What to Read After Rough Crossings
Readers who loved Rough Crossings by Simon Schama keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Rough Crossings is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Rough Crossings
A people's history of the American Revolution
Forever free
The marketplace of revolution
The Many-Headed Hydra
The English Civil War
Pox Americana
New York Burning
Bury the Chains
The CounterRevolution of 1776
The civil war of 1812
Blood done sign my name
Denmark Vesey
The Barbary Wars
The Embarrassment of Riches
Staying power
Sugar Barons
Landscape and memory
Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning
Rembrandt's eyes
This Republic of Suffering
The Knife Man
The age of American unreason
A crack in the edge of the world
Unweaving the Rainbow