Ivika Arumäe

9 books

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek

310 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

Catherine Nixey

352 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion adventurous slow-paced
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

Sarah Gristwood

384 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

The Marriage Portrait

Maggie O'Farrell

436 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical literary dark emotional tense medium-paced
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy

Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses

Bess Lovejoy

329 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark funny informative fast-paced
Russians: The People Behind the Power by Gregory Feifer

Russians: The People Behind the Power

Gregory Feifer

384 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History by Nadia Durrani, Brian M. Fagan

What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History

Nadia Durrani, Brian M. Fagan

232 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective fast-paced
How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices by Therese Huston
How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices
—
Therese Huston

How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices

Therese Huston

384 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

Põgene by Catherine Ryan Howard

Põgene

Catherine Ryan Howard

474 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction