So you guys can discuss and recommend history book of any kind. This is also the type of book I read most over the years so here’s my recommendation list
On Ancient Mesopotamia
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Paul Kriwaczek)
On Ancient Egypt
The rise and fall of ancient Egypt (Toby Wilkinson)
On Ancient Greece
The Spartans (Paul Cartledge)
Rise of Athens (Anthony Everitt)
Alexander the Great (Paul Cartledge)
Alexander the Great (Philip Freeman)
On Ancient Rome
The Storm before the Storm (Mike Duncan) WARNING: Duncan is not an historian and his books are just a collection of primary sources with his opinions on them, so take this with a grain of salt”
SPQR (Mary Beard)
Augustus (Adrian Goldsworthy)
How Rome fell: Fall of a Superpower (Adrian Goldsworthy)
The Fall of Rome (Bryan Ward Perkins)
On the Byzantines
Byzantium: The surprising life of a medieval empire (Judith Herrin)
On the Baltics
The northern crusaders (Eric Christianssen)
On the Middle East
Jerusalem a Biography (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
The Arabs (Eugene Rogan)
The House of Wisdom (Jimal Khalili)
On precolumbian Americas
The Maya (Michael d Coe)
1491 (Charles Mann)
1493 (Charles Mann)
On the Portuguese Empire
Conquerors (Roger Crowley)
On Caribbean Slavery
Mastery Tyranny and desire (Trevor Burnard)
The Plantation Machine (Trevor Burnard)
Colonial America
The Island at the center of the world (Russell Shorto)
Colonial Africa
King Leopold’s Ghost (Adam Hochschild)
On American slavery
The fall of the House of Dixie (Bruce Levine)
Empire of Cotton (Sven Beckert)
On Imperial Russia
The Romanovs (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
On WW1
The Great War (Peter Hart)
On the Nazi economy
The Wages of Destruction (Adam Tooze)
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Actually 2 good history books
coming out under fire
the world turned rightside up
Both happen to be about homos
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