23 must-read history books like Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon by Eric H. Cline

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Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

By: Eric H. Cline

3.68

Format: 424 pages, ebook

A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.:…

If you liked the history plot in Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon by Eric H. Cline , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Jerusalem: The Biography

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.07

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."

-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography

"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."

-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography

"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."

-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography

"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"

-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography

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2. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen

3. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan

4. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

By: Brian M. Fagan

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

5. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

By: None

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more

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6. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.87

Format: None pages,

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more

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7. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto

8. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson

9. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

By: Lynne Olson

4.26

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • archaeology
  • audiobook
"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"

-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

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10. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak

12. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2) by Jasper Fforde

13. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.50

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more

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  • audiobook
"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."

-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

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14. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

15. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart

16. The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

By: Nell McShane Wulfhart

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The empowering true story of a group of spirited stewardesses who "stood up to huge corporations an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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17. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

By: Simon Winchester

4.14

Format: 416 pages, ebook

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"From a book talk in Palo Alto for "The Perfectionists"; He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that …"

-Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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18. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

By: Simon Winchester

3.79

Format: 464 pages, ebook

The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore by Emma Southon

19. Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

By: Emma Southon

4.22

Format: 285 pages, None

They said she was a tyrant. A murderer, and the most wicked woman in history. She kicked her way… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. The Ungrateful Refugee

By: Dina Nayeri

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction "Nayeri combines her own experience with thos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Unlike economic migrants, refugees have no agency; they are no threat. Often, they are so broken, they beg to be remade into the image of the native. As recipients of magnanimity, they can be pitied.…"

-Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee

Cover of Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City by Andrew Lawler

21. Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City

By: Andrew Lawler

3.91

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrep… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • archaeology
Cover of The Tao of the Backup Catcher: Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game by Tim          Brown

22. The Tao of the Backup Catcher: Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game

By: Tim Brown

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"This isn’t just a story about baseball. It’s about life and the beauty of knowing and accepting wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts by John Barelli

23. Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts

By: John Barelli

3.36

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, John B… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy by Jeffrey E. Garten

24. Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy

By: Jeffrey E. Garten

3.99

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton admi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The purpose was not to destroy the alliances and organizations that were built after World War II but to spread the responsibilities among key nations for making those alliances and organizations wor…"

-Jeffrey E. Garten, Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy

Cover of Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football by John Eisenberg

25. Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football

By: John Eisenberg

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed sportswriter offers an inside look at the Black quarterbacks whose skill and grit tran… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Candida Moss

26. God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

By: Candida Moss

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meani… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon by Eric H. Cline

27. Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

By: Eric H. Cline

3.68

Format: 424 pages, ebook

A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.:… read more

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  • history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones

28. The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South

By: Chip Jones

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Virginia Living Favorite book (2021) In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

29. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Angel of Vengeance (Pendergast, #22) by Douglas Preston

30. Angel of Vengeance (Pendergast, #22)

By: Douglas Preston

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Con… read more

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  • audiobook
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31. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

20 must-read audiobook books like Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon by Eric H. Cline

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3.99

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Lynne Olson

4.26

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Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

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4.43

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Jeff Benedict , Armen Keteyian

4.04

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The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football

S.C. Gwynne

4.39

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Rich Cohen

4.50

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Jeff Pearlman

4.75

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