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Aya's "Aya's Favorite History Books"

A list of books that have caught my interest and held it.
1. Queen Emma and the Vikings: Power, Love, and Greed in 11th Century England
by Harriet O'Brien
  
2. Victoria's Daughters
by Jerrold M. Packard
  
3.
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 1066: The Year of the Conquest
by David Armine Howarth
  
4. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
  
5. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David von Drehle
  
6. The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Centennial Book)
by Lynn Hunt
  
7. Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Alison Weir
  
8. Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics (P.S.)
by Eleanor Herman
  
9. Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge (P.S.)
by Eleanor Herman
  
10. 1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry
by Andrew Bridgeford
  
11.
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 The Presidential Quotient: Puzzlers, Anecdotes, and the Pq Quiz
by Wayne Samuel Kurzeja
  
12. Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by Mike Dash
  
13. Crusades Through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf
  
14. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
by Amy Butler Greenfield
  
15. A History of Celibacy
by Elizabeth Abbott
  
16. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
by Ann Fessler
  
17. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  
18. Sara and Eleanor: The Story of Sara Delano Roosevelt and Her Daughter-in-Law, Eleanor Roosevelt
by Jan Pottker
  
19. Virgin: The Untouched History
by Hanne Blank
  
20. The Slave Ship: A Human History
by Marcus Rediker
  
21. Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
by Jeff Sypeck
  
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Created by Aya on Feb 14, 2007.