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 Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Alison Weir

22 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 1992 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness

Andrew Scull

494 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction dark informative medium-paced
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Miranda Kaufmann

10 hours, 29 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Terre picarde: du paysan à l'agriculteur de 1789 à 1965 by Pierre Desbureaux

Terre picarde: du paysan à l'agriculteur de 1789 à 1965

Pierre Desbureaux

143 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah Harkness

The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

Deborah Harkness

14 hours, 13 minutes • first pub 2007 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

Tracy Borman

8 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England by Gemma Hollman

Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England

Gemma Hollman

10 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction historical history emotional informative slow-paced
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

671 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation by Mark Lee Gardner

The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

Mark Lee Gardner

543 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional reflective sad medium-paced