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A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598 by Kenneth M. Swope

A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598

Campaigns and Commanders #20

Kenneth M. Swope

432 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China by Samuel Hawley

The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China

Samuel Hawley

684 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Hiroshima by John Hersey

Hiroshima

John Hersey

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

nonfiction classics history dark informative sad medium-paced
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

314 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

Geoffrey Cain

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics technology dark informative medium-paced
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

The Rape of Nanking

Iris Chang

290 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative sad slow-paced
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

The Girl with Seven Names

Hyeonseo Lee

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective fast-paced
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan

Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

832 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

Marie Favereau

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced