14 best-selling history books like The World of Stonehenge by Duncan Garrow

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The World of Stonehenge

By: Duncan Garrow

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Stonehenge is one of the best known, but most misunderstood, monuments in the world. Contrary to co…

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1. Twenty Blue Devils (Gideon Oliver, #9)

By: Aaron Elkins

3.92

Format: 273 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The investigation into the suspicious death of a coffee plantation owner poses more questions that … read more

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2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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  • scotland
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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3. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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4. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

By: Mary Beard

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • archaeology

5. The Box Of Delights

By: John Masefield

4.00

Format: 16 pages,

Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christma… read more

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6. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: None pages,

Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Ne… read more

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7. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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8. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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9. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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10. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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11. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

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"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

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12. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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14. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

By: Eleanor Parker

4.17

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"

-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

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15. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

By: Sue Black

4.31

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"

-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

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17. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

By: Lisa Belkin

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. What

By: John Cooper Clarke

4.02

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

'Nothing short of dazzling' – Alex Turner Dr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has rev… read more

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20. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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21. The Great When (The Long London Quintet, #1)

By: Alan Moore

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in … read more

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22. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
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23. The World of Stonehenge

By: Duncan Garrow

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Stonehenge is one of the best known, but most misunderstood, monuments in the world. Contrary to co… read more

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  • history
  • archaeology
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • scotland
  • prehistory
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24. Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)

By: Stephen Fry

4.42

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. Lonely Planet Antarctica (Travel Guide)

By: Alexis Averbuck

4.24

Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Antarctica is your passport… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Legion: life in the Roman army

By: Richard Abdy

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The accompanying hardback catalogue to the British Museum exhibition Legion: life in the Roman army… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. I am Ashurbanipal: King of the World, King of Assyria

By: Gareth Brereton

4.56

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 668 BCE Ashurbanipal inherited the largest empire in the world, stretching from the shores of th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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3.63

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4.13

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Mary Beard

4.11

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4.38

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4.16

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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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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David Mitchell

4.16

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