Nonfiction Reading Challenge - hosted by hollanddavis

History
Books about historical events and the past
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

Judith Flanders

18 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history true crime dark informative slow-paced
On Palestine by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

On Palestine

Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

215 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson

327 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland

11 hours, 48 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

Steven Johnson

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Joanne B. Freeman

11 hours, 19 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul by Scott W. Berg

The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

Scott W. Berg

464 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by Alex Hortis

The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

Alex Hortis

336 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime medium-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder

David Grann

329 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by William S. McFeely, C. Vann Woodward

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

William S. McFeely, C. Vann Woodward

245 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced