11 best-selling historical books like Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War by Samantha Seiple

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Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War

By: Samantha Seiple

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening look at Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's time as a Civil War nurse, and the f…

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1. Coming Clean

By: Kimberly Rae Miller

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stunning memoir about a childhood spent growing up in a family of extreme hoarders and hiding squ… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Love, Lucy

By: Lucille Ball

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be."

-Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

"I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others."

-Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

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3. Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

By: Claire Harman

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jane's Fametells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the aut… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. 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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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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5. The Lost Hours

By: Karen White

3.61

Format: 160 pages,

When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother… read more

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6. The Lord God Made Them All

By: James Herriot

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Paperback

The Lord God Made Them Allis the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderfuland the fourth … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

By: Robert L. O'Connell

3.78

Format: 479 pages,

William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriotis a bold, … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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8. The Wright Brothers

By: David McCullough

2.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story ab… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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9. Wonderland Creek

By: Lynn Austin

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Alice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book. But the happily-ever-after lif… read more

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  • historical

10. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

By: James L. Swanson

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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11. Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

By: Miep Gies , Alison Leslie Gold

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second W… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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12. Hospital Sketches

By: Louisa May Alcott

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. By the author of Little Women. A collection of letters written when … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
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13. The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine

4.33

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more

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14. The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

Format: 316 pages,

The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas was a major media event, introducing … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

15. Captive Paradise: The Story of the United States and Hawaii

By: James L. Haley

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. … read more

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16. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By: Gordon S. Wood

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winnin… read more

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17. America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

By: Gail Collins

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

A landmark work of history telling the story of more than four centuries of history featuring a stu… read more

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18. Wait Till Next Year

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.07

Format: None pages,

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19. All Things Bright and Beautiful

By: James Herriot

4.00

Format: None pages,

"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --Associated Pre… read more

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20. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

By: Karen Abbott

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzl… read more

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21. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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22. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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23. Marilla of Green Gables

By: Sarah McCoy

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and mo… read more

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  • historical
"Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"There was power in knowledge. Like the gears of a steam engine, the more active knowledge was, the more force it produced."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Human hearts are full of strife. It's a fallen world, my dears. We can only do our best to establish safe havens where we can."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Just take a deep breath and go on in there with your head held high. Look for good things and good things [are] what you'll find..."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

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24. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Leadership: In Turbulent Times

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.40

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of le… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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26. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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27. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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28. 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
  • biography
  • history
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29. A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

By: Brittany K. Barnett

4.59

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story ab… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Teachers, lawyers, social workers, activists-anyone who works with the directly impacted, anyone who confronts the system day in and day out-will tell you that residual trauma is real."

-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

"No matter how many times my dad urged me to reach for the stars, my understanding of the universe was still confined by the world' limited notion of what a Black country girl from the South could do …"

-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

"A statue of a lone Confederate general towers over the Clarksville town center. To hear my grandpa tell it the general was built looking sternly over the Black side of town as a warning regarding whe…"

-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

"But it was 1996, and America's War on Drugs was in full throttle. Resources for drug treatment were scant, while money was being poured into law enforcement and prisons. People with addiction like Ma…"

-Brittany K. Barnett, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

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30. Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War

By: Samantha Seiple

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening look at Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's time as a Civil War nurse, and the f… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • medical
  • historical
  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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31. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction

18 must-read history books like Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War by Samantha Seiple

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Love, Lucy

Lucille Ball

4.26

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Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

Claire Harman

3.65

Transform Your Habits

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

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

Robert L. O'Connell

3.78

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The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

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Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)

Mark Twain

3.75

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Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

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