Nonfiction Reading Challenge - hosted by hollanddavis

History
Books about historical events and the past
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Studies In Pessimism: The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer by T. Bailey Saunders

Studies In Pessimism: The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer

T. Bailey Saunders

76 pages • first pub 1890 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays history literary philosophy reflective medium-paced
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Marv Waterstone, Noam Chomsky

Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

Marv Waterstone, Noam Chomsky

400 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Ari Berman

12 hours, 4 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister

A Curious History of Sex

Kate Lister

8 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health history funny informative medium-paced
Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response by Andy Slavitt

Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response

Andy Slavitt

9 hours, 53 minutes • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health politics informative medium-paced
Plagues and Their Aftermaths: How Societies Recover From Pandemics by Brian Michael Jenkins

Plagues and Their Aftermaths: How Societies Recover From Pandemics

Brian Michael Jenkins

6 hours, 15 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction historical politics sociology
The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles

The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

Rosalind Miles

432 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet

304 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative reflective medium-paced
The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill Shaffer

The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

Bill Shaffer

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime informative medium-paced
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History by William Alexander

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

William Alexander

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history funny informative medium-paced