16 Top history books like The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln

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The Emancipation Proclamation

By: Abraham Lincoln

4.45

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Abraham Lincoln's classic speech

If you liked the history plot in The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Peanuts) by Charles M. Schulz

1. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Peanuts)

By: Charles M. Schulz

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this beloved classic for the whole family, Charlie Brown has to prepare an entire Thanksgiving m… read more

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  • classics
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2. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a lively, spellbinding acc… read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Never confuse Motion with Action."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"When the well is dry we know the value of water"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"...there will be sleeping enough in the grave...."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Cover of The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition) by Anonymous, Matthew the Apostle

3. The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

By: Anonymous , Matthew the Apostle

4.58

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

****************SAMPLE BOOK****************This book is formatted for fast search and navigation. A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

"So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

"You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

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4. Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)

By: Darren Shan

4.08

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Darren Shan and his best friend, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque Du Freak, a wonderfully gothic fr… read more

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"Even in death, may you be triumphant"

-Darren Shan, Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)

"He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up."

-Darren Shan, Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)

"I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to …"

-Darren Shan, Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)

"I used to imagine the spider creeping down, crawling into my mouth, sliding down my throat, and laying loads of eggs in my belly. The Baby spiders would hatch after a while and eat me alive, from the…"

-Darren Shan, Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)

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5. The Color Out of Space

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area k… read more

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  • classics
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6. Rip Van Winkle

By: Washington Irving

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more

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  • classics
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7. The Song of the Lark

By: Willa Cather , Doris Grumbach

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young… read more

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  • classics
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8. Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. The Declaration of Independence with short biographies of its signers

By: Thomas Jefferson , None , Benson John Lossing

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction

10. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

By: Charles Darwin , Nora Barlow

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Charles Darwin's Autobiographywas first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bow… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris

11. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

By: Marc Morris

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country

By: Daniel O'Brien

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea. As… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

13. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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14. Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)

By: Homer Hickam

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over … read more

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15. The United States Constitution

By: Founding Fathers

4.60

Format: 645 pages,

This edition shows the 1787 United States Constitution. It does not include the Bill of Rights nor … read more

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16. Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more

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  • historical
  • classics
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."

-Johanna Spyri, Heidi

17. Madeline

By: Ludwig Bemelmans

4.00

Format: 112 pages,

Madeline is one of the best-loved characters in children's literature. Set in picturesque Paris, th… read more

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18. The Articles of Confederation

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Articles of Confederation were passed by the Continental Congress in 1777, but were not ratifie… read more

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19. The Monkey's Paw

By: W.W. Jacobs

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more

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  • classics
"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."

-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw

20. A Face in the Crowd

By: Stephen King , Stewart O'Nan

4.08

Format: 432 pages, ebook

The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship seaso… read more

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21. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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22. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • politics
  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • race
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Cover of Adrift: America in 100 Charts by Scott Galloway

23. Adrift: America in 100 Charts

By: Scott Galloway

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examinatio… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. Too Much Is Not Enough

By: Andrew Rannells

4.14

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and HBO's Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass

25. What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

By: Frederick Douglass

4.67

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a speech by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped f… read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • race
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

By: Douglas Brinkley

4.17

Format: 576 pages, ebook

Instant New York Times Bestseller As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approache… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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27. The Mayflower Compact

By: Multiple

4.15

Format: 2 pages, Kindle Edition

You read about it, now read it. read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
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28. Olive Oatman: A Life From Beginning to End (Native American History)

By: Hourly History

4.04

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable life of Olive Oatman... Free BONUS Inside! A pioneer girl traveling west wi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. The Emancipation Proclamation

By: Abraham Lincoln

4.45

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Abraham Lincoln's classic speech read more

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  • american history
  • classics
  • history
  • race
  • the united states of america
  • historical
  • politics
  • civil war
  • law
  • nonfiction
Cover of 82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle by Art Shaw

30. 82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle

By: Art Shaw

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"A gritty, first-person account. ... One can hear Shaw’s voice as if he were sitting beside you." —… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Medieval Knights: A Captivating Guide to the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, Knights Hospitaller, Order of Saint Lazarus, Knights Templar, and Teutonic Knights (Exploring Christianity) by Captivating History

31. Medieval Knights: A Captivating Guide to the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, Knights Hospitaller, Order of Saint Lazarus, Knights Templar, and Teutonic Knights (Exploring Christianity)

By: Captivating History

4.31

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you know that many medieval knights were actually monks?Read the stories, histories, and legend… read more

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  • history

14 Top classics books like The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln

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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Peanuts)

Charles M. Schulz

4.31

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

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The Holy Bible: Gospel of Matthew (ASV Red Letter Edition)

Anonymous , Matthew the Apostle

4.58

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The Color Out of Space

H.P. Lovecraft

4.00

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The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

4.06

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The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

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Lamb to the Slaughter

Roald Dahl

3.84

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The Voice in the Night

William Hope Hodgson

3.47

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