Are there any Historians/Academics/History Writers who maintain a list of books they read?

by honey_I_shot_the_kid

I have seen random fiction writers maintain such lists all over on Twitter/Goodreads etc.

I was curious if I can follow a list like that?

I know this sub has a Goodreads accounts. This is an additional list I would like to follow.

mikedash

The AH equivalent of the sorts of list you are thinking of is our recommended reading list, which you can find here.

With regard to reading lists publicly maintained by academic historians – I'm actually not aware of any. This is not to say that they don't exist, but history is not by its nature a discipline which possesses a core of seminal texts that collectively provide the theoretical lens through which the materials we read gets filtered, and hence which every historian must read. Rather, every field and sub-field has its own seminal texts – and what these are tends to evolve over time, too, because history is constantly being rethought and re-interrogated (which is how the discipline as a whole makes progress, in fact). Few history reading lists that get issued at university level feature many works that are much more than 20 years old.

So what you read and what you'll find most useful will very much depend on what sorts of topics, places, and what periods, you are most interested in; and there'll almost always be something new and challenging to read.