Genre :: History (26 books)

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  #97

  The Diary of a Young Girl

  by Anne Frank

  (19 Reviews)

  193 Points

  "On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o' clock and no wonder; it was my birthday"

  

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  #143

  The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

  by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  (1 Review)

  136 Points

  "How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?"

  

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  #147

  The Histories

  by Herodotus

  (2 Reviews)

  133 Points

  "This is the showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos so that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been..."

  

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  #174

  If This Is a Man and The Truce

  by Primo Levi

  (3 Reviews)

  115 Points

  

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  #226

  Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

  by Jung Chang

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China."

  

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  #242

  In Cold Blood

  by Truman Capote

  (12 Reviews)

  86 Points

  "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there'."

  

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  #283

  Angela's Ashes

  by Frank McCourt

  (6 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born."

  

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  #287

  Democracy in America; and Two essays on America

  by Alexis de Tocqueville

  (3 Reviews)

  75 Points

  

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  #303

  The Prince

  by Niccolò Machiavelli

  (6 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "All the states, all the dominions under whose authority men have lived in the past and live now have been and are either republics or principalities.It is customary for those who wish to gain the..."

  

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  #305

  The Executioner's Song

  by Norman Mailer

  (3 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree."

  

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