History and Biography Read in 2016

Beschrijving
Read any biographies or history books this year? (Please restrain down-thumbing to books that *can't* belong on this list -- books that are neither history nor biography.)
1
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
door Antonia Fraser
1,103 leden
21 besprekingen
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
2
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
door Serhii Plokhy
622 leden
12 besprekingen
4.2
Member
inge87
3
The Witches: Salem, 1692
door Stacy Schiff
2,628 leden
68 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
souloftherose
4
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
door Peter Ackroyd
1,252 leden
32 besprekingen
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
5
The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
door Lucy Worsley
371 leden
13 besprekingen
3.9
Member
souloftherose
6
Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Slayings Behind Our Romance with the Macabre
door Michael Knox Beran
114 leden
2 besprekingen
2.9
Member
inge87
7
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
door Peter L. Bernstein
466 leden
9 besprekingen
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
8
Charlotte Bronte: A Life
door Claire Harman
347 leden
17 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Member
souloftherose
10
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
door Sara M. Evans
460 leden
3 besprekingen
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
11
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution
door Donald R. Prothero
129 leden
4 besprekingen
3.9
Member
inge87
12
White Heat
door Brenda Wineapple
333 leden
3 besprekingen
4
Member
AnnaClaire
13
Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint
door Donald Spoto
206 leden
4 besprekingen
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
14
Undaunted Courage
door Stephen E. Ambrose
7,497 leden
78 besprekingen
4.1
Member
AnnaClaire
15
Het eerste saluutschot de Amerikaanse vrijheidsstrijd en de Republiek
door Barbara W. Tuchman
2,046 leden
14 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
AnnaClaire
16
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
door Peter Ackroyd
849 leden
18 besprekingen
4
Member
AnnaClaire
17
Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance
door Jane Gleeson-White
230 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.3
Member
AnnaClaire
18
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
door Sarah B. Pomeroy
1,011 leden
8 besprekingen
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
19
John Adams : founding father van de Verenigde Staten
door David McCullough
13,694 leden
199 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Member
AnnaClaire
20
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
door Paul S. Boyer
733 leden
8 besprekingen
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire