I started reading Carr’s “What is History?” and finished the first chapter. I am planning to resume it later. Now I am reading VP Menon’s “Integration of the Indian States.”
I just started reading ‚Between Two Rivers‘ by Moudhy Al-Rashid
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Books I am concurrently reading: (yes, I’m a poly-lectiophile):
Bakewell, Sarah. How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (p. 286). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Greenblatt, Stephen. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (p. 50). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (p. 83). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Patterson, James T.. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States Book 10) (p. 458). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Grayling, A. C.. The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind (p. 41). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Mendelsohn, Daniel. An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (p. 140). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Tuchman, Barbara W.. The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books) (p. 243). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Czapski, Jozef. Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp (New York Review Books Classics) (p. 13). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Cline, Eric H.. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Turning Points in Ancient History) (p. 55). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Patterson, James T.. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States Book 10) (p. 458). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Greenblatt, Stephen. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (p. 50). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Turner, James. Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Book 70) (p. 18). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Strogatz, Steven H.. Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life (p. 1). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Davies, John. A History of Wales (p. 217). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (p. 43). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Packer, George. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (p. 36). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Harari, Yuval Noah. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (p. 436). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Hughes, Bettany. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (p. 31). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Beard, Mary. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World (p. 171). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Sowell, Thomas. The Thomas Sowell Reader (p. 8). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Madden, Thomas F.. The Fall of Republics: A History from Ancient Carthage to the American Constitution (p. 3). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Manchester, William. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age (p. 289). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Winchester, Simon. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic (p. 249). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history Book 1) (p. 61). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Green, John. England During the Dark Ages (Function). Kindle Edition.
Graeber, David. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (p. 9). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Graeber, David. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (p. 125). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Roberts, J M; Westad, Odd Arne. The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition (p. 30). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Gleick, James. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (p. 168). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Doerr, Anthony. Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel (p. 83). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Ferguson, Niall. The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (p. 24). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Pryor, Francis. Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Text Only) (p. 76). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Bryson, Bill. Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society (p. 43). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Ackroyd, Peter. Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (p. 97). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Eilenberger, Wolfram. Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy (p. 192). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Beard, Mary. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations (p. 65). (Function). Kindle Edition.
I’ve got that one, too, but I found it much harder to get into than Amanda Podany’s Weavers, Scribes and Kings.
Wow, I don’t know how you manage to read so many books at the same time! Good for you. 
That’s on my list too!
I absolutely loved Weavers, Scribes and Kings. Unlike most history books, this one really takes you there, tries to explain how it really was like to live back then. Amanda Podany uses accounts of real people found in the archaeological record and tracks what they did in their life. Very, very cool book.
Sounds amazing, thanks for the hint!
I am rereading Stillwell in China and for the 3rd time the ZinZin Road a satire of the first Peace Corps group to go to Liberia. I was a PC volunteer in India 65-67 so laughed along with much of it.
After watching The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan I started reading the Iliad translation by Emily Wilson because I want to read her Odyssey translation as well and you can’t start a story right in the middle. (And before any classicists come at me: I know the Iliad isn’t the beginning as well but I’m just referencing Homer here.) It’s much easier than all the versions I’ve read until now and I think that’s great!
Re-reading “Nossa herança oriental (Our Oriental Heritage)”, by Ariel & Will Durant.
Oh that’s a big classic.
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Both of Emily Wilson’s translations are on my list, too! From the excerpts I’ve read, they seem very accessible?
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I already have two different translations of the Odyssey, but I’m planning on getting Emily Wilson’s translation as well.
I guess you can never have too many copies, right? 
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They are very accessible and readable, even for people not used to reading ancient texts. She explains a lot within her translations that is useful for new readers.
I have like 5 different translations in German alone 
But yes, you can never have enough!
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I am currently reading The Second World War by Antony Beevor .
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How are you liking it, @rishabh.j3e?
I had read it in the past too . I find it pretty interesting . I would also like to know your view of it @jvdc sir .