HELP ME, Y'ALL

[esmenet]

My dear friends and relations, it is That Time Of The Year again. And by That Time Of The Year, I mean that these twenty nonfiction books scattered around me that I haven't read yet and leftoverresearchquarterly  are clearly not enough to get my nerdly/writerly synapses going again and I NEED NONFICTION RECS LIKE BURNING.

(Also, I adore reading other people's research notes. Or notes about research. Or posts like this, with all the awesome comments.)


Nonfiction/non-music podcast recs would be nice, too. I love the history of the Roman Empire, but when I can, off the top of my head, name more than twenty rulers of Rome, their good points, their bad points, and their causes and suspected causes of death, it's probably time to find a podcast about ancient China or something instead.

Comments

[sw-fangirl.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of military history books that are good, if you're into that sort of thing. That's most of the non-fiction I read; that and politics. XD

[ojuzu.livejournal.com]

I am all for military history! :D

[sw-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Give me a few minutes, I'll get a list together (we have two whole shelves stacked with just that subject). :D

Here we go.

[sw-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Short list:
Fiasco - Thomas Ricks
Samurai: The Rise & Fall of the Japanese Naval Air Force - Saburo Sakai
Ambush Alley - Tim Pritchard
Generation Kill - Evan Wright
About Face - David Hackworth
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts - David Hackworth
Attacks - Erwin Rommel
The Village - FJ West, Jr
The Long March - Harrison Salisbury
The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
Badass - Ben Thompson
Dereliction of Duty - HR McMaster