Diversify Your Reading 2024 - hosted by shereadytoread

Nonfiction book about a history event you didn't learn about in school
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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
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

10 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

14 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime dark 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

15 hours, 53 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional slow-paced
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

22 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime challenging informative slow-paced
Banned Book Club by Ryan Estrada, Kim Hyun Sook

Banned Book Club

Ryan Estrada, Kim Hyun Sook

199 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel memoir challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines

The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

Ben Raines

8 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective medium-paced
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

Michael Taylor

416 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history medium-paced
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang

8 hours, 4 minutes • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative sad slow-paced
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy

Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

Robert Beachy

336 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative slow-paced