2024 History Book Challenge - hosted by bookshelf_from_mars

A history book recommended by a librarian
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The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict by Andrew Pettegree

The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

Andrew Pettegree

480 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan

When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

Maureen Quilligan

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

Packing for Mars

Mary Roach

10 hours, 27 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction science funny informative medium-paced
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

Sarah Bakewell

464 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes

Energy: A Human History

Richard Rhodes

480 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction economics history science challenging informative slow-paced
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor

Stalingrad

Antony Beevor

493 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

David Fromkin

635 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
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