Other breathtaking historical narratives like The Wager or Empire Of the summer moon?
I recently read Empire of the Summer Moon and then The Wager. I loved them both. I’m interested in reading other similarly written stories about compelling historical events. Do you have any suggestions? 📚
*Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster* –Jon Krakauer
*Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time* –Dava Sobel
*The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War* –Malcolm Gladwell
*The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses* –Dan Carlin
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*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
*The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum* by James Gardner
*Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America’s Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice* by Victoria Bruce and William Oldfield
*Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe* by John Julius Norwich
*Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East* by Amanda H. Podany
*The Story of Egypt: The Civilization That Shaped the World* by Joann Fletcher
*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
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Lonesome Dove
The Brothers K (by David James Duncan not Dostoyevsky)
Prince of Tides
Shōgun
If you want more shipwrecks, [In the Heart of the Sea](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17780) is really interesting.
*Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage* –Alfred Lansing
*Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster* –Jon Krakauer
*Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time* –Dava Sobel
*The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War* –Malcolm Gladwell
*The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses* –Dan Carlin
*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
*The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum* by James Gardner
*Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America’s Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice* by Victoria Bruce and William Oldfield
*Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe* by John Julius Norwich
*Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East* by Amanda H. Podany
*The Story of Egypt: The Civilization That Shaped the World* by Joann Fletcher
*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