Other humans believed the same way they breathed: it came natural to them. The world was filled with synagogues and churches, mosques and temples, shrines to Elron and Ogko. New faiths rose and fell …"

-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station

"But he knew, too, that there is more than one story in this world at a time; and that her story was not his. Their stories had entwined, but they had different trajectories, different conclusions. He…"

-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station

"It is, perhaps, the prerogative of every man or woman to imagine, and thus force a shape, a meaning, onto that wild and meandering narrative of their lives, by choosing genre. A princess is rescued b…"

-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station

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6. The Last of the Wine

By: Mary Renault

3.88

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey … read more

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  • classics
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7. Imperium (Cicero, #1)

By: Robert Harris

4.13

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified… read more

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  • italy
  • ancient history
"What a terrible audit Death lays upon a man."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?"

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

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8. Pompeii

By: Robert Harris

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

With his trademark elegance and intelligence Robert Harris recreates a world on the brink of disast… read more

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  • italy
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9. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
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10. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

By: Mary Beard

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more

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  • italy
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
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11. The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more

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  • classics

12. The Burgess Boys

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the pub… read more

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13. Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.40

Format: 96 pages,

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiance died in the manner prescr… read more

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14. Shadow Divers

By: Robert Kurson

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which t… read more

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15. O Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

3.90

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more

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  • classics
"Things away from home often look better than they are."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

16. A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti, #7)

By: Donna Leon

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries f… read more

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17. Conspirata (Cicero, #2)

By: Robert Harris

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

- Internationally bestselling author: "Imperium" was hailed as "quite possibly Harris's most accomp… read more

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18. Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum

By: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the erup… read more

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19. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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20. Women & Power: A Manifesto

By: Mary Beard

4.03

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

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21. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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23. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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24. Cursed Bread

By: Sophie Mackintosh

3.28

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more

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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

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25. 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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  • italy
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

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  • archaeology
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27. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization

By: Paul Strathern

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more

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  • italy
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

By: Garrett Ryan

4.20

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to dri… read more

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  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

By: Emma Southon

4.22

Format: 285 pages, None

They said she was a tyrant. A murderer, and the most wicked woman in history. She kicked her way… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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30. The Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series)

By: Joanna Berry

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gloriously illustrated and comprehensive survey of the most famous ancient site in the world. The… read more

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  • italy
  • art
  • art history
  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • archaeology
  • anthropology
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31. African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa (International Library of African Studies)

By: Rebekah Lee

4.09

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

How did African women experience apartheid? How did they create a sense of belonging in a city that… read more

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  • italy
  • art
  • history

10 must-read classics books like The Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series) by Joanna Berry

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

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The Last of the Wine

Mary Renault

3.88

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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

Robert Graves

3.44

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14 Best fiction books like The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

4.75

Transform Your Habits

Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

Hilary Mantel

4.00

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Possession

A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

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