Six banger history books for casual readers

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  • @RyanCollins-oi9jt
    @RyanCollins-oi9jt 29 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Michael Kist! I stumbled across your video entirely by accident, I’ve been a huge fan since Kist and Solack during your BGN days. Loved your Birds talk back in the day and your channel looks right up my alley.

  • @AndrewDeJoseph
    @AndrewDeJoseph วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I too had a great history teacher for American history in high school. His approach was to teach history by going over the biographies of each president. Because of him I majored in history in college and eventually became a teacher myself. I am 72 years old and still reminisce about those classes. As far as books go I recommend Ron Chernow’s biography of George Washington. It is so much more than a typical biography. It goes over the whole history of the era from around 1730 to 1800.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  วันที่ผ่านมา

      That's awesome! I've heard Chernow's books are excellent

  • @joshsalwen
    @joshsalwen 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    My absolute favorite is A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman. Hard to find, but a great narrative story that paints a clear picture of.

    • @elainehendrix6613
      @elainehendrix6613 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      This is my favorite book of all time.

    • @TaraAmrit
      @TaraAmrit 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Same! It's the first book I thought of when I saw this video.

  • @user-iz6cc6lz3j-Vickie
    @user-iz6cc6lz3j-Vickie วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I have really great history teachers. One of my high school teachers was on the USS Indianapolis and one of the survivors. He was a fabulous teacher. I love history and reading history.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Wow the story of the Indianapolis is a wild one

  • @aliyahfarooqi4119
    @aliyahfarooqi4119 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Always excited for a new histroy books video. I've bought three books on your recommendation & I've loved all of them. Keep these videos coming!

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Love hearing that! Glad they're hittin

  • @the_eerie_faerie_tales
    @the_eerie_faerie_tales 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

    I recommend The Wager by David Grann. The 18th Century shipwreck of the HMS Wager and the ensing mutiny, murder and mayhem. Written more like a thriller. Lots of additional info and photos included. Everybody I know who has read it (including me) has thoroughly enjoyed it.

    • @JerryThomas-c1w
      @JerryThomas-c1w 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The wager has been on my list for a while. I read his other book, killers of the flower moon and as someone who never reads history, his writing was digestible and enjoyable.

    • @the_eerie_faerie_tales
      @the_eerie_faerie_tales 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @JerryThomas-c1w now this is your sign to read it! ☺

    • @cathycrandall5264
      @cathycrandall5264 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I listened to it on audio and really enjoyed it and I recently found it at a library book sale for a dollar so now I have my own copy📚!!

    • @stephanerivest3166
      @stephanerivest3166 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@JerryThomas-c1w The Wager was so good

    • @josiahhager4046
      @josiahhager4046 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      In this vein, In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides. Tells the story of a ship's arctic exploration in the late 1870s. Absolutely riveting and terrifying and inspiring, with many details coming directly from the writings of those involved. Truly reads like a novel. It's so good that the only "problem" with it is resisting the urge to Google the event to find out the fate of everyone involved.

  • @JackTucker-b4i
    @JackTucker-b4i 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    10 Caesars by Barry Strauss is fantastic, it’s about 50 pages each on ten different emperors during Roman history. It’s easy to read, packed with knowledge and gives a good overview of each of the emperors within. While not deep, it is a great jumping off point for any future Rome enthusiasts.

  • @rachiepeach
    @rachiepeach 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Gosh, there is nothing like a great teacher!!

  • @gloria.excelsis
    @gloria.excelsis 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    always here to support you Michael! Proud of you for being a full time content creator

  • @ludium_Gambit
    @ludium_Gambit 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thank you! I appreciate this video as I am planning on becoming a history teacher and am diving into every history book/documentary I see! Subscribed within the first minute!

  • @bigtreece2011
    @bigtreece2011 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I HIGHLY recommend A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage. This is a world history periodization book based on six different drinks that changed the world or essential in the time period. (I am a high school social studies teacher and this is a book I highly enjoy)
    Thanks for all the things you create. I am reading Game of Thrones and the Bloodsworn Saga because of you.

