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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love history and love going down wormholes and reading deeply on something that grabs my attention.  I think overarching histories do tend to be a bit dry because they span a lot.  My suggestions are to choose something specific to start with and maybe find a documentary or podcast series that you like.  With a good narrator, these an be more engaging than reading a book.

Thought Lucy Worsley's 3 part History of the Tsars on Amazon was excellent.  Could be an interesting place to start given everything that's going on with Russia at the moment.  Russian history is pretty fascinating and, once you have watched that, you could read/listen/watch something about Russia in the 20th century and it will give you an excellent background to what is happening at the moment.[/quote]

I’m not prone to hero-worship in general, but I totally worship Lucy Worsley. She’s the coolest!

OP, I’m partial to historical novels because they hint at what it might have felt like to live through various historical events and the stories help me to care about the facts more than I ever did when learning “X person did Y in Z year.” There have been a few threads on this forum, but a good place to start is Ken Follett. He did a 20th-Century trilogy and another one that was much earlier (1500s maybe?) in England. [/quote]

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