Genre Archive
Historical nonfiction
Title
Host
Date
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
May 22, 2024
Erik Larson is pretty much a season pass for me. In this book, he draws heavily from archives and personal diaries from both the Confederate…
Knox
May 22, 2024
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
May 1, 2024
I love Sides’ style of storytelling, and he’s now a season pass because he writes very cinematically without getting stuck in the minutia of the…
Knox
May 1, 2024
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
March 27, 2024
This is probably one of my favorite nonfiction reads of the last few years. It sounds very dense and tough, but it is not. It…
Knox
March 27, 2024
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
April 17, 2019
Patrick is a must-read for me, no matter the topic. Even though I thought I might skip this one, I'm so glad I didn't. It…
Jamie
April 17, 2019
These Truths: A History of the United States
December 12, 2018
Forget every other American history book you've read and camp out with this one.
Jamie
December 12, 2018
The Devil in The White City
October 4, 2017
This historical fiction of a serial killer loose at a world fair is unputdownable.
Knox
October 4, 2017