Books like The Life of Elizabeth I
12 books with a reading profile close to The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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Roots
by Alex Haley
Also contemplative · 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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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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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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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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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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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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Schindler’s List
history, biography
In German-occupied Poland, industrialist Oskar Schindler utilized his connections within the Nazi Party and the SS to shield Jewish workers from liquidation.
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Stravinsky
history, biography
In this biography, Stephen Walsh reconstructs the first fifty years of Igor Stravinsky’s life, spanning his upbringing in tsarist Russia to his established career in 1930s France.
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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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The Gene: An Intimate History
history, academic
Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the biography of the gene, beginning with Aristotelian theories of heredity and moving through Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiments and Charles Darwin’s missing mechanism for evolution.
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Arnold Schoenberg Letters
history, biography
This collection gathers the personal and professional correspondence of the Austrian composer, spanning his life from 1910 through his late years in the United States.
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