17 must-read history books like Prince of Wales: A Biography by Jonathan Dimbleby

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Prince of Wales: A Biography

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

3.43

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

For this controversial, headline-making study of the heir to the throne, Dimbleby spent hours in ca…

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1. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace..."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying"

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

"Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other."

-Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Cover of Sisi: Empress on Her Own (Sisi, #2) by Allison Pataki

2. Sisi: Empress on Her Own (Sisi, #2)

By: Allison Pataki

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

In this sweeping and powerful novel, New York Timesbestselling author Allison Pataki tells the litt… read more

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3. The Accidental Empress (Sisi, #1)

By: Allison Pataki

4.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki follows up on her critically acclaimed debut novel… read more

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4. The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth G… read more

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5. Columbine

By: Dave Cullen

4.29

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

6. Lady Of Quality

By: Georgette Heyer

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Independent and spirited, Miss Annis Wychwood gives little thought to finding herself a suitable hu… read more

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7. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

By: Bill Bryson

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a S… read more

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8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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

9. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Charles C. Mann

4.23

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more

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10. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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11. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

By: Jonathan Karl

4.28

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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12. 500 Miles from You (Kirrinfief, #3)

By: Jenny Colgan

3.81

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Lissa, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at ke… read more

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"Um . . . well, I see most of the people I want to see. And I don’t really see the point of it otherwise, unless you want to show off and all that."

-Jenny Colgan, 500 Miles from You (Kirrinfief, #3)

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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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"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. The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

By: Claudia Gray

3.69

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

A summer house party turns into a whodunit when Mr. Wickham, one of literature’s most notorious vil… read more

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"What I believed Willoughby to be, you truly are."

-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

"What a relief - he was referring only to the murder."

-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

"How unfortunate for public morals that being unladylike feels so... exciting."

-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

"Doing what is right may be painful to us," she said, "but doing what is painful to others is rarely right."

-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)

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15. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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16. Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

By: Tom Bower

3.86

Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition

The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebra… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"Meghan, said Oprah, had been the target of ‘constant criticism [and] blatant sexist and racist remarks by British tabloids’. As she spoke, the screen was covered by a spread of apparently racist head…"

-Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

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17. The Ickabog

By: J.K. Rowling

3.91

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time there was a tiny kingdom called Cornucopia, as rich in happiness as it was in gold… read more

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"Tears can heal a mind, as well as laughter."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

"Still, it was hard to have parents who lived inside you, when all you really wanted was for them to come back, and hug you."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

"You may think this strange, but Mrs. Beamish was glad to hear Mr. Dovetail cry, because tears can heal a mind, as well as laughter."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

"Lži, lži a zase lži. Jakmile jednou začnete lhát, musíte lhát dál a pak jste jako kapitán na děravé lodi a lepíte jednu díru za duhou, abyste se nepotopili."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

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18. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

By: Ron Howard

4.27

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Midnight Blue

By: Simone van der Vlugt

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From Simone Van Der Vlugt comes her European bestselling novel of a young woman's rise as a painter… read more

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20. The Woman in the Library

By: Sulari Gentill

3.51

Format: 292 pages, ebook

In every person's story, there is something to hide... The ornate reading room at the Boston Pub… read more

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"I am a bricklayer without drawings, laying words in sentences, sentences into paragraphs, allowing my walls to twist and turn on whim...no framework...just bricks interlocked...no idea what I'm build…"

-Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library

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21. Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother

By: James Patterson

3.87

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Instant  New York Times  Bestseller!  “She was the best mother in the world,” said Princes William… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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22. Enough

By: Cassidy Hutchinson

4.31

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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23. Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II

By: Robert Hardman

4.33

Format: 690 pages, Hardcover

The definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by a renowned royal biographer. As seen on Good Morn… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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24. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor

By: Valentine Low

3.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years study… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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25. Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

By: Robert Hardman

3.92

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller‘Fascinating . . . The book everyone is talking about’ – Daily Mai… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"He's a very charming person - very warm and very friendly...I admire the way he interacts with people. That, to me, speaks to the measure of our King."

-Robert Hardman, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

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26. Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

By: Omid Scobie

3.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the internati… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"Everyone already knows that King Charles might have preferred a life as Queen Camilla's tampon."

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"The King has lived a full life out in the public as an outspoken environmental activist, an occasional meddler in politics, a successful businessman, a flawed father, and a philandering husband who d…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"And, despite calls from campaigners for a redesign, one of Britain's highest-honor medals bestowed by King Charles to ambassadors and diplomats for distinguished service still features a depiction of…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"A stubborn eccentric who has spent most of his life waiting and planning for his ascension, even at the cost of his relationships with his own sons, the former Prince of Wales is not only far less po…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

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27. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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28. Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

By: Andrew Lownie

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Traitor King, by Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, looks at the years following the ab… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute."

-Andrew Lownie, Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

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29. A Well-Behaved Woman

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of a family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, In 1883, the New York Times prints a leng… read more

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"Yet she understood a truth she could never say aloud: this ideal life was still deficient. She was not wholly content. Perhaps she should be, but contentment, she had learned, lay beyond money's cons…"

-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman

"Alva did suffer when the next wave came, and again and again and again, but a short while later she brought into the Vanderbilt family a girl with tufts of dark hair and wide eyes and the sweetest li…"

-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman

"Consuelo was correct: marrying for money alone was not ideal. Alva hoped for status, too - though not for the reasons her mother had sought it, self-importance and admiration. Status gave a woman mor…"

-Therese Anne Fowler, A Well-Behaved Woman

Cover of Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie

30. Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family

By: Omid Scobie

3.25

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"If he worried that he was bringing along a high-maintenance Hollywood actress on safari, Harry was delightfully surprised by Meghan’s down-to-earth attitude. While camping, she cleaned her face with …"

-Omid Scobie, Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family

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31. Prince of Wales: A Biography

By: Jonathan Dimbleby

3.43

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

For this controversial, headline-making study of the heir to the throne, Dimbleby spent hours in ca… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history

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Jonathan Karl

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3.86

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C.W. Gortner

3.90

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