Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
By: Guy de la Bédoyère
3.55
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving …
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3.90
Format: 205 pages,
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2. The Way of the Gladiator
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4.75
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3. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)
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3.86
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4.15
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5. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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4.02
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7. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
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4.32
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9. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
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10. Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
3.80
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By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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12. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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13. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
By: Kenneth W. Harl
4.00
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped … read more
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"Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires."-Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
14. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
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4.17
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
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4.29
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
TYRANTS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE RAISED. ANCIENT ROME, AD 37 It begins with a man’s hand curled aro… read more
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16. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond
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4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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17. The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
By: Steven Mithen
4.14
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A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the langua… read more
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18. How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess
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3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the se… read more
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19. F1 Racing Confidential: Inside Stories from the World of Formula One
By: Giles Richards
3.98
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An access-all-areas look inside the thrilling world of Formula One.Formula One is one of the most i… read more
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20. Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
By: Colin Elliott
3.76
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the … read more
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21. Stormcrow (Stormcrow, #1)
By: Ben Kane
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
On the east coast of Ireland thirteen-year old Finn finds the sword of a slain Norseman, and with O… read more
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22. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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23. The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus
By: Lucy Ward
4.05
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 ‘Sparkling histo… read more
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24. Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
By: Michael Taylor
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves t… read more
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25. Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
By: Guy de la Bédoyère
3.55
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving … read more
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26. American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again
By: Yuval Levin
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic c… read more
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27. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
28. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
29. Spring Offensive (Home Front Detective #11)
By: Edward Marston
4.41
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
March, 1918. British newspapers carry the dreadful news that the German Spring Offensive has begun,… read more
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30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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31. The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue att… read more
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