11 Best historical books like The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons: Decoding the Ancestry of the English by Jean Manco

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The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons: Decoding the Ancestry of the English

By: Jean Manco

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What do we really know of English ancestry? Combining results from cutting-edge DNA technology with…

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Cover of Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings

1. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

By: Max Hastings

4.06

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

"Bethmann-Hollweg era davvero irremovibile non tanto sulle sue richieste territoriali – cercò, a un certo punto, di dissuadere il Kaiser dall’insistere sull’annessione del Belgio – quanto sull’intenzi…"

-Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

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2. Æthelstan: The Making of England

By: Tom Holland

4.03

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under sa… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • anglo saxon
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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3. Spirits Abroad

By: Zen Cho

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more

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4. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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  • historical
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5. Arguably: Selected Essays

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguablyoffers an indispensable ke… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

6. Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn & Chee, #19)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Legendary tribal sleuths Leaphorn and Chee are back! The supremely talented daughter of New York Ti… read more

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7. The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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  • british literature
"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

8. Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire

By: James Romm

3.33

Format: None pages,

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9. The Paper Bag Princess

By: Robert Munsch , Michael Martchenko

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnap… read more

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10. Thursbitch

By: Alan Garner

4.28

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

"HERE JOHN TURNER WAS CAST AWAY IN A HEAVY SNOW STORM IN THE NIGHT IN THE YEAR 1755" "THE PRINT OF … read more

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11. Baa Baa Black Sheep

By: Gregory Boyington

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black… read more

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12. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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13. Ghosts: A Natural History: 500 Years of Searching for Proof

By: Roger Clarke

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Roger Clarke tells this [the story that inspired Henr… read more

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14. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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15. The Good Shepherd

By: C.S. Forester

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The Good Shepherd has been adapted into a major motion picture, Greyhound, scripted by and starring… read more

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  • historical
Cover of Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones

16. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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17. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • anglo saxon
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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19. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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20. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy

21. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By: Beth Macy

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The corporation feels no pain."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

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22. The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one vo… read more

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23. 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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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. Æthelred the Unready: The Failed King

By: Richard P. Abels

3.59

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

In his fascinating new book in the Penguin Monarchs series, Richard Abels examines the long and tro… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • anglo saxon
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
Cover of Nemesis (Tom Wilde, #3) by Rory Clements

25. Nemesis (Tom Wilde, #3)

By: Rory Clements

4.15

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

'A masterpiece of spies, intrigue and political shenanigans' Sunday ExpressCan a ruthless spy ring … read more

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  • historical
Cover of Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper

26. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

27. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • archaeology
Cover of The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity by Robin Ince

28. The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

By: Robin Ince

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimid… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the empty solid — and nothing, something — seem greater than anything I have ever read…"

-Robin Ince, The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

Cover of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen

29. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

By: Hana Videen

4.26

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • anglo saxon
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
"For some reason, the ball-biting beaver doesn't live on in modern fiction like Aslan the lion or Fawkes the phoenix."

-Hana Videen, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

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30. The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons: Decoding the Ancestry of the English

By: Jean Manco

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What do we really know of English ancestry? Combining results from cutting-edge DNA technology with… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • anglo saxon
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • archaeology
  • genetics
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31. Daughter of Fire

By: Sofia Robleda

3.97

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

For a young woman coming of age in sixteenth-century Guatemala, safeguarding her people’s legacy is… read more

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  • historical

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4.06

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4.03

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Christopher Hitchens

3.75

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4.64

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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4.43

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