Hi folks! I want some recommendations of books on History or Politics (Modern politics are fine too) that i can read as a casual book reader; And that means no books with Dry writing!
I have read very few Non-Fiction books and want to expand my taste. So that’s why i came here for interesting books in these categories that are not boring.
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Here are some Non-Fic that i have read:
After The Prophet
Because we say so
Who Rules the World
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Books that have been recommended to me:
Ghost Wars
The Anarchy
Era of Darkness
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
A History of Modern Middle-East
The Spanish Civil War.
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Thanks in Advance!
by asadali0786
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This may be outdated now but “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn is a good read. To a lesser extent, “Lies my Teacher Told Me” by James W. Loewen (only because it focuses more on discrepancies in what is taught in schools and real history, rather than the history itself).
Anything by Ross King, John Julius Norwich, Simon Schama, John Keay, Walter Isaacson, and Christopher Hibbert
*King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa* by Adam Hochschild
*The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness* by John Waller
*Raphael: A Passionate Life* by Antonio Forcellino
*Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*Bernini: His Life and His Rome* by Franco Mormando
*The King’s Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein* by Franny Moyle
*On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren* by Lisa Jardine
*Shakespeare: The Biography* by Peter Ackroyd
*The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum* by James Gardner
*Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East* by Amanda H. Podany
*Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization* by Richard Miles
*Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire* by Jason Goodwin
*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician* by Christoph Wolff
*Beethoven: The Music and The Life* by Lewis Lockwood
*The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral and How It Changed the American West* by Jeff Guinn
*Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War* by Richard A. Serrano
*Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best* by Neal Bascomb
*Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans* by A. J. Baime
*Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire* by John Man
*Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy’s Three Mafias* by John Dickie
*The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust* by Heather Pringle
*A History of Japan* by J. G. Caiger and Richard Mason