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24/11/20 Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel ★★★ 24/11/11 The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough ★★★
23/11/9 Secret Service chief by Urbanus Edmund Baughman ★★★★
24/10/30 The Orville Library Edition Volume 1 by David A. Goodman ★★★★★
24/10/28 The Orville Season 1.5: New Beginnings by David A. Goodman ★★★★★
24/10/28 American Revolution in the West by George MacGregor Waller ★★★★★
24/10/22 Conversations with Lincoln: Little-Known Stories from Those Who Met America's 16th President Gordon Leidner ★★★
24/10/20 Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution by Robert H. Patton ★★★ 24/10/13 1776 by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards ★★★★★
24/10/12 The Forging of the Union, 1781-1789 by Richard B. Morris ★★★★
24/9/25 The Making of Pride and Prejudice by Sue Birtwistle, Susie Conklin ★★★★★
24/9/20 The Navy of the American Revolution: Its Administration, Its Policy, and Its Achievements by Charles Oscar Paullin ★★★★
24/9/1 Evolution of executive departments of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, by Jennings B. Sanders ★★★★★
24/8/28 An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels ★★★
24/8/19 Clue by Paul Allor ★★
24/8/18 Revolutionary enigma: a re-appraisal of General Philip Schuyler of New York by Martin H. Bush ★★★★
24/8/10 The Dreamthief's Daughter: A Tale of the Albino ★★★
24/8/7 Arthur Lee, a Virtuous Revolutionary by Louis W. Potts ★★★★
24/8/5 Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House ★★★
24/7/28 The Quest For Tanelorn by Michael Moorcock ★★★★
24/7/27 The Champion of Garathorm by Michael Moorcock ★★★★
24/7/20 Eve in Hollywood by Amor Towles ★★★+
24/7/18 Count Brass (Chronicles of Castle Brass, #1) by Michael Moorcock ★★★★
24/7/16 The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution by Dennis Brindell Fradin ★★★★
24/7/13 Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney by Marty D. Matthews ★★★★
24/7/7 Venice: A New History by Thomas F. Madden ★★★★★
24/7/6 America's Forgotten Founders by Gary L. Gregg II and Mark David Hall ★★★
24/7/2 The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen ★★★★★
24/6/10 The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era by Jonathan Gienapp ★★★
24/6/7 Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood by Ed Zwick ★★★★★
24/5/26 Cabal! The Plot Against General Washington by Mark Edward Lender ★★★★★
24/5/22 The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson ★★★
24/5/14 To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn ★★★★★
24/5/8 The Adams Federalists by Manning J. Dauer ★★★★★
24/4/30 The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie ★★★★★
24/4/22 The revolution for freedom - volume 2 - years 1734 to 1783 (Pictorial Encyclopedia of American History) by Bernard S. Miller ★★★★
24/4/20 The Stranger by Albert Camus, Matthew Ward (Translator) ★★★★
24/4/18 Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen ★★★★
24/4/16 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis ★★★★
24/4/15 Errol Flynn: The Movie Posters by Lawrence Bassoff ★★★★★
24/4/4 The illustrated Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser & Douglas Arthur Hill ★★★★
24/4/2 The Origins of American Politics by Bernard Bailyn ★★★
24/3/27 Breve Introduccion a la novela policiaca latina by Ricardo Vigueras Fernández ★★★★★
24/3/26 Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York by M.H. Dunlop ★★★
24/3/23 Rules of Civility by Amor Towles ★★★+
24/3/13 Thrust For Canada: the American Attempt on Quebec in 1775-1776 by Robert M. Hatch ★★★★★
24/3/4 Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth ★★★
24/2/8 Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan by Hildi Kang ★★★★
24/2/5 Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present ★★★★★
24/2/4 Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today by Valerie Bertinelli ★★
24/2/1 Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather ★★★
24/1/26 Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye ★★★★
24/1/18 Gilmore Girls: The Official Cookbook by Elena Craig & Kristen Mulrooney ★★★★
24/1/17 The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790 by E. James Ferguson ★★★★★
24/1/16 Losing It by Valerie Bertinelli ★★★
23/12/26 The Continental Congress by Edmund Cody Burnett ★★★★★
23/12/18 Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution by Joel Richard Paul ★★★★★
23/12/6 Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer ★★★★★
23/11/20 The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch ★★★
23/11/12 The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill Shaffer ★★★★
23/11/8 The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins by Anne Curzan ★★★
23/10/28 The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians by David M. Rubenstein ★★★★★
23/10/24 The Making of the Prefident 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biography by Marvin Kitman, ★★★★★
23/10/19 The reluctant rebels: The story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by Lynn Montross ★★★★★
23/10/15 Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership by Edward J. Larson ★★★
23/10/3 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin ★★★★
23/9/12 The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 by Edmund S. Morgan ★★★
23/9/9 Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans ★★★
23/9/3 Opera Anecdotes by Ethan Mordden ★★★★★
23/8/13 Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778 by Ronald Hoffman & Peter J. Albert (editors) ★★★★
23/8/6 20 Years in the Secret Service: My Life with Five Presidents by Rufus W. Youngblood ★★★★
23/7/31 Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King by Thomas J. Balcerski ★★★★
23/7/21 The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell ★★★★★
23/6/28 Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins ★★★★
23/6/28 The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr by Susan Holloway Scott The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr: A Riveting Untold Story of the American Revolution by Susan Holloway Scott ★★★
23/6/12 The Pericles Commission by Gary Corby ★★★
23/6/12 The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth ★★
23/6/5 Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836 by Milton Lomask ★★★★★
23/5/29 The grand tour in Italy (1700-1800) by Paul Franklin Kirby ★★★
23/5/20 Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805 by Milton Lomask ★★★★★
23/5/12 Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs by Gerald Nachman ★★★★
23/5/9 The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff ★★★★
23/5/2 The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America's Most Famous Residence by Robert Klara ★★★★
23/4/29 The Life Eaters by David Brin ★★
23/4/28 The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797-1801 by Alexander DeConde ★★★★★
23/4/19 The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War by James David Robenalt ★★
23/4/3 The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer ★★★★+
23/3/28 Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure by Rinker Buck ★★★+
23/3/27 Orient Express by Graham Greene ★★★+
23/3/23 Tintin: The Complete Companion by Michael Farr ★★★★★
23/3/20 Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Tintin #1) by Hergé ★★★★
23/3/19 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Founding Father by Marvin R. Zahniser ★★★★★
23/3/14 You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age by Robert J. Wagner & Scott Eyman ★★★★★
23/3/8 Exploring the White House: Inside America's Most Famous Home by Kate Andersen Brower ★★★★
23/3/7 Political Parties in a New Nation: The American Experience, 1776-1809 by William Nisbet Chambers ★★★★
23/3/6 The Quiet American by Graham Greene ★★★★★
23/2/27 The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers by Thomas Fleming ★★★★
23/2/26 Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy #2) by Gerald Durrell ★★★★★
23/2/10 First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks ★★★★
23/4/1 Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie Mystery by Pierre Bayard ★★★★
23/2/5 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #3) by Agatha Christie ★★★★
23/2/1 Is this Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld ★★★★★
23/2/1 "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman ★★★★
23/1/27 "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character 23/1/22 Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg ★★★★
23/1/6 The Movie Musical! by Jeanine Basinger ★★★
22/12/30 Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata by Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (Translator), Richmond Lattimore (Translator), Douglass Parker (Translator) ★★★★
22/12/29 Carl Hubbell: A Biography of the Screwball King by Lowell L. Blaisdell ★★★★
22/12/23 The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series by Jessica Radloff ★★★★★
22/12/22 Simple Heraldry by Iain Moncreiffe ★★★★
22/12/21 Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History by Cait Murphy ★★★★
22/11/27 Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend by Timothy Gay ★★★★
22/11/10 The Big Love by Florence Aadland ★★★★
22/11/10 Music as a Mirror of History by Robert Greenberg ★★★
22/11/7 The Etruscan by Mika Waltari ★★★★★
22/10/25 Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth A. Fenn ★★★
22/10/12 The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown by Thomas Fleming ★★★★
22/10/8 Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong ★★★★
22/10/6 The Histories by Tacitus ★★★★★
22/10/4 Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico by Ronald Wright ★★★★
22/9/21 Revolutionary Conservative: James Duane of New York by Edward P. Alexander ★★★★
22/8/31 How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain de Botton ★★★
22/8/31 Party Politics in the Continental Congress by H. James Henderson ★★★★★★
22/8/28 First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents by Gary Ginsberg ★★★★
22/8/21 City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★
22/8/12 Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Vol. 2: With Miscellaneous Selections from His Correspondence by Matthew L. Davis ★★★★
22/7/30 Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus by Philip Matyszak ★★★★
22/7/28 Somersett: Or Why and How Benjamin Franklin Orchestrated the American Revolution by Phillip Goodrich ★★★★
22/7/22 The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser ★★★
22/7/21 Disturbing the Peace by Václav Havel ★★★★
22/7/19 In Pursuit of Jefferson by Derek Baxter ★★★
22/7/16 Cranberry Mystery by Wende Devlin ★★★★★
22/7/16 It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan by Tristan Donovan ★★★★★
22/7/10 Cranberry Christmas by Wende Devlin ★★★★★
22/7/8 Hints to Americans Travelling in Europe by Thomas Jefferson ★★★★★
22/7/7 1652: The Cardinal, the Prince, and the Crisis of the 'Fronde' by David Parrott ★★★★★
22/7/3 Cranberry Moving Day by Wende & Harry Devlin ★★★★
22/7/3 Cranberry Birthday by Wende & Harry Devlin ★★★★
22/7/3 Cranberry Summer by Wende & Harry Devlin ★★★★
22/7/3 Cranberry Easter by Wende & Harry Devlin ★★★
22/7/3 Cranberry Valentine by Wende & Harry Devlin ★★★★
22/7/3 Cranberry Autumn by Wende & Harry Devlin ★★★★
22/7/3 Cranberry Halloween by Wende & Harry Devlin ★★★★
22/7/3 Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe by Kin Platt ★★★★★
22/7/1 The Journal of William Maclay United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1789 to 1791 by William Maclay ★★★★★
22/6/26 The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor ★★★★★
22/6/15 George Mason, Forgotten Founder by Jeff Broadwater ★★★★
22/6/11 The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World by Robert Garland ★★★★
22/6/5 Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening that Changed America by Charles A. Cerami ★★
22/6/2 Summary: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini ★★★
22/6/1 Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery by Scott Higham & Sari Horwitz ★★★★
22/5/28 An Elephant for Aristotle by L. Sprague de Camp ★★★★★
