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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5757 times as historical)
avg rating 4.39 � 2,755,785 ratings � published 2005
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 3889 times as historical)
avg rating 4.26 � 1,119,205 ratings � published 1991
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3856 times as historical)
avg rating 4.31 � 1,860,638 ratings � published 2014
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3594 times as historical)
avg rating 4.31 � 1,780,979 ratings � published 2011
Pride & Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3383 times as historical)
avg rating 4.29 � 4,532,550 ratings � published 1813
The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
by (shelved 3005 times as historical)
avg rating 3.79 � 642,631 ratings � published 2000
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2958 times as historical)
avg rating 4.20 � 4,003,551 ratings � published 1947
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2907 times as historical)
avg rating 4.64 � 1,770,621 ratings � published 2015
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2886 times as historical)
avg rating 4.40 � 3,672,359 ratings � published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2523 times as historical)
avg rating 4.46 � 2,926,816 ratings � published 2009
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2510 times as historical)
avg rating 4.16 � 2,065,580 ratings � published 1997
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2502 times as historical)
avg rating 4.26 � 6,576,288 ratings � published 1960
The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)
by (shelved 2391 times as historical)
avg rating 3.99 � 454,782 ratings � published 2000
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 2289 times as historical)
avg rating 4.34 � 799,290 ratings � published 1989
Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4)
by (shelved 2106 times as historical)
avg rating 3.88 � 402,518 ratings � published 2002
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
by (shelved 2093 times as historical)
avg rating 4.03 � 142,662 ratings � published 2017
Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
by (shelved 2008 times as historical)
avg rating 4.21 � 94,747 ratings � published 2006
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1986 times as historical)
avg rating 4.23 � 1,225,790 ratings � published 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1942 times as historical)
avg rating 4.19 � 785,425 ratings � published 2008
An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3)
by (shelved 1917 times as historical)
avg rating 3.94 � 375,775 ratings � published 2001
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1874 times as historical)
avg rating 4.38 � 1,315,485 ratings � published 1956
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 1846 times as historical)
avg rating 4.15 � 2,224,632 ratings � published 1847
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1812 times as historical)
avg rating 4.18 � 1,322,085 ratings � published 2020
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1803 times as historical)
avg rating 4.16 � 907,736 ratings � published 2006
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 1799 times as historical)
avg rating 4.31 � 1,089,353 ratings � published 2018
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1791 times as historical)
avg rating 4.20 � 1,717,362 ratings � published 2019
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1790 times as historical)
avg rating 4.34 � 555,869 ratings � published 2017
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 1780 times as historical)
avg rating 4.09 � 506,495 ratings � published 2001
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
by (shelved 1777 times as historical)
avg rating 4.34 � 374,013 ratings � published 1992
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1746 times as historical)
avg rating 4.16 � 357,091 ratings � published 2022
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 1727 times as historical)
avg rating 4.16 � 2,355,243 ratings � published 1868
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1726 times as historical)
avg rating 4.31 � 1,249,696 ratings � published 1936
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1705 times as historical)
avg rating 3.93 � 5,622,265 ratings � published 1925
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 1654 times as historical)
avg rating 4.00 � 124,337 ratings � published 2012
Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1)
by (shelved 1628 times as historical)
avg rating 4.01 � 83,643 ratings � published 2004
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1605 times as historical)
avg rating 4.35 � 237,510 ratings � published 2016
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons, #5)
by (shelved 1588 times as historical)
avg rating 3.70 � 277,827 ratings � published 2003
The Duchess Deal (Girl Meets Duke, #1)
by (shelved 1586 times as historical)
avg rating 3.99 � 64,512 ratings � published 2017
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1579 times as historical)
avg rating 4.37 � 262,842 ratings � published 2011
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1557 times as historical)
avg rating 4.35 � 3,345,987 ratings � published 2003
Voyager (Outlander, #3)
by (shelved 1493 times as historical)
avg rating 4.39 � 322,136 ratings � published 1993
Mine Till Midnight (The Hathaways, #1)
by (shelved 1492 times as historical)
avg rating 4.06 � 78,873 ratings � published 2007
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 1488 times as historical)
avg rating 3.91 � 223,685 ratings � published 2009
When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6)
by (shelved 1457 times as historical)
avg rating 3.99 � 241,176 ratings � published 2004
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1437 times as historical)
avg rating 4.01 � 1,049,924 ratings � published 2011
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 1421 times as historical)
avg rating 4.30 � 683,567 ratings � published 2001
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 1420 times as historical)
avg rating 4.38 � 3,393,259 ratings � published 2018
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 1417 times as historical)
avg rating 4.11 � 1,668,690 ratings � published 2006
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 1403 times as historical)
avg rating 4.32 � 619,837 ratings � published 2016
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love By Numbers, #1)
by (shelved 1390 times as historical)
avg rating 4.08 � 58,305 ratings � published 2010
“The Minister of Army answered, “Bob, I thought that you would have been an astute and clever enough a politician to think of this yourself, but seeing how you have asked me, I suggest that you wait until eight in the night on Thursday 29/April/1965 to announce that Australia will send the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment to fight in South Vietnam. By you waiting until the evening of 29/April/1965 to announce this in Parliament, the labour opposition leader of Arthur Caldwell and his deputy leader of Gough Whitlam should be absent, as will be most of the entire parliament, because the following day is the beginning of a long week-
end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
“The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
But I am done with this creed of corruption.
I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride.
This god, this one word:
"I.”
― Anthem
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
But I am done with this creed of corruption.
I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride.
This god, this one word:
"I.”
― Anthem
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