Hey! I'm Gabria and I'm a junior academic historian from the UK who reads pretty frequently, and I'm looking for recommendations to expand my collection of books on a particular set of topics ^ I'm looking for more 'unconventional' or 'new angled' books (for example Camilla Townsend's 'fifth sun' is pretty unconventional as compared to other accounts of the fall of the aztecs) on a set of topics listed below. Most of these are historical topics so I'm mainly looking for nonfiction, however there are a few fiction topics too!
Nonfiction:
These are the topics I'm looking to expand on ^ I have most of the standard 'must buy' books in these categories, so I'm looking for unique takes, studies on unseen characters or more academic peices that go into greater depth
- Balkan Political Instability [20th Century]
- US Advancements in technology, foreign policy and law [1865-1970]
- US intervention in South America and FBI involvement in coups [20th Century]
- The Plantagenet 'Empire' [1155-1216]
- Late-Modern Britain [1945-2008]
- The Conquistador's and the Fall of the Aztecs
- The Early Achaemenid Empire and the transition to modern Iran
- Classical Art and Literature
Also open to topic suggestions if you can give a list of good introductory books (note I'm not looking for any more US history 😭 almost as frustrating as studying the British Empire)
Fiction:
I'm super into Lovecraft, Stephen King, Arthur Conan Doyle, Doeyovetsky, Camus, Kafka etc and I run a very sort of 'old gods' cosmic horror murder mystery dnd campaign, so im always looking for books that'll give tons of monster inspo ^
Thanks for reading guys, looking forward to your recs!!!
by Crafty-Effort3940