Recommendations from our site
“If you like Italy and history, one book that’s a lot of fun is The Shortest History of Italy, by Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome. In 234 pages, it covers the entire history from Aeneas’s mythical arrival and the founding of Rome to the present. It’s really satisfying to have Italy’s history told as a whole rather than the Roman Empire/Renaissance/Risorgimento etc. as separate history books.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction Books of Mid-2024
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Vagabonds
by Oskar Jensen -
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
by James Belich -
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
by Halik Kochanski -
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
by Emma Smith -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
by Henrietta Harrison -
African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
by Hakim Adi
