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  • Maybe look for some fiction that looks to engage your intellect. There is a very wide range of fiction out there. A few types that to mind at the moment would be, a of ideas like The Magic Mountian by Thomas Mann, a novel that blends fact and fiction like Belladonna by Dasa Drndić and W.G. Sebald’s works, The Malazan Book of the Fallen is fantasy that is both philosophical and layered with thousands of years of history.

    Once you find the types of books you like it’ll be easy to find more. Getting started is the hard part. Also there is nothing wrong with just reading history! History makes up half of my reading, the only drawback to reading both history and literature is the endless want-to-read lists are even more endless than would otherwise be the case.



  • Antony Beevor and Max Hastings are two excellent WWII historians, The Second World War and Inferno are their respective books covering the whole war.

    For a book covering WWI there are quite a few options but I forget how difficult of a read they are. John Keegan, Peter Hart, Martin Gilbert, G.J. Meyer. If your interest is strong I don’t think any of them should be a problem.

    For the world wars I’ve found it useful to read a book covering the whole war first and then branch off from there. Also worth circling back around for another overarching account after you know more details.

    For a Native American history Pekka Hamalainan is worth a look, I own but haven’t read his books.

    Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (probably any of his books that are of interest)





  • Yeah I don’t think it affects enjoyment of reading in any way, we just experience reading and life a bit differently is all.

    Also visualization doesn’t equal imagination, so descriptive scenes can be just as impactful. It’s still just a matter of personal taste if you like descriptive writing.

    Having lived without visualization I can’t say I particularly want to be able to visualize, maybe for an hour.