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
One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

8 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry S. Strauss

The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

Barry S. Strauss

9 hours, 59 minutes • missing pub info (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map by Peter Stark

The Last Empty Places: A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map

Peter Stark

256 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history nature travel informative reflective slow-paced
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Simon Winchester

416 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (20th Anniversary Edition) by David Fromkin

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (20th Anniversary Edition)

David Fromkin

672 pages • first pub 1989 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall

The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

Joseph M. Marshall

10 hours, 56 minutes • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective medium-paced
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

13 hours, 55 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative tense slow-paced
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

18 hours, 16 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

12 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
The Professor and the Madman CD: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman CD: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

7 hours, 21 minutes • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history psychology reference informative slow-paced