As of June 16,2023 this is what I’ve currently got going:
- Lincoln: President-Elect — Harold Holzer
- Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo — Phillips Verner Bradford & Harvey Blume
- Hazard Powder: The Powder Hollow Explosion of 1913 — Peter Floyd Sorenson
- A History of Earth’s Biota: The Blooming of Life — J. William Schopf
- An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia — Geoffrey Plank
- Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America — Denise Gigante
- The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans — Cynthia Barnett
- The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition — Manisha Sinha
- Geology: A Very Short Introduction — Jan Zalesiewicz
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth — Jules Verne
Begun in earnest but (temporarily?) set aside:
- Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History, 3rd Edition — David E. Fastovsky & David B. Weishampel
- Big History: Between Nothing and Everything — David Christian, et al
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World — Peter Frankopan
- How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of the Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind — Charles Langmuir & Wally Broecker
- Madison and Jefferson — Andrew Burstein & Nancy Isenberg
- The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece — Josiah Ober
- Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies — Zahi Hawass and Sahar N. Saleem
- What Happened — Hillary Rodham Clinton
- 1932: The Rise of Hitler & FDR — David D. Pietrusza
- In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth — J.P. Mallory
- Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
- Stanton — Walter Stahr
- When Montezuma Met Cortes — Matthew Restall
- The Odyssey — Homer, trans. by Lattimore
- Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America — Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick
- In the Shadow of the Sword — Tom Holland
- Osman’s Dream – Caroline Finkel
- American Nations — Colin Woodward
- Walls — David Frye
- The Home Voices Speak Louder Than Drums — Wanda Easter Burch
- Not War But Murder: Cold Harbor 1864 — Ernest B. Ferguson
- Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South 1865-1914 — William Blair
- Giza and the Pyramids — Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass
- Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War — Steve Inskeep
- Europe Before Rome — T. Douglas Price
- Swann’s Way — Marcel Proust
I may have overlooked something …
PRIOR READS …
CURRENTLY READING
I am flattered that I have received emails with comments from many of the authors that I have reviewed, and the bulk of these have not only been quite favorable but have thereby served to establish valuable new relationships.
I find reading quite rewarding, especially when challenging myself to read at or above my limits to expand my horizons, reveal new perspectives, and compel me to use the muscles of my intellect the way an athlete might use the muscles of his body. I only wish more people felt the same way!
