14-07-2025
Bettany Hughes: I couldn't finish reading Das Kapital
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. I read it first when I was 11 and it exploded my head with this world of female understanding and the tragedies of life.
Emily Hauser's Mythica, a very cool book about the true stories in archaeology and history behind the women of all the famous myths.
The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn. It's about these crazy grassroots movements in the Middle Ages across Europe, where people thought that the second coming was about to happen. They reacted to it by leaving villages en masse and becoming choreomaniacs, where they went and danced their way through salvation. It's based on fascinating original research.
