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Here’s what I’ve read over the last fifteen or so years:
READ 2004/2005
1. The Eternal Frontier – Flannery
2. Facing East From Indian Country – Richter
3. Benjamin Franklin – Isaacson
4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe
5. The Dahlgren Affair – Schultz
6. Lincoln’s Last Night – Axelrod (5/16/05)
7. His Excellency: George Washington – Ellis
8. American Colonies – Taylor
9. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies – Las Casas
10. Moby Dick – Melville
11. Memories of my Melancholy Whores – Garcia Marquez
READ 2006
12. The Iliad – Homer (2-2-06)
13. 1491 – Mann (2-3-06)
14. Troy – McCarty (2-9-06)
15. President Nixon – Reeves (2-21-06)
16. The Last Voyage of Columbus – Dugard (4-2-06)
17. The Red Badge of Courage – Crane (4-10-06)
18. The Odyssey – Homer (4-20-06)
19. Empires at War – Fowler (5-31-06 ?)
20. Troy and Homer – Joachim Latacz (6-12-06)
21. Agamemnon – Aeschylus (7-7-06)
22. 1776 – McCullough (7-9-06)
23. The War at Troy – Quintus of Smyrna (7-16-06)
24. Guns, Germs, and Steel – Diamond (8-20-06)
25. Gulliver’s Travels – Swift (8-29-06)
26. The King Must Die – Renault (10-13-06)
27. State of Denial – Woodward (10-29-06)
28. Before the Dawn – Wade (11-23-06)
29. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman – Shostak (12-9-06)
30. The Trojan War: A New History – Strauss (12-17-06)
READ 2007
31. The Kill Bill Diary – David Carradine (1-11-07)
32. Freethinkers – Susan Jacoby (2-19-07)
33. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (3-23-07)
34. Persian Fire – Tom Holland (3-25-07)
35. Histories – Herodotus (6-2-07)
36. The Classical World: An Epic History From Homer to Hadrian – Robin Lane Fox (6-5-07)
37. Thomas Paine – Craig Nelson (6-14-07)
38. The Other Side of Silence – Andre Brink (8-6-07)
39. Cities of the Plain – Cormac McCarthy (8-9-07)
40. A Dangerous Friend – Ward Just (8-12-07)
41. Mayflower – Nathaniel Philbrick (8-12-07)
42. The Peloponnesian War –Donald Kagan (8-23-07)
43. The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini (9-8-07)
44. The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai (9-22-07)
45. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz (9-25-07)
46. The Echo Maker – Richard Powers (10-14-07)
47. The History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides (10-25-07)
48. Bridge of Sighs – Richard Russo (11-17-07)
49. Theogony – Hesiod (11-29-07)
50. Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America – David Stick (12-1-07)
51. Coronado – Dennis Lehane (12-6-07)
52. The Air We Breathe – Andrea Barrett (12-13-07)
53. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (12-23-07)
READ 2008
54. The Case of Abraham Lincoln – Julie M. Fenster (1-2-08)
55. The Pirate’s Daughter – Margaret Cezair-Thompson (1-31-08)
56. American Shaolin – Matthew Polly (2-8-08)
57. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (2-11-08)
58. Frogs – Aristophanes (2-12-08)
59. Hellenica: Books 1-4 — Xenophon (2-16-08)
60. Charlatan – Pope Brock (3-3-08)
61. A Golden Age – Tahmima Anam (3-16-08)
62. Arslan – Engh (3-25-08)
63. The Commoner — John Burnham Schwartz (4-2-08)
64. Anabasis – Xenophon (4-6-08)
65. Scapegoats of the Empire – George Witton (4-13-08)
66. Killing Custer – James Welch, Paul Stekler (4-20-08)
67. The Persians – Aeschylus (4-24-08)
68. The Choephori(The Libation Bearers)- Aeschylus(4-27-08)
69. The Eumenides – Aeschylus (4-30-08)
70. Ajax – Sophocles (4-30-08)
71. Philoctetes – Sophocles (4-30-08)
72. Oedipus Rex – Sophocles (5-3-08)
73. American Creation – Joseph Ellis (5-11-08)
74. Antigone – Sophocles (5-18-08)
75. The River of Doubt – Candice Millard (5-22-08)
76. All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy (5-31-08)
77. Mudbound – Hilary Jordan (6-5-08)
78. The Crossing — Cormac McCarthy (6-24-08)
79. Four Hats in the Ring – Lewis Gould (6-24-08)
80. Me of Little Faith – Lewis Black (7-3-08)
81. Zeus:A Journey Through Greece in the Footsteps of a God – Tom Stone (7-14-08)
82. How to Survive a Robot Uprising – Daniel H. Wilson (7-25-08)
83. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy (8-2-08
84. The Cruelest Miles – Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury (8-15-08)
85. Inverted World – Christopher Priest (8-23-08)
86. Whale Hunt – Nelson Cole Haley (8-24-08)
87. A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini (9-15-08)
88. A Crack in the Edge of the World – Simon Winchester (10-17-08)
89. In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin (11-29-08)
90. Just After Sunset – Stephen King (12-17-08)
91. Pyramids – Terry Pratchett (12-18-08)
92. The Road – Cormac McCarthy (12-26-08)
READ 2009
93. Noah’s Flood – William Ryan & Walter Pitman (1-31-09)
94. The Bizarro Starter Kit – D. Harlan Wilson, et al (2-7-09)
95. Courtesans & Fishcakes – James Davidson (2-10-09)
96. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder – Lawrence Weschler (2-28-09)
97. Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer (3-17-09)
98. Hellenica PT II – Xenophon (3-23-09)
99. Book Finds – Ian Ellis (3-28-09)
100. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski (4-12-09)
101. The Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America – Eli Sagan (4-14-09)
102. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History – David Christian (4-17-09)
103. Child of God – Cormac McCarthy (4-23-09)
104. Snow Crash – Neil Stephenson (4-26-09)
105. Suttree – Cormac McCarthy (5-09-09)
106. Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho (5-12-09)
107. No Country for Old Men — Cormac McCarthy (5-24-09)
108. My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk (6-1-09)
109. The Illustrated A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking (6-3-09)
110. The Fuck-Up – Arthur Nersesian (6-24-09)
111. Outer Dark – Cormac McCarthy (6-26-09)
112. The Devil in Dover – Lauri Lebo (6-27-09)
113. The Garden of Last Days – Andre Dubus III (6-28-09)
114. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink – Kenneth Stampp (7-16-09)
115. The Orchard Keeper – Cormac McCarthy (7-24-09)
116. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris (8-9-09)
117. Too Loud a Solitude – Bohumil Hrabal (8-15-09)
118. Acharnians – Aristophanes (8-24-09)
119. The Beautiful Cigar Girl –Daniel Stashower (9-2-09)
120. Wildebeest in a Rainstorm – Jon Bowermaster (9-3-09)
121. The Long Fuse – Dan Cook (9-6-09
122. The Secret History – Donna Tartt (9-26-09)
123. Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore — Bettany Hughes (10-17-09)
124. Black Elk Speaks – John G. Neihardt & Black Elk (11-5-09)
125. Europe Between the Oceans – Barry Cunliffe (12-6-09)
126. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino (12-10-09)
127. Perfecting Sound Forever – Greg Milner (12-12-09)
READ 2010
128. 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon – David Pietrusza (1-2-10)
129. The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood (1-22-10)
130. Phaedo – Plato (1-28-10)
131. The Athenian Constitution – Aristotle (2-10-10)
132. Folk Photography – Luc Sante (2-11-10)
133. The Great Comeback – Gary Ecelbarger (2-13-10)
134. The Lost City of Z – David Grann (2-16-10)
135. Going Native – Stephen Wright (2-28-10)
136. Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia – Francis Wheen (3-25-10)
137. The War That Killed Achilles – Caroline Alexander (3-27-10)
138. The Ancestor’s Tale – Richard Dawkins (3-29-10)
139. The Iliad – Homer, Lattimore verse translation [re-read, alt. translation] (4-2-10)
140. A Companion to the Iliad – Malcolm Willcock (4-2-10)
141. Tutankhamun: His Tomb And Its Treasures – Edwards (4-12-10)
142. The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood (4-18-10)
143. War With The Newts – Karel Capek (5-8-10)
144. The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley 5000-3500 BC – edited by David W. Anthony, Jennifer Y. Chi (5-13-10)
145. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography – Simon Singh (5-14-10)
146. From Egypt to Babylon: The International Age 1550-500BC — Paul Collins (5-27-10)
147. 1492: The Year the World Began – Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (5-28-10)
148. Presidential Confidential – John Boertlein (6-19-10)
149. Cleopatra: A Biography – Duane W. Roller (7-13-10)
150. Tours of the Black Clock – Steve Erickson (7-15-10)
152. Duma Key – Stephen King (8-4-10)
153. People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks (8-6-10)
154. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War – Donald Kagan (8-9-10)
155. Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times – Thomas R. Martin (8-28-10)
156. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 – Dave Eggers, ed. (9-18-10)
157. The Plot to Seize the White House – Jules Archer (9-19-10)
158. The Six Wives of Henry the VIII – Alison Weir (10-19-10)
159. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer – James L. Swanson (10-22-10)
160. Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories – Michael Sims, ed. (10-23-10)
161. A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt – Robert Earl Hardy (11-7-10)
162. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien (11-14-10)
163. Lords of the Sea:The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy – John R. Hale (12-12-10)
164. Camp Concentration — Thomas M. Disch (12-17-10)
165. Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand – Ursula K. LeGuin (12-31-10)
READ 2011
166. Thucydides: The Reinvention of History – Donald Kagan (1-12-11)
