It’s Sunday again, and time for another letter in the ABC Book Challenge! Until the end of the year, I’ll be going through my Goodreads TBR and highlighting books that I really want to read or thought were really good. I first found this tag over at Me, Myself, and Books, but I believe it was started by Thrifty Bibliophile. The letter H doesn’t have a ton of books to it, but we’ll go over some of the ones that stick out to me.
The Heavenly Man was such an inspirational book! I loved reading the miraculous story of his life.
Here Be Dragons came out 11 years ago, but I just found out about it in the last year, and I really want to read it. The story is set in thirteenth century Wales, which seems like such an interesting time period in history. Some of her other books look pretty interesting too.
Here and Now and Then is a cool time travel story set in San Francisco, both in the present and the future. And the past.
The H’s I guess are for history. A History of Modern Europe from the Renaissance to the Present by John Merriman is a huge book, but it was also pretty interesting. I found it a lot easier to read than Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which is ginormous, and Kindle says I have over 90 hours of reading left (this book here didn’t take that long).
J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit is a classic H book. Although it wasn’t set in our world, it still kinda fits into the history theme of this letter, as Middle Earth has a lot in common with our medieval era.
The Hunger Games seems to be the odd one out in our “H is for history” theme today. This book is set in the dystopian future. If this is what our future has in store for us, I think I’d rather go hang out with the dragons. Although I can’t imagine they’d be that pleasant either.
So those are some books on my TBR that start with the letter H. The I books on my Goodreads TBR take up less than a full page, so I’m guessing that there won’t be too many on my list next week, but we’ll see what we can come up with.
You chose some good ones, many of which I haven’t heard. I’m a fan of The Hunger Games movies, but have never read the books. I adore J.R.R Tolkien. I have his books on my bookcase, and the movies on DVD. Going through the alphabet is a great way to go through my TBR pile too! Hugs, RO
I’m glad that there were some that were new to you. That’s one of the things I love about blogging – I’m always finding new books that I otherwise wouldn’t know about. Of course, that’s not good for keeping a slim TBR, but I’m never without a book!