Wrap-Up of the 2024 Build Your Own Library Challenge

The focus of the 2024 Build Your Own Library was history.  There were no required number of books to read and I read six history books for the challenge. As you can see below my focus for the challenge was Japan. 

A History of Modern Manga by Insight Editions

And There Was Light by Jon Meacham

A History of Japan in Manga by Shunichiro Kanaya

The Real Watergate Scandal by Geoff Shepard

Okinawa by Susumu

Ogi:  A History of the Japanese Fan by Julia Hutt

My favorite book is A History of Modern Manga. It has more information about manga than a reader can possibly digest in any one or two or three sittings. It's a book that one will always have to refer to from time to time and it also is a great coffee table book. My least favorite book was Okinawa. This graphic novel was written for the Japanese people about the Battle of Okinawa in WWII and I took offense at the anti-American feel of the book. I probably should not have read it. Had I used my brain I would have realized the author’s perspective beforehand.