22/5/22 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Kristina Gehrmann ★★★★
22/5/21 Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown ★★★
22/5/17 Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History by Nicola Di Cosmo ★★★
22/5/17 Han Civilization by Wang Zhongshu ★★★
22/5/15 Fire Over Luoyang: A History of the Later Han Dynasty 23-220 AD by Rafe de Crespigny ★★★★★
22/5/9 The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space by Craig Ryan ★★★★★
22/5/1 "The Immortal Story" by Isak Dinesen ★★★★
22/4/21 Martin Van Buren and the American Political System by Donald B. Cole ★★★★★
22/4/10 The Culture of the Qin and Han Dynasties of China by Vic Kovacs ★★★
22/4/1 The Giants Of Russian Literature by Liza Knapp ★★★★
22/3/25 Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala by James D. Sexton (Editor) ★★★
22/3/22 Origins of the Whig Party by Eber Malcolm Carroll ★★★★★
22/3/17 Memoirs of a Monticello Slave: As Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840s by Isaac, One of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves by Isaac Jefferson ★★★★★
22/3/16 Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier by Bob Drury ★★★
22/3/11 Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis ★★★★★
22/3/7 Emergence Of The Presidential Nominating Convention, 1789-1832 by James S. Chase ★★★★★
22/3/2 Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote by Craig Fehrman ★★★★
22/2/28 Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani ★★★★
22/2/20 The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race by Donald J. Ratcliffe ★★★★★
22/2/12 Remaking History and Other Stories by Kim Stanley Robinson ★★★★
22/2/10 Scoundrels & Spitballers: Writers and Hollywood in the 1930s by Philippe Garnier ★★★★
22/2/3 Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack N. Rakove ★★★★★
22/1/30 The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age by Eamonn Gearon ★★★★
22/1/24 Carthage: A Biography by Dexter Hoyos ★★★★★
22/1/16 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham ★★★★
22/1/10 My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell ★★★★★
22/1/6 Overload by Arthur Hailey ★★★
21/12/28 John Randolph: A New Edition with Primary Documents by Henry Adams and Robert McColley ★★★★
21/12/22 After Alexander: Central Asia Before Islam by Georgina Hermann (Editor) ★★★★
21/12/21 When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe ★★★★
21/12/7 American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis ★★★★
21/12/5 The Age of Reason Begins: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648 by Will and Ariel Durant ★★★★
21/12/2 World Without End by Ken Follett ★★★★
21/11/28 Down and Out in the Year 2000 by Kim Stanley Robinson ★★★★
21/11/25 The Mystery of the Green Ghost ★★★★
21/11/22 Jane Austen's England by Karin Quint ★★★★★
21/11/15 Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar d'Aulaire ★★★
21/11/15 Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies by Stephen Farber, Michael McClellan ★★★★
21/10/31 20th Century-Fox: The Complete History of Hollywood's Maverick Studio by Scott Eyman ★★★★★
21/10/20 Jane Was Here: An Illustrated Guide to Jane Austen's England by Nicole Jacobsen, Devynn MacLennan & Lexi Nilson ★★★★★
21/10/19 Liberty's First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack ★★★★★
21/10/17 San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History and Architecture by Philip P. Choy ★★★★
21/10/13 The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States 1780-1840 by Richard Hofstadter ★★★★★
21/10/8 Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency – 21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories by Paul Brandus ★★★★
21/10/3 The Failure of the Founding Fathers by Bruce Ackerman ★★★★★
21/9/29 The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre ★★
21/9/22 Lotharingia by Simon Winder ★★
21/9/20 Tintin and the Lake of Sharks by Hergé ★★★★
21/9/20 Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a Nation by Chris DeRose ★★★★
21/9/18 Dominus: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Steven Saylor ★★★
21/9/6 We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie by Noah Isenberg ★★★★+
21/9/2 Eurogames: The Design, Culture and Play of Modern European Board Games by Stewart Woods ★★★★★
21/8/29 Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello by Andrew Burstein ★★★
21/8/19 The High Constable by Maan Meyers ★★★★
21/8/17 The Kingsbridge Plot by Maan Meyers ★★★★
21/8/12 The Han Dynasty by Myra M. Immell ★★★★
21/8/11 The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution by Lindsay M. Chervinsky ★★★+
21/8/8 With a Gemlike Flame: A Novel of Venice and a Lost Masterpiece by David Adams Cleveland ★★★★
21/8/3 Chinese Ways In Warfare (Han Dynasty chapter) by Frank A. Kierman Jr. ★★★★
21/7/31 The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett ★★★★★
21/7/24 Everyday Life in Early Imperial China by Michael Loewe ★★★
21/7/15 The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper ★★★
21/7/14 Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle by Jonathan Horn ★★★★+
21/7/11 "The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer ★★★★
21/7/10 "Imperial Chinese Armies 200 BC - AD 589 by Chris (C.J.) Peers, Michael Perry ★★★★★
21/6/29 "Long Distance Trade and the Parthian Empire" by Evan J. Jones ★★★★★
21/6/26 Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle by Mark E. Lender & Garry W. Stone ★★★★★
21/6/19 Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 1: Introductory Orientations by Joseph Needham & Ling Wang ★★★★
21/6/17 The Genius of China: 3000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention by Robert K.G. Temple ★★★★★
21/6/16 The Cambridge History of China, Volume 1: The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.-A.D. 220 by Denis C. Twitchett (Editor) & John King Fairbank (Editor) ★★★★★
21/6/16 Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner ★★★
21/6/1 The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America by Winston Groom ★★★
21/5/28 Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies ★★★
21/5/17 The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis ★★★★
21/5/9 Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries: The Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment by Tom Shachtman ★★★★★
21/5/4 The Han Dynasty by Michéle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens ★★★★★
21/4/30 Sea of Glory: A Naval History of the American Revolution by Nathan Miller ★★★★★
21/4/16 The Paris Wife by Paula McLain ★★★
21/4/6 The Book of War: 25 Centuries of Great War Writing by John Keegan ★★★
21/4/6 The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller ★★★
21/4/4 The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by Alfred Thayer Mahan ★★★★★
21/3/4 The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication---from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball by Ethan Mordden ★★★
21/2/28 A History of Colonial America by Oliver Perry Chitwood ★★★★★
21/2/18 Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage by Robert S. Bader ★★★★★
21/2/6 On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan ★★★★★
20/12/24 Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale ★★★★★
20/12/24 Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein ★★★
20/12/16 The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies by Ethan Mordden ★★★★★
20/11/19 The Last Generation of the Roman Republic by Erich S. Gruen ★★★★★
20/11/6 The Foundations of Eastern Civilization by Craig G. Benjamin ★★★★★
20/10/22 Murder Trials by Marcus Tullius Cicero ★★★★★
20/10/21 The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre ★★★★
20/10/11 America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by Edward T. O'Donnell ★★★★★
20/10/2 Crusades by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira ★★★★★
20/9/16 John Jay: Founding Father by Walter Stahr ★★★
20/8/18 Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie ★★★★★
20/8/13 Trajan and Plotina by David Corson ★★★
20/7/21 The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes by Kenneth W. Harl ★★★★★
20/7/14 The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni ★★★
20/7/8 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (Translated by John Payne; edited by Charles Singleton) ★★★★★
20/7/6 Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin ★★★★★
20/4/8 Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson by Christina Snyder ★★★
20/4/3 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed ★★★★
20/3/19 Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell ★★
20/3/16 Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg ★★★★
20/2/17 Political parties and American political development: from the age of Jackson to the age of Lincoln by Michael F. Holt ★★★★
20/2/2 Number 7: Alexander Hamilton's Secret Attempts to Control American Foreign Policy by Julian P. Boyd ★★★★
20/2/2 The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic by Margaret A. Oppenheimer ★★★★
20/1/28 Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg ★★★★★
20/1/14 See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy by Frances Mayes ★★★
19/12/24 Woodrow Wilson by H. W. Brands ★★★
19/12/14 The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein ★★★★★
19/12/9 The Goths by Peter Heather ★★★★★
19/12/9 Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts ★★★★
19/11/15 The Yuezhi. Origin, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria by Craig Benjamin ★★★★
19/10/24 Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas by Ellen T. Harris ★★★★
19/10/23 Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants by H. W. Brands ★★★
19/10/23 The woman who smashed codes: a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies by Jason Fagone ★★
19/10/20 Empires of ancient Eurasia: the first Silk Roads era, 100 BCE-250 CE by Craig Benjamin ★★★★★
19/10/10 Handel in London: The Making of a Genius by Jane Glover ★★★
19/10/4 "Parthia" [in the Time of the Roman Republic 133-44 B.C.] by W. W. Tarn ★★★★★
19/9/30 Life of Crassus by Plutarch ★★★★★
19/9/29 The Greeks in Bactria and India by William Woodthorpe Tarn ★★★★★
19/9/25 Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission by Bret Baier ★★★
19/9/18 The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry ★★★
19/9/13 The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: Rome's Dealings with the Ancient Kingdoms of India, Africa and Arabia by Raoul McLaughlin ★★★★★
19/9/2 Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan ★★
19/8/26 Watch Me by Anjelica Huston ★★★★
19/8/18 The early Kusanas: A history of the rise and progress of the Kusana power under the early Kusana rulers – from Kujula Kadphises to Vasudeva by Baldev Kumar ★★★★
19/8/14 The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China by Raoul McLaughlin ★★★★★
19/8/9 Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle ★★★★★
19/7/29 Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 by Robin Fleming ★★★★
19/7/17 The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes ★★
19/7/10 A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York by Anjelica Huston ★★★★★
19/7/8 The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons: Decoding the Ancestry of the English by Jean Manco ★★★
19/6/25 Visigothic Spain 409-711 by Roger Collins ★★★★★
19/6/6 America 1844: religious fervor, westward expansion, and the presidential election that transformed the nation by John Bicknell ★★★★
19/5/30 Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff & Daniel Harmon ★★★
18/12/13 His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis ★★★★★
18/11/12 The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis ★★★★★
18/10/31 Lodi (Images of America) by Ralph A. Clark ★★★★★
18/10/24 Maggie Smith: A Biography by Michael Coveney ★★★★★
18/10/20 The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (with end notes by Leslie A. Fiedler) ★★★★+
18/10/3 Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham ★★★★+
18/9/24 Tesla: Inventor of the Modern by Richard Munson ★★★★
18/9/19 Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The reservoir of consciousness by John Beebe ★★★★
