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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
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

16 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Unvanquished: How Women of the South Survived the Civil War by Pippa Pralen

Unvanquished: How Women of the South Survived the Civil War

Pippa Pralen

174 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction historical history emotional informative fast-paced
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Kara Cooney

298 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-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
A Brief History of the Irish Republican Army by Morgan Chappell

A Brief History of the Irish Republican Army

Morgan Chappell

34 pages • first pub 2013 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history race emotional informative reflective 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
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

205 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Bobby Seale, Stephen Shames

Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers

Bobby Seale, Stephen Shames

256 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires

Shomari Wills

6 hours, 51 minutes • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history medium-paced