12 must-read audiobook books like Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Liza Picard

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Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

By: Liza Picard

3.93

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetCh…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Liza Picard , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

By: Lynne Truss

3.87

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made … read more

Similar categories in Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation book and Liza Picard's Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
"The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it."

-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

"Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point."

-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

"I hear there are now Knightsbridge clinics offering semicolonic irrigation – but for many it may be too late."

-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

"...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop."

-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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2. Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain

By: Marc Morris

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandon… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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3. Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter

By: Dan Jones

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a mead… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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4. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

3.99

Format: 272 pages,

Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more

Similar categories in Barbara W. Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century book and Liza Picard's Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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5. The High Middle Ages

By: Philip Daileader

3.59

Format: None pages,

12 Audio CD set in two volumes. 24 Lectures / 30 minutes per lecture. 1. Why the Middle Ages? 2. De… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook

6. The Early Middle Ages

By: Philip Daileader

4.20

Format: None pages, Audiobook

We often call them the "Dark Ages," he era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome's western emp… read more

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7. The History of Ancient Rome (Great Courses, #340)

By: Garrett G. Fagan

4.14

Format: None pages, DVD

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8. An Instance of the Fingerpost

By: Iain Pears

5.00

Format: 224 pages,

An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and tu… read more

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9. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

By: Ian Mortimer

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

10. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

By: Mike Duncan

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more

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11. 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

Similar categories in Dan Jones's Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages book and Liza Picard's Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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12. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter

By: Ian Mortimer

4.00

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Gui… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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13. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

By: Matt Parker

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more

Similar categories in Matt Parker's Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors book and Liza Picard's Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

Cover of The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3) by Hilary Mantel

14. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • british literature
"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

Cover of Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob  Wilkins

15. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

By: Rob Wilkins

4.68

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more

Similar categories in Rob Wilkins's Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography book and Liza Picard's Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
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16. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

By: Mike Duncan

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin

17. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

By: Jeremy D. Popkin

4.21

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer

18. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain

By: Ian Mortimer

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

'Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about crim… read more

Similar categories in Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain book and Liza Picard's Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

By: Sarah Langford

4.08

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the v… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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20. The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

By: Patrick Wyman

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Liza Picard

21. Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

By: Liza Picard

3.93

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetCh… read more

Similar categories in Liza Picard's Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England book and Liza Picard's Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

  • history
  • geoffrey chaucer
  • british literature
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook

14 must-read history books like Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Liza Picard

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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain

Marc Morris

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter

Dan Jones

4.20

Transform Your Habits

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The High Middle Ages

Philip Daileader

3.59

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Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

The Secret Barrister

3.90

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Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

Wendy Joseph

4.43

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A Bit of a Stretch

Chris Atkins

4.21

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