Hi, I don’t typically read history books but I really, really enjoyed Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price recently and Sapiens by Yuval Harari. I’d like to read more books like that.
I’m very interested in Eurasia/Mongolia, Scandinavia, pre-historic people and the migrations of ancient humans, Inuit and other people from far northern regions, USSR and other communist countries, space travel, ice age, the steppe biome, uncontacted tribes, that sort of thing.
When I was a kid I was freak for the Spanish explorers/conquistadors.
(I just asked a question in this sub specifically about the USSR, but here is another more general one that I would still love to get some recommendations for) thanks!
by Cancel_Still
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The Dawn of Everything is an interesting counterpoint to Sapiens.
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art is good too.
And you might like 1491 and 1493.
A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman
Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed
Socialism Betrayed by Roger Keeran
Stalin by Domenico Losurdo
Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan
My Life by Fidel Castro
Cuba Libre by Tony Perrottet
The Battle For China’s Past by Mobo Gao
Patriots, Traitors & Empires by Stephen Gowans
Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse
Rocket Men by Robert Kurson is fantastic. Story of Apollo 8