5 must-read biography books like Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison

Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and def…

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Cover of The Histories by Herodotus, Aubrey de Sélincourt, John M. Marincola

1. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

Cover of The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks

2. The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805

By: Richard Zacks

3.85

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A real-life thriller -- the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates t… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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3. 1776

By: David McCullough

4.09

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"

-David McCullough, 1776

"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."

-David McCullough, 1776

"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."

-David McCullough, 1776

"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"

-David McCullough, 1776

Cover of Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams) by William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson

4. Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

By: William Carlos Williams , Charles Tomlinson

4.16

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects … read more

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"they are mystified by certain instances."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

"Sun benches at the curb bespeak another season, truncated poplars that having served for shade served also later for the fire."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

"I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD."

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

"When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my …"

-William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams)

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5. Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

4.09

Format: 801 pages, Paperback

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more

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"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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6. The Writing Life

By: Annie Dillard

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. Love's Labour's Lost

By: William Shakespeare , Henry R. Woudhuysen

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To begin the introduction, the editor discusses the link between Love's Labour's Lostand the writin… read more

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8. Revelations of Divine Love

By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more

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  • nonfiction

9. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

10. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1) by Winston S. Churchill

11. The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)

By: Winston S. Churchill

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed su… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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12. The Swiss Family Robinson

By: Arthur Pober , Johann David Wyss , Scott McKowen

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, fi… read more

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  • adventure
"It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven."

-Arthur Pober, The Swiss Family Robinson

Cover of A Distant Mirror:  The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

13. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

3.99

Format: 272 pages,

Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
Cover of The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

14. The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine

4.33

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more

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15. Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

By: Laurence Bergreen

3.50

Format: 296 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • world history

16. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus

By: Samuel Eliot Morison

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and def… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • world history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • european history

17. The Age of Voltaire (The Story of Civilization, #9)

By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

The Age of Voltaire (Volume 9): A biography of a great man and the period he embodied. We witness V… read more

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18. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

By: Thomas Sowell

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it pos…"

-Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

19. Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

4.09

Format: 315 pages,

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more

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20. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Dan Jones

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more

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21. Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

By: Paul Johnson

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity. Do the priv… read more

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22. Ivanhoe

By: Walter Scott

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more

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23. Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

By: Buddy Levy

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy r… read more

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24. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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25. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By: Laurence Bergreen

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year… read more

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26. Ramona

By: Helen Hunt Jackson , Michael Dorris , Valerie Sherer Mathes

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, this is a tale of true love tested. S… read more

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27. The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens , Norman Page

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, C… read more

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28. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

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Cover of In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire by Laurence Bergreen

29. In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

By: Laurence Bergreen

3.91

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus brings ali… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • world history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of The Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer

30. The Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe

By: Stephen C. Meyer

4.43

Format: 576 pages, ebook

The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt and Intelligent Design scholar presents gro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans by Peter Schweizer

31. Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

By: Peter Schweizer

4.41

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It’s often said that China is in a cold war with America. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

13 Top history books like Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison

Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805

Richard Zacks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius , None

4.27

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11 must-read fiction books like The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

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The Centaur

Algernon Blackwood

3.46

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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)

Mark Twain

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

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