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:
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.
Does anyone have recommendations for literature that focus on civilian life/society during the immediate post-war years in the Soviet Union? Seems there's a lot of focus on the politics of the time, but not necessarily the experiences of everyday people. Would love to learn more about this period!
Copying from my question in the short answers thread:
Are there any books or papers that focus on the neo-Assyrian king Esarhaddon? Or, given that that's probably too narrow, just the later Assyrian kings? I think Sennacherib and Assurbanipal get a lot of the attention at the expense of Esarhaddon but he seems to have had an eventful reign and been an interesting character - suffering from depression, sickness, revolts and conspiracies, conquering Egypt, etc.
Wondering if there are any good recentish books about the hippie "back to the land" movement, particularly the "building geodesic domes everywhere" style of that?