The Rose's Grove

fiachairecht asked "What is your favourite sort of nonfiction to read, and why? Any recs?"

My favorite type of nonfiction to read is history books, specifically domestic histories of the middle ages through the 19th century. I love the ancient world, too, but it's harder to find domestic histories in that era, and I tend not to go out of my way to find them in quite the same way that I do the later periods.

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