  • @Colty1
    @Colty1 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    We need an office tour. So many cool nik nacs in the background

  • @tae4177
    @tae4177 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Loving the consistency brother

  • @GoingWest30
    @GoingWest30 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great video! I came here from tik tok love your content. A great book I’m reading to get into the Viking age is The Wolf Age by Tore Skeie very informative and easy to follow

  • @BenCallahanCo
    @BenCallahanCo 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    would love a video on the most difficult books you've ever read

  • @GerryThePigeon
    @GerryThePigeon 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    I’ll be honest I clicked because I saw the Borussia Dortmund jersey. I’m game for anyone that enjoys soccer/football.

    • @jank9638
      @jank9638 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Heja BVB

  • @chrisamiejohnson3362
    @chrisamiejohnson3362 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Longitude by Dava Soebel is BRILLIANT! Scholarly and accessible.

  • @charleshaman1782
    @charleshaman1782 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    New subscriber here, so I don't know if you've covered these somewhere along the line... How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman; and of course, Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.

  • @szaggasd
    @szaggasd 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Try Marcel Druon's The Accursed Kings series
    and my persnal favorite Robert Graves' The Golden Fleece
    Montefiore's The young Stalin + The Red Tsar both exceptional

  • @83jachee
    @83jachee 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    One of my favorites of all time is Three Kingdoms by Luo Guangzhong. But the Moss Roberts translation. Absolute insanity about the 3 Kingdoms era in Ancient China

  • @ajraptorbr
    @ajraptorbr 42 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    The Storm Before The Storm by Mike Duncan was absolutely fantastic and I recommend it to anyone that has an interest but is fairly new to Roman history. Super easy reading.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  29 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Rec'd it on my Roman Republic in chronological order video, excellent book

  • @KlingonPrincess
    @KlingonPrincess 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    A few I really enjoyed - Rats, Lice, and History; The Endurance; The Discovers; and The Big Oyster. Also, The Professor and the Madman (more a memoir but of historical interest.) Thanks for the recommendations. 🌻🍄

  • @TheSummerCoast
    @TheSummerCoast 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I've started SPQR a few days ago, and she just gets me hooked on the subject even if only 170 pages in and during the part of Roman Republic that I'll be honest isn't my biggest interest, but the fact you say that Dynasty Disrupted is even better at that than SPQR I'm pumped to read it. And it will fit nicely on my 2025 goal of expanding my history reading from eurocentric topics. One book I would recommend to everyone, it's not really casual history, but I just felt it was so fascinating is "The Untold History of Ramen" by George Solt.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yup I rate SPQR quite high too so I think you'll very much enjoy Destiny Disrupted.

  • @rogeraffleck8677
    @rogeraffleck8677 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant. Its 11 volumes are by far the best world history available for the general public. Page Smith wrote an excellent 8 volume history of the United States in a similar style. Also well worth reading are Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and Bill Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Both these works are easily accessible to the general public.

  • @condorboss3339
    @condorboss3339 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Barbara Tuchman's _A Distant Mirror_ is a very readable classic. It is a great look not only into the history of 14th Century France, but the mindset of the people of the time.
    Her _The Guns of August_ is one of the premier books on the outbreak of WW1, but a little less readable.

    • @joshsalwen
      @joshsalwen 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      😂 I just posted the same recommendation. It is so good.

  • @brice5061
    @brice5061 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Great video!

  • @mattdorsey8800
    @mattdorsey8800 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Two Arctic Shipwreck books, ‘Labyrinth of Ice’ and ‘Empire of Ice and Stone’ by Buddy Levy were really fun reads. Incredible stories that are written in a way that makes you feel like you are there experiencing it first hand.

  • @senzubean31
    @senzubean31 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I'll recommend 'Moscow 1812' by Adam Zamoyski, about Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia.

