17 Best nonfiction books like Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony by Matthew Parker

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Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony

By: Matthew Parker

3.67

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmerin…

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1. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1)

By: Robert McCammon

3.57

Format: 160 pages,

The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe a witch has cursed their town with inexpli… read more

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4. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: David Grann

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more

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5. The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

By: Judith Flanders

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portr… read more

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6. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen

By: Leanda de Lisle

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

#NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Inspiration for Philippa Gregory's 2017 novel The Last Tudor and for El… read more

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7. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)

By: Walter Mosley

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his j… read more

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8. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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9. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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10. 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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11. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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12. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

14. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley

17. The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case

By: Philippa Langley

3.67

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) by Elly Griffiths

19. 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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20. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

By: Lara Maiklem

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"

-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

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21. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

By: H.W. Brands

3.92

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands offers a fresh and dramatic narrative of the Amer… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White

22. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

By: Richard White

3.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush

By: Tom Doyle

4.13

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony

By: Matthew Parker

3.67

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmerin… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

15 must-read history books like Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony by Matthew Parker

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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

3.33

Transform Your Habits

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Patrick Radden Keefe

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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

David Mitchell

4.16

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Kristin Hannah

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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