15 Top history books like The Hapsburg Empire: A New History by Peter M. Judson

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The Hapsburg Empire: A New History

By: Peter M. Judson

3.33

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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2. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

By: Tim Weiner

3.94

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more

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"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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3. Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)

By: Ian Fleming

3.57

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note #1: this entry is for one of the editions that includes the fourth story, "007 in … read more

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4. Summer

By: Edith Wharton

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first p… read more

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5. Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more

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6. The Bad Popes

By: E.R. Chamberlin

4.18

Format: 306 pages,

Let yourself be swept up by this colorful, panoramic story of seven men who ruled the Church of Rom… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. The Stars My Destination

By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

8. Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made War, Peace, and Love at the Congress of Vienna

By: David King

3.00

Format: None pages,

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9. Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By: Laura Thompson

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman… read more

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10. The World of Yesterday

By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more

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11. The Food of the Gods

By: H.G. Wells

3.76

Format: 205 pages,

What happens when science tampers with nature? A riveting, cautionary tale with disastrous results … read more

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12. Blood of the Fold (Sword of Truth, #3)

By: Terry Goodkind

4.28

Format: 141 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There is an alternate cover edition . Richard comes to terms with his true identity as a War Wizar… read more

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13. Mistress Anne

By: Carolly Erickson

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

As Maureen Quilligan wrote in the New York Times Book Reviewof The First Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn "wa… read more

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14. The American Civil War (Great Courses, #885)

By: Gary W. Gallagher

3.25

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Professor Gallagher is aleading authority on the Civil War. He is the author of several books and d… read more

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15. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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16. Castle Rackrent

By: Maria Edgeworth

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackren… read more

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17. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

By: Robert Gerwarth

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more

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18. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more

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19. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

20. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more

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21. Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth, #2)

By: Terry Goodkind

3.44

Format: 330 pages,

In Wizard's First Rule,Richard Cypher's world was turned upside down. Once a simple woods guide, Ri… read more

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22. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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23. After The Plague

By: Simon Doubleday

3.46

Format: 11 pages, Audible Audio

10 hours and 24 minutes As the Black Death swept across Europe, killing up to a half of the popu… read more

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24. Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

By: Catherine Hanley

4.20

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown—the f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Stalin in Power: The Russian Revolution From Above, 1928-1941

By: Robert C. Tucker

4.00

Format: 902 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is the best book about Stalin that has ever been written and one that is not likely to be sup… read more

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26. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

By: Clara E. Mattei

4.26

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A must-read, with key lessons for the future."—Thomas Pike… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

By: Roger Moorhouse

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World W… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Classics of Russian Literature

By: Irwin Weil

4.24

Format: 18 pages, Audio CD

Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul, and in this series of 36 insightfu… read more

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29. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

By: Geoffrey Parker

4.13

Format: 737 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world’s f… read more

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30. The Hapsburg Empire: A New History

By: Peter M. Judson

3.33

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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