Recommendations from our site
“I love history and I find medical history in particular very gripping (especially the discovery of vaccines), so I really enjoyed The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus. The author, Lucy Ward, is a journalist so it’s good bedtime reading, bringing home nicely the story of the fight against the horrors of smallpox as well as focusing on Catherine the Great” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Spring 2022
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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The Guns of August
by Barbara W Tuchman -
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
by John Pomfret -
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
by Rick Atkinson -
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
by William Bernstein -
Bolívar: American Liberator
by Marie Arana -
An Officer and a Spy
by Robert Harris
