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What are you reading /his/?
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Still slowly getting through Will Durant Story of Civilization.
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>>771738
"Destined to Reign" by Joseph Prince.
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Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
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Book on mathematical models in history.
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The Campaigns of Napoleon (recommended by /his/)
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Act holier than thou elsewhere.
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The reign of quantity
By rené guénon
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Amelia Bedelia and the cat.
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>>771738
The Complete Robot - Asimov
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>>771738
Critique of pure reason. For like, a year now...
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Paradise beneath her feet by Coleman
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wikipedia.com
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The Idiot by Dostoyevsky
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A Confederacy of Dunces, totally portrays most of us on this board.
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>>773625
Is it good?
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>>773661
no
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The Naval War of 1812
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Niall Ferguson's Kissinger bio.
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I read a lot of books at once:

Africa's World War (Prunier)
History of the Russian Revolution (Trotsky)
Ultralight Backpackin' Tips (Clelland)
The Wise Man's Fear (Rothfuss)
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>>771738
From Metaphysics to Ethics by Frank Jackson
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>>771738
'History of the XXth century' by Bernstein and Milza. It's a pain in the ass, and I know most of it, but I gotta do it.
Also reading theater plays and Also Spracht Zarathustra on the side.
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>>771738
The Penguin History of the World
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I just finished O'Brian's The Nutmeg of Consolation and started The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes.
Funnily enough, I was toying with the idea of picking up the latter when the foreword in the former mentioned getting valuable information from it, so I took it as a sign.
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Blood meridian, pretty good so far but a tad confusing at times.
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>>773992
I'm just finishing it up, it has been by far one of my favorite reads

also I started Crime and Punishment yesterday
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>>773665
It's fantastic you faggot.
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"Red Rising" by Pierce Brown
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I'm reading the George Rowlinson translation of Herodotus' Histories, and then afterwards The Portable Greek Historians by M. I. Finsley, then I'm probably gonna reread Histories. If you couldn't tell, I'm writing a short (10 page?) essay on Herodotus' writing style and the way historical recording has changed since.
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Mongols, Turks, and Others. Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World
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>>771738
Stephen Runciman's History of the Crusade
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>>771738
'Poltava: The Battle Which Shook Europe' by Peter Englund
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Hibbert is best historical writer desu

also i am trying to read it in english and boy i feel like half of those words are ancient latin.
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>>775395
Meet at the marketplace?
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Edith Hamilton - Mythology
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Confucius - Analects
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>>771738
black culture and black consciousness by Levine
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Europe's Tragedy: The Thirty Years War, Peter Wilson
The Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, Christopher Clark
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Does anyone here know of a good book on the principles and history of naval warfare and strategy?

Ideally I'd like to read something that explains both strategy and history, from Ancient galleys to modern nuclear SRBM nuclear submarines.
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Diarmaid MacCulloch's Reformation.
I was naively surprised by how much jargon is involved in studying the Church.
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