Make history come alive! This book helps librarians and teachers as well as readers themselves find books they will enjoy—titles that will animate and explain the past, entertain, and expand their minds.

This invaluable resource offers reading lists of contemporary and classic non-fiction history books and historical fiction, covering all time periods throughout the world, and including practically all manner of human endeavors. Every book included is hand-selected as an entertaining and enlightening read! Organized by appeal characteristics, this book will help readers zero in on the history books they will like best—for instance, titles that emphasize character, tell a specific type of historical story, convey a mood, or are presented in a particular setting. Every book listed has been recommended based on the author's research, and has proved to be a satisfying and worthwhile read.

Part of the venerable Read On . . . series, this volume provides reading guidance for anyone interested in history. Frolund provides the reader with a lifetime's worth of recommendations for reading pleasure, based on appeal factors such as story, character, setting, language, and mood/tone. * Booklist Online *

Tina Frolund is a librarian with the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, NV.