Reviews

This page is an index with links to our reviews and opinions about the books we've read in the Readable History book club.

Available Book Reviews

Click on a link in the Reviews section to get to a specific book's review. To start a discussion about one of the books, you can send us a message via email.

Here's a list of the books we've read so far:

• From Beirut to Jerusalem (Thomas Friedman)
• In the Wake of the Plague (Norman Cantor)
• The Geography Behind History (W. Gordon East)
• How the Irish Saved Civilization (Thomas Cahill)
• Founding Brothers (Joseph J. Ellis)
• The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg (Nicholas Dawidoff)
• Silent Night: The WWI Christmas Truce (Stanley Weintraub)
• American Massacre (Sally Denton)
• What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam & Modernity (Bernard Lewis)
• The Gifts of the Jews (Thomas Cahill)
• Nothing Like It in the World (Stephen E. Ambrose)
• The Last Samurai (Mark Ravina)
• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)