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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond

498 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Simon Jimenez

522 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ literary adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 1

Edward Gibbon

1232 pages • first pub 1776 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative slow-paced
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

Mary Beard

493 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 by Chris Wickham

The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

Penguin History of Europe #2

Chris Wickham

651 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian by Emma Dench

Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian

Emma Dench

441 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history medium-paced
Alchemised by SenLinYu

Alchemised

SenLinYu

976 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

fiction fantasy
Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History by Alfred W. Crosby

Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History

Alfred W. Crosby

218 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative tense medium-paced
Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China: Studies in Environment and History. by Judith Shapiro, Alfred W. Crosby, Donald Worster
Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China: Studies in Environment and History.
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Judith Shapiro, Alfred W. Crosby, Donald Worster

Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China: Studies in Environment and History.

Studies in Environment and History

Alfred W. Crosby, Judith Shapiro, Donald Worster

287 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history informative mysterious tense slow-paced
Germs, Seeds and Animals: Studies in Ecological History: Studies in Ecological History by Alfred W. Crosby

Germs, Seeds and Animals: Studies in Ecological History: Studies in Ecological History

Sources and Studies in World History

Alfred W. Crosby

240 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics science informative fast-paced
Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy by Alfred W. Crosby

Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy

Alfred W. Crosby

208 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology informative medium-paced
War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring by Edmund Russell, Alfred W. Crosby, Donald Worster

War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring

Alfred W. Crosby, Donald Worster, Edmund Russell

334 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative medium-paced