historical nonfiction you should read
Vložit
- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- I thought I would talk about all of the historical nonfiction I've been reading recently!
Books I Mentioned:
Paul by N.T. Wright
The Anglo Saxons by Marc Morris
King and Emperor : A Biography of Charlemagne by Janet Nelson
Messalina (@MoAnInc )
Support my channel:
ko-fi.com/jenniferbrooks
Social Media:
My K-Pop/Journaling channel: / @smoothlike9827
Goodreads: / drowninginhistory
Bookstagram: / drowninginhistory_
Journaling Instagram: / journalingwithjenny
booktube, booktuber, book recommendations, #history #nonfiction - Zábava
I read The Anglo-Saxons because you recommended it ,and I absolutely loved it! Thanks Jennifer!👏🏼
Your passion and love for history is so inspiring like idk if ive ever had as much enthusiasm for anything in my life 😂🩷 i feel your confusion about charlemagne! i feel the same way about the mystery around shakespeare and who he was outside of his work and also the weird hostility shakespearean scholars seem to have towards his wife
lol, thank you!!
I’ve been looking for some good books on medieval history that can explain in a clear way. I’m very interested in “the Anglo-saxons”. I love history too, my favorite subject in school! Thank you for the content
I read the Paul biography in early 2022 and loved it… as much as N T Wright fills in the blanks for areas we can only guess about Paul's life, I found that reading Paul's writing and the book of Acts… still helps you see the consistency in his character from what we know. It answered a lot of questions I had about him. And put so much in perspective…. He was a real force
Thank you for sharing! Love watching the historian you! 💐
Need to get a copy of Messalina!
I'm currently reading The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris. It is the first book of his I have read and it is brilliant - a very lively and interesting read, so it is good to have a recommendation for another of his books to add to my pile!
i love love love this!!! thank you for these recommendations!! i usually hate nonfiction, but i do enjoy historical nonfictions, and i’ve been looking for some to pick up!!
thanks for sharing! I love the historical fiction genre!
This was really interesting to listen to and I added several titles to my list. Very well done --- thanks!
Great video Jenny!! I've added a couple of these to my ever growing list for Historathon 2024 haha. Currently I'm focusing on the Spanish Conquest of México and it's been fascinating! // I'm no historian but I also always look for recent work, otherwise I'm doubting everything. 😝 I'm also fascinated by Charlemagne, but after reading Powers and Thrones, I really want to learn more about his father also!! (From that book I was under the impression that Pepin was the one who came up with the whole "Holy Roman Emperor" concept, but maybe I understood wrong...?). I'll take note if you find a Charlemagne biography that you love in the future! (I love that cover for Messalina).
Thoroughly enjoyed this super interesting 🧐 you've inspired me to get to one of my medieval non fictions 😉💕☺
It's so interesting to listen to you narrate these book summaries. As much as I enjoy nonfiction, I find history quite dry but truly enjoy listening to you share. You are an engaging educator. Thank you. Subscribing.
Hi Jennifer, I enjoyed these reviews very much! I went straight over to Wordery and added the first three to my wishlist there! I am familiar with Janet Nelson because she was interviewed in documentaries I've seen about Alfred the Great and the Anglo Saxon period generally, but I have never read any of her work. I'm looking forward to some very interesting reading!
Thank you for the great reviews. I have ordered Paul.
Love seeing someone else with the same enthusiasm for the Medieval period as me! I have and have read The Anglo-Saxons--it's hard to go wrong with Marc Morris, his biography of Edward I is also good.
I also have read Becoming Charlemagne by Jeff Sypeck--you might find it interesting. It focuses on a specific period of his life and I did enjoy it. And speaking of elusive figures, I would love to find a good bio of Margaret of Scotland.
Have a good day, Lisa
thank you for this rec! I'm adding it to my tbr!
Always exciting to talk about the Bible and religious figures from the historian's lens. I want to go through Christine Hayes' the Old Testament intro course from Yale next year, and can't wait to learn more. I am going to add that Paul biography to my list. I'm reading also Anglo-Saxons right now :)
Jennifer, I came here looking for some good nonfiction book recommendations. I probably will not get any of the books you presented but I loved your delivery. You were easy to listen to and I hope you do more book reviews and lists. I subscribed so I will be looking out for new videos.
Paul is definitely a book I will read in the future, it ticks all the right boxes for me.
Thank You!
I have a soft spot for older biographies (Lady Antonia Fraser's 1969 "Mary Queen of Scots" has my heart!). But, I wonder if primary sources (letters, histories, etc.) would reveal more about the enigmatic Charlemagne. Apparently. the "Two Lives of Charlemagne" (Penguin Classics) by Einhard and Notker the Stammerer gives two very different accounts of this ruler. Of course, these could be unreliable narrators!🧡
I've been considering getting the primary sources, esp. since they were quoted so much in Nelson bio!
Antonia Fraser has written several other things which are worthwhile: Marie Antionnette, Charles II and a terrific Anthology of love poems.
I know I spelled M.A. incorrectly. Sorry!!
We Killed Stephen Ward is an interesting book about the early sixties in England.
I just finished Messalina (on audio book) and I am so glad I did! I think it's the best biography I've read in a couple years (I didn't think anything could top The Tigress of Forli by Elizabeth Lev but this one came pretty close)
Ah, maybe this will be the year I get back into Wright. Picking an audience for commercial Christian non-fiction must be tough. The audience that would benefit most from your book isn't interested and the audience that is interested already knows 90% of what you have to say. As for the repetition, I'm seeing more and more books written with the assumption that people will pick and choose what chapters to read. Part of me hopes to see the day when we'll be able to choose a particular version of a book based on how we like reading. Current non-fiction read: A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England by Sue Wilkes.
you've made a great point about books written assuming that you will jump around depending on topic of interest! it seems like that is the majority of nonfic I've come across lately.
All my biographies are are of more modern figures, but I would like to try one at some point.
I’m starting Messalina today! Just finished rereading Agrippina by Emma Southon.
Excellent video!
This year the history books I've read include: A Short History of Ireland by John Gibney, A Short History of Russia by Mark Galeotti, Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know by Bruce Jentleson, The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis, SPQR by Mary Beard, The Irregulars by Jennet Conant, Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff, The Widow Washington by Martha Saxton, An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker, The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan, Born in Blackness by Howard French, and Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor.
Oh jenneifer, you are always so elegant. I love your beautiful tree in the background.
Thank you so much!
Great content here!
Always loved history. There is a interesting French writer Sharl Dill and he wrote about Byzantine some books that I love. Do not know was it translated to English.
Byzantine history is some of my favorite to learn about.
Have you read Agrippina by Emma Southon? I read it a couple of years ago and liked it.
I tend to like historical non-fiction about lesser known historical figures, this year I’ve read Scottish Queens 1034-1714 by Rosalind K Marshall, Daughters of the Winter Queen, and In The Shadow of the Empress by Nancy Goldstone, Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley, The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians by Janice Hadlow, and Elizabeth’s Rival by Nicola Tallis.
I haven't! adding it to the tbr.
There's a book I saw in a library that seemed very interesting It is called After the Romanovs, which tells the aftermath of the people were against the Bolsheviks after the Civil war . I think that this theme has been overlooked in Russian historiography, because it centers more in how Lenin and his gang tried to establish Communism.
Jennifer are you watching Domina? I think it would be right up your alley
I am! I'm really enjoying it!
@@jenniferbrooks yAaaaaaaaay! It's my new obsession😁 I've been trying to find a biography of Livia Drusilla but I haven't been able to😐 I love her and I feel like I need to know Everything about her
Can you recommend any nonfics for someone whose a total newbie on Rome? Thank uuu :)))
I never really thought of adding Non-Fiction to my reading pool and I’m so happy to have found your page off my recommended. Now I also see how you read 120 books this year, you’re a history lover. We loveeee to read. 😂 🫶
Also the fact that they’ve managed to basically rid Charlemagne the person from history just kind of tells you how terrible everyone probably thought he was.