Best history books of all time reddit

Hello! I saw this a while ago on r/suggestmeabook and then again a couple of hours ago on r/books and I thought this may be super cool in this subreddit. (I suggest you check both threads! Awesome suggestions)

Historians, what is your speciality and which books would you recommend for an overall understanding? Can be any topic (Nazi Germany, History of Islam, anything and everything) Any expert that isn't necessarily a historian is also welcome to contribute suggestions :)

Particularly, I'd love to hear some books on African, Russian and Asian (mostly South) history!

Edit to add: thanks a lot for the contribution people. So many interesting threads and subjects. I want to add that some have replied to this thread with topics they're interested on hoping some expert can appear and share some insight. Please check the new comments! Maybe you can find something you can contribute to. I've seen people ask about the history of games, to more insight into the Enlightenment, to the history of education itself. Every knowledge is awesome so please, help if you can!

Edit #2: I'm going to start adding the specific topics people are asking for, hoping it can help visibility! Let me know if you want me to add the name of the user, if it helps, too. I can try linking the actual comment but later today as it's difficult in Mobile. I will update as they come, and as they're resolved as well!

(Topics without hyperlinks are still only requests. Will put a link on the actual question so it can be answered easily tomorrow maybe, for now this is a lists of the topics on this thread so far and the links for the ones that have been answered already)

INDEX:

• 12th – 13th century England/France

• 1950's Americana and lifestyle/day-to-day technology of that time

• American Civil War (similar: 'Lost Cause' interpretation of Civil War

• American Deaf History

• American Religious history (pop culture and evangelicals)

• American revolution

• Archaeology

• Balkans

• British Civil War

• British royalty

• [British Women’s History (modern)] (https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/84dqir/historians_pick_three_books_from_your/dvpgxqh/)

• Canadian history

• Celts, Heretical movements in Europe, Early European adoption of Christianity, relationship of local customs/beliefs and Christianity (may have similarities with the Germanic paganism topic and the Witchcraft/Hoodoo/Pagan religion topic)

• Civil aviation in North America

• Cold War

• Colonial America (assuming North America?)

• Contemporary Chinese diplomacy

• Counterinsurgent warfare

• Crusades

• Dueling and Euro-American Honor Culture

• Dutch/West European medieval history

• East Asian history (Korean Peninsula) (similar: history of North Korea )

• Egyptian history

• Elizabethan England

• Enlightenment (can be expanded!)

• European Communist history

• Former Yugoslavia (Bosnia/Serbia/Croatia)

• French resistance

• General African history (similar: by /u/burnergeek)

• Germanic paganism / Roman expansion after Julius Caesar

• Gregorian reform

• Historiography

• History and evolution of fishing

• History of alternative sexualities (similar request: transgender history )

• History of Canada

• History of China

• History of CIA

• History of domestic tools (alternatives, not only books)

• History of Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium)

• History of education

• History of games

• History of hinduism

• History of Japan (a more detailed answer: here)

• History of piracy

• History of psychology

• History of public executions

• History of Spain

• History of wallpaper

• Irish history

• Latin American history (requested twice) (some books in pre-colonial and colonial Latin America in Spanish)[https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/84dqir/historians_pick_three_books_from_your/dvpk6hd/]

• Medieval Europe (1066-Reinassance)

• Modern pop culture

• Napoleon

• Native North American history (similar: Native American histories)

• Neolithic civilizations (Babylon, Sumeria)

• New York City history

• Old west (settlers, miners, law men)

• Physics

• Pre-colonial Iran and Middle East

• Religion

• Revolutionary France

• Russian history (focus on Soviet)

• Russian revolution (can be expanded)

• Russian space programs

• Seven years war

• Silk Road (Samarkhand and Khiva)

• South African Apartheid

• Sub-Saharan African history

• The Lead Years in Italy

• US labor/business/capitalism

• Vietnam or the Vietnam War (similar: America's War in Vietnam

• Viking/Norse history (requested twice)

• West México, peoples of Jalisco

• Witchcraft/Hoodoo/Pagan religious history

• World War I (Anglo-American experiences) (similar )

• World War II (similar: historiography of the Holocaust, also this one, as well as early modern WW2 militery history )

Edit #3: Gold! Oh my gosh, thank you so much kind anonymous. There are so many other posts and comments who deserved this yet you chose to give it to me. I'm very thankful.

That being said! I'm going to start updating the list again. So many new topic requests have been asked, so many already answered. I'm also going to do a list of the topics that have already been covered-- as someone said, this may be helpful for someone in the future! Bear with me. It's late and I have to wake up early tomorrow for class, but I'll try to do as much as I can today! Keep it coming guys, let's share knowledge!

Edit #4: I want to also take the opportunity to bring attention to the amazing people at r/AskHistorians, who not only reply to questions like this every day, they have in their sidebar a lot of books and resources in many topics. Not exactly divided in these three options, but you can look up if they're appropriate for your level of understanding, but it's a valuable resource anyway. You may find what you're looking for there. Some of the topics that people haven't answered, either, can be found there!

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