Recommendations from our site
“For anyone wanting to celebrate female leadership in past centuries, she’s one of the most interesting exemplars. Richard Bassett’s biography is very pro-Maria Theresa (the subtitle is ‘the making of the Austrian Enlightenment’) and you find yourself rooting for her against Frederick the Great and other men of the time, including, at times, her own advisers.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction Books of Early 2025
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius (ed. James Miller, trans. Pamela Mensch) -
King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig -
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair -
The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
by Plutarch -
Atticus
by Cornelius Nepos & Nicholas Horsfall -
Agricola
by Harold Mattingly, James Rives & Tacitus
