Nonfiction Reading Challenge 2024 - hosted by echood

20th Century Historical Event
Any nonfiction book about an event that took place between the years 1901-2000
All books added
Hiroshima by John Hersey

Hiroshima

John Hersey

5 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 1946 (editions)

nonfiction classics history dark informative sad medium-paced
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexiévich

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Голоса утопии #4

Svetlana Alexiévich

236 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark emotional sad medium-paced
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Christopher R. Browning

10 hours • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Piers Paul Read

377 pages • first pub 1974 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World by Giles Milton

Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World

Giles Milton

missing page info • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
Deadly Innocence by Scott Burnside

Deadly Innocence

Scott Burnside

584 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction crime true crime dark slow-paced
The Blood Telegram: India's Secret War in East Pakistan by Gary J. Bass

The Blood Telegram: India's Secret War in East Pakistan

Gary J. Bass

544 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative medium-paced
Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera

Empireland

Sathnam Sanghera

306 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

688 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring by Patti McCracken

The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

Patti McCracken

10 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious tense medium-paced