Books like Fever
12 books with a reading profile close to Fever by Mary Beth Keane. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
history, biography
Antonia Fraser reconstructs the life of the last Queen of France, moving from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her execution during the French Revolution.
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2
Careless Love
history, biography
This volume documents the final two decades of Elvis Presley’s life, beginning with his 1958 military service in Germany and concluding with his death in 1977.
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3
The princes in the tower
by Alison Weir
history, biography
Alison Weir investigates the 1483 disappearance of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, from the Tower of London.
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4
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by Andrea Wulf
history, biography
Andrea Wulf chronicles the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth-century Prussian naturalist who envisioned the earth as a single living organism where all biological and physical forces are interconnected.
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5
Mornings on Horseback
history, biography
David McCullough chronicles the formative years of Theodore Roosevelt, focusing on the two decades between 1869 and 1886.
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6
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
history, biography
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to interview Oluale Kossola, known as Cudjo Lewis.
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7
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
history, biography
Walter Isaacson chronicles the life of the most versatile Founding Father, tracing his evolution from a runaway apprentice in Boston to a world-renowned scientist and diplomat.
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8
Roots
by Alex Haley
history, biography
Alex Haley reconstructs his family lineage starting with Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka youth abducted from West Africa in 1767 and sold into chattel slavery in Maryland.
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9
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
history, biography
Sonia Purnell chronicles the life of Virginia Hall, an American woman who overcame a prosthetic wooden leg and deep-seated institutional sexism to become a critical operative for the British Special Operations Executive…
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10
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
history, biography
Alison Weir’s historical account reconstructs the lives of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.
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11
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
history, biography
In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler hid in a hollowed-out woodpile for three days before slipping past the outer perimeter of Auschwitz.
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12
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
history, biography
Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed the Warsaw Zoo during the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
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