  • @DaisyMae0929
    @DaisyMae0929 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Candice Millard is an entertaining and informative writer in the popular history genre. Well worth checking out, I am currently going through her catalogue and have not been disappointed yet.

  • @HuwiLewi
    @HuwiLewi 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Philip freeman trilogy of Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar. Great narrative introductions and got me personally hooked

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Of those I've only read Hannibal but it was an excellent refresher

  • @nanimaonovi2528
    @nanimaonovi2528 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    'Ornament of the World' by Maria Rosa Menocal, 'House of Rain' by Craig Childs and 'The Perfect Heresy' by Stephen O'Shea are some of my favourites that haven't been mentioned yet.

  • @madlynx1818
    @madlynx1818 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video I have some new books on my list now. I’d like to leave a good history recommendation that I just recently finished: ‘Sword and Scimitar’ by Raymond Ibrahim 👍🏻

  • @Ravenblade86
    @Ravenblade86 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Always have to recommend The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte and The Germans and Europe by Peter Millar. Destiny in the Desert by Jonathan Dimbleby is a good one for WW2 in north Africa, and for something a bit different The Ghosts of K2 by Mick Conefrey which is great account of the first ascent of the world's second highest mountain.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Loved Brussate's dino book, have to read his book on the mammals and look into your recs, appreciate it!

  • @dl5631
    @dl5631 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Any WW1/WW2 recommendations? I read the grape of nanking recently and was horrified but fascinated. I’d like to read more about both wars but don’t know where to pivot after that book.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      For WW1 The Last of the Doughboys (Rubin) is great. For WW2 I've recently read Bloodlands (Snyder) and Ordinary Men (Browning) and loved em both

    • @ltalbot41-h6s
      @ltalbot41-h6s 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      A World Undone by GJ Meyer is a great narrative history of WWI that provides background and context for those unfamiliar with the era. Well written and concise.

    • @chrisamiejohnson3362
      @chrisamiejohnson3362 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      The Guns of August is great, but more scholarly than easy history.

  • @Lynn-r8h
    @Lynn-r8h วันที่ผ่านมา

    The reasons in the US that history teachers are considers boring are twofold: look how many coaches are teaching history and look how teachers have to teach toward the EOI test.

  • @PAJama_Reads
    @PAJama_Reads 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Race of Aces by John Bruning was phenomenal

  • @krishbohra5536
    @krishbohra5536 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I know you are interested in the subject. Two books on popular Indian history that I can recommend are False Allies by Manu S. Pillai and Lords of the Deccan by Anirudh Kanisetti. Both incredible reads.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Will look into those, thank you!

  • @heidi6281
    @heidi6281 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Mongolian Historical Fantasy that I enjoyed very much is Stephen Aryan’s The Nightingale & the Falcon: Judas Blossom, Blood Dimmed Tide and in coming out in 2025 The Sorrow & the Sea!

  • @chrisdeleuze4493
    @chrisdeleuze4493 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

  • @JJJabel
    @JJJabel 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Currently reading Babylon, Mesopotamia the birth of civilization by Paul Kriwaczek highly recommend
    Another book I read early in my History endeavors was Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
    Great video and appreciate your recommendations

  • @fightronin3753
    @fightronin3753 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video!! Another amazing history book with no sugarcoating is The Great Evil: Christianity, the Bible, and the Native American Genocide by Professor Matu Nunpa. Definitely, worth checking out for people who want to know about real American history!

  • @annacalifornia6498
    @annacalifornia6498 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I have kind of love/Hate feeling towards Genghis Khan. On one hand he was a warmonger. He killed lots of people but that's how he grew up. I mean his family was killed. His wife was stolen and raped before it. Even technically got married. His own brother wanted to kill him. So he realized that power and strength. What gets the job done? On the other hand, after he conquered whatever land he learned the little people live as long as they didn't rise up against him. He didn't care about the religion. He didn't try to enforce their his religion and so bad for Conquering but at the same time also good as a leader

  • @jameskyle7943
    @jameskyle7943 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In my Texas high school the history teachers were mostly disgruntled football coaches who were forced to also teach some classes.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There's a lot of that unfortunately