18/9/17 The Triumph of Christianity by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★+
18/9/8 Grant by Ron Chernow ★★★+
18/9/3 Piotr Iliych Tchaikovsky by Stéphane Ollivier ★★★★
18/8/20 Functions of Type: Activities for Developing the Eight Jungian Functions by Gary Hartzler and Margaret Hartzler ★★★★
18/8/15 The Gods Help Those by Albert A. Bell Jr. ★★
18/8/5 The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman ★★★★
18/7/27 The Story of Human Language, part 3 by John McWhorter ★★★★
18/7/24 The Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien, and The Lord of the Rings by Brian Bates ★★★
18/7/22 The Birth of the West by Paul Collins ★★★★
18/6/21 Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd ★★★★
18/6/19 The Story of Human Language, part 2 by John McWhorter ★★★★
18/6/13 The Routledge Atlas of British History ★★★
18/6/13 Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick ★★★
18/6/13 The Age of the Parthians, edited by Sarah Stewart & Vesta Sarkhosh ★★★
18/6/6 Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages by Ed West ★★★
18/5/28 The Last of the Prune Pickers: a Pre-Silicon Valley Story by Tim Stanley ★★★★★
18/5/14 Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich by Robert E. Wright & David J. Cowen ★★★★★
18/5/7 I'm Fine... and Other Lies by Whitney Cummings ★★
18/4/18 The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy by Thomas K. McCraw ★★★★
18/4/1 American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by Lisa Wade ★★★
18/3/31 Gallatin: America's Swiss founding father by Nicholas Dungan ★★★
18/3/22 First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower ★★★★
18/3/16 The Throne of Caesar by Steven Saylor ★★★
18/3/6 Prune Country Railroading: Steel Trails to San Jose by Norman W. Holmes ★★★★
18/3/4 Railroads of Los Gatos by Edward Kelley ★★★
18/2/28 The Great American Railroad War: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took on the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad by Dennis Drabelle ★★★★
18/1/29 Hannibal by Patrick N Hunt ★★★★★
18/1/19 California: A History by Kevin Starr ★★★★
18/1/11 The Arrows of Hercules by L. Sprague De Camp ★★★★★
17/12/27 The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield ★★★★★
17/12/3 The history of the musical by Richard Fawkes ★★★★★
17/11/27 Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey-Williams ★★★★
17/11/21 Three men in a boat: (to say nothing of the dog) by Jerome K Jerome ★★★
17/10/21 The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★★★
17/10/12 American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis ★★★★
17/10/9 Jesus Before the Gospels by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★★★
17/9/22 The Seven Hills by John Maddox Roberts ★★★★★
17/9/10 A Traveller's History of Croatia by Benjamin Curtis ★★★★★
17/8/30 Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas ★★★
17/8/29 Hannibal's Children by John Maddox Roberts ★★★★★
17/8/11 The German-Russians: in Words and Pictures by William Bosch ★★★★
17/8/2 Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936 by Edward Sorel ★★★★★
17/7/30 Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson ★★★
17/7/27 A Personal Tour of Monticello by Robert Young ★★★★
17/7/24 Monticello by Leonard Everett Fisher ★★★★★
17/7/12 All the Presidents' Bankers: the Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power by Nomi Prins ★★★
17/7/12 The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress by Jack N Rakove ★★★★★
17/6/29 Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson ★★★
17/6/27 The Avengers, Earth's mightiest heroes. Vol. 4 Chris Yost, adapted by Joe Caramagna ★★★
17/6/21 The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck by Michael Rose ★★★★★
17/6/14 Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell ★★★
17/5/22 Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute by Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus ★★★
17/5/20 Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past by Thomas A. Foster ★★★
17/5/11 Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf ★★★
17/5/3 The Year of Confusion by John Maddox Roberts ★★+
17/4/25 Empire of Gold: A History of the Byzantine Empire Part I by Thomas F. Madden ★★★★
17/4/23 Oracle of the Dead by John Maddox Roberts ★★+
17/4/20 Alexander Hamilton: the Outsider by Jean Fritz ★★★
17/4/9 The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson ★★★
17/4/4 Silence by Shusaku Endo ★★★
17/4/3 A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris ★★★★+
17/3/25 The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald ★★★★+
17/3/17 Typographic Milestones by Allan Haley ★★★★+
17/2/26 Alphabet: The History, Evolution, and Design of the Letters We Use Today by Allan Haley ★★★★
17/2/18 Understanding Movies: The Art and History of Film by Raphael Shargel ★★★★+
17/2/11 Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ★★★★+
17/2/6 Jack London: An American Life by Earle Labor ★★★
17/1/11 Lysander and Sulla by Plutarch ★★★★★
17/1/8 The Paramount films of Preston Sturges: a descriptive analysis of eight films written, directed and produced by Preston Sturges for Paramount between 1940-44 by Benjamin Dana Maiden ★★★★
17/1/4 Paramount pictures and the people who made them by I. G. Edmonds and Reiko Mimura ★★★★
16/12/9 As You Wish by Cary Elwes: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride ★★★★★
16/12/9 My Days With Errol Flynn: The Autobiography of Stuntman Buster Wiles ★★★★
16/12/2 Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince by Budd Schulberg ★★★★★
16/11/25 From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History part III by Kenneth J. Hammond ★★★★★
16/11/6 A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry Brotton ★★
16/10/26 The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation by Thomas Fleming ★★★
16/10/26 From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History part II by Kenneth J. Hammond ★★★★
16/10/15 From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History by Kenneth J. Hammond ★★★★★
16/10/8 The Road to Rome by Robert Emmet Sherwood ★★★★★
16/10/4 Hannibal's dynasty: power and politics in the western Mediterranean, 247-183 BC by Dexter Hoyos ★★★★★
16/9/30 The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones by Thomas Asbridge ★★★★★
16/9/9 Alcibiades and Coriolanus by Plutarch ★★★★
16/9/3 Mozart's Journey to Prague by Eduard Mörike ★★★
16/9/2 Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons ★★★★★
16/9/1 The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced by Stephanie Dalley ★★★★★
16/8/24 Tennessee Williams: mad pilgrimage of the flesh by John Lahr ★★★★★
16/8/21 Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder ★★★★★
16/8/3 The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government by Fergus M. Bordewich ★★★★
16/7/7 Great Presidents, part 1 by Allan J. Lichtman ★★★
16/6/28 Star Trek Voyager: A Vision of the Future by Stephen Edward Poe ★★★★
16/6/26 King Arthur: History and Legend by Dorsey Armstrong ★★★
16/6/19 Dictator by Robert Harris ★★★+
16/6/11 The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries by Emma Thompson and Lindsay Doran ★★★★★
16/6/6 Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation by Ammon Shea ★★★
16/5/26 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire abridged by Edward Gibbon ★★★
16/5/11 Casablanca Companion: The Movie Classic and Its Place in History by Richard Osborne ★★★★
16/5/7 Captains' Logs Supplemental: The Only One-volume Guide to Deep Space Nine, Voyager and the New Next Generation Movie Voyager portion by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman [★★★★★]
16/5/5 Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ★★★★+
16/4/11 High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems by Karen Southwick ★★★★
16/3/25 Wrath of the Furies by Steven Saylor ★★+
16/3/21 Andrew Jackson by Sean Wilentz ★★★★★
16/3/18 Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed by John F. Ross ★★★★
16/3/10 The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350 by Robert Bartlett ★★★★
16/3/6 The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Xenophon ★★★★★
16/2/29 The Midnight Circus by Peter Collinson ★★★★
16/2/24 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson ★★★★+
16/2/23 Witches of Venice by Beni Montresor ★★★
16/2/18 Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan ★★
16/2/11 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Thomas F. Madden ★★★
16/1/29 69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors by Gwyn Morgan ★★★★★
16/1/27 Hebrews, Greeks and Romans: Foundations of Western Civilization by Timothy Shutt ★★
16/1/22 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham ★★★
16/1/19 Keeping the Republic: Ideology and Early American Diplomacy by Robert W. Smith ★★★★
16/1/17 Scipio: A Novel by Ross Leckie ★★★
15/12/27 Great minds of the Western intellectual tradition: The Enlightenment and its critics, Part 4 by various ★★
15/12/23 The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck ★★★★★
15/12/21 Ancient Greek civilization, Part 2 by Jeremy McInerney ★★★
15/12/13 The Dawn of Political History: Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War by Fred E. Baumann ★★★★
15/12/6 Great Battles of the Ancient World by Garrett G. Fagan, part 2 ★★★★★
15/12/2 The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower ★★★★★
15/11/29 In Bed with Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master by Tim Teeman ★★★★
15/11/28 The Peloponnesian War by Kenneth Harl, part 3 ★★★★
15/11/23 The Peloponnesian War by Kenneth Harl, part 2 ★★★★
15/11/20 The Peloponnesian War by Kenneth Harl, part 1 ★★★★
15/11/15 Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini ★★★★★
15/11/13 Great Battles of the Ancient World by Garrett G. Fagan, part 1 ★★★★★
15/11/11 How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie ★★★
15/11/6 Power Over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory, Part 2 by Dennis Dalton ★★★★
15/11/2 Reilly of the White House by Michael F. Reilly ★★★★★
15/10/28 Power Over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory, Part 1 by Dennis Dalton ★★★★
15/10/20 Bodie Bonanza: The True Story of a Flamboyant Past by Warren Loose ★★★★
15/9/27 My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk ★★★★
15/9/27 I Don't Know What You Know Me From by Judy Greer ★
15/9/24 The real Wizard of Oz: the life and times of L. Frank Baum by Rebecca Loncraine ★★★★★
15/9/22 Starling of the White House: the story of the man whose Secret service detail guarded five presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt / as told to Thomas Sugrue by Colonel Edmund W. Starling ★★★★★
15/9/9 Handbook for an Unpredictable Life by Rosie Perez ★★★★
15/9/7 The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps by Benjamin B. Olshin ★★★★
15/9/1 The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy by Bill Carter ★★★★★
15/8/20 Dead Wake by Erik Larson ★★★★★
15/8/17 The Eyes of Aurora by Albert A. Bell Jr. ★★★★
15/7/24 Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations by Kenneth Harl ★★★★★
15/7/18 Challenges for Game Designers by Brenda Brathwaite and Ian Schreiber ★★★
15/7/17 The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn ★★★
15/7/7 How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove ★★★★
15/7/5 Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd ★★★★★
15/6/25 Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor, part 2 by Kenneth Harl ★★★★★
15/6/21 The Greek Commonwealth: Politics and economics in fifth-century Athens by Alfred Zimmern ★★★★★
15/6/18 Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor, part 1 by Kenneth Harl ★★★★★
15/6/13 The hard thing about hard things: building a business when there are no easy answers by Ben Horowitz ★★
15/5/31 Ancient Greek civilization, Part 1 by Jeremy McInerney ★★★★
15/5/31 Walled Orchard by Tom Holt ★★★★
15/5/29 The Greek and Persian Wars, part 2 by John R. Hale ★★★★
15/5/27 Greek legacy: classical origins of the modern world by Daniel N. Robinson ★★
15/5/18 Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 ★
