Bookrageous Episode 84; Historicals

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[0:45] Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra

[1:51] Pandemic, Sonia Shah (February 23 2016)

[3:05] Pandemic board game

[3:55] Getting Things Done, David Allen

Josh

[4:30] Judge This, Chip Kidd

[6:30] American Housewife, Helen Ellis

[7:55] Eating the Cheshire Cat, Helen Ellis

[8:15] The Noble Hustle, Colson Whitehead

[8:25] On the Books, Greg Farrell

[10:20] Plotted: A Literary Atlas, Andrew Degraff

Preeti

[13:00] Knulp, Herman Hesse

[14:40] Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier, Ales Kott, Marco Rudy

[16:20] Amazing Spider-Man, Dan Slott

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Historicals

[23:50] The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth

[27:00] A Magnificent Farce, Alfred Edward Newton

[27:45] The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George

[28:45] Sharon Kay Penman

[29:40] Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg

[30:25] The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone

[32:00] WWII: Number the Stars, Lois Lowry; The Book Thief, Markus Zusak; Code Name Verity, Elizabeth E. Wein

[32:45] Magic Tree House series

[33:35] The Bad Popes, ER Chamberlin

[35:20] Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff

[36:00] The Witches, Stacy Schiff

[37:15] Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen

[37:25] Kenneth C. Davis books

[39:55] Pandemic, Sonia Shah (February 23 2016)

[42:10] Mary Stewart’s Arthurian Saga

[42:48] Hild, Nicola Griffith

[43:42] Debt, David Graeber

[44:10] The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber

[44:50] Colum McCann: Dancer, Transatlantic, Let the Great World Spin

[45:45] Studs Terkel

[46:02] Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

[46:29] The Ibis Trilogy, Amitav Ghosh

[47:20] K Blows Top, Peter Carlson

[48:16] Terra Nostra, Carlos Fuentes

[49:40] Courtney Milan, Beverly Jenkins, Sarah MacLean

[50:50] Georgette Heyer

[52:55] Walk on Earth a Stranger, Rae Carson

[55:02] Ellen Oh: Warrior, Prophecy

[55:45] Under a Painted Sky, Stacey Lee

[57:50] Patrick O’Brian, Aubrey Maturin novels

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