History Book Challenge

I participated on a book challenge on the Bluesky platform but I did it somewhat differently than the standard book challenge which states something like "Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."

So I did the one book per day and did 20 of them but I made all of my books about history and called it the History Book Challenge. I also wrote down the book title, author and published date. Then I wrote a brief description of the book and why I posted it. Then some tags... #bookchallenge #books #booksk #history #bookshelf

I started out posting these right away when I joined the app but then took about a month off for the holidays. I started up again a few days into the new year.

Here is the list of books that I posted as part of my History Book Challenge

• In Search of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White, 1983 - 1/10
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan, 2015 - 1/9
• 1493: Uncovering The New World Columbus Created by Charles Mann, 2011 - 1/8
• Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, 2010 - 1/7
• The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer, 2013 - 1/6
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen, 2017 - 1/5
• The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin, 2019 - 1/4/25
• The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth, 2007 - 12/5/24
• A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor, 2010 - 12/2
• A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present by Howard Zinn, 1980 - 12/1
• The Map Book ed. By Peter Barber, 2006 - 11/30
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, 2011 - 11/27
• These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore, 2018 - 11/26
• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, 1997 - 11/25
• Indigenous Continent: The Epic Conquest of North America by Pekka Hamalainen, 2022 - 11/24
• Eyewitness to History by John Carey, ed, 1987 - 11/20
• Forget The Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson & Jason Stanford, 2021 - 11/19
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, 1978 - 11/18
• The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk, - 11/17
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann, 2005 - 11/16