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As I said in the previous post I used my blog’s dashboard to transfer my old reading list which stopped at 2017 to Microsoft Word to update it.<\/p>\n

I’ve been meaning to do it since 2018 when my old website Snowbizz.com became impossible for me to update. I’ve mostly brought it up to date by researching “Book” posts here, my book shelves, my Kindle Books and Audible book lists. I’m sure I’m missing some but I’ve added 42 more books to the list only three of which are fiction Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Nickle Boys and the Oppermanns. AH! HERE’S AN ADDITION I JUST THOUGHT OF ON MY MINNESOTA BOOKSHELF – The 21st Ballot by David Lebedoff. I would have read it about the time I was researching the politics of the Don Boyd Era<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the list as it stands now not including books from before 1979. You will not some changes in formatting:<\/p>\n

My Reading list since 1979<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong>
\nThe Hobbit \t\t\t\t\t\t\t J.R. Tolkien
\nHawaii \t\t\t\t\t\tJames Mitchner
\nFellowship of the Ring \t\t \t\t\t\t\t J.R. Tolkien
\nTwo Towers \t\t\t\t\t\t\t J.R. Tolkien
\nReturn of the King \t\t \t\t\t\t\t J.R. Tolkien
\nPlain Speaking an Oral History \t\t\t\t\t\t Merle Miller
\nA lauditory, but partly fraudulent, book about Harry Truman
\nGiants in the Earth \t\t\t\t\t\t\tR\u00f6lvaag
\nCampaigning for President \t\t\t\t\t\t Weisbord
\nStories of various American presidential campaigns
\nBirth of Britain \t\t\t\t\t\tWinston Churchill
\nA florid account of England’s early history, first in a series of four volumes
\nRepublican Roosevelt \t\t\t\t\t\t Morton Blum
\nRoman Republic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t Isaac Asimov
\nBrave New World \t\t\t\t\t\t Aldous Huxley
\nDragons of Eden \t\t \t\t\t\t\tCarl Sagan
\nNapoleon \t\t \t\t\t\t\t?
\nRed Badge of Courage \t\t \t\t\t\t\tStephen Crane
\nThe Greeks \t\t \t\t\t\t\tIsaac Asimov
\nRoman Empire \t\t \t\t\t\t\tIsaac Asimov
\nDark Ages \t\t\t\t\t\t\tIsaac Asimov
\nThe Egyptians \t\t\t\t\t\t\tIsaac Asimov
\nThe Near East \t\t \t\t\t\t\tIsaac Asimov
\nThe Challenge and Rejection \t\t\t\t\t\tJulius Pratt
\nPerhaps about Woodrow Wilson or American Diplomatic History
\nThe Religions of Man \t\t \t\t\t\t\t Huston Smith
\na survey on all the major religions
\nAscent of Man \t\t \t\t\t\t\tJacob Bronkowski
\na humanist’s view of the development of civilization
\nDawn of African History \t\t\t\t\t\t Roland Oliver
\nA History of Asia \t\t\t\t\t\t Bingham, Conroy, Ikl\u00e9
\nMedieval Europe \t\t \t\t\t\t\tHollister
\nThe New Archaeology \t\t\t\t\t\t Wilson
\nThe Land of Caanan \t\t\t\t\t\t\tIsaac Asimov
\nThe Shaping of England \t\t\t\t\t\t Isaac Asimov
\nThe Forgotten Empire \t \t\t\t\t\t Isaac Asimov
\nHistory of the Byzantine Empire
\n( I read thirty books in 1979. I’d never done anything like this before and I haven’t done it since. Books in red are fiction. Books in Green are science related)<\/p>\n

1980<\/strong>
\nThe History of England \t\t\t\t\t\t\t John Borke
\nThe 100 \t\t\t\t\t Michael H Hart
\none man’s list of the 100 most influential people in history
\nTo Kill a Mockingbird \t\t\t\t\t\t\t Harper Lee
\nShogan \t\t\t\t\t James Clavell
\nMinnesota a history \t\t\t\t\t\tTheodore Blegen
\nAlexander Hamilton \t \t\t\t\t\t?
\nA Child is Born \t \t\t\t\t?
\nfor new parents
\nWhat Every Mother Should Know about Having a Baby \t\t ?
\nDitto<\/p>\n

1981<\/strong>
\nAll Quiet on the Western Front \t\t\t\t\t\t Maria Remarck
\ninfluential anti-war novel about WW1 that helped turn America to isolationism
\nTimes Atlas of World History \t\t\t\t\t\t London Times
\nHalf maps, half history, I read it cover to cover
\nFathers and Sons \t\t\t\t\t\tTurgenev
\nBroca’s Brain \t\t\t\t\t Carl Sagan
\nScience and social history
\nThis Hallowed Ground \t\t\t\t\t\t Bruce Catton
\nCivil War History
\nMan’s Search for Meaning \t\t\t\t\t\t Viktor Frankl
\nHolocaust survivor’s account and psychological insights in inner strength
\nRunaway Horses \t\t\t\t\t\t Yukio Mishima
\na novel by a Japanese nationalist who later committed seppuku as a moral example for a nonmilitant generation of Japanese
\nLatin American History \t\t\t\t\t\t Wilgus & D\u00b4eca
\nBarron’s Essentials of American History \t\t\t\t Nelson Klose<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong>
\nThe World According to Garp \t\t\t\t\t\t John Irving
\nClan of the Cave Bear \t\t\t\t\t\tJean Auel<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong>
\nDune 1st of Trilogy \t\t\t\t\t\tFrank Herbert
\nDune 2nd of Trilogy \t\t\t\t\t\t Frank Herbert
\nPath to Power \t\t\t\t\t\tRobert Caro
\nLyndon Johnson Bio the early years, highly regarded its sequel was panned
\nValley of the Horses \t\t\t\t\t\t Jean Auel
\nThe Murder of Napoleon \t\t\t Ben Weider, David Hapgood
\nGorky Park \t\t\t\t\t\tMartin Cruz Smith<\/p>\n

1984-86<\/strong>
\nPolar Star \t\t\t\t\t\tMartin Cruz Smith
\nThe Read Aloud Handbook \t\t\t\t\t\t Jim Trelease
\nmy bible on reading out loud to kids with a great bibliography of kid’s lit.
\n( I either stopped reading or stopped keeping track of the books read for these years or perhaps both)<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong>
\nWashington, The Indispensable Man \t\t\t\t\t J.T. Flexner<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong>
\nThe Romance of Bible Scripts & Scholars \t\t\t\t John Reumann
\na history of different versions and translations of the Bible borrowed from Glen Avon Church library
\nPlagues and People \t\t\t\tWilliam H. McNeill
\na history of the effects of pandemics on world history
\nThe Laughing Savior \t\t\t\tJohn Dart
\na history of Gnostic Christianity<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong>
\nThe Bad Popes \t\t\t\t\t\tE.R. Chamberlin
\n a history about some really bad popes
\nWashington Goes to War \t\t\t\t\t\t David Brinkley
\na reminiscence from one of America’s preeminent journalists about Washington DC’s growth as America entered WWII
\nFrom Harlem to the Rhine \t\t\t\t\t\t Arthur Little
\na history of the all black 369th Infantry, raised in Harlem, NY which fought in WW1 and to which my grandfather George Robb was assigned as an officer. In the racist US Army of that era black troops were mostly commanded by white officers.
\nHot Blooded Dinosaurs \t\t\t\t\t\t A. Desmond
\nDinosaur Heresies \t\t\t\t\t\t Robert Bakker<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong>
\nParting the Waters \t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor Branch
\na remarkable history of the modern Civil Rights movement
\nThe Emperor, Downfall of an Autocrat \t\t\t\t\t Ryszard Kapuscinski
\nan idiosyncratic, patched together narrative of the fall of Ethiopia’s Emperor for Life, Haile Selassie, written my a communist journalist who was given remarkable freedom to chronicle unflattering things about the non-communist world.
\nTwelve Parables of Jesus \t\t\t\t\t\t Maxie Dunnam
\na Sunday school study guide
\nSurrender or Starve \t\t\t\t\t\tRobert D Kaplan
\nthe story about the intentional starvation of the Ethiopian people
\nCatcher in the Rye \t\t\t\t\t\tJ D Salinger
\n read for the second time
\nHannibal \t\t\t\t Harold Lamb
\nHiroshima \t\t\t\t\tJohn Hersey
\nan account of the dropping of the bomb from the viewpoint of the people on the ground
\nThe Trial of Socrates \t\t\t\t\tI F Stone
\nFrom Beirut to Jerusalem \t\t\t\t\t\tThomas Friedman
\ncurrent events<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong>
\nMore Like Us \t\t\t\t\t\t James Fallows
\na writer’s thoughtful analysis of what makes American’s Americans
\nWonderful Life \t\t\t\t Stephen Jay Gould
\nabout the explosion of new life found in precambrian fossil shale deposits
\nDecision in Philadelphia \t\t\t Chris & James Lincoln Collier
\nthe creation of the US Constitution<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong>
\nLincoln and his Generals \t\t\t\t\t T. Harry Williams
\nIs Paris Burning \t\t\t\t\t Collins & LaPierre
\nHow Paris was spared destruction in WWII
\nConfucius and the Chinese Way \t\t\t\t\t H G Creel<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong>
\nForgotten Scripts \t\t\t \t\tCyrus Gordon
\nThe story of the decipherment of lost languages
\nWho Wrote the Bible \t\t\t\t\t\t Richard Friedman
\nAnalysis of the Old Testament’s authorship
\nJurassic Park \t\t\t\t\t Michael Crichton
\nZealous Intruders \t\t\t\t\t Naomi Shepherd
\nThe rediscovery of the Holy Land by western tourists in the 17 and 1800s
\nThe African Slave Trade \t\t\t\t\t\t Basil Davidson
\nexplains how the slave trade unraveled African society and culture
\nVanished Library \t\t\t\t\tCanfora
\nThe destruction of the great library of Alexandria
\nThe Man in the Roman Street \t\t\t\t\t Garret Mattingly
\nEveryday life in ancient Rome
\nThe Persians \t\t\t\t\tTime Life, ed. by Jim Hicks
\na history
\n1933 \t\t\t\tPhilip Metcalfe
\nfive people’s experiences in Germany the year Adolph Hitler became Chancellor
\nThe Christians as the Romans Saw Them \t\t\t\tRobert Wilkin<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong>
\nThe Learning Gap \t\t\t\t\t\t Stigler & Stevensen
\n gap between rich and poor in education or something like that
\nKing of Pontus \t\t\t\t\t Alfred Doggan
\nBiography of Mithradates enemy of Rome
\nAaron Burr The Great Am Rascal \t\t\t\t\t Philip Vail
\nBalkan Ghosts \t\t\t\t\t Robert Kaplan
\nBalkan History
\nPilgrims in their Own Land \t\t\t\t\t Martin Marty
\nHistory of American Christianity<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong>
\nThe Great Triumvirate \t \t\t\t\tMerrill Peterson
\nBiography of Webster, Calhoun and Henry Clay
\nProfiles in Courage \t\t\t\t\tJohn F Kennedy
\nrereading
\nThe Armada \t\t\t\t\tGarrett Mattingly
\nSpanish Armada<\/p>\n

1996<\/strong>
\nBob Dole \t\t\t\t\tRichard Ben Cramer
\nThe Time Before History \t\t\t\t\t\tColin Tudge
\nHuman Prehistory
\n1066 The Year of the Conquest \t\t\t\t\t David Howarth
\n(audio book) the last successful invasion of England
\nThe Last Best Hope on Earth \t\t\t\t\t Mark E Neely Jr.
\nAbraham Lincoln
\nNo Ordinary Time \t\t\t\t\tDoris Kearns Goodwin
\nFranklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the coming of war<\/p>\n

1997<\/strong>
\nThe Celts – First Masters of Europe \t\t\t\t\t New Horizons
\nUndaunted Courage \t\t\t\t\t\t Stephen Ambrose
\nJourney of Lewis & Clark
\nLongitude \t\t\t\t\tDava Sobel
\nHistory of mastering of navigation technology
\nHow the Irish Saved Civilization \t\t\t\t\tThomas Cahill
\ntransmission of ancient classical texts<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong>
\nAmerican Sphinx \t\t\t\t\t\t John Ellis
\nBio of Thomas Jefferson
\nTo Kill a Mockingbird \t\t\t\t\t Harper Le
\nrereading
\nJapanese Destroyer Captain \t\t\t\t\t T Hara
\nwar memoir<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong>
\nOne Hundred Days \t\t\t\t\t\t Alan Schon
\n Napoleon from Elba to Waterloo
\nThe Rape of Nanking \t\t\t\t\t\t Iris Chang<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong>
\nKing Leopold’s Ghost \t\t\t\t\t\tA Hochschil
\nThe Rape of the Congo by King Leopold
\nGuns Germs and Steel \t\t\t\t\t\t Jared Diamond
\nHow latitude, geography and environment have determined history’s winners and losers
\nThe Lynchings in Duluth \t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Fedo<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong>
\nDay of Deceit \t\t\t\t\tRobert Stinnett
\nFDR’s conspiracy to provoke a Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor – supports the theory
\nApril 1865 the Month that Saved America \t\t\t\t John Winik
\nThe last month of the Civil War
\nA Short History of Reconstruction \t\t\t\t\t Eric Foner
\nFrederick Douglass \t\t\t\t\t\tWilliam S. McFeely
\nThe Professor and the Madman \t\t\t\t\t Simon Winchester
\nThe history of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary
\nTaliban – Militant Islam, Oil,
\nFundamentalism in Central Asia \t\t\t\t Ahmed Rashid<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong>
\nFounding Brothers \t\t\t\t\t Joseph J. Ellis
\nThe Revolutionary Generation
\nLibraries in the Ancient World \t\t\t\t\t Lionel Casson
\nThe Hidden Hitler \t\t\t\t\t Lothar Machtan
\nE=mc\u00b2 …the World’s Most Famous Equation \t\t\t\t David Bodanis
\nConfederates in the Attic \t\t\t\t\t Tony Horowitz
\ntravelogue of the modern “Confederate” South by a Pulitzer winner
\nUlysses S. Grant Soldier & President \t\t\t\t\t Geoffrey Perret<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong>
\nThe River Congo \t\t\t\t\tPeter Forbath
\nThe White Headhunter \t\t\t\t\tNigel Randell
\nImpact of Europeans on Melanesian Society
\nThe Map that Changed the World \t\t\t\t\t Simon Winchester
\nWm. Smith, makes sense of English stratigraphy and gives birth to the science of geology
\nLife of Pi \t\t\t\tYann Martel
\nI read this out loud to my wife. It’s wonderful!
\nTuxedo Park \t\t\t\tJennet Conant
\nA wall street millionaire’s obsession with science leads to discoveries that will win WW2<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong>
\nThe Miraculous Fever Tree \t\t\t\t\t Fiammetta Rocco
\nHistory of the drug Quinine which is still the world’s most reliable cure for Malaria
\nGod’s Secretaries \t\t\t\t\t Adam Nicolson
\non making the King James Bible
\n“We are Lincoln Men” \t\t\t\t David Herbert Donald
\nWine & War \t\t\t\t\t Don & Petie Kladstrup
\nFrench vintners roll in W W II
\nParis 1919 Six Months that Changed the World \t\t\t\t Margaret MacMillan
\nCicero Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Pol \t\t\t\t Anthony Everitt
\nThe Good Women of China \t\t\t\t\t Xinran
\nWrenching stories of the pain endured by Chinese women since 1949
\nThe Bridge of San Luis Rey \t\t\t\t\t Thornton Wilder<\/p>\n

2005<\/strong>
\n1912 – Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs
\nElection that changed the Country \t\t\t\t\t James Chace
\nLincoln at Cooper Union the speech that made A. Lincoln President \t Harold Holzer
\nLincoln \t\t\t\t Gore Vidal
\nStalin, The Court of the Red Tsar \t\t\t\t\t Simon S Montefiore
\nAnimal Farm \t\t\t\tGeorge Orwell
\nNaked \t\t\t\tDavid Sedaris
\nWall St. Journal Guide to Wine \t\t\t\t\tGaiter & Brecher
\nThe Devil’s Disciples – Hitler’s Inner Circle \t\t\t\t Anthony Read<\/p>\n

2006<\/strong>
\n1812 The War that Forged a Nation \t\t\t\t\tWalter R. Borneman<\/p>\n

2007<\/strong>
\nMaster of the Senate \t\t\t\tRobert A Caro
\nDial M The Murder of Carol Thompson \t\t\t\t William Swanson<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009<\/strong> …….For two years I was so wrapped up in a political project that I read no books from cover to cover.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong>
\nSunburnt Country \t\t\t\tBill Bryson
\nA humorist’s Australian Travelogue
\nThunderbolt Kid \t\t\t\tBill Bryson
\nA humorist’s Iowa Childhood memoir
\nLincoln, The biography of a writer \t\t\t\t\tFred Kaplan
\n1776 Washington crosses the Delaware \t\t\t\t David McCullough
\nThe Diary of Anne Frank (Definitive edition) \t\t\t\t Anne Frank
\nNature’s Building Blocks A-Z guide to Elements \t\t\t\t John Emsley
\nIn Tasmania \t\t\t\tNicholas Shakespeare
\nThe Fatal Shore THE one volume Australian \t\t\t\t Robert Hughes
\nHistory (Began reading it 20 years earlier)<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong>
\nSearching for Aboriginal Languages \t\t\t\t R.M.W. Dixon
\nA History of New Zealand \t\t\t\t\t Keith Sinclair
\nCarnivorous Nights (Trail of Taz Tiger) \t\t\t Mittelbach & Crewdson
\nNew Zealand Wildlife BRADT travel guide \t\t\t\t Julian Fitter
\nAustralian Wildlife BRADT ditto \t\t\t\t\tStella Martin
\nThe Last of the Nomads \t\t\t\t\tW J Peasley
\nTrue account of the hunt for the last Aborigines to relive the traditional nomad life in the 1970’s after the fled to the inhospitable Outback for breaking a tribal taboo
\nThe Original Australians Aborigines History \t\t\t\t Josephine Flood<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong>
\nWalter Mondale, The Good Fight \t\t\t\t\t Walter Mondale
\nHubert Humphrey a Biography \t\t\t\t\tCarl Solberg
\nLyndon Johnson The Passage of Power \t\t\t\t Robert Caro
\nThe Political Career of Floyd B. Olson \t\t\t\t George H. Mayer
\nBio about MN’s Depression Era Governor
\nThe Swerve, How the World became Modern \t\t\t\t Stephen Greenblatt
\nConsequences of the Renaissance discovery of an ancient poem by Lucretius
\nLincoln, Team of Rivals \t\t\t\tDoris Kearns Goodwin
\nThe Devil in the White City \t\t\t\tErik Larson
\nAccount of a prodigious solo mass murderer operating during Chicago’s World Fair
\nThaddeus Stevens 19th Century Egalitarian \t\t\t\t Hans L. Trefousse,
\nBio of the leading Civil War Radical Republican<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>
\nBlack Sea \t\t\t\tNeal Ascherson
\nDiscursive History of the region
\nThe Book Thief \t\t\t\tMarkus Zusak
\nUnreliable Memoirs \t\t\t\tClive James
\nby Australian Born British movie reviewer
\nThe Barbarous Years \t\t\t\tBernard Bailyn
\nThe first hundred years of 13 British colonies
\nLife on the Mississippi \t\t\t\tMark Twain
\nPolk, the Man who Transformed the Presidency and America Walter R. Borneman
\nThe Warmth of Other Suns \t\t\t\t\tIsabel Wilkerson
\nHistory of black migration out of South from 1915 to 70’s<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>
\nOne Summer America 1927 \t\t\t\t\tBill Bryson
\nFascinating weaving of many events
\nZealot, Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth \t\t\t\t Reza Alsan
\nPractical non biblical analysis of the times of Jesus
\nThe Bully Pulpit \t\t\t\tDoris Kearns Goodwin
\nTeddy Roosevelt and his buddy Wm Taft
\nLincoln’s Boys \t\t\t\tJoshua Zeitz
\nHow his two secretaries rewrote his Pres.
\nBio and elevated his reputation from saintly bumbler to the most canny of Presidents
\nThe Color of Water \t\t\t\tJames McBride
\nThe story of a black reporter’s discovery of his Jewish Mother’s remarkable beginnings
\nThe Narrow Road to the Deep North \t\t\t\t Richard Flanagan
\nMan Booker winner about an Australian POW’s life before and after being interned in hell
\nThe President’s War – 5 living Presidents \t\t\t\t Chris DeRose
\nwho mostly disagree with their successor Lincoln and his conduct of the War
\nOrphan Train \t\t\t Kristina Baker Kline <\/p>\n

