I'm about a quarter of the way through Killers Of The Flower Moon and am really enjoying it. I had been in a reading slump for a while and picked it up at a bookstore just because it was on my tbr and I wanted to support the business but reading it made me realize the books I've liked the most in the past few years have been ones about a specific time in history, under 600 pages, and have had really great prose as a part of the storytelling. Examples include Say Nothing, The Indifferent Stars Above and The Hundred Years War On Palestine.
In the past I have liked biographies but between what I read of history and the fantasy genre i think I'm just more in the mood not to read an incredibly long book.
by HavingALittleFit
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I would recommend Erik Larson or Candice Millard.
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson (20th century America)
Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley (19th century Japan)
The Troubled Empire: China in the Ming and Yuan Dynasties by Timothy Brook (13th-17th century China)
A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Japanese War of 1939-1940 by William R. Trotter (Winter War/World War Two).
Red Sky, Black Death by Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova (autobiography by a Soviet WWII fighter pilot.)
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan might fit the bill for you
*The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women* by Kate Moore
Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown