Read 12 History Books 2024

Hosted by hunziker

19 participants, 126 books added

Starts: Monday, 01 January 2024

Ends: Tuesday, 31 December 2024

 The goal is to read 12 History books in 2024. 

All books added
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

Lili'uokalani

278 pages • first pub 1898 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

428 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan

The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest

Timothy Egan

272 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history nature travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler

Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure

Julia Flynn Siler

307 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous reflective slow-paced
The Control of Nature by John McPhee

The Control of Nature

John McPhee

288 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Narrating the Landscape, Volume 24: Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century by Matthew N. Johnston

Narrating the Landscape, Volume 24: Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century

The Charles M. Russell Center Art and Photography of the American West

Matthew N. Johnston

248 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history informative medium-paced
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera

A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

Milan Kundera

80 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction essays history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Hampton Sides

460 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle E by Kim Ghattas

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle E

Kim Ghattas

16 hours, 33 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Deirdre Cooper Owens

5 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative slow-paced