The Power Broker
1974★ 8.9
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Records of the Grand Historian
94 BC★ 7.5
The Life of Samuel Johnson
1791★ 7.3
The Lives of the Artists
1550★ 7.3
The Twelve Caesars
121★ 7.2
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
100★ 7.1
Eminent Victorians
1918★ 7.0
Orlando
1928★ 7.0
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
225★ 6.9
Parting the Waters
1988★ 6.9
James Joyce
1959★ 6.8
Titan
1998★ 6.7
The Passage of Power
2012★ 6.7
Subtle Is the Lord
1982★ 6.5
Washington
2010★ 6.3
W. E. B. Du Bois
1993★ 6.0
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
1979★ 6.0
John Adams
2001★ 5.9
Churchill
1991★ 5.9
Lincoln
1995★ 5.9
Stalin
2015★ 5.7
Endurance
1959★ 5.6
Catherine the Great
2011★ 5.5
Hitler
2008★ 5.4
Alexander Hamilton
2004★ 5.4
Coleridge
1989★ 5.4
Virginia Woolf
1996★ 5.3
The House of Morgan
1990★ 5.3
Last Train to Memphis
1994★ 5.1
Into the Wild
1996★ 5.0
Magellan
1938★ 4.9
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Lawrence Weschler
2009★ 4.9
When Pride Still Mattered
1999★ 4.7