Diversify Your Reading Challenge 2024 - hosted by whattaylorreads

June: History/Biography
All books added
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

388 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative medium-paced
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

12 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction business informative inspiring medium-paced
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

485 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional slow-paced
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

1 hour, 45 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith

Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers

Emma Smith

368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Sonia Purnell

13 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

11 hours, 39 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands

The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

Philippe Sands

411 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography crime history politics informative reflective fast-paced
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

Greg Jenner

416 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced