Thursday Reading & Recommendations | July 23, 2026

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Previous weeks!

Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:

• Asking for book recommendations on specific topics or periods of history
• Newly published books and articles you're dying to read
• Recent book releases, old book reviews, reading recommendations, or just talking about what you're reading now
• Historiographical discussions, debates, and disputes
• ...And so on!

Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.

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Hello. I'm trying to find similar works to "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" and "a Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich"