patrick2024's read books


Expand filter menu Filter list (115 books)

115 books

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

638 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

2.5patrick2024's review
nonfiction autobiography history challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Jung Chang

436 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

2.0patrick2024's review
nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

Judy Melinek

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0patrick2024's review
nonfiction memoir science dark emotional informative medium-paced
Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin

Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth

Kevin M. Levin

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

4.0patrick2024's review
nonfiction history race informative slow-paced
A Short History of the American Civil War by Paul Christopher Anderson

A Short History of the American Civil War

Paul Christopher Anderson

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

0.25patrick2024's review
informative medium-paced
In the Service of the Sultan: A First Hand Account of the Dhofar Insurgency by Ian Gardiner

In the Service of the Sultan: A First Hand Account of the Dhofar Insurgency

Ian Gardiner

189 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

4.0patrick2024's review
nonfiction biography history travel informative slow-paced
Syria: The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell

Syria: The Desert and the Sown

Gertrude Bell

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

2.0patrick2024's review
nonfiction history travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical by Anthony Bourdain

Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical

Anthony Bourdain

160 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

4.0patrick2024's review
nonfiction biography history true crime informative medium-paced
Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder

Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust

Alexandra Zapruder

512 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

5.0patrick2024's review
nonfiction history informative reflective sad slow-paced
My Days with Gandhi by Nirmal Kumar Bose

My Days with Gandhi

Nirmal Kumar Bose

264 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

3.0patrick2024's review
dark informative mysterious medium-paced