15/5/15 The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter by Melissa Lane ★★★
15/5/15 Icons of the Iron Age: The Celts in History by Susan A. Johnston ★★★
15/5/12 Goatsong by Tom Holt ★★★★★
15/5/4 The Greek and Persian Wars, part 1 by John R. Hale ★★★★
15/4/30 White House Diary by Jimmy Carter ★★★★
15/4/27 Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough ★★★
15/4/23 Alphabetical : how every letter tells a story by Michael Rosen ★★★★
15/4/3 Presidential Courage by Michael Beschloss ★★★
15/3/28 Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea Handler ★
15/3/24 How I Got This Way by Regis Philbin ★★★★
15/3/14 The Mystery of the Great Pyramid, part 1 by Edgar Jacobs ★★★
15/3/7 Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick ★★★
15/3/7 James A. Garfield: The 20th President, 1881 by Ira Rutkow ★★★★
15/3/5 Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz ★★
15/3/1 Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age by Christian Meier ★★★★★
15/2/27 How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg ★★
15/2/23 Rutherford B. Hayes by Hans Trefousse ★★★
15/2/14 The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester ★★
15/2/5 The Founding Fathers Reconsidered by R.B. Bernstein ★★★★
15/1/27 The founding fathers and the politics of character by Andrew S. Trees ★★★
15/1/25 How to listen to and understand opera, Part 4 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
15/1/20 How to listen to and understand opera, Part 1 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
15/1/18 Scandals and Glory: Politics in the 1800s by Zachary Chastain ★
15/1/17 William McKinley by Kevin Phillips ★★★★
15/1/10 Great Debate: Advocates and Opponents of the American Constitution by Professor Thomas L. Pangle ★★★★
15/1/9 The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin ★★★
14/12/30 Chester Alan Arthur by Zachary Karabell and Arthur M. Schlesinger ★★★★
14/12/20 The Cabinet Politician: The Postmasters General, 1829-1909 by Dorothy G. Fowler ★★★★
14/11/9 The First Family Detail by Ronald Kessler ★★★★★
14/11/1 Mythology by Edith Hamilton ★★★★★
14/10/25 Robert J. Walker, Imperialist by William Edward Dodd ★★★
14/10/21 History of American Presidential Elections 1789-1968, volume 3 edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr. ★★★★★
14/10/15 How to listen to and understand opera, Part 3 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
14/10/10 History of American Presidential Elections 1789-1968, volume 2 edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr. ★★★★★
14/9/30 The Love Boat Lady by Sheila Farrell Murray ★★★★
14/9/24 The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ★★★★★
14/9/23 Full Circle by Michael Palin ★★★★★
14/9/12 Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, part 7, 2nd Edition by James A.W. Heffernan ★★★
14/8/29 Filibustering: A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate by Gregory Koger ★★★★★
14/8/20 Who's on Worst? The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History by Filip Bondy ★
14/8/18 Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus (John M. Marincola, Aubrey De Selincourt) ★★★★★
14/8/11 Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence by Joseph Ellis ★★★★
14/7/28 NPR Laughter Therapy: A Comedy Collection for the Chronically Serious by NPR ★★★
14/7/23 Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs ★★★★
14/7/16 On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta by Jen Lin-Liu ★★
14/7/11 The Cabinet Politician: The Postmasters General, 1829-1909 by Dorothy G. Fowler ★★★★
14/7/9 The Liberty Amendments by Mark Levin ★
14/7/7 The Story of Human Language, part 1 by John McWhorter ★★★+
14/6/28 Raiders of the Nile by Steven Saylor ★★★
14/6/18 Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq by Thomas J. Craughwell ★★★
14/6/11 This is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith & Life by Gavin McLeod ★★★
14/6/10 The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President (2008) by Allan J. Lichtman ★★★★★
14/5/29 The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776-1836 by Donald R. Stabile ★★★★
14/5/27 Let's just say it wasn't pretty by Diane Keaton ★★
14/5/23 Old man river: the Mississippi River in North American history by Paul Schneider ★★
14/5/23 First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph Ellis ★★★
14/5/19 Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians by Robert W. Merry ★★
14/5/17 Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess of Carnarvon ★★★★
14/5/6 The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda by Devin McKinney ★★★★
14/5/1 The cinema of Preston Sturges: a critical study by Alessandro Pirolini ★★★★
14/4/19 Marvel Comics: the untold story by Sean Howe ★★★★+
14/4/14 Great authors of the western literary tradition, Part 6, literature of the 19th century by James Heffernan ★★★
14/3/31 Great authors of the western literary tradition, Part 5, Neoclassic literature and the 18th century by Susan Sage Heinzelman ★★★★
14/3/30 The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco: a Gallery of Fakers and Frauds, Rascals and Robber Barons, Scoundrels and Scalawags by Charles F. Adams ★★★★★
14/3/30 Great authors of the western literary tradition, Part 3, Literature of the Middle Ages by Thomas F.X. Noble ★★★★
14/3/21 The Travels of Fa-hsien (Fa Xian) (399-414 A.D.), or Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms by H. A. Giles ★★★
14/3/18 Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers ★★★
14/3/17 The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen ★★★
14/3/7 Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll ★★
14/3/2 The Elephant to Hollywood by Michael Caine ★★★★
14/2/18 Great authors of the western literary tradition, Part 4, the Renaissance by Ronald B. Herzman ★★★★
14/2/18 The Barbary Coast by Herbert Asbury ★★★★★
14/2/15 Great authors of the western literary tradition, Part 2, Near Eastern and Mediterranean foundations by Elizabeth Vandiver ★★★★
14/2/10 The Silk Road by James A. Millward ★★★★★
14/2/4 Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers ★★
14/1/31 Curb Your Enthusiasm by Deirdre Dolan ★★★★★
14/1/29 Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm by Josh Levine ★★★★★
14/1/27 My Happy Days in Hollywood by Garry Marshall ★★★★
14/1/27 Five Chiefs by John Paul Stevens ★★★★★
14/1/2 "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman ★★★★
14/1/2 The Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Fleming ★★★★
13/12/23 The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin ★★★★★
13/12/17 John Adams by John Patrick Diggins and Arthur M. Schlesinger ★★★★
13/12/13 Barbara Walters: An Unauthorized Biography by Jerry Oppenheimer ★★★★★
13/12/6 The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney ★★★
13/11/30 The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy by Jeffrey L. Pasley ★★★★+
13/11/22 A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. Merry ★★★★
13/11/12 What Would the Founders Say by Larry Schweikart ★
13/11/10 Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman and Wanda McCaddon ★★★★+
13/10/25 Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran by M. Rahim Shayegan ★★
13/10/24 The Silk Road in World History by Xinru Liu ★★★★★
13/10/15 History of American Presidential Elections 1789-1968, volume 1 edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr. ★★★★★
13/10/12 Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: Approaching the Epic in Literature by Timothy Baker Shutt ★★★
13/10/4 Central Asia in World History by Peter B. Golden ★★★★★
13/9/25 Great authors of the western literary tradition, Part 1, Near Eastern and Mediterranean foundations by Elizabeth Vandiver ★★★★★
13/9/17 Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy by Mimi Alford ★★★
13/9/14 Tamara: A Play by John Krizanc ★★★★★
13/9/13 The Operas of Mozart, part 2 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
13/9/7 The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution through Ten of its Most Curious Provisions by Jay Wexler ★★★★
13/9/6 My 21 Years in the White House by Alonzo Fields ★★★★
13/9/2 The Chamber Music of Mozart, part 2 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
13/8/30 Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner ★★★★
13/8/27 The Butler by Wil Haygood ★★★★
13/8/25 To the Stars by George Takei ★★★+
13/8/21 White House Butlers by Howard Brinkley ★★★
13/8/19 Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman ★★★★★
13/8/15 The Roman Games by Bruce Macbain ★★★+
13/8/14 The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy by Grace Lee Whitney and Jim Denney ★★★★★
13/8/5 The Chamber Music of Mozart, part 1 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
13/7/29 Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind "Star Trek" by Joel Lerner ★★★★★
13/7/27 Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity and Liberty by Ivan Eland ★★★
13/7/25 Presidential Retreats by Peter Hannaford ★★
13/7/23 All Roads Lead to Murder by Albert A. Bell Jr. ★★★★
13/7/15 Great Masters: Mozart – His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
13/7/3 Why Him? Why Her? by Helen Fisher ★★★★
13/7/2 "Genome Sequencing and Assembly, Shakespeare Style" by Richard F. Wintle ★★★★
13/6/25 Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill ★★★★
13/6/14 The White House Doctor by Connie Mariano ★★★★★
13/6/3 The White House Chef Cookbook by Rene Verdon ★★★
13/6/3 Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn ★★★
13/5/14 All the President's Pastries by Roland Mesnier ★★★★★
13/5/4 White House Chef by Walter Scheib ★★★★★
13/5/2 Behind the palace doors: five centuries of sex, adventure, vice, treachery, and folly from royal Britain by Michael Farquhar ★★★
13/4/22 Under Vesuvius by John Maddox Roberts ★★+
13/4/15 A history of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts, part 4 by Robert Bucholz ★★★★
13/4/8 A history of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts, part 3 by Robert Bucholz ★★★★
13/4/3 The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
13/3/31 The Three Richards by Nigel Saul ★★★★
13/3/22 A history of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts, part 2 by Robert Bucholz ★★★★
13/3/14 The Obamas by Jodi Kantor ★★★+
13/3/11 The Life and Times of Richard III by Anthony Cheetham ★★★★
13/2/28 A history of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts, part 1 by Robert Bucholz ★★★★
13/2/26 Inside the White House by Ronald Kessler ★★★★
13/2/20 A Point of Law by John Maddox Roberts ★★★+
13/2/6 The Princess and the Pirates by John Maddox Roberts ★★★+
13/2/6 The Life and Works of Tchaikovsky by Jeremy Siepmann ★★
13/2/5 The Story of Medieval England by Jennifer Paxton ★★★
13/1/23 Conspirata by Robert Harris ★★★+
13/1/7 The River God's Vengeance by John Maddox Roberts ★★+
12/12/27 Imperium by Robert Harris ★★★+
12/12/30 The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Rosen ★★
12/11/30 Roughing It by Mark Twain ★★★
12/11/23 The Life and Works of Antonín Dvorák by Jeremy Siepmann ★★
12/11/19 The Life and Works of Joseph Haydn by Jeremy Siepmann ★★★★★
12/11/5 The Story of Mendelssohn in Words and Music ★★
12/10/17 The Lady in the Palazzo by Marlena de Blasi ★★★
12/10/12 Pompeii by Robert Harris ★★★★
12/10/2 Gallo Be Thy Name by Jerome Tuccille ★★★★
12/9/22 Failure to Appear by J.A. Jance ★★
12/9/17 Italian Stories by Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Pirandello, D'Annunzio et al., edited by Robert A. Hall ★★★
12/9/12 The Seven Wonders by Steven Saylor ★★★★
12/8/19 The Swerve: How the World Become Modern by Stephen Greenblatt ★★★
12/8/18 Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello ★★★★★
12/8/4 Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant ★★★★★
12/8/3 The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean ★★★★+
12/7/13 California: A History by Kevin Starr ★★
12/6/21 Life Itself by Roger Ebert ★★★★★
12/6/6 Brotherhood of the Revolution by Joseph Ellis ★★★
12/5/31 Benjamin Harrison by Charles W. Calhoun ★★★
12/5/25 Epochs of European civilization: Antiquity to Renaissance by Geoffrey Hosking ★★★
12/5/19 "The Triumph" by Robin Hobb ★★★
12/5/17 Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies by Robert J. Allison, part 1 ★★★
12/5/15 "The Eagle and the Rabbit" by Steven Saylor ★★
12/5/14 Vikings by Kenneth W. Harl ★★★★★
12/5/12 James Buchanan by Jean H. Baker ★★★★★
12/5/2 William Henry Harrison by Gail Collins ★★★★
12/4/22 James Monroe by Gary Hart ★★★
12/4/19 Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of the President by Ron Suskind ★★★
12/4/17 A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor ★★★
12/4/6 The Concerto part 3 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★
12/3/27 Those Daring Young Men in their Jaunty Jalopies: Monte Carlo or Bust by Jack Davies, Ken Annikin, Allen Andrews and Ronald Searle ★★
12/3/19 All Roads Lead to Murder by Albert A. Bell Jr. ★★★★
12/3/16 The Road to Middle-Earth by T.A. Shippey ★★★★★
11/3/15 The Concerto part 2 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★
12/3/8 Almost President by Scott Farris ★★★
12/3/6 The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and Douglas A. Anderson ★★★
12/3/5 The End of the Third Age by J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★
12/3/4 John Tyler by Gary May ★★★★
12/3/3 The History of the United States, 2nd Edition, part 2 by Allen C. Guelzo ★★★
12/3/3 Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ★★★★
12/2/21 Meditations on Middle Earth ★★★
12/2/19 The 1906 Eartquake in Mountain View by Barbar McPherson Kinchen ★★★★
12/2/14 The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester★★
12/2/14 Martin Van Buren by Ted Widmer ★★★★
12/2/7 Zachary Taylor by John S.D. Eisenhower ★★★★
12/2/1 Millard Fillmore by Paul Finkelman ★★★★★
12/1/30 My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark ★★★★★
12/1/30 The Prince, the Showgirl and Me by Colin Clark ★★★★★
12/1/27 How the States got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines by Mark Stein ★★★★
12/1/6 The Music of Richard Wagner by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
12/1/3 Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser ★★★★
11/12/13 The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua ★★
11/12/10 "Beware the Snake" by John Maddox Roberts ★★★★★
11/12/9 "Styx and Stones" by Steven Saylor ★★★
11/12/6 The Marsh King: A Story of King Alfred by C. Walter Hodges ★★★★
11/11/27 The Charlie Chan Film Encyclopedia by Howard Berlin ★★★
11/11/17 The Spoken Word: British Writers by British Library Sound Archive ★★★
11/11/16 James Madison by Richard Brookhiser ★★★
11/11/2 The Concerto part 1 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★
11/10/29 The making of music, Series 2 by James Naughtie ★★★★
11/10/22 The Namesake: A Story of King Alfred by C. Walter Hodges ★★★★★
11/10/11 The Story of Wagner in words and music by Arthur Hannes ★★★
11/10/10 How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein ★★★★★
11/10/4 BossyPants by Tina Fey ★
11/10/2 The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane ★★★
11/9/8 Brother to Galahad by Gwendolyn Bowers ★★★
11/9/7 The Spoken Word: American Writers by British Library Sound Archive ★★★★
11/8/24 Hallelujah Handel by Douglas Cowling ★★★
11/8/22 Khan: empire of silver by Conn Iggulden ★★
11/8/20 At the Sign of the Globe by Gwendolyn Bowers ★★★★
11/8/17 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House by Charles Osgood ★★★★
11/8/17 The Blood of Caesar by Albert Bell ★★★★
11/7/30 The Life and Works of Chopin by Jeremy Siepmann ★★★★★
11/7/26 The making of music by James Naughtie ★★★★
11/7/16 The Life and Works of Beethoven by Jeremy Siepmann ★★★★★
11/7/5 The Symphony, part 3 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
11/7/5 Forged by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★★★
11/6/18 The Symphony, part 2 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
11/6/15 The Changing White House by Barbara Silberdick Feinberg ★★★★
11/6/15 How the White House Really Works by George Sullivan ★★★
11/6/13 Greek Tragedy, part 2 by Elizabeth Vandiver ★★★★★
11/6/13 From the Door of the White House by Preston Bruce ★★★★★
11/6/4 The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre ★★★★★
11/6/1 The Symphony, part 1 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
11/5/9 Opera 101 by Fred Plotkin ★★★
11/5/8 Family of Freedom by Kenneth T. Walsh ★★★★
11/5/7 Famous Composers (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Shostakovich, Dvorak) by Darren Henley ★★★★
11/5/4 The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison by James Madison, Edward Larson & Michael Winship ★★★★★
11/4/29 "The Lost Special" by Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★
11/4/22 Dante and His Divine Comedy by Timothy B. Shutt ★
11/4/22 My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy by Mary Barelli Gallagher ★★★★
11/4/11 Original Meanings by Jack Rakove ★★★★
11/3/28 Enjoying Italian Opera (Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly, Aida and Lucia di Lammermoor) by Dale Harris ★★★
11/3/23 Secret Lives of the US Presidents by Cormac O'Brien ★★★
11/3/19 Who Murdered Chaucer? by Terry Jones, Robert Yeager, Alan Fletcher, Juliette Dor and Terry Dolan ★★★★
11/3/11 Greek Tragedy, part 1 by Elizabeth Vandiver ★★★★★
11/3/9 Italians Before Italy, part 1 by Kenneth Bartlett ★★
11/2/22 More Famous Composers (Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Rachmaninov, John Williams) by Darren Henley ★★★★
11/2/13 After the New Testament: the Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, part 2 by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★★★
11/2/12 The Medieval World I: Kingdoms, Empires and War by Thomas F. Madden ★★★
11/1/25 Masterpieces of Western Music by Jeffrey D. Lependorf ★★
11/1/18 Sungka and Smiling Irish Eyes by Natalie Gonzales-Sullaway ★★★★★
11/1/14 Detective Fiction: From Victorian Sleuths to the Present by M. Lee Alexander ★★★
11/1/5 The Pirate Hunter: the True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks ★★★★
11/1/5 A History of Venice: Queen of the Seas by Thomas F. Madden ★★★★
10/12/31 Sideways by Rex Pickett ★★★★
10/12/22 For all the tea in China by Sarah Rose ★★★★
10/11/30 The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World: Unlocking the Secrets of Past Civilizations by Brian M. Fagan ★★★
10/11/21 The Peloponnesian War, part 1 by Kenneth W. Harl ★★★★★
10/11/17 The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames ★★★★★
10/11/8 Concerning E.M. Forster by Frank Kermode ★★★★
10/11/6 After the New Testament: the Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, part 1 by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★★
10/10/27 The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams ★★★★
10/10/24 Old English and its Closest Relatives by Orrin W. Robinson ★★
10/10/17 The history of ancient Rome, Part 3 by Garrett G. Fagan ★★★★
10/10/11 Parisians by Graham Robb ★★
10/10/9 A Nation Rising by Kenneth C. Davis ★★★
10/10/6 German: Biography of a Language by Ruth Sanders ★★★
10/10/6 The history of ancient Rome, Part 2 by Garrett G. Fagan ★★★★★
10/10/2 Convivial Conflicts: The Form, Culture and Play of Modern European Strategy Games by Stewart Woods ★★★★★
10/9/27 The Southern Woman: "The Light in the Piazza" by Elizabeth Spencer ★★★★
10/9/24 The history of ancient Rome, Part 1 by Garrett G. Fagan ★★★★
10/9/13 The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World, part 4 by Ian Worthington ★★★★★
10/9/4 Googled by Ken Auletta ★★★★★
10/9/1 Twentieth Century's Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Culture of Hollywood by George Custen ★★★★
10/8/26 The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World, part 3 by Ian Worthington ★★★★
10/8/14 Late Antiquity: Crisis and Transformation by Thomas Noble ★★★★
10/8/11 The Warner Bros. Story by Clive Hirschorn ★★★★
10/8/1 The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World, part 2 by Ian Worthington ★★★★
10/7/27 The RKO Story by Richard Jewell and Vernon Harbin ★★★★
10/7/9 King Alfred: Burnt Cakes and Other Legends by David Horspool ★★★★
10/7/6 A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong ★★★★
10/7/6 The Catholic church. a history, part 1 by William R. Cook ★★★
10/6/22 Bach and the High Baroque part 4 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★
10/6/19 The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World, part 1 by Ian Worthington ★★★★
10/6/14 The Map Thief by Heather Terrell ★★★★ [review]
10/6/6 Bach and the High Baroque part 3 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
10/6/4 Essays in Anglo-Saxon History by James Campbell ★★★★
10/5/25 Duchess of Death: The Biography of Agatha Christie by Richard Hack ★★★★
10/5/17 The Anglo-Saxon World by Michael C. Drout ★★★★
10/5/4 Bach and the High Baroque part 2 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
10/4/18 Doctor Who: The Crusade by David Whitaker ★★★★
10/4/14 Knight's Castle by Edward Eager ★★★★★
10/4/9 American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson ★★★★★
10/3/16 Polk: the man who transformed the presidency and America (portions) by Walter R. Borneman ★★★★★
10/3/12 Prince Henry the Navigator (portions) by Peter Russell ★★★★
10/3/10 Bach and the High Baroque part 1 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
10/2/24 The View from the Bridge by Nicholas Meyer ★★★★★
10/2/18 Classics of British Literature part 1 by John Sutherland ★★★
10/2/16 Brahms Gets Laid by Ken Russell ★★★★★
10/2/11 Beethoven Confidential by Ken Russell ★★★★★
10/2/7 From Here to Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature by Michael D.C. Drout ★★★★★
10/2/6 The Metamorphoses of Tintin or Tintin for Adults by Jean-Marie Apostolidès ★★★★★
10/2/3 From Jesus to Constantine: a history of early Christianity, Pt. 2 by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★★★
10/2/2 Moomin by Tove Jansson ★★★
10/1/22 Smith of Wootton Major by J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★
10/1/21 Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography by John C. Tibbetts ★★★★★
10/1/11 Practical philosophy: the Greco-Roman Moralists, Part 2 by Luke Timothy Johnson ★★
10/1/10 The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman ★★★
10/1/9 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli ★★★★★
10/1/6 The Treason of Isengard by Christopher Tolkien ★★★★
10/1/4 The Golden Dragon: Alfred the Great & His Times by Alf J. Mapp Jr. ★★★★★
09/12/28 Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind, part 2 by Eric S. Rabkin ★★★★★
09/12/20 Thalberg: The Last Tycoon and the World of M-G-M by Roland Flamini ★★★★★
09/12/15 Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica ★★
09/12/14 The Lost Dragon of Wessex by Gwendolyn Bowers ★★★★★
09/12/11 The Peoples of Middle Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★
09/12/8 Journeys of Frodo by Barbara Strachey ★★★★
09/12/6 Leonardo: the first scientist by Michael White ★★★★
09/11/21 Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer by Scott Eyman ★★★★★
09/11/21 From Jesus to Constantine: a history of early Christianity, Pt. 1 by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★★★
09/11/11 Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★★
09/11/9 What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg ★★★★★
09/11/2 Understanding Movies by Raphael Shargel ★★★★
09/11/2 Practical philosophy: the Greco-Roman Moralists, Part 1 by Luke Timothy Johnson ★★★
09/11/2 Grover Cleveland by Henry F. Graff ★★★★★
09/10/17 Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind, part 1 by Eric S. Rabkin ★★★★★
09/10/6 Great masters: Beethoven, his life & music by Robert Greenberg ★★★★
09/9/29 Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House by Elizabeth Keckley ★★★★★
09/9/27 The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard ★★★★★
09/9/16 The Life and Operas of Verdi, part 1 by Robert Greenberg ★★
09/9/15 Ghost Train To The Eastern Star by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
09/9/13 Shakespeare: The Word and the Action, part 2 by Peter Saccio ★★★★★
09/9/12 A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison by Paul Jennings ★★★★★
09/9/6 The First Forty Years of Washington Society by Margaret Bayard Smith ★★★★★
09/8/28 Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia, part II by Alexis Q. Castor ★★★
09/8/26 "The Girl with the Silver Eyes" by Dashiell Hammett ★★★★★
09/8/18 The Failure of the Founding Fathers by Bruce Ackerman ★★★★★
09/8/14 Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia, part I by Alexis Q. Castor ★★★
09/8/5 The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs ★★★
09/7/30 Great masters: Mozart, his life & music by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
09/7/14 The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court by Cliff Sloan & David McKean ★★★★
09/7/4 Triumvirate: The Unlikely Alliance That Saved the Constitution and United the Nation by Bruce Chadwick ★★★
09/7/3 The People and the Ballot by Joshua Kaplan ★★★
09/6/18 Great masters: Stravinksy, his life & music by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
09/6/17 "Theodore Roosevelt: American Sissy" by Gore Vidal ★★★★
09/6/8 Dreams from My Father abridged by Barack Obama [★★★★]
09/5/20 The Incas: inside an American empire by Terence N. D'Altroy ★★★
09/5/18 The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire by James Allan Stewart ★★★★
09/5/13 Jane Austen by Carol Shields ★★★★
09/4/20 Great masters: Tchaikovsky, his life & music by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
09/4/15 My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks ★★★★★
09/4/14 Lost Christianities: Christian scriptures and the battles over authentication by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★★
09/4/7 Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes ★★★
09/4/4 Secrets of the White House by Elizabeth Jaffray ★★★
09/4/1 The White House: Its Historic Furnishings & First Families by Betty C. Monkman ★★★★★
09/3/27 Kennedy and Nixon by Chris Matthews ★★★★
09/3/26 Real Life at the White House by John and Claire Whitcomb ★★★★★
09/3/16 The Quitter by Harvey Pekar ★★★★
09/3/6 Great masters: Haydn, his life & music by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
09/3/5 The White House: An Historic Guide by White House Historical Association ★★★★
09/3/5 The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil by Lillian Rogers Parks ★★★★★
09/3/2 Backstairs at the White House by Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov ★★★★★
09/2/27 Great ancient civilizations of Asia Minor, part 2 by Kenneth W. Harl ★★★★★
09/2/17 Great masters: Brahms, his life & music by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
09/2/13 Forty-Two years in the White House by Irwin Hood (Ike) Hoover ★★★★★
09/2/3 Tea at Five by Matthew Lombardo ★★★★
09/2/3 Great ancient civilizations of Asia Minor by Kenneth W. Harl ★★★★★
09/1/28 Great American Music: Broadway musicals. Part 2 by Bill Messenger ★★★★★
09/1/20 The Mural at the Waverley Inn by Edward Sorel ★★★★★
09/1/18 Great masters: Shostakovich, his life & music by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
09/1/16 Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard ★★★★
09/1/12 A History of the German Language by John T. Waterman ★★★★★
09/1/07 Justinian's Flea by William Rosen ★★★★★
08/12/31 Great masters: Liszt, his life & music by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
08/12/23 Great American Music: Broadway musicals. Part 1 by Bill Messenger ★★★★★
08/12/6 Me by Katherine Hepburn ★★★★
08/11/25 "The Problem of the Black Cloister" by Edward D. Hoch ★★★★
08/11/25 "Locked in Death" by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer ★★★★
08/11/14 Take me out to the ballgame: a history of baseball in America by Timothy B. Shutt ★★★★
08/11/05 Empire of blue water: Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the Catas by Stephan Talty ★★★★
08/11/04 The Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer ★★★★★
08/10/25 Plato and Aristotle: the genesis of western thought by Aryeh Kosman ★★★★
08/10/25 Jamila by Chingiz Aitmatov ★★★★★
08/10/17 Aimez-vous Brahms? by Françoise Sagan ★★★★★
08/10/13 European History And European Lives, 1715-1914, Part 1 by Jonathan Steinberg ★★★★
08/10/05 Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda ★★
08/09/27 Bard of the Middle Ages: the works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Michael D.C. Drout ★★★★★
08/09/26 Famous Romans by J. Rufus Fears ★★★★★
08/09/05 The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe ★★★★
08/09/01 Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Brian Sykes ★★★★★
08/08/31 Rome and the Barbarians, part I by Kenneth W. Harl ★★★★★
08/08/28 History of the English language, Part 3 by Seth Lerer ★★★★★
08/08/22 Rome and the Barbarians, part III by Kenneth W. Harl ★★★★★
08/08/14 Rome and the Barbarians, part II by Kenneth W. Harl ★★★★★
08/08/12 The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O. Stewart ★★★★
08/08/01 History of the English language, Part 2 by Seth Lerer ★★★★★
08/07/28 The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler ★★★★
08/07/23 The War with Hannibal by Livy ★★★★★
08/07/23 Emperors of Rome, part I by Garrett G. Fagan ★★★★★
08/07/16 History of the English language, Part 1 by Seth Lerer ★★★★★
08/07/09 Shakespeare: the Biography by Peter Ackroyd ★★★★
08/07/07 Archaeology and the Iliad by Eric H. Cline ★★★★
08/06/20 The Operas of Mozart, part 1 by Robert Greenberg ★★★★★
08/06/11 The Triumph of Caesar by Steven Saylor ★★★+
08/06/07 Herodotus, the father of history. Part 1 by Elizabeth Vandiver ★★★★★
08/06/04 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen ★★★★★
08/05/31 I'm the One That I Want by Margaret Cho ★★★★
08/05/25 Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein ★★★★★
08/05/19 Emperors of Rome, part II by Garrett G. Fagan ★★★★★
08/05/15 Emperors of Rome, part III by Garrett G. Fagan ★★★★★
08/05/13 The Tribune's Curse by John Maddox Roberts ★★★
08/05/01 Fork in the Road by Denis Hamill ★★★★
08/04/29 The great debate: advocates and opponents of the American Constitution by Thomas L. Pangle ★★★★
08/04/18 Giants of philosophy. Plato by Berel Lang ★★★
08/04/15 Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile ★★
08/04/12 Nox Dormienda by Kelli Stanley ★+
08/04/11 Herodotus, the father of history. Part 2 by Elizabeth Vandiver ★★★★★
08/04/05 Raising Your Emotional Intelligence by Jeanne Segal ★★★★
08/03/27 A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing by Michael Farquhar ★★★★★
08/03/16 Alexander the Great and His Time: Library Edition by Agnes Savill ★★★
08/03/09 The Story of French (Origins chapters only) by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow ★★★★★
08/03/07 The early Middle Ages, part 2 by Philip Daileader ★★★★
08/03/07 Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed by Jane Austen and Another Lady ★★★★★
08/03/04 Tintin and Alph-Art by Hergé ★★★★
08/03/01 Palimpsest by Gore Vidal ★★★★★
08/02/25 The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical by Ethan Mordden ★★★★★
08/02/24 The �1,000,000 Bank-Note by Mark Twain ★★★★
08/02/22 Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal ★★★★★
08/02/19 Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame and What the Neighbors Thought by Kathleen Krull ★★★★★
08/02/16 The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer ★★★★★
08/02/14 The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain ★★★★
08/02/08 The President's House: 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home by Margaret Truman ★★★★★
08/02/08 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ★★★★★
08/02/04 Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, part 4, 2nd Edition
08/01/22 Shakespeare: the Seven Major Tragedies by Harold Bloom ★★★★★
08/01/21 Nobody Loves a Centurion by John Maddox Roberts ★★★
08/01/18 Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman ★★★
08/01/16 Julian by Gore Vidal ★★★★★
08/1/6 A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut ★★★★
07/12/30 Famous Greeks by J. Rufus Fears ★★★★★
07/12/14 The early Middle Ages, part 1 by Philip Daileader ★★★★★
07/12/11 James Madison by Garry Wills ★★★★★
07/12/10 The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans ★★★★★
07/12/09 The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt ★★★★
07/11/30 "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills ★★★★★
07/11/28 Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s by Ethan Mordden ★★★★★
07/11/20 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov ★★★★★
07/11/13 The great ideas of psychology, part 1 by Daniel N. Robinson ★★
07/11/6 Dwight D. Eisenhower by Tom Wicker ★★★★★
07/11/6 Lucky Luke: Ghost Town by Morris and René Goscinny ★★★★
07/11/3 Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s by Ethan Mordden ★★★★★
07/10/31 Shakespeare: The Word and the Action by Peter Saccio ★★★★★
07/10/26 "Convivium" by Kelli Stanley ★★★
07/10/23 Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams ★★★
07/10/11 Old-Time Baseball by Harvey Frommer ★★★★
07/10/09 The gospel according to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot recounted by Jeffrey Archer, with the assistance of Francis J. Moloney ★★★
07/10/02 "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" by William Saroyan ★★★★
07/10/01 The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams ★★★★
07/09/30 The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card (pp. 29-70) by Michael O'Keefe & Teri Thompson ★★★
07/09/26 "Tracy's Tiger" by William Saroyan ★★★★
07/09/14 The New Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten ★★★★★
07/09/07 Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan ★★★★★
07/08/14 Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza ★★★★★
07/07/31 The Games We Played by Margaret K. Hofer ★★★
07/07/30 The new Oxford book of literary anecdotes ★★★★★
07/07/25 John Quincy Adams by Robert Vincent Remini ★★★★★
07/07/21 1776 by David McCullough ★★★★★
07/07/17 The Tarim Mummies by J.P. Mallory and Victor Mair ★★★★★
07/07/09 How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen ★★★
07/07/05 Thirteenth night: a medieval mystery by Alan Gordon ★★
07/06/28 The First Human by Ann Gibbons ★★★★★
07/06/17 A perfect union: Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation by Catherine Allgor ★★★★★
07/06/05 The Albigensian crusade by Jonathan Sumption ★★★★★
07/05/31 The essential Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis; Landon Y. Jones, editor ★★★★★
07/05/24 Tiger, Tiger by Lynne Reid Banks ★★★
07/05/17 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes ★★★★
07/05/13 Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris ★★★★★
07/05/09 The Rehnquist Choice by John Dean ★★★★★
07/05/07 16 Ways to Love Your Lover by Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen ★★★★
07/04/30 Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain ★★★★★
07/04/23 Revolutionary Characters by Gordon S. Wood ★★★★
07/04/16 The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman ★★★★★
07/04/13 The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand ★★★★★
07/04/08 The Bounty: the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander ★★★★★
07/03/28 Nonviolence by Mark Kurlansky ★★★★★
07/03/22 The Silk Road by Frances Wood ★★★★★
07/03/20 The Truth: With Jokes by Al Franken ★★★★
07/03/11 See Delphi and Die by Lindsey Davis ★+
07/03/02 The Never-ending Story by Michael Ende ★★★★
07/02/27 Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - abridged by Alan Alda ★★★★★
07/02/20 Nothing's Sacred by Lewis Black ★★★★★
07/02/13 River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey - abridged by Candice Millard ★★★★
07/02/09 Wolf in the Fold: A Robert Hawkins Mystery by Anthony Rotondi ★★★
07/02/05 Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman ★★★★★
07/02/01 A treasury of great American scandals: Tantalizing true tales of historic misbehavior by the founding fathers and others who let freedom swing by Michael Farquhar ★★★★★
07/01/23 Kiss Me Like a Stranger by Gene Wilder ★★★★★
07/01/21 1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford ★★★★★
07/01/12 The other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the making of an empire by Teofilo F. Ruiz ★★★★
07/01/4 Love and Louis XIV: the women in the life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser ★★★★★
06/12/21 The Odyssey by Homer ★★★★★
06/12/15 Literary Lives by Edward Sorel ★★★★★
06/12/01 Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King ★★★★★
06/11/27 The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf ★★★★★
06/11/25 The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte: Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend and Italian Opera's Impresario in America by Rodney Bolt Mozart portions
06/11/25 The German Americans by Anne Galicich ★★★★
06/11/21 Dante by R.W.B. Lewis ★★★★
06/11/17 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson ★★★★★
06/11/10 Death of a Vestal Virgin by A.C. Tassie ★★
06/10/29 Next by Michael Lewis ★★★
06/10/23 Krakatoa: the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester ★★★★
06/10/23 The Barbary Wars by Frank Lambert ★★★★
06/10/5 Jefferson's war: America's first war on terror, 1801-1805 by Joseph Wheelan ★★★★
06/10/4 The Shooting Star by Hergé ★★★★★
06/10/3 Wars in Barbary by Donald Chidsey ★★★★
06/10/2 The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball by Frank Deford ★★★★
06/9/25 Whose Bible is it? a history of the Scriptures through the ages by Jaroslav Pelik ★★★★★
06/9/19 The Blue Lotus by Hergé ★★★★★
06/9/15 James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski ★★★★
06/9/10 Baseball Before We Knew It by David Block ★★★★★
06/9/9 The Lion in Winter by James Goldman ★★★★★
06/9/9 A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester ★★★★★
06/9/5 Gasping for Airtime by Jay Mohr ★★★★★
06/9/2 Tintin and the Broken Ear by Hergé ★★★★★
06/9/1 The Black Island by Hergé ★★★★★
06/8/31 The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara W. Tuchman ★★★★★
06/8/28 Tintin in Tibet by Hergé ★★★★★
06/8/28 Land of Black Gold by Hergé ★★★★★
06/8/27 The Crab with the Golden Claws by Hergé ★★★★★
06/8/26 Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner ★★★
06/8/26 Prisoners of the Sun by Hergé ★★★★★
06/8/25 The Seven Crystal Balls by Hergé ★★★★★
06/8/25 Red Sea Sharks by Hergé ★★★★★
06/8/24 Red Rackham's Treasure by Hergé ★★★★★
06/8/24 Seriously Funny by Gerald Nachman ★★★★★
06/8/21 Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling by Ross King ★★★★
06/8/16 The Life and Work of Errol Flynn: A Psychoanalytic Biography by B. Dramov ★★★
06/8/11 Errol Flynn: a memoir by Earl Conrad ★★★★
06/8/10 Inherited risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam by Jeffrey Meyers ★★★
06/8/6 French lessons: adventures with knife, fork, and corkscrew by Peter Mayle ★★★★
06/8/2 Marcel Proust - abridged by Edmund White ★★★★
06/7/30 Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen ★★★★★
06/7/26 What's It All About? - abridged by Michael Caine ★★★★
06/7/22 The Tipping Point - abridged by Malcolm Gladwell ★★★
06/7/20 The Unruly Life of Woody Allen by Marion Meade ★★★★★
06/7/16 The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England by various ★★★★★
06/7/15 The Canary Trainer by Nicholas Meyer ★★★
06/7/2 Captains' Logs Supplemental: The Only One-volume Guide to Deep Space Nine, Voyager and the New Next Generation Movie by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman ★★★★★
06/6/27 Gilgamesh: a new English version by Stephen Mitchell ★★★★
06/6/21 The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr ★★★★
06/6/16 The Tenth Planet by Keith Pedler ★★★★
06/6/15 America (the audiobook): a citizen's guide to democracy inaction by Jon Stewart ★★★
06/6/12 Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker by various ★★★★★
06/6/8 How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill ★★★★
06/6/5 The West End Horror by Nicholas Meyer ★★★★★
06/6/3 The Balkans by Mark Mazower ★★★★
06/5/24 Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond ★★★★★
06/5/20 Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman ★★★★★
06/5/17 Goldwyn - abridged by Scott Berg ★★★★★
06/5/15 Jazz 101 by John F. Szwed ★★★★
06/5/5 Encore Provence: new adventures in the south of France by Peter Mayle ★★★★
06/5/3 Practicing History by Barbara W. Tuchman ★★★★
06/4/25 The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger ★★★★★
06/4/19 Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky ★★★★
06/4/19 Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller ★★★★★
06/4/2 A History of Britain II: 1603-1776 The British Wars by Simon Schama ★★★★★
06/3/29 Pepys' Diary by Samuel Pepys ★★★★★
06/3/19 Sing For Your Supper: The Broadway Musical in the 1930s by Ethan Mordden ★★★★★
06/3/9 The island at the center of the world: the epic story of Dutch Manhattan & the forgotten colony that shaped America by Russell Shorto ★★★★★
06/3/9 America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918 by Richard Brookhiser ★★★★★
06/2/25 First Ladies by Margaret Truman ★★★★★
06/2/17 Mirth of a Nation by various
06/2/10 Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts ★★★
06/2/10 Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ★★★
06/2/6 Diagnosing Jefferson by Norm Ledgin ★★★
06/2/4 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson ★★★★
06/1/30 The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson by William Howard Adams ★★★★★
06/1/26 Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade ★★★★★
06/1/14 All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos ★★★
06/1/12 What if? : the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been partially by various ★★
06/1/6 The History of Theatre by David Timson ★★★★★
06/1/5 A Basic History of the United States, Volume 2: The Beginning of the Republic, 1775-1825 by Clarence B. Carson ★★★★★
06/1/4 The History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, abridged and edited by Ernest Samuels by Henry Adams ★★★★★
05/12/29 The Last Voyage of Columbus by Martin Dugard ★★★★★
05/12/25 A Basic History of the United States, Volume 1: The Colonial Experience 1607-1774 by Clarence B. Carson ★★★★★
05/12/22 The American President - abridged by Philip B. Kunhardt, Philip B. Kunhardt, Peter W. Kunhardt ★★★★★
05/12/22 A Basic History of the United States, Volume 3: The Sections and the Civil War 1826-1877 by Clarence B. Carson ★★★★★
05/12/14 Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg ★★★
05/12/04 Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis ★★★★★
05/11/22 Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling ★★★★★
05/11/21 Benjamin Franklin - abridged by Walter Isaacson ★★★★★
05/11/18 Inventing a Nation (book) by Gore Vidal ★★★★★
05/11/17 John Adams - abridged by David McCullough ★★★★★
05/11/12 Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism by Susan Dunn ★★★★★
05/11/05 Inventing a Nation (CD) by Gore Vidal ★★★★★
05/11/04 Shakespeare by Michael Wood ★★★★
05/11/02 My Life So Far - abridged by Jane Fonda ★★★★
05/10/18 When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden by Bill Maher ★★★★
05/10/15 The Life and Work of Mark Twain by Stephen Railton ★★★★★
05/10/11 Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt ★★★★★
05/10/05 The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers, from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit by Philip E. Orbanes ★★★
05/9/30 The History of Opera by Richard Fawkes ★★★★★
05/9/26 Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill ★★★★
05/9/19 Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz ★★★★★
05/9/19 Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell by Al Franken ★★★★
05/9/15 James Ivory in Conversation by Robert Emmet Long ★★★★★
05/8/23 Mountain Men to Astronauts: A History of Lodi 1869-1969 by Naomi McCallum Carey ★★★
05/8/14 Oh, the Things I Know by Al Franken ★★★★
05/8/02 H.G. Wells in Love by H.G. Wells ★★★★★
05/7/03 The Asian Animal Zodiac by Ruth Q. Sun ★★★★★
05/5/30 PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling & Laura Thomson ★★★
05/4/14 Tun-Huang by Yasushi Inoue ★★★★★
05/3/08 Dance of the Tiger by Björn Kurtén ★★★★★
05/1/21 American Splendor: Our Movie Year by Harvey Pekar ★★★★★
05/1/11 Emma by Jane Austen ★★★★★
04/11/28 Persuasion by Jane Austen ★★★★★
04/11/17 The Judgement of Caesar by Steven Saylor ★★
04/10/11 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire ★★★★★
04/8/21 The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe ★★★★★
04/8/18 The Essential Guide to Digital Set-top Boxes and Interactive TV by Gerard O'Driscoll ★★
04/8/17 Video Demystified by Keith Jack ★★
04/8/12 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies ★★★★
04/8/04 The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/30 The Magical Monarch of Mo by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/24 When China Ruled the Seas by Louise Levathes ★★★★★
04/7/21 Tik-Tok in Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/19 Who's Who in Oz by Jack Snow ★★★★★
04/7/18 Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/18 The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/11 The Algonquin Wits by Robert E. Drennan ★★★★★
04/7/11 The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/11 Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/09 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/07 The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/05 The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/05 The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/04 Queen Zixi of Ix by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/7/02 The Annotated Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Notes by Michael Patrick Hearn ★★★★★
04/6/29 The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/6/27 The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum ★★★★★
04/6/26 The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje ★★★★★
04/6/15 Christmas in July: the Life and Art of Preston Sturges by Diane Jacobs ★★★★★
04/6/14 "Strictly Dishonorable" by Preston Sturges ★★★★★
04/5/30 Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges by James Harvey ★★★★★
04/5/30 Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel J. Tilden and the Stolen Election of 1876 by Roy Morris, Jr. ★★★★★
04/5/18 Moneyball by Michael Lewis ★★★★
04/5/14 Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges by James Curtis ★★★★★
04/5/08 Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges ★★★★★
04/5/03 Backstory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1960s by Pat McGilligan ★★★★★
04/4/19 Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1950s by Pat McGilligan ★★★★★
04/4/06 Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age by Pat McGilligan ★★★★★
04/3/24 The Flower Drum Song by C.Y. Lee ★★★★
04/2/28 Becoming Human by Ian Tattersall ★★★★★
04/2/15 American Splendor by Harvey Pekar ★★★★★
04/2/11 Genes, Peoples and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ★★★★
04/2/10 The October Horse by Colleen McCullough ★★★★
04/2/09 The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes ★★★★★
04/2/05 Teach Yourself Genetics by Morton Jenkins ★★★
04/2/05 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decoding Your Genes by Linda Tagliaferro & Mark V. Bloom ★★★
04/2/04 Mapping Human History by Steve Olson ★★★★★
04/1/11 Chocolat by Joanne Harris ★★★★
04/1/09 Bob & Harv's Comics by Harvey Pekar ★★★★
04/1/08 Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner & Harvey Pekar ★★★★★
03/12/28 The American Splendor Anthology by Harvey Pekar ★★★★★
03/12/12 Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen ★★★★★
03/11/15 Baudolino by Umberto Eco ★★★★★
03/11/07 A Roman City in Ancient China by Homer Hasenpflug Dubs ★★★★★
03/10/29 Macartney at Kashgar: new light on British, Chinese and Russian activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918 by C. P. Skrine and Pamela Nightingale ★★★★★
03/10/18 Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music and Redemption of Jelly Roll Martin by Howard Reich and William Gaines ★★★★
03/09/23 Ruins of Desert Cathay by M. Aurel Stein ★★★★★
03/09/09 Lincoln by Gore Vidal ★★★★★
03/09/01 My Life with Groucho by Arthur Marx ★★★★★
03/08/28 Groucho: The life and times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kafner ★★★★★
03/08/09 My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin ★★★★★
03/07/21 The Conclave: A Sometimes Secret and Occasionally Bloody History of Papal Elections by Michael Walsh ★★★★★
03/07/02 Along the Silk Road by various ★★★
