Sunday, October 15, 2023

Monday, September 18, 2023

Updated book list #9

 Completed:

  • The 9/11 Commission Report
  • Columbine by Dave Cullen
  • Caught in the Revolution: Witnesses to the Fall of Imperial Russia by Helen Rappaport
  • World War I: The Definitive Visual History
  • World War II: The Definitive Visual History
  • The Romanovs 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History
  • The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
  • The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
  • The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  • The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
  • What If? and What If? 2 - A series of essays by historians on what might have been.
  • Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  • America Before by Graham Hancock
  • All the Gallant Men by Donald Stratton
  • Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
  • The Cay by Theodore Taylor
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
  • When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
  • 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley
  • Creature by John Saul
  • The Civil War: A Visual History
  • The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
  • War and Peace (abridged) by Leo Tolstoy
  • Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Bleachers by John Grisham
  • The American Revolution: A Visual History
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
In progress:
  • Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
On the docket:
  • The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot (A book I bought between 8th and 9th grades in July 2003 but never actually read.)
  • Dark History of Russia by Michael Kerrigan
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  • Wilderness Tales: Forty Stories of the North American Wild edited by Diana Fuss