12 Top historical books like The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

By: Marie Favereau

3.84

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them―not just conquerors but also city builder…

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1. Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire

By: John Man

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and save… read more

Similar categories in John Man's Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval

2. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

By: None

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more

Similar categories in None's The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

3. Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

By: Timothy Brook

3.20

Format: 160 pages,

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4. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

By: Marie Favereau

3.84

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them―not just conquerors but also city builder… read more

Similar categories in Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • russia
  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • asia
  • war
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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5. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.06

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia  The Achaemen… read more

Similar categories in Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's Persians: The Age of the Great Kings book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

3.95

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of th… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Goldsworthy's The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
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7. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Clark's Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

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8. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

Similar categories in Cat Jarman's River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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9. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

Similar categories in Stuart A. Reid's The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
  • audiobook
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10. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

By: Annalee Newitz

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

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11. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.00

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped … read more

Similar categories in Kenneth W. Harl's Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • asia
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
"Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires."

-Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

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12. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

Similar categories in Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

By: Marc David Baer

3.95

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more

Similar categories in Marc David Baer's The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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14. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire

By: Eckart Frahm

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires    At its … read more

Similar categories in Eckart Frahm's Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

By: Camilla Townsend

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more

Similar categories in Camilla Townsend's Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"

-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

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16. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more

Similar categories in David Gibbins's A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock

17. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

By: Caroline Dodds Pennock

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Dodds Pennock's On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

By: Jonathan Healey

4.20

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Healey's The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

By: Nicholas Morton

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages  … read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Morton's The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • history
  • world history
  • asia
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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20. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

By: Joshua B. Freeman

3.82

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

"Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the nat… read more

Similar categories in Joshua B. Freeman's Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World book and Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • world history
  • audiobook

16 must-read audiobook books like The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

Transform Your Habits

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

Marie Favereau

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.06

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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

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River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

Cat Jarman

4.06

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21 Best audiobook books like The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

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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King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.67

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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

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