03/06/26 History of the Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume II: The development of sedentary and nomadic civilizations: 700 B.C to A.D. 250 ★★★★★
03/06/05 The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein and Blake Edgar ★★★★★
03/06/01 Jungle Lovers by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
03/05/05 Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
03/05/04 Early China by Denise Goff ★★★★★
03/03/26 Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days by Laura Lemay and Charles L. Perkins ★★★★
03/03/14 Lysistrata by Aristophanes ★★★★★
03/03/05 The Phoenicians and the West by Maria Eugenia Aubet ★★★★★
03/02/16 The Hours by Michael Cunningham ★★★★★
03/02/02 Family Happiness by Lyof N. Tolstoï (Leo Graf Tolstoy) ★★★★★
03/01/15 The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean ★★★★★
02/12/21 Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx and Rowland Barber ★★★★★
02/12/08 Aurel Stein by Annabel Walker ★★★★★
02/12/07 Just Your Type by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger ★★★★★
02/11/21 People Patterns by Stephen Montgomery ★★★★★
02/11/20 Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen ★★★★★
02/11/01 The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide by Brian Sibley ★★★
02/10/31 Do What You Are by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger ★★★★★
02/10/25 The Art of Speedreading People by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger ★★★★★
02/10/12 The Road to Cooperstown by James F. Vail ★★★
02/10/02 Hotel by Arthur Hailey ★★★
02/09/27 Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor ★★★
02/09/27 The Pygmalion Project: The Artisan by Stephen Montgomery ★★★★★
02/09/10 Portraits of Temperament by David Keirsey ★★★★★
02/09/08 The Pygmalion Project: The Guardian by Stephen Montgomery ★★★★★
02/08/29 The Pygmalion Project: The Idealist by Stephen Montgomery ★★★★★
02/08/28 Presidential Temperament by Ray Choiniere and David Keirsey ★★★★★
02/08/11 Island in the Crossroads: The History of Puerto Rico by M.M. Brau ★★★
02/08/09 The Wars of the Ancient Greeks by Victor Davis Hanson ★★★★
02/08/08 Please Understand Me II by David Keirsey ★★★★★
02/08/01 The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick ★★★★
02/07/30 From Sumer to Rome: The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies by Richard A. Gabriel & Karen S. Metz ★★★
02/07/10 Cave Temples of Mogao by Roderick & Susan Whitfield, Neville Agnew ★★★★★
02/07/02 Germanicus Mosaic by Rosemary Rowe ★★+
02/06/13 Old Polish Legends by F.C. Anstruther ★★
02/06/06 A Mist of Prophecies by Steven W. Saylor ★★★
02/05/30 The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder ★★★
02/05/25 The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul ★★★
02/05/21 The Lost Legion by H. Warner Munn ★★★
02/05/16 Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder ★★★★
02/04/28 The Ancient World in the Cinema by Jon Solomon ★★★★
02/04/14 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen ★★★
02/04/06 Life on the Mississippi by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) ★★★★★
02/03/15 History of the Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume III: The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750 ★★★★★
02/02/12 Following the Equator by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
02/02/09 Five Black Ships: A Novel of the Discoverers by Napoleon Baccino Ponce De Leon ★★★★
02/01/14 The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
02/01/07 Vox by Nicholson Baker ★★★
01/12/29 Sunrise with Seamonsters by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
01/12/28 Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
01/12/20 Saint Jack by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
01/12/17 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
01/12/16 Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
01/12/14 Natural Opium: Some Travelers' Tales by Diane Johnson ★★
01/12/10 The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
01/12/03 Epigrams I by Martial ★★★★
01/11/23 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco ★★★★
01/11/09 Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt ★★★★
01/11/07 Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens ★★★★
01/10/30 Restoration by Rose Tremain ★★★★★
01/10/16 Before France & Germany by Patrick J. Geary ★★★★★
01/10/02 Attila and the Nomad Hordes by David Nicolle ★★★★
01/09/27 Ancient Chinese Armies 1500-200 BC by Chris J. Peers ★★★
01/09/27 The Goths by Peter Heather ★★★★★
01/09/14 Samarkand by Amin Maalouf ★★★★★
01/08/31 The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert van Gulik ★★★★★
01/08/25 World of Wonders by Robertson Davies ★★★★★
01/08/23 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks by Sir Aurel Stein ★★★★★
01/08/17 The Manticore by Robertson Davies ★★★★★
01/08/13 Silk Roads and Shadows by Susan Shwartz ★★★
01/08/09 The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinnis ★★★★★
01/08/03 Fifth Business by Robertson Davies ★★★★★
01/07/23 Faith in Fakes by Umberto Eco ★★★★
01/07/09 Burning Bright by John Steinbeck ★★★★
01/07/08 Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier ★★★★★
01/07/07 The Book of Government or Rules for Kings by Nizam Al-Mulk ★★★★
01/06/30 Mirror to the Son of Heaven: Wei Cheng at the Court of T'ang T'ai-tsung by Howard Wechsler ★★★★
01/06/27 The Truth About Dragons by Rhoda Blumberg ★★★
01/06/26 Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg ★★★★
01/06/20 Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg ★★★★★
01/06/15 Bukhara: The Medieval Achievement by Richard N. Frye ★★★★★
Robert Graves: The White Goddess by Richard Perceval Graves ★★★★★
Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic by Richard Perceval Graves ★★★★★
Robert Graves: The Years with Laura Riding by Richard Perceval Graves ★★★★★
Claudius the God by Robert Graves ★★★★★
I, Claudius by Robert Graves ★★★★★
The Thieves of Ostia (pre-publication) by Caroline Lawrence ★★★
Two for the Lions by Lindsey Davis ★★+
Between the Dragon and the Eagle by Mical Schneider ★★★
How Poetry Works by Philip Davies Roberts ★★★★★
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe ★★★★★
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul ★★★
Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
The Fermata by Nicholson Baker ★★★★★
Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay ★★★★★
Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father by Roy Lewis ★★★★★
The London Embassy by Paul Theroux ★★★★★
Maui: The Demigod: An Epic Novel of Mythical Hawai'i by Steven Goldsberry ★★★★★
Sir Gawain and the Greek Knight by "The Pearl Poet" ★★★★★
The Thirty Years War by Geoffrey Parker
The Making of Europe by Robert Bartlett
Romans and Aliens by J.P.V.D. Balsdon
The Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward
King Edward 3 by Michael Packe
The Anglo-Saxons by Campbell
Discoverers of Space by Erich Lessing
The Great Composers by ?
Old Ironsides by Dorothy Richard
The Life and Times of Richard 3 by Anthony Cheetham
The Histories by Herodotus
The World of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown
Art, Artefacts and Chronology in Classical Archaeology by William Biers
Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne by Pierre Riche
Feudal Society I by Marc Bloch
Feudal Society 2 by Marc Bloch
Church, State and Christian Society by Gerd Tellenbach
Bukhara: The Medieval Achievment by Richard Frye
Enlightenment and Romanticism in 18th Century Prussia by Henri Brunschwig
Twelve Who Ruled by R.R. Palmer
The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre
The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle
1848: The Revolutionary Tide in Europe by Peter N. Stearns
The Mexican War by Otis A. Singletary
Ordeal by Fire by James McPherson
The American Way of War by Russell F. Weigley ★★★★★
They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer
The Long Fuse by Laurence Lafore
Germany 1866-1945 by Gordon Craig
Listen by Joseph Kerman
The Burgermeister's Daughter by Steven Ozment
In Search of the Indo-Europeans by J.P. Mallory
The Celts: Conquerors of Ancient Europe by Christiane Eleuere
Mapping Human History by Steve Olson
Ancient Chinese Armies 1500-200 BC by C.J. Peters
The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe
Alcibiades, Coriolanus, Sulla, Lysander by Plutarch
Rome by U.E. Paoli
The Fall of the Roman Republic by David Shotter
The Roman Republic by Michael Crawford
A Noise of War by A.J. Langguth
Epigrams by Martial
Rome: Echoes of Imperial Glory by unknown
Pompe2 by Robert Etienne
Atlas of the Roman World by Cornell and Matthews
The Heritage of Central Asia by Richard Frye
Catastrophe by David Keys
The Atlas of the Ancient World by Margaret Oliphant
History of the Wars by Procopius
The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia by Christopher Beckwith
The Army of Tang China by K.H. Ranitzsch
The Making of the Middle Ages by R.W. Southern
Who Murdered Chaucer? by Terry Jones
The Silk Road by Frances Wood
Historical Atlas of East Central Europe by Paul Magocsi
Western Civilization: An Urban Perspective by F. Roy Willis
Western Civilization: An Urban Perspective by F. Roy Willis
The Anchor Atlas of World History, Voume I by Kinder & Hilgemann
The Anchor Atlas of World History, Voume I by Kinder & Hilgemann
Bodie Bonanza by Warren Loose
The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard Klein
The Great Human Diasporas by Cavalli-Sforza
Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors by Ann Paludian
Before France and Germany by Patrick Geary
The Birth of France by Katharine Scherman
The War With Hannibal by Livy
Carthage by Serge Lancel
Carthage: A History by B.H. Warmington
The Beginnings of Rome by T.J. Cornell
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors by Chris Scarre
The Punic Wars by Brian Caven
The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius
Scipio Africanus by Liddell Hart ★★★★★
A History of the Roman World by H.H. Scullard
The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton
A History of Private Life by Paul Veyne
Travel in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
Etruscan Life and Afterlife by Larissa Bonfanti
The Penguin Historical Atlas fo Ancient Rome by Chris Scarre
Life in Ancient Rome by F.R. Cowell
The Search for Ancient Rome by Claude Moatti
The Germanic People by Francis Owen
The Germanic Invasions by Lucien Musset
The Goths by Peter Heather
Attila and the Nomad Hordes by David Nicolle
The Usborne World History: The Romans by Marks and Tingay
The Roman News: Caesar Stabbed by Langley and De Souza
Ancient Rome (With 4 See Through Scenes) by Simon James
The Roman Empire and the Dark Ages by Giovanni Caselli
Classical Rome by John D. Clare
Palmyra and its Empire by Richard Stoneman
History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 2 by various
Ruins of Desert Cathay by Aurel Stein
Sutton Hoo Ship Burial by Angela Evans
Alfred the Great by Eleanor Duckett
Everyday Life in Byzantium by Tamara Talbot Rice
Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor
The Origins of Modern Germany by Geoffrey Barraclough
Germany in the Early Middle Ages by Timothy Reuter
Russia: The People and the Power by Robert G. Kaiser ★★★★
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Desmond Seward
The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher
Lost Cities of the Maya by Baudez & Picasso
History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 3 by various
Magdalena & Balthasar by Steven Ozment
The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stefan Lorant
Never Call Retreat by Bruce Catton ★★★★★
Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton ★★★★★
The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton ★★★★★
Thunder at Twilight by Frederic Morton
The German Wars by D.J. Goodspeed ★★★★★
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
History and Society in Central America by E.T. Rivas
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
Presidential Campaigns by Paul Boller
The 100 by Michael Hart

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