Historathon 2024 - hosted by tenar

Prehistory-500 CE
Q1: January through March.
All books added
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

400 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

The Twelve Caesars

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars #1-12

Suetonius

17 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 121 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics history challenging informative slow-paced
24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Yijie Zhuang

24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

Yijie Zhuang

220 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Kara Cooney

9 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

The Rise and Fall

Steve Brusatte

404 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects by Toby Wilkinson

Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects

Toby Wilkinson

505 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Adrian Goldsworthy

609 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC by Steven Mithen

After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC

Steven Mithen

622 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous challenging informative fast-paced
Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity by Peter T. Struck

Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity

Peter T. Struck

300 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

15 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced