History & Biography
American History
American Civil War & African American History
Review of: The State of Jones, by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer
Review of: Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War, by Charles Bracelen Flood
Review of: Grant, by Ron Chernow
Review of: Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War, by Joseph Wheelan
Review of: Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital by Nelson Lankford
Review of: Tara Revisited: Women, War & The Plantation Legend, by Catherine Clinton
Review of: Civil War Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Paul Negri [poetry]
Review of: The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara [historical novel]
Review of: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust
Review of: River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War, by Andrew Ward
Review of: Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, by Eric Foner
Review of: New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, by Wendy Warren
Review of: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and the War in Virginia 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor
Review of: Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison & the Decline of Virginia by Susan Dunn
Review of: Atlas of Slavery, by James Walvin
Review of: Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert
American Presidents
Review of: The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, by William E. Leuchtenburg
Review of: Presidents of War, by Michael Beschloss
Review of: The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, by Jon Meacham
Review of: Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder, by Jack McLaughlin
Review of: Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America, by David O. Stewart
Review of: Grant, by Ron Chernow
Review of: 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, by David Pietrusza
Review of: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, by Rick Perlstein
Review of: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein
Review of Bush, by Jean Edward Smith
Review of: Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward
American History: General
Review of: The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin’s House, by Daniel Mark Epstein
Review of: Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth, by Holger Hoock
Review of: American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804, by Alan Taylor
Review of: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and the War in Virginia 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor
Review of: Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison & the Decline of Virginia by Susan Dunn
Review of: Maude (1883-1993): She Grew Up with the Country, by Mardo Williams
Review of: In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea, by Danny Goldberg
Review of: Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir, by John Paul Stevens
Review of: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, by James Comey
Ancient History
Review of: The Indus: Lost Civilizations, by Andrew Robinson
Review of Egypt: Lost Civilizations, by Christina Riggs
Review of: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric H. Cline
Review of: Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, by Tim Whitmarsh
World History
Review of: A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks, by Stewart Gordon
Review of: Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert
Review of: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914 by Barbara Tuchman
Review of: The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
Review of: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Review of: Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War, by Peter Conradi
Review of: North Korea: State of Paranoia by Paul French
Review of: Korea: Where the American Century Began, by Michael Pembroke
Science
Review of: Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth’s Earliest Fossils, by J. William Schopf
Review of: Life in Deep Time: Darwin’s “Missing” Fossil Record, by J. William Schopf
Review of: Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World, by Dorrik Stow
Review of: An Ape’s View of Human Evolution, by Peter Andrews
Review of: Time Travel: A History, by James Gleick
Review of: Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, by Bill Schutt
Review of: Rain: A Natural and Cultural History, by Cynthia Barnett
General Non-Fiction
Review of: Imagine John Yoko, by John & Yoko Lennon
Review of: On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads, by Tim Cope
Review of: Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro
Young Adult (YA)
Review of: The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked and Found, by Martin W. Sandler
Literature
Review of: The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Stephen Mitchell
Review of: Gilgamesh: A New English Version, by Stephen Mitchell
Review of: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, by Roberto Calasso
Review of: About Grace, by Anthony Doerr
Review of: All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
Review of: Wanting, by Richard Flanagan
Review of: First Person: A Novel, by Richard Flanagan
Review of: The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Richard Flanagan
Review of: Death of a River Guide, by Richard Flanagan
Review of: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan
Review of: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition, by Ernest Hemingway
Review of: Across the River and into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway
Review of: Welcome to Braggsville, by T. Geronimo Johnson
Review of: Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakami
Review of: Men Without Women, by Haruki Murakami
Review of: South of the Border, West of the Sun, by Haruki Murakami
Review of: Hear the Wind Sing, and Pinball, 1973, by Haruki Murakami
Review of: After the Quake, by Haruki Murakami
Review of: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Review of: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Review of: Shosha, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Review of: Civil War Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Paul Negri
Review of: The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
[Note: Some books appear more than once in the index because these are associated with more than one category.]