167. The Tarim Mummies – J.P. Mallory & Victor H. Mair (2-10-11)
168. The Greeks – H.D.F. Kitto (2-19-11)
169. 169. The Reserve – Russell Banks (?)
170. Pattern Recognition – William Gibson (3-07-11)
171. City of Thieves – David Benioff (3-18-11
172. The Kennedy Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled — Vincent Bzdek (4-16-11)
173. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods – Martha Howell & Walter Prevenier (4-22-11)
174. Life – Keith Richards (4-29-11)
175. Sitting Bull: Prisoner of War – Dennis C. Pope (4-30-11)
176. Alexander the Great — Paul Cartledge (5-18-11)
177. Lapham’s Quarterly: Spring 2011 – Lewis Lapham (5-21-11, book club selection)
178. The Horse, The Wheel, and Language – David Anthony (5-25-11)
179. Return to Nisa – Marjorie Shostak (5-28-11)
180. Nightmare Alley – William Lindsay Gresham (7-25-11)
181. The Snakebite Survivors Club: Travels Among Serpents – Jeremy Seal (7-28-11)
182. 1861: The Civil War Awakening – Adam Goodheart (9-10-11)
183. Lincoln: President-Elect – Harold Holzer (9-14-11)
184. The Sisters Brothers—Patrick DeWitt (9-17-11)
185. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy – Caroline Kennedy & Michael Beschloss (10-3-11)
186. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 – Robert Dallek (10-5-11)
187. House Arrest – Ellen Meeropol (10-19-11)
188. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War – Karl Marlantes (10-31-11)
189. A War Like No Other – Victor Davis Hanson (11-1-11)
190. The Slynx – Tatyana Tostaya (12-10-11)
191. The Greco-Persian Wars – Peter Green (12-18-11)
192. Great Harry: The Extravagant Life of Henry VIII – Carrolly Erickson (12-31-11)
READ 2012
193. The End of Manners – Francesca Marciano (1-27-12)
194. Life in Year One – Scott Korb (1-28-12)
195. A Canticle For Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller, Jr. (2-10-12)
196. Scorpions – Noah Feldman (2-13-12)
197. The Disappearing Spoon – Sam Kean (3-3-12)
198. Catapult – Jim Paul (3-30-12)
199. Rubicon – Tom Holland (3-21-12)
200. The Limits of Power – Andrew J. Bacevich (4-7-12)
201. Swords Against the Senate – Erik Hildinger (4-19-12)
202. Shiloh: And the Western Campaign of 1862 – O. Edward Cunningham (5-3-12)
203. War Fever – J.G. Ballard (5-17-12)
204. The Passage of Power – Robert A. Caro (6-11-12)
205. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti – Milton Rokeach (6-24-12)
206. Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music – The Definitive Life – Tim Riley (7-15-12)
207. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam – The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War – James M. McPherson (8-3-12)
208. Prisoner’s Dilemma – William Poundstone (8-10-12)
209. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami (8-27-12)
210. 1948: Harry Truman’s Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America – David Pietrusza (9-2-12)
211. Public Enemies – Bryan Burrough (9-9-12)
212. To End All Wars – Adam Hochschild (9-25-12)
213. The Given Day — Dennis Lehane (10-8-12)
214. Indigo – Catherine McKinley (10-9-12)
215. Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue – Paul Bowles (10-26-12)
216. Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami (11-3-12)
217. Europe’s Last Summer – David Fromkin (11-10-12)
218. Plows, Plagues & Petroleum – William F. Ruddiman (11-11-12)
219. Red Sorghum – Mo Yan (11-15-12)
220. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (11-16-12)
221. This is How You Lose Her – Junot Diaz (11-20-12)
222. Flight Behavior – Barbara Kingsolver (12-4-12)
READ 2013
223. Reservation Blues – Sherman Alexie (1-4-13)
224. 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami (1-25-13)
225. Why Does the World Exist – Jim Holt (2-23-13)
226. Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons – John Carter (3-1-13)
227. Cold Skin – Albert Sanchez Pinol (3-14-13)
228. Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy – Ted Widmer, ed. (3-19-13)
229. Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas — Nicholas Pileggi (4-5-13)
230. Gettysburg — Stephen W. Sears (4-7-13)
231. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (4-13-13)
232. The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa (4-19-13)
233. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power – Jon Meacham (4-20-13)
234. Revenge – Yoko Ogawa (4-22-13)
The Most Glorious Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4, 1863 — Duane Schultz (5-15-13)
236. To Have and Have Not — Ernest Hemingway (5-15-13)
237. Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow (5-23-13)
238. Independence – John Ferling (6-4-13)
239. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why — Laurence Gonzales (6-8-13)
240. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (6-11-13)
241. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World — Sean Carroll (7-9-13)
242. Civilwarland in Bad Decline – George Saunders (7-22)
243. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque (7-25)
244. America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation – David Goldfield (7-26)
245. After Dark – Haruki Murakami (8-2)
246. Zealot – Reza Aslan (8-26-13)
247. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created – Charles Mann (8-31-13)
248. The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past – Matthew Hedman (9-14-13)
249. A Black Hole is Not a Hole – Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano (9-18-13)
250. Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway (10-10-13)
251. The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, the Civil War’s Cruelest Mission – Alan Axelrod (10-14-13)
252. Shot All to Hell – Mark Lee Gardner (10-26-13)
253. Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright – Steven Millhauser (11-07-13)
254.The Bones of the Earth – Howard Mansfield (11-17-13)
255. Burial Rites – Hannah Kent (11-20-13)
256. Sartoris – William Faulkner (12-6-13)
257. The Girls and Boys of Belchertown: A Social History of the Belchertown State School for the Feeble-Minded – Robert Hornick (12-17-13)
READ 2014
258. The Penultimate Truth – Philip K. Dick (1-6-14)
259. The Civil War in Color – John C. Guntzelman (1-8-14)
260. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner [re-read] (1-9-14)
261. The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami (1-15-14)
262. The Pseudo-Science Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe – Michael D. Gordin (2-2-14)
263. Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner – William Faulkner (2-28-14)
264. Kraken – China Mieville (3-22-14)
265. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: war in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 – Edward L. Ayers (4-14-14)
266. The Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami (4-27-14)
267. Taken At The Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece – Robin Waterfield (5-3-14)
268. Dividing the Spoils: The War For Alexander the Great’s Empire – Robin Waterfield (5-14-14)
269. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami (5-26-14)
270. When the Devil Comes Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New Orleans – Chester Hearn (5-28-14)
271. Ghosts on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire – James Romm (5-31-14)
272. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas – Yoko Ogawa (6-1-14)
273. Envy of the Gods: Alexander the Great’s Ill-Fated Journey Across Asia – John Prevas (6-6-14)
274. One Summer: America 1927 – Bill Bryson (6-24-14)
275. From Democrats to Kings: The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rose of Alexander the Great – Michael Scott (7-4-14)
276. Butch Cassidy: Beyond the Grave — W.C. Jameson (7-11-14)
277. Green Hills of Africa – Ernest Hemingway (7-29-14)
278. Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War – Amanda Vaill (8-2-14)
279. The Kept – James Scott (9-1-14)
280. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami (9-11-14)
281. Pilgrim’s Wilderness – Tom Kizzia (9-28-14)
282. Warpaths: Invasions of North America – Ian K. Steele (10-29-14)
283. The Tenth Man – Graham Greene (10-29-14)
284. 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History – Charles Bracelin Flood (11-2-14)
285. By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire – Ian Worthington (11-9-14)
286. Dance Dance Dance – Haruki Murakami (12-2-14)
287. The Unknown Terrorist – Richard Flanagan (12-15-14)
288. The Strange Library — Haruki Murakami (12-28-14)
289. Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement — Ousmane K. Power-Greene (12-30-14)
READ 2015
290. The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan (1-11-15)
291. River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War – Andrew Ward (1-21-15)
292. North Korea: State of Paranoia — Paul French (1-29-15)
293. Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison & the Decline of Virginia — Susan Dunn (2-7-15)
294. Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad — Eric Foner (2-27-15)
295. Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 – Christopher Clark (3-11-15)
296. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania — Erik Larson (3-25-15)
297. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed — Eric H. Cline (4-3-15)
298. Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital — by Nelson Lankford (4-15-15)
299.The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914 — Barbara Tuchman (4-26-15)
300. The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason — Charles Freeman (5-5-15)
301. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman – Haruki Murakami (5-11-15)
302. Blood of the Tiger: A Story of Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save a Magnificent Species — J.A. Mills (5-21-15)
303. Sputnik Sweetheart — – Haruki Murakami (5-21-15)
304. Our Man in Charleston — Christopher Dickey (5-31-15)
305. Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War — Joseph Wheelan (7-5-15)
306. The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara (7-5-15)
307. Death of a River Guide – Richard Flanagan (7-7-15)
308. All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr (7-12-15)
309. Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War – Elizabeth R. Varon (7-19-15)
310. Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World – Dorrik Stow (7-29-15)
311.Shosha – Isaac Bashevis Singer (8-29-15)
312.After the Quake – Haruki Murakami (8-31-15)
313. A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks (9-5-15)
314. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies – Alan Taylor (9-12-15)
315. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan – Rick Perlstein (9-27-15)
316. Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War – Charles Bracelen Flood (9-27-15)
317.About Grace – Anthony Doerr (10-29-15)
318.Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman – Greg Grandin (10-31-15)
319. Hear the Wind Sing – Haruki Murakami (11-2-15)
320. Pinball, 1973 – Haruki Murakami (11-24-15)
321.Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad — Martin W. Sandler (11-29-15)
322.Welcome to Braggsville — T. Geronimo Johnson (12-9-15)
323. Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country — Andrew J. Bacevich (12-16-15)
324. South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami (12-18-15)
325. Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir – John Paul Stevens (12-27-15)
326. Empire of Cotton: A Global History — Sven Beckert (12-30-15)
READ 2016
327. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War — Drew Gilpin Faust (1-24-16)
328. The Internal Enemy: Slavery and the War in Virginia 1772-1832 – Alan Taylor (1-31-16)
329. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terrorism and Heroism in Colonial Africa — Adam Hochschild (2-20-16)
330. Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen: True Tales of the Old West’s Sleaziest Swindlers — Matthew P. Mayo (2-29-16)
331. An Ape’s View Of Human Evolution — Peter Andrews (3-17-16)
332. Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World – Tim Whitmarsh (3-27-16)
333. Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder — Jack McLaughlin (4-18-16)
334. On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads – Tim Cope (5-3-16)
335. 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents — David Pietrusza (5-30-16)
336. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America – by Wendy Warren (6-15-16)
337. The Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement: A Case Study in Cooperation and Communication, 1951-1971 – Fred Altenese (6-16-16)
338. Tara Revisited: Women, War & The Plantation Legend — Catherine Clinton (7-14-16)
339. The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John — Bruce Ware Allen (8-27-16)
340.The State of Jones – Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer (8-31-16)
341. The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton — William E. Leuchtenburg (10-10-16
342.American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 — Alan Taylor (10-29-16)
343. The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History – Paul Andrew Hutton (11-20-16)
344. Maude (1883-1993): She Grew Up with the Country — Mardo Williams (12-12-16)
345. Rain: A Natural and Cultural History – Cynthia Barnett (12-14-16)
346. Civil War Poetry: An Anthology — edited by Paul Negri (12-28-16)
READ 2017
347.The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire — Stephen Kinzer (1-6-17)
348. Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth – Holger Hoock (1-31-17)
349. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation — Daina Ramey Berry (2-10-17)
350. Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy — David O. Stewart (2-18-17)
351. Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents — Robert Strauss (2-28-17)
352. Atlas of Slavery – James Walvin (03-6-17)
353. Across the River and Into the Trees – Ernest Hemingway (04-09-17)
354. Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War – Peter Conradi (4-23-17)
355. Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth’s Earliest Fossils — J. William Schopf (4-30-17)
356. The Sound of One Hand Clapping – Richard Flanagan (5-23-17)
357.The Indus: Lost Civilizations – Andrew Robinson (5-30-17)
