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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance

10 best books like Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (Lisa Jardine): Everyday Life in Early America, Speak: The Graphic Novel, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Little Wilson and Big God, Balthazar, The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II, The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Everyday Life in Early America
AuthorDavid Freeman Hawke
ISBN0060912510
I am really fed up with anti-blackness and ahistorical white-centered nonsense in books that are supposed to be historical non-fiction. This book could have been really interesting. It also should have been named "Everyday Life for White Colonialists in Early America." And I wouldn't have had a problem...
Speak: The Graphic Novel
AuthorLaurie Halse Anderson
The modern classic Speak is now a graphic novel.

"Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
AuthorJacob Burckhardt
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts...
Little Wilson and Big God
AuthorAnthony Burgess
ISBN0802132405
The first volume of the two-volume autobiography.

In an extraordinarily candid book of confessions, Anthony Burgess tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to 1959 and the commencement of his career as a professional writer. He details his burgeoning...
Balthazar
AuthorLawrence Durrell
ISBN1400000289
Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the eyes of the central character L.G. Darley, who observes the interactions of his lovers, friends, and acquaintances. Balthazar,...
The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II
AuthorAlex Kershaw
ISBN0306815575
December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf...
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
AuthorMartin Gilbert
ISBN0805062602
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust.

According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if...
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance
AuthorJ.R. Hale
ISBN0689122004
Read this for a history of Early Modern Europe course, and found it to be interesting but very much an overview of something I already have a decent idea of . Hale is synthesizing a lot of information here, and because of that there are just some points where the book gets borderline unreadable for a few pages....
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
AuthorYitzhak Arad
ISBN0253213053
..". Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution.... Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go."--New York Times Book Review

..". some of the most gripping chapters I have ever read.... the authentic, exhaustive,...
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
AuthorErica Armstrong Dunbar
ISBN1501126393
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom.

When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly...
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