11 Best history books like A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Christopher Duggan

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A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge Concise Histories)

By: Christopher Duggan

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secu…

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1. Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Scott Anderson

4.08

Format: 577 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th cent… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was that Jews somewhere were going to suffer."

-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

"In a clever retort, alluding to both his considerable girth and to his network of influential friends abroad, the agronomist replied, “Your Excellency, the weight of my body would break the gallows w…"

-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

"History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce…"

-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

"Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them…"

-Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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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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"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. Père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more

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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

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4. Paris Spleen

By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more

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5. The Sea, the Sea

By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more

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6. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more

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  • italy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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7. The Italians

By: John Hooper

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Washington Post bestseller Los Angeles Times bestseller A vivid and surprising portrait of the Ital… read more

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  • italy
  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • italian literature
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8. The Betrothed

By: Alessandro Manzoni , Bruce Penman

3.85

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Gyldendal-klassiker. Med utgivelsen av Alessandro Manzonis Dei trulovade i Gyldendals nye klassiker… read more

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  • italy
  • italian literature
"Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him"

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"He who utters falsehoods to the [lawyer] is a fool who will tell the truth to the judge."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

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9. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

10. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more

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11. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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12. Roughing It

By: Mark Twain , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Though known throughout the world for his fictional novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand Adventur… read more

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13. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

By: Jonathan Crary

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleepexplores some of the ruinous consequences of the expandi… read more

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14. The Pursuit of Italy

By: David Gilmour

4.23

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Visiting a villa built by Lorenzo de Medici outside Pisa, David Gilmour fell into conversation abou… read more

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15. Regarding the Pain of Others

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more

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16. Death on the Installment Plan

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, Journey to the End of the Nightand Death on the … read more

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17. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

By: Salman Rushdie

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the po… read more

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18. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

19. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

By: Ross King

3.26

Format: None pages,

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20. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

By: Joanna Robinson

4.22

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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22. A Natureza da Mordida

By: Carla Madeira

4.40

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

A Natureza da Mordida, segundo livro de Carla Madeira, autora de “Tudo é rio”, é um livro sobre a a… read more

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23. The Age of AI and Our Human Future

By: Henry Kissinger

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons

By: Ben Riggs

3.97

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Role-playing game historian Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of TSR ― the company that unleashe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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25. Indian Burial Ground

By: Nick Medina

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more

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"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"

-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground

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26. Żeglarze i Jeźdźcy (Księga Całości, #6)

By: Feliks W. Kres

4.19

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Świat, czy to ten pod niebiem Szereru czy jakikolwiek inny, jest pełen zła. W opowieściach starych … read more

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  • audiobook
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27. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

By: W. David Marx

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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28. The Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Vienna

By: Angus Robertson

3.51

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A rich and illuminating history of the world capitol that has transformed art, culture, and politic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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29. Pani Dobrego Znaku, tom I (Księga Całości, #4.1)

By: Feliks W. Kres

4.19

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • audiobook
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30. How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely

By: Andrew Craig

4.39

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

It is time to get your money working for you. How to Own the World explains why you can and must le… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. A Concise History of Italy (Cambridge Concise Histories)

By: Christopher Duggan

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Since its creation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secu… read more

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  • italy
  • history
  • travel
  • research
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • italian literature
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4.08

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Tim Marshall

4.20

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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

John C. Bogle

4.16

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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Morgan Housel

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