Currently Reading |
The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt
The Unwritten Order by Peter Longerich Go Figure by Tom Standage |
2020 |
Masters of Death: The SS and the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes The Holocaust by Laurence Rees War and Genocide by Doris Bergen Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw Hitler's Soldiers by Ben Shepherd World War II in Global Perspective by Andrew Buchanan The Power Broker by Robert Caro |
2018 |
The End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein Autopsy for an Empire by Dimitri Volkogonov The Russian Revolution by Sean McMeekin Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder October by China Mieville The House of the Dead by Daniel Beer King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild Directorate S by Steve Coll Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance The Generals by Tom Ricks White Rage by Carol Anderson Constantinople by Philip Mansel White Trash by Nancy Isenberg This Fleeting World by David Christian Fear by Bob Woodward Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram Kendi The Thinking Past by Adrian Cole and Stephen Ortega The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides Anatomy of Malice by Joel Dimsdale Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre West with the Night by Beryl Markham |
2017 |
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert 1984 by George Orwell An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage Marching into Darkness by Waitman Beorn* Black Earth by Timothy Snyder Hitler's Army by Omer Bartov* KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann Night by Elie Wiesel Hitler by Ian Kershaw 1491 by Charles Mann The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan Control of Nature by John McPhee Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum Red Famine by Anne Applebaum Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Postwar by Tony Judt Red Flag by David Priestland |
2016 |
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
The Red Army and the Great Terror by Peter Whitewood* Moral Combat by Michael Burleigh Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder The General by Jonathan Fenby Hitler and Stalin by Allan Bullock Einstein by Walter Isaacson Destiny and Power by Jon Meacham Byzantium by Jonathan Harris The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff Once Upon a Time in Russia by Ben Mezrich Empire of Liberty by Gordon Wood Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Jacksonland by Steve Inskeep |
2015 |
Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
Winston’s War by Max Hastings American Caesar by William Manchester Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount, Jr. Brothers, Rivals, Victors by Jonathan Jordan An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Retribution by Max Hastings In the Ruins of Empire by Ronald Spector The Mind of the South by W. J. Cash* The Rising Sun by John Toland Age of Lincoln by Orville Burton Red Notice by Bill Browder Wildlife Wars by Terry Grosz A History of the World by Andrew Marr Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz A Country of Vast Designs by Richard Merry Alphabetter Juice by Roy Blount, Jr. Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig Symonds Battlefield by Peter Svenson Lincoln by David Herbert Donald Five Tragic Hours by James McDonough and Thomas Connelly Stealing the General by Russell Bonds A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle A World on Fire by Amanda Foreman Shiloh by James McDonough The Great Influenza by John Barry The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 1939: Countdown to War by Richard Overy The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer D-Day: Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle |
2013 |
Inferno by Max Hastings
Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis Never Call Retreat by Bruce Catton Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne The Man Who Saved the Union by H.W. Brands Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin America’s Great Debate by Fergus M. Bordewich Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard The Oath by Jeffrey Toobin Salt by Mark Kurlansky The End by Ian Kershaw The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan |
2012 |
The Civil War: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote
The Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote The Civil War: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton Stiff by Mary Roach Training Ground by Martin Dugard What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore |
2011 |
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor King of Heists by J. North Conway Revolution 1989 by Victor Sebestyen Tartine Bread by Chad Robertson A Platter of Figs by David Tanis The Heart of the Artichoke by David Tanis Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky by Benson Deng, et al The War Lovers by Evan Thomas The Fourth Star by David Cloud and Greg Jaffe Confidence Men by Ron Suskind Decision Points by George W. Bush Impeached by David O. Stewart The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale The Commanders by Bob Woodward Veil by Bob Woodward Eclipse by Mark Perry Collision Course by Joseph McCartin Lamentations of the Father by Ian Frazier Island of Vice by Richard Zacks |
2010 |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen Custer Died For Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Heat by Bill Buford Great Plains by Ian Frazier The Lynchings in Duluth by Michael Fedo Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Teacher Man by Frank McCourt Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward Tried by War by James McPherson Lone Star Nation by HW Brands |
2009
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John Paul Jones by Evan Thomas
Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof The Way to Bright Star by Dee Brown Write It When I’m Gone by Thomas DeFrank Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston River of Doubt by Candice Millard Fraud of the Century by Roy Morris Jr. Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor Cod by Mark Kurlansky Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Indian Wars by Bill Yenne Robbing the Bees by Holley Bishop The Boys of ‘98 by Dale Walker The Somme by Peter Hart Fire and Brimstone by Michael Punke The Great Bridge by David McCullough The Burma Road by Donovan Webster |
2008 |
The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Hunting the Jackal by Billy Waugh Charlatan by Pope Brock 1776 by David McCullough Sea of Thunder by Evan Thomas Ghost Wars by Steve Coll Burn Before Reading by Stansfield Turner State of Denial by Bob Woodward The War Within by Bob Woodward The Teapot Dome Scandal by Laton McCartney Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides |
2007 |
At the Center of the Storm by George Tenet
The Fifth Profession by David Morrell Mighty Fitz by Michael Schumacher Chief of Station, Congo by Larry Devlin Spymaster by Ted Shackley Class 11 by TJ Waters Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara A Spy for All Seasons by Duane Clarridge The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara Gone For Soldiers by Jeff Shaara Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara |
