Weasel Words

A Book Log

history↑

The Bright Ages, Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas, Roger Crowley
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings, Neil S. Price
The Murder of King James I, Alistair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell
The Hero of Two Worlds, Mike Duncan
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
The Silk Road: A New History, Valerie Hansen
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945, Max Hastings
1688: The First Modern Revolution, Steve Pincus
Early China: A Social and Cultural History, Li Feng
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom, John Romer
The War on Heresy: Faith and power in medieval Europe, R. I. Moore
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, Fred Anderson
Aethelred: The Unready, Levi Roach
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, Matthew Restall
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan
The Cheese and the Worms, Carlo Ginzburg
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid, John Romer
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, Christopher Clark
Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow
Postwar, Tony Judt
The Oxford History of the French Revolution, William Doyle
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land, Thomas Asbridge
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000, Chris Wickham
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931, Adam Tooze
God's Philosophers, James Hannam
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel, Frances Gies and Joseph Gies
The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross
The Classical World, Robin Lane Fox
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 3, Edward Gibbon
Classical Music in America, Joseph Horowitz
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, David Foster Wallace
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 , David C. Lindberg
The Death of Socrates, Plato
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II (unfinished), Edward Gibbon
A History of Western Philosophy (concluded), Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy (begun), Bertrand Russell

mainstream fiction↑

How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, Alice Munro
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro
The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst
The Cobweb, Neal Stephenson and L. Frederick George
Reamde, Neal Stephenson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace
Blankets, Craig Thompson
Something Fresh, P.G. Wodehouse
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer