Bustle Reads 2016 discussion

Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic and Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History have all been suggested. What else should we know about?

I've read, and really liked, Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu. It's about the First Lady of South Vietnam in the 1960s during the political turmoil there. And, bonus points, it's about a kickass female historical figure that I had never heard of before.

I just picked up Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War for this one.

I just realized Bustle recommended a book about Quanah Parker and the Comanche tribe as a book about "non-Western" history. Uhhh...whose history is it then? Just sayin...

Starcursed or Island of A Thousand Mirrors or Girl From The Coast

I read First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung. I really didn't know any history of Cambodia, so this book was a great book for me to read. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who doesn't know what happened in Cambodia during the 1970's or is just interested in history.

This has been the hardest category for me to find a book for. I think I'm going to bend the rules a little and read Purple Hibiscus as I've seen it shelved under historical fiction a few times.

I ended up reading The Blood of Flowers. It was really good.

I read Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic and it was honestly the most boring book i have ever read, and i really like reading history. It was way to US-centric, it spend most of the time reviewing the tiniest details of every military operation and political scandal; even if it gave a very thorough analysis of Khomeini ideas, barely mention how the revolution was constructed, and leave way too many questions unanswered. For such a long book, the analysis were, in general, very shallow.

For latinamerican history I reccomend Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. It's not terribly long, its easy to understand and its gonna break your heart.

I read Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War and found myself completely engrossed in it.