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@pmillerd
Would love to get back into history / historical fiction type reads. Who are some lighter and less dense writers to check out? Found McCulloughs 1776 pretty good in this direction
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necopinus
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Have you read any of Mike Duncan's book? (Duncan did "The History of Rome" and "Revolutions" podcasts.) I found "The Storm Before The Storm" both a quick read and really informative about a period of Roman history that doesn't get as much attention as the later empire.
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You might like Chernow’s biographies on Hamilton or Grant. I also liked Children of Ash and Elm about the Vikings. Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire is good historical fiction about the Spartans at Thermopylae
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
SPQR Bruno macaes (on belt and road) The gun the ship and the pen The anarchy (on East India company) The song lines
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Charlie Harrington
@whatrocks
DEAD HAND was great recent read of mine about the cold war
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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
The making of the atomic bomb
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
some favorites: - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i - Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
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The Company is a pretty good read on the history of corporations https://www.amazon.com/Company-History-Revolutionary-Library-Chronicles/dp/0812972872/ref=sr_1_1
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If you want a trip check out Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. It’s about Lincoln’s son who died from TB and his imagined experience in the bardo (Tibetan Buddhist state between death and rebirth). Unlike anything I’ve ever read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo
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Minh Do
@minh
Capital and Ideology is amazing!
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@vj
Would recommend the anarchy (east India company) and the last days of the night (invention of the light bulb)
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Michael Finney
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I’ve got a book on the Columbian Exposition - fairly niche Chicago history. Book & documentary on Amazon farcaster://casts/0x5ecf6e13098ea51f5bbdbfe1c81dff9f8b62224b7425a876b735f88d829d1efc/0x5ecf6e13098ea51f5bbdbfe1c81dff9f8b62224b7425a876b735f88d829d1efc
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Probably Pachinko would fit the bill
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daniel
@pcdkd
go full dense and read Marlon James' "A Brief History of Seven Killings" or "The Book of Night Women"
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Aman Johar
@asj
highly recommend William Dalrymple - From the Holy Mountain, City of Djinns, White Mughals, etc.
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kristen (kpaxle)
@kristen
very light, and so amazing - "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", near-term history of Savannah Georgia - it reads like a novel but it's non-fiction - most excellent! Author = John Berendt also has a non-fic book on Venice, Italy
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Rahul Shankar
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Presently reading the Ghosts of Cannae by Robert O’Connell. Haven’t read anything else by him but this one is relatively easy to read while also going deep into one specific part of history - Hannibal and Cannae and the aftermath
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