The third week's discussion post for Nonfiction November is Be/Ask/Become the Expert where you share three or more books that'll help you along to that expert status. I'm choosing Become the Expert this year! I've got a lot on my TBR in various categories so I'll just stick to one category. It's pretty broad but history is my topic.
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan. I hear this one is also a different focused world history and helps add context to a more concise history of Europe and the West.
Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss. I've been wanting to read this all year on the U.S.'s fight to win the women's right to vote. I saw Iron-Jawed Angels and have been wanting to read more on this important history.
American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan. Morgan focuses on this specific time in history rather than the whole of U.S. history to present day. This has been recommended by Ta-Nehisi Coates and so it's been on my radar for a little while now.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. Another microhistory of America and how it continues to shape America today.
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich. Fascinating stories of Russian women from World War II.
The Silk Roads is on my TBR pile.
ReplyDeleteI'm also keen to read White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas by Robert Twigger
White Mountain sounds interesting!
DeleteGood luck with this challenge. Looks like a good one. Got me curious about Lepore's.
ReplyDeleteShe's very readable and I'm on chapter four already, though it'll still take me a very long time to get through it all!
DeleteI found The Woman's Hour absolutely fascinating. And it made me even happier when I recently voted.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to dive in soon!
DeleteThe Silk Roads sounds good. My post is here: https://wordsandpeace.com/2018/11/14/nonfiction-november-2018-expert-on-books-on-books/
ReplyDeleteI love a good history book!
DeleteAll of these sound really interesting!
ReplyDeleteI hope to get through a few of them!
DeleteI really liked The Women's Hour, it was very readable and gave a book background on something I should have know more about already.
ReplyDeleteI've wanted a really good history on the U.S. women's vote after I watched Iron Jawed Angels and bawled through the whole thing.
DeleteGreat list! I loved The Unwomanly Face of War and I'd particularly like to get to The Women's Hour.
ReplyDeleteI actually got The Unwomanly Face of War from your blog last year! I've read the first two chapters and look forward to more soon.
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