358.Men Without Women – Haruki Murakam1 (6-9-17)
359.A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway (6-10-17)
360.The Iliad – Homer, trans. by Stephen Mitchell (6-22-17)
361. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations – John Haywood (6-30-17)
362. Springfield: The Novel – William Morris (7-11-17)
363. Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery that Changed Our Human Story – Lee Berger & John Hawks (7-17-17)
364. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History – Bill Schutt (7-29-17)
365. The Know-Nothing Party in Massachusetts: The Rise and Fall of a People’s Movement – John R. Mulkern (8-13-17)
366. JFK’S Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President – Thurston Clarke (9-5-17)
367. The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked & Found – Martin W. Sandler (9-25-17)
368. Bush – Jean Edward Smith (10-27-17)
369. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony – Roberto Calasso (10-30-17)
370. In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea – Danny Goldberg (12-20-17)
READ 2018
371. Grant – Ron Chernow (1-28-18)
372. The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin’s House – Daniel Mark Epstein (2-19-18)
373. The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era – Douglas R. Egerton (3-11-18)
374. Gilgamesh: A New English Version – Stephen Mitchell (3-29-18)
375. At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl – Inge Jens, ed. (4-29-18)
376. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, And Leadership – James Comey (5-5-18)
377. Time Travel: A History – James Gleick (5-6-18)
378. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels – Jon Meacham (5-29-18)
379. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells (5-31-18)
380. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America – Rick Perlstein (6-13-18)
381.First Person – Richard Flanagan (6-30-18)
382. The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist – Marcus Rediker (8-15-18)
383. Fear: Trump in the White House – Bob Woodward (9-16-18)
384. Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America – David O. Stewart (9-30-18)
385. Dinner in Camelot: The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House – Joseph A. Esposito (10-27-18)
386. Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami (11-25-18)
387. Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights –Steven Levingston (12-10-18)
READ 2019
388. Presidents of War – Michael Beschloss (1-18-19)
389. Imagine John Yoko – John & Yoko Lennon (1-29-19)
390. The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America –Edward L. Ayers (2-22-19)
391. The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps – Edward Brooke-Hitching (2-24-19)
392. Egypt – Christina Riggs (3-5-19)
393. Life in Deep Time: Darwin’s “Missing” Fossil Record – J. William Schopf (3-24-19)
394. Wanting – Richard Flanagan (4-27-19)
395. The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought and Survived in Civil War Armies – Peter S. Carmichael (5-17-19)
396. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill – Candice Millard (5-22-19)
397. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps — Amy Murrell Taylor (6-11-19)
398. Korea: Where the American Century Began — Michael Pembroke (6-29-19)
399. The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt — Patrick H. Breen (6-30-19)
400. Working — Robert Caro (7-4-19)
401. Napoleon: A Life — Adam Zamoyski (8-26-19)
402. Engleby — Sebastian Faulks (9-23-19)
403. Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed Everything — Martin W. Sandler (9-30-19)
404.The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness — Harlow Giles Unger (10-30-19)
405. The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America — Stephen W. Campbell (11-30-19)
406. America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History — Andrew J. Bacevich (12-29-19)
READ 2020
407. A Warning — Anonymous (1-7-20)
408. The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood (2-19-20)
409. Thomas Jefferson’s Education — Alan Taylor (2-29-20)
410. Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present — Peter Ward (3-31-20)
411. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 — Elizabeth A. Fenn (4-30-20)
412. Seduction: Sex, Lies, Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood — Karina Longworth (5-4-20)
413. The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations — Lucy Shipley (5-24-20)
414. Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War — Karen Abbott (6-12-20)
415. The Penguin Atlas of African History — Colin McEvedy (6-22-20)
416. A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age — Daniel Schonpflug (6-29-20)
417. Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War — S.C. Gwynne (7-17-20)
418. Africa: A Biography of the Continent — John Reader (7-31-20)
419. A Tidewater Morning — William Styron (8-26-20)
420. The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500-1700 — Charles Freeman (9-15-20)
421. Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 — Rick Perlstein (10-21-20)
422. The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire — Thomas T. Allsen (11-11-20)
423. A History of Crete — Chris Moorey (12-12-20)
424. The Caucasus: An Introduction — Thomas De Waal (12-29-20)
READ 2021
425. Tim & Tigon — Tim Cope (1-27-21)
426. Behind Putin’s Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia — Stephan Orth (2-10-21)
427. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life — Robert Dallek (3-12-21)
428. Into the Heart of the World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth — David Whitehouse (3-19-21)
429. Sarah’s Long Walk — Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick (3-27-21)
430. Flight to Freedom — Ellen Oppenheimer (4-6-21)
431. The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics — William J. Cooper (4-30-21)
432. Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell (5-31-21)
433. Superior: The Return of Race Science — Angela Saini (6-15-21)
434. First Person Singular — Haruki Murakami (6-27-21)
435. Flight —Sherman Alexie (6-28-21)
436. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams — Richard Flanagan (7-23-21)
437. George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father — David O. Stewart (8-7-21)
438. 1957: The Year That Launched the American Future — Eric Burns (9-28-21)
439. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 — Alan Taylor (10-10-21)
440. Chemistry For Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life — Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (10-31-21)
441. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe (11-21-21)
442. Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human — Madelaine Bohme et al (11-30-21)
443. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age — Annalee Newitz (12-16-21)
444. The Iliad — Homer, trans. by A.T. Murray (12-19-21)
445. The Fighting McCooks — Charles and Barbara Whalen (12-26-21)
446. High Tech and Hot Pot: Revealing Encounters Inside the Real China — Stephan Orth (12-31-21)
READ 2022
447. Hell of a Book — Jason Mott (1-20-22)
448. Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction — David C. Catling (1-28-22)
449. The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations — Paul Collins (2-6-22)
450. Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War — Colin Woodward (2-25-22)
451. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine — Jim Downs (3-30-22)
452. The Master and the Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov (4-23-22)
453. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth — Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford (4-30-22)
454. A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849 — Sidney Blumenthal (5-31-22)
455. The Stonemason — Cormac McCarthy (6-12-22)
456. Bogart — by A.M. Sperber & Eric Lax (6-25-22)
457. Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856 — Sidney Blumenthal (7-23-22)
458. The Counselor — Cormac McCarthy (7-25-22)
459. Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe (7-31-22)
460. After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in the World Transformed — Andrew Bacevich (8-10-22)
461. The Memory Police — Yoko Ogawa (8-31-22)
462. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine — Serhii Plokhy (9-22-22)
463. What They Fought For 1861-1865 — James M. McPherson (10-6-22)
464. Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860 — George A. Levesque (11-13-22)
465. The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway (11-16-22)
466. The Guest Cat — Takashi Hiraide (11-29-22)
467. The Passenger — Cormac McCarthy (12-6-22)
468. Stella Maris — Cormac McCarthy (12-17-22)
469. The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind — Katherine Hepburn (12-29-22)
READ 2023
470. Cloud Cuckoo Land — Anthony Doerr (1-22-23)
471. Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI — Judy Gumbo (2-8-23)
472. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality — Angela Saini (2-20-23)
473. All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860 — Sidney Blumenthal (3-18-23)
474. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth — Kevin M. Levin (3-30-23)
475. The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson — Robert S. Levine (4-23-23)
476. Love & Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss — Angela Esco Elder (5-5-23)
477. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom — Catherine Clinton (5-26-23)