The subreddit book list is an incredible resource, but one thing it doesn't have is recommendations for younger readers.

My daughter is nine and has asked for some books about "interesting history". She reads a few years ahead of her age, so the "Who Was" series and things like that are starting to pale a bit. But she's not ready for the length and density of a lot of "real" history works, and we'd like to make sure that anything we find her is in line with current scholarship.

Can anyone tell me where to look for source recommendations of this kind?

I really liked Chris Wickham's book "The Inheritance of Rome" and Paul Freedman's Yale course "The Early Middle Ages". Are there books and courses online like these about the late middle age?

They seem to care more with sources and data while elaborating a narrative, instead of just passing along a big systhesis of the period without mentioning any "real world" data. I don't want to just hear "the middle age society was divided in those who pray, those who fought, and those who worked". I want to know examples, want to take a look at some writings from that time, hear about where they got this idea from. I really liked this approach for my studies on early middle age while I was reading Augustine, and now that I'm reading Aquinas I'd love to feel immersed in this time period.

Does anyone have good book recommendations about the history of Chicago?

I really liked Devil in the White City. I'm halfway through Sin in the Second City and am absolutely captivated with it. I'm sure it'll spark a few prostitution related questions from me on this sub

I'm looking for my next book to read, and am hoping to pick a good one. I was looking at American Pharoh to learn more about Richard Daley, but I'd definitely be interested in other Chicago related topics

Does anyone have any good resources regarding literacy in early modern England, a little after Shakespeare's time (1620s, to be precise)? I'm trying to learn about book culture in general at the time—who could read, who did read, how people may have acquired books, printing and publishing in general, and what having certain kinds of books may have meant socially or otherwise implied about you—and I'm having a little trouble actually finding stuff.

I just finished Keay's A History of China and I'm intrigued and want to learn more. I have Spence's Search for Modern China, but I feel like I don't really have a grasp of pre-Qing China yet, and I owe it to Spence to first learn that before diving into what I can already tell is a masterful book. I also fear that if I read another 500+ page survey, I will just tire myself of the topic and won't have energy to tackle Spence's book.

Are there any engagingly written (I am OK with a popular history, so long as it is credible) shorter, more focused books on pre-Qing history (particularly Han, Tang or Ming) or any interesting characters or episodes in those periods? For example, I would love to read a great book on the history of Chinese religion and philosophy, but I don't want to be overwhelmed with some scholarly treatise on the subject.

What books do you recommend on the history and/or evolution of modern advertising?

I haven’t found much outside of ‘A History of Advertising’ by Stephane Pincas. I’ve tried using different phrases, but only find books for people working in the advertising field.

Thank you!

Anything about Greek and Roman mystery cults, specifically Cybele? I want something that captures more litanies of facts than interpretive works meaning known practices, terminology, info about members, etc. recognizing there are a lot of gaps.

So something like Homo Necans by Burkert may not be ideal from what I read since it seems to be more about theories of mankind sublimating killer instincts in ritual. If there is more than that great.

What is a good followup to Eric Cline's 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed? By that I mean something about the early iron age of the Near East.