Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero
By: John Matusiak
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and groundbreaking study of Henry VIII as a deeply flawed individual, this book vigoro…
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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
By: Virginia Woolf
3.75
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more
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"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)
2. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
3. Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love
By: Elizabeth Norton
3.94
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving th… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- tudor period
4. Edward VI: The Lost King of England
By: Chris Skidmore
3.91
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
The birth of Edward on October 12, 1537, ended his father’s twenty-seven-year wait for an heir. Nin… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- tudor period
5. Mary Queen of Scots
By: Antonia Fraser
3.99
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic & controv… read more
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- biography
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"Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive."-Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots
"It is often said that a secure childhood makes the best foundation for a happy life. In marked contrast to her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart enjoyed an exceptionally cosseted youth. It is left …"-Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots
6. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
By: Dan Jones
4.27
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more
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"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Extravagance was a political necessity."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
7. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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8. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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9. Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
By: Nicola Tallis
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
"Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same." These were the hea… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- tudor period
10. Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more
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11. Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
3.68
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more
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"Love once, love always"-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."-George Eliot, Silas Marner
12. Cider With Rosie
By: Laurie Lee
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosieis a charming memoir of Laurie Lee… read more
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13. My Cousin Rachel
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.16
Format: 315 pages, ebook
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolute… read more
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14. The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
By: Linda Porter
3.47
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking new biography of "Bloody Mary," Linda Porter brings to life a queen best rem… read more
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15. Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
By: Anne Somerset
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Hardcover
She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain's l… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
16. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
17. Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
By: Gareth Russell
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretati… read more
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18. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more
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19. The Chamber
By: John Grisham
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a… read more
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20. The Witches: Salem, 1692
By: Stacy Schiff
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying… read more
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21. Jamaica Inn
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.89
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more
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"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn
22. Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII
By: Giles Tremlett
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The youngest child of the legendary monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, Catherine of Aragon (… read more
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23. The Life of Elizabeth I
By: Alison Weir
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Eliza… read more
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24. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
25. The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
By: Mensun Bound
4.12
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound's account is a triumph. The… read more
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- nonfiction
26. 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
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"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
27. Thomas Cromwell: A Life
By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
4.10
Format: 728 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obsc… read more
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- biography
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28. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
By: Richard Shepherd
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more
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"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
29. Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero
By: John Matusiak
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and groundbreaking study of Henry VIII as a deeply flawed individual, this book vigoro… read more
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