16 Top historical books like The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages by Katherine Harvey

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The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

By: Katherine Harvey

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people.   T…

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1. Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

By: Eleanor Herman

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They s… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • sexuality
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2. Medieval Europe

By: Chris Wickham

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and h… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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3. Babycakes (Tales of the City, #4)

By: Armistead Maupin

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and lau… read more

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Cover of Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

4. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Wayland Barber's Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times book and Katherine Harvey's The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Significant Others (Tales of the City, #5)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Significant Others, the fifth self-contained chronicle in the Tales of the City saga, is a cunningl… read more

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6. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

By: John Kelly

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more

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7. Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII

By: Gareth Russell

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretati… read more

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8. Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

By: Linnea Dunne

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Discover the Swedish ethos of balanced living with this little book of Lagom. The Swedish concept o… read more

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9. Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

By: Barbara Mertz

0.00

Format: 152 pages,

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10. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

By: Kate Lister

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Authored by one of the most original contemporary thinkers on the subject, this book is an enlighte… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • gender and sexuality
  • audiobook
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13. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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14. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

By: Leah Redmond Chang

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History)

By: Rosalie Gilbert

3.53

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

What Was Sex Like for a Medieval Woman?An inside look at sexual practices in the medieval world. We… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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16. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

By: Camilla Townsend

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"

-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

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17. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

By: Caroline Dodds Pennock

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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18. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

Similar categories in Charles Spencer's A Very Private School: A Memoir book and Katherine Harvey's The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program (Tuttle Classics)

By: Hal Gold

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII.… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story

By: Dan Jones

3.45

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling medieval ghost story, retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones. Published in a beautifu… read more

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  • historical
  • medieval
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes by Kate Strasdin

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

22. 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
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • gender and sexuality
  • audiobook
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23. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

By: Jack Hartnell

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
Cover of Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London by Alice Loxton

24. Uproar!: Satire, Scandal & Printmakers in Georgian London

By: Alice Loxton

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstree… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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25. The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

By: Katherine Harvey

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people.   T… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Harvey's The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages book and Katherine Harvey's The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • sexuality
  • medieval
  • gender and sexuality
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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26. Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos

By: Matt Lodder

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity. The earliest tatt… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

16 must-read audiobook books like The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages by Katherine Harvey

Transform Your Habits

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Chris Wickham

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

Kate Lister

4.18

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8 Top womens books like The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

Transform Your Habits

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

2.83

Transform Your Habits

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

Kate Lister

4.18

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A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

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