5 Best nonfiction books like From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1) by Vilhelm Moberg

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From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1)

By: Vilhelm Moberg

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Beginning in prehistoric times and culminating with the Dacke rebellion of 1542, renowned novelist …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1) by Vilhelm Moberg , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Mina drömmars stad (Stadserien, #1)

By: Per Anders Fogelström

4.06

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

Stockholm var en småstad men ingen idyll när den femtonårige pojken Henning kom dit 1860. Att få ar… read more

Similar categories in Per Anders Fogelström's Mina drömmars stad (Stadserien, #1) book and Vilhelm Moberg's From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1)

  • historical
  • swedish literature
  • scandinavian literature
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2. Hemsöborna

By: August Strindberg

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Hemsoborna ar en roman av August Strindberg som utgavs 1887, ett ar efter Tjanstekvinnans son. Stri… read more

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  • swedish literature
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3. The Pearl Sister (The Seven Sisters #4)

By: Lucinda Riley

3.77

Format: 52 pages,

CeCe D'Apliese has never felt she fitted in anywhere. Following the death of her father, the elusiv… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda Riley's The Pearl Sister (The Seven Sisters #4) book and Vilhelm Moberg's From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1)

  • historical
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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

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  • historical
Cover of The Knight Templar (The Crusades Trilogy, #2) by Jan Guillou

6. The Knight Templar (The Crusades Trilogy, #2)

By: Jan Guillou

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

De la bataille de Montgisard (1177) au massacre de Saint-Jean d'Acre (1191), cette epopee historiqu… read more

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  • historical
  • medieval
  • swedish literature
  • scandinavian literature
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7. The Road to Jerusalem (The Knight Templar, #1)

By: Jan Guillou , Anna Paterson

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The hero of this phenomenally successful historical trilogy is Arn Magnusson, born in 1150 to an ar… read more

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  • historical
  • medieval
  • swedish literature
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8. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more

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  • scandinavian literature

9. Up from Slavery

By: Booker T. Washington , Ishmael Reed

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slaver… read more

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10. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

By: Selma Lagerlöf , Thea Kliros , Velma Swanston Howard

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909 -- the first woman to be so honored -- Swedish nov… read more

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11. Historien om Sverige. När Sverige blev stormakt

By: Herman Lindqvist

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

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12. Den allvarsamma leken

By: Hjalmar Söderberg

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Arhundradets karlekssaga >>Mig far du alska pa ett hedniskt vis!<< sager Lydia Stille till Arvid St… read more

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13. 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

Similar categories in Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century book and Vilhelm Moberg's From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1)

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • 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

14. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

By: Arthur Herman , None

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market c… read more

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15. Vägen till Klockrike

By: Harry Martinson

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

I Vagen till Klockrikefar vi folja luffaren Bolle pa hans vandringar genom ett Sverige som ar pa va… read more

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16. Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)

By: Emma Hamberg

3.45

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Äntligen har Agneta fallit på plats. Nu vet hon precis var och hur hon vill leva sitt liv: I Saint … read more

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  • swedish literature
"Ingen ser oss. Och om nån gör det, låt dem!"

-Emma Hamberg, Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)

"Aa, så är det alltså. Söder är på den här sidan så era snoppar pekar alltså...Vidare, söder ut!"

-Emma Hamberg, Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)

"- Det finns ju inga garantier. Att satsa allt man har på något som är utan garantier det...Det är svårt"

-Emma Hamberg, Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)

"- Jag tror att han vill ta min hatt. - Nej, nej han vill servera oss mat. Han vill inte ta din hatt. - Om han rör min hatt kommer jag att slå honom."

-Emma Hamberg, Au revoir Agneta (Agneta, #2)

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17. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Vilhelm Moberg's From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1)

  • medieval
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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18. Ghost Wall

By: Sarah Moss

3.73

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more

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"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."

-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

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19. Matrix

By: Lauren Groff

3.68

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more

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  • historical
"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."

-Lauren Groff, Matrix

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20. Jävla karlar

By: Andrev Walden

4.07

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more

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  • swedish literature
  • scandinavian literature
"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."

-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar

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21. Systrarna

By: Jonas Hassen Khemiri

4.19

Format: 722 pages, Hardcover

"Första gången jag hörde talas om Mikkolasystrarna var jag fem eller sex år gammal, jag satt på var… read more

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  • swedish literature
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22. The Missing Sister (The Seven Sisters, #7)

By: Lucinda Riley

4.20

Format: 805 pages, Paperback

The six D’Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage… read more

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  • historical
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23. The Sun Sister (The Seven Sisters, #6)

By: Lucinda Riley

4.35

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

The Sun Sister is the sixth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by the number one international … read more

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  • historical
"We zijn ontworteld. We hebben niet meer het gevoel dat we ergens thuishoren of bij iemand horen. Het zal wel een van de nadelen van globalisering zijn."

-Lucinda Riley, The Sun Sister (The Seven Sisters, #6)

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24. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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25. The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.94

Format: 666 pages, Hardcover

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
"The priest who once supervised me as a student had once said to me that a person only has to step sideways for everything to look different. He'd been talking about the priest's role as a director of…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)

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26. Bröd och mjölk

By: Karolina Ramqvist

3.68

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

I Bröd och mjölk skriver Karolina Ramqvist om en ensam flickas uppväxt fylld av doft, färg och smak… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • scandinavian literature
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27. Körkarlen

By: Selma Lagerlöf

3.74

Format: 216 pages, None

Körkarlen handlar om en slumsyster som ligger på sin dödsbädd och ber om att få träffa David Holm, … read more

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  • swedish literature
Cover of Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer

28. Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

By: Edith Sheffer

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for … read more

Similar categories in Edith Sheffer's Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna book and Vilhelm Moberg's From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1)

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Asperger's actions are perhaps more reflective of the nature of perpetration in the Third Reich than those of more prominent figures. The Reich's systems of extermination depended upon people like As…"

-Edith Sheffer, Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

"Rather than inhabiting a world of black and white, most individuals in the Reich operated in shades of gray. People confronted countless decisions each day. One might walk by a "Jews unwanted" sign a…"

-Edith Sheffer, Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

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29. Pilgrim at Sea

By: Pär Lagerkvist

3.80

Format: 116 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Benché il successo di Barabba e il Premio Nobel nei 1951 l’avessero fatto conoscere al grande pubbl… read more

Similar categories in Pär Lagerkvist's Pilgrim at Sea book and Vilhelm Moberg's From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1)

  • swedish literature
  • scandinavian literature
Cover of From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1) by Vilhelm Moberg

30. From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1)

By: Vilhelm Moberg

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Beginning in prehistoric times and culminating with the Dacke rebellion of 1542, renowned novelist … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • swedish literature
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
  • scandinavian literature
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31. En övning i revolution

By: Kayo Mpoyi

3.29

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Det här är berättelsen om en mor, en historia hon själv aldrig ville berätta. Kapi är mors yngst… read more

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  • swedish literature

5 must-read history books like From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1) by Vilhelm Moberg

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

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

Ian Mortimer

4.01

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Edith Sheffer

3.80

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The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

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Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

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Hunger

Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

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Soumission

Michel Houellebecq

3.65

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