  • @taylorr.1589
    @taylorr.1589 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Genghis Khan by Weatherford was actually the first biography I read and didn't love. I think the author writes really dryly and I don't appreciate how much he assumes the details from the contemporary sources are correct. Cleopatra by Schiff I think does a much better job at taking scant primary sources and writing a compelling story while still making it clear that a lot is unknown.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      That's interesting becsuse I was mixed on Cleopatra (talked about it on my Egyptian vid) but different strokes an' all

  • @MrCaseHarts
    @MrCaseHarts 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    BVB jersey, hmmmm is it pulisic on the back?

  • @jenniferst.george810
    @jenniferst.george810 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I would recommend Bury my Heart at wounded knee by Dee Brown and Ice Ghosts ( about the search for the Franklin expedition)

    • @Gregor147
      @Gregor147 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Empire of the summer moon is good too.

  • @peace-vi8jg
    @peace-vi8jg 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Genghis Khan - you pronounce this as jenghes khan . the first G is pronounced as J as in jug. Second G is g as in ghost. Hope this helps!

  • @davidmaher8365
    @davidmaher8365 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Almost anything by Shaara, father a bit more then son.

  • @Eschrich13
    @Eschrich13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Historian and Dortmund !?!? Can’t subscribe faster !

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  วันที่ผ่านมา

      Haha fan of history* but yeah heja BVB!

  • @maxe6538
    @maxe6538 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    We are led by someone illiterate. His name is James Franklin

  • @Tartan
    @Tartan 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Anything by Dan Jones is great - the best writing I’ve come across.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      For sure, I put a buncha books from him in the first video I did like this.

  • @JerryThomas-c1w
    @JerryThomas-c1w 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @kevinalexander4792
    @kevinalexander4792 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    4 books come to mind for the history beginner reader
    1. The Boy: A Holocaust Story by Dan Porat (Reads like a novel but is still the work of a serious historian)
    2. March by Congressman John Lewis (It’s a series of Graphic Novels that detail his experiences during the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s)
    3 Battle Lines by Ari Kelman (A history of the American Civil War written in the form of a Graphic Novel)
    4. Liar Temptress Soldier Spy by Karen Abbott (A serious work of History however, it is readily accessible and reads like a novel. It follows four different women who undertake the roles mentioned in the title of the book during the American Civil War.) Rather Riveting read and also comes in audiobook format

  • @ItsMedodd
    @ItsMedodd 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I haven't read the one on Mongols but I have this to say :
    Any attempt to cast a positive light on the Mongol conquests and Genghis Khan risks trivializing the sheer scale of devastation they wrought. While the Mongols undeniably facilitated cultural exchange and advanced trade through the Silk Road, these outcomes were built on a foundation of unimaginable violence and destruction. Entire cities were razed, populations annihilated, and countless lives irreparably disrupted. The death toll from the Mongol campaigns is estimated in the tens of millions, leaving scars on civilizations that took centuries to heal. To focus on the administrative or economic benefits of their empire while minimizing the brutality of their expansion is to ignore the human cost and suffering that accompanied their rise to power. Celebrating such a legacy risks romanticizing a period of history defined by relentless bloodshed and oppression.

    • @KistReadsBooks
      @KistReadsBooks  5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I don't entirely disagree, hence my heavy disclaimer on it which also mentioned the tens of million toll.

    • @nanimaonovi2528
      @nanimaonovi2528 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      To the Mongols humans who didn't worship the sky father and ride horses weren't really people. That's the lesson history teaches. The greatest doomsday weapon is being able to other another human. "We aren't like them" is all you need to believe to burn down the world.

  • @pouetpouetdaddy5
    @pouetpouetdaddy5 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    if history book can be a turn-off, clearly I see what can be…a turn-on😉

  • @blackeneddarkangel
    @blackeneddarkangel 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It's pronounced Ching ghis Khan Ching not Ghing.