History

First-hand accounts and analyses of civilizations, wars, and world events.

The Bucolics and EcloguesVirgil

★3.8

FictionHistory

Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published LettersCharles Darwin

★4.0

BiographyFiction

The Autobiography of Charles DarwinCharles Darwin

★3.8

FictionScience & Nature

CleopatraH. Rider Haggard

★3.8

AdventureBiography

CleopatraJacob Abbott

★3.8

HistoryAdventure

History of Cleopatra, Queen of EgyptJacob Abbott

★3.8

AdventureBiography

Coming of age in SamoaMargaret Mead

★3.5

FictionHistory

The Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyJacob Burckhardt

★3.9

FictionHumor & Satire

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New YorkJacob A. Riis

★5.0

FictionHistory

Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865Sarah Raymond Herndon

★3.9

BiographyHistorical Fiction

ParmenidesPlato

★4.5

FictionHistory

A Short History of the WorldH. G. Wells

★3.9

Science & NatureHistorical Fiction

Travels with a donkey in the CevennesRobert Louis Stevenson

★3.6

BiographyFiction

The Memorable Thoughts of SocratesXenophon

★4.0

PhilosophyHistory

The MemorabiliaXenophon

★4.0

BiographyFiction

LawsPlato

★4.1

Political ScienceFiction

The Story of MankindHendrik Willem Van Loon

★3.0

Children's LiteratureFiction

Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and SagasH. A. Guerber

★3.9

Mythology & FolkloreReference

Myths of northern landsH. A. Guerber

★3.9

Mythology & FolkloreHistory

Bring the JubileeWard Moore

★3.7

Science FictionFiction

Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and DisbandmentD. L. Wilson John C. Lester

★4.2

History

The United States Bill of Rights / The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United StatesUnited States

★4.4

FictionReference

The Book of the Courtierconte Baldassarre Castiglione

★3.6

HistoryFiction

De OfficiisMarcus Tullius Cicero

★4.0

FictionHistory