Hi, so I love learning about history but I don't know a lot about it because my school isn't very detailed when it comes to history and I don't have any books about it. So I was wondering if you lovely people could suggest some history books for me. I love any history but my favorite is myths/legends, the Holocaust and the stonewall wall riot(please don't judge me) I also love learning from different perspectives and especially about colored peoples lives(also Latina because my family doesn't talk much about our culture)Thank you! 🙂
by Chance-Guide5147
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Cuba – An American History
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, Ravensbruck by Sarah Helm, The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard J. Evans and KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann are all good reads dealing with the Holocaust or Nazi Germany.
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Cuba Libre by Tony Perrottet
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
No judgement at all, but perhaps stay away from using the word “colored” to describe people lol. It’s pretty largely frowned upon now.
Night by Elie Wiesel
In Memory’s Kitchen by Cara de Silva
Diary of Anne Frank
The Sunflower by Simone Wiesenthal
Queerstory
We Are Everywhere by Matthew Riemer
The Deviant’s War by Eric Cervini
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
Stonewall by Martin Duberman
Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam
Seeing Gender by Iris Gottlieb
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
The Book of Pride by Mason Funk
Miss Major Speaks by Toshio Meronek & Miss Major
And the Category is by Ricky Tucker
LGBTQ+ History by DK Publishing
Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin
Black AF History by Michael Harriot
How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy
Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry
Never Caught by Erica Dunbar Armstrong
The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr
Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez
Our Migrant Souls by Hector Tobar
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
Inventing Latinos by Laura E. Gomez
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Latin American Folktales by John Bierhorst
Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism by Uriel Quesada
Wild Tongues That Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora by Saraciea J. Fennell
Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
The Annotated American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Never Whistle at Night edited by Shane Hawk
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
Moby D by Krista Burton
Her Body and Other Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Aristotle and Dante by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gillman
Real Queer America by Samantha Allen
Bi by Julia Shaw
Ace by Angela Chen
Who’s Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
He/She/They by Schuyler Bailar
How We Named the Stars by Andres N. Ordorica
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Maus by Art Spiegelman