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“Dead Wake” by Erik Larson.

Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard is fantastic.

David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z) and Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts, Dead Wake) are exceptional writers that make very specific events/places in history incredibly compelling.

I would also add Into the Silence by Wade Davis.

Edward Rutherford has written a few based on major cities (New York, London) or countries (China, Russia) that caught my eye in a book shop this weekend. The synopsis looks like a novel that travels through the entire history or the place through multiple stories/characters through the ages. Might be worth a look.

Empire of the Summer Moon. It’s all about the Comanche warriors and how superior they were on horse compared to the American pioneers and early Texas Rangers. It’s an insanely good read was nominated for Pulitzer Prize.

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‘The Ruin of All Witches,’ a deep dive into witchcraft trials in Massachusetts before Salem.

I'm a history librarian at a large research university. (I buy history books and documentaries with other people's money.) I've got a ton of recommendations running through my head. However, some of the more engaging history books I've read are by journalist-historians. Try Neal Bascomb, Hampton Sides, or Mitchell Zuckoff.

Right now I'm reading A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II by Simon Parkin and Frankie: How One Woman Prevented a Pharmaceutical Disaster by James Essinger.

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan is a fascinating read. As is Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison by Alvin Townley. (I've been working on a project about personal narratives of American military POWs and In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years by Jim and Sybil Stockdale is a powerful book if you're interested in memoirs.)

You might also like:

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power by Simon Balto

Darkness at Noon ARthur Koestler. Its an incredibly engaging novel that's based on the events of the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, Darkness at Noon tells the story of Nicolas Rubashov, a once-important figure in the Communist Party who is arrested and imprisoned for treason. While not an exact history, it's very engaging and give you a glimpse of what Russia was like for those who were in power and lost it in the lat 1930's. A favorite read of mine. One of the few books I had to read in college that I truly enjoyed and have reread since.