21 Best historical books like Poor Richard's Women: Ben Franklin in Love by Nancy Rubin Stuart

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Poor Richard's Women: Ben Franklin in Love

By: Nancy Rubin Stuart

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A colorful portrait of Deborah Read Franklin and the women who together clothed, fed, supported, nu…

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1. Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

4.16

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independen… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
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2. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

By: Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a lively, spellbinding acc… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Never confuse Motion with Action."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"When the well is dry we know the value of water"

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

"...there will be sleeping enough in the grave...."

-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Cover of The Children Return (Bruno, Chief of Police, #7) by Martin  Walker

3. The Children Return (Bruno, Chief of Police, #7)

By: Martin Walker

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of … read more

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4. Lafayette

By: Harlow Giles Unger

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Acclaim for Lafayette "I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction

5. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

By: Harlow Giles Unger

3.81

Format: 336 pages,

Founding Father James Monroe (1751-1831) long outlived the birth of the country and became so rever… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history

6. The Book of Useless Information

By: Noel Botham

3.89

Format: 202 pages,

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7. Gettysburg: The Last Invasion

By: Allen C. Guelzo

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed Civil War historian, and coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the legendary … read more

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8. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

By: Karen Abbott

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzl… read more

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9. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

By: Stacy Schiff

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
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10. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

By: C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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11. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

By: Rebecca Donner

4.31

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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12. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Tina Brown

4.03

Format: 571 pages, Hardcover

The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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14. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
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15. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

By: Carol Leonnig

4.24

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassina… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

By: John Wood Sweet

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its lo… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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18. The General and Julia

By: Jon Clinch

3.82

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
Cover of On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White Jr.

19. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.45

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

20. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

By: Joe Pompeo

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

21. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick

22. Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

3.84

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
"When Washington became president of the United States, he was still wrestling with the meaning of the American Revolution. He'd entered the conflict an unrepentant Virginia slaveholder. By the end of…"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy

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23. The Romanov Brides

By: Clare McHugh

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse—th… read more

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  • historical
Cover of Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live by Becca Levy

24. Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

By: Becca Levy

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Recipient of the 2023 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Book Award Yale professor and leading e… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill Shaffer

25. The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

By: Bill Shaffer

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking cour… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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26. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

By: Joanne Paul

4.17

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero by Christian Di Spigna

27. Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero

By: Christian Di Spigna

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A rich and illuminating biography of America's forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
Cover of The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (Gift for History Buffs) by David M. Rubenstein

28. The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (Gift for History Buffs)

By: David M. Rubenstein

4.39

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England by Vanessa Wilkie

29. A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

By: Vanessa Wilkie

4.11

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

This “engrossing, fast-paced, extremely well-researched biography” (Booklist) transports us to Tudo… read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Poor Richard's Women: Ben Franklin in Love by Nancy Rubin Stuart

30. Poor Richard's Women: Ben Franklin in Love

By: Nancy Rubin Stuart

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A colorful portrait of Deborah Read Franklin and the women who together clothed, fed, supported, nu… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • gender
  • united states
  • biography memoir
  • american revolution
  • nonfiction
Cover of American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 by Edward J. Larson

31. American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

By: Edward J. Larson

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american revolution

24 Best history books like Poor Richard's Women: Ben Franklin in Love by Nancy Rubin Stuart

Transform Your Habits

Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

Patrick K. O'Donnell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin , None

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Lafayette

Harlow Giles Unger

3.71

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

Harlow Giles Unger

3.81

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11 best-selling adult books like Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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