9 Top history books like Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip’s War by Lisa Brooks

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Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip’s War

By: Lisa Brooks

4.60

Format: 1100 pages, Hardcover

For centuries the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower has been told and retold: the landing at …

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1. A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

By: Carol Reardon , William Thomas Vossler

4.55

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

In this lively guide to the Gettysburg battlefield, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler invite readers to… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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2. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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3. The Case for Christ

By: Lee Strobel

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Lee Strobe… read more

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4. The Penguin Book of Witches

By: Katherine Howe

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America From a manual… read more

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  • history
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5. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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6. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

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7. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

8. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

By: Mark Dunn

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South C… read more

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9. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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10. Sanctuary

By: William Faulkner

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuaryis a powerful novel examining the nature of… read more

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11. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

12. House of M

By: Brian Michael Bendis , Scott Hanna , Tim Townsend , None , Chris Eliopoulos , Olivier Coipel , Rick Magyar , John Dell , Frank D'Armata , None , None , None

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Marvel event of the decade is here! The Avengers and the X-Men are faced with a common foe that… read more

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13. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

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14. Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas

3.90

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more

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15. Dark Earth

By: Rebecca Stott

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The year is 500 AD. Sisters Isla and Blue live in the shadows of the Ghost City, the abandoned ruin… read more

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16. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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17. The English Understand Wool

By: Helen DeWitt

4.10

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more

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18. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Jonathan Martin

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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19. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

By: Max Fisher

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more

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  • history
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"

-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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20. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

By: Eleanor Parker

4.17

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more

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  • history
"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

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21. Emergent Properties

By: Aimee Ogden

3.57

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brew… read more

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22. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele

3.65

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more

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  • history
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23. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

By: Rachel L. Swarns

4.13

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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24. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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25. Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip’s War

By: Lisa Brooks

4.60

Format: 1100 pages, Hardcover

For centuries the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower has been told and retold: the landing at … read more

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  • history

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