Julian Elfer

67 books

Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich

Cities That Shaped the Ancient World

John Julius Norwich

240 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts by Odd Arne Westad, Jussi M. Hanhimäki

The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts

Odd Arne Westad, Jussi M. Hanhimäki

712 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad

The Cold War: A World History

Odd Arne Westad

710 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
The Dead by Christian Kracht

The Dead

Christian Kracht

208 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical tense slow-paced
Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère

Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

Guy de la Bédoyère

408 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

The Drowned World

J.G. Ballard

198 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

fiction science fiction speculative fiction adventurous slow-paced
The Escape of Jack the Ripper: The Full Truth About the Cover-up and His Flight from Justice by Jonathan Hainsworth, Christine Ward-Agius

The Escape of Jack the Ripper: The Full Truth About the Cover-up and His Flight from Justice

Jonathan Hainsworth, Christine Ward-Agius

304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark slow-paced
The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East by Nicholas Morton

The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East

Nicholas Morton

236 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 by Randall Hansen

Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945

Randall Hansen

368 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
A Forgotten Hero: Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis by Shelley Emling

A Forgotten Hero: Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis

Shelley Emling

280 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced