Paul Millerd
@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
@necopinus.eth
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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Ben O’Rourke
@bpo
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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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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avi
@avichalp
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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moreReese
@morereese
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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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
The making of the atomic bomb
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