2015<\/strong>
\nDead Wake Last Crossing of the Lusitania \t\t\t\t Erik Larson
\nWild Swans \t\t\t\tJung Chang
\nThree Generations of Chinese women from the Warlord period through the Cultural Revolution
\nMy Promised Land \t\t\t\tAri Shavit
\nIsrael’s history 1897 – 2013
\nHarlem’s Rattlers and the Great War \t\t\t\t Sammons & Morrow<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>
\nThe Wright Brothers (audio version) \t\t\t\t David McCullough
\nIn the Garden of the Beasts \t\t\t\tErik Larson
\nA Bell for Adano \t\t\t\tJohn Hershey
\nEmpires of the Sea \t\t\t\tRoger Crowley
\nChristendom stops Turkish Advance
\nDark Horse a Bio. of Wendell Willkie \t\t\t\t Steve Neal
\nAmerican Rose A Nation Laid Bare \t\t\t\t Karen Abbott<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong>
\nThe Old Testament NRSV \t\t\t\tMoses et al
\nBleeding Kansas Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era \t\t\t Nicole Etcheson
\nCountry Driving: A Journey from Farm to Factory \t\t Peter Hessler
\n1920 The Year of the Six Presidents \t\t\t\t David Pietrusza
\nAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and
\nFaith in the New China \t\t\t\tEvan Osnos
\nMr. Speaker the Man who Broke the Filibuster \t\t\t\t James Grant
\nDestiny of the Republic (Garfield Assassination) \t\t\t\t Candice Millard
\nThe Martial Adventures of Henry and Me \t\t\t\t William Allen White
\nMinnesota Rag (Landmark Supreme Court ruling) \t \t\t Fred W. Friendly
\nMao Tse-Tung and I Were Beggars \t\t\t\t Siao-Yu
\nBorn a Crime (audio book) \t\tTrevor Noah
\nLast Hope Island \t\t\t\tLynne Olson
\nBritain home of refugees in WW II<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>
\nFrom about 2007 -2017 I was barely able to post on my original website www.snowbizz.com Over that decade where my political and other commentary was uploaded to my blog: www.lincolndemocrat.com I managed to post new pictures of my snow sculptures and new books to this one as I completed them. I wanted but neglected to keep track of books from this date although I kept many of them on my bookshelves and mentioned them in blog posts. What follows is an imperfect list of books I\u2019ve completed gleaned from the blog, memory and by perusing my shelves. Some dates are best guesses.<\/p>\n

The Last of the Doughboys\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRichard Rubin
\nFierce Patriot (Wm. Tecumseh Sherman) \t\t\t\t Robert. O\u2019Connell
\nThe Road from the Past\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Ina Caro
\nFive Nights in Paris\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Baxter
\nIs Paris Burning (rereading)\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCollins & Lapierre
\nNapoleon \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPaul Johnson<\/p>\n

2019<\/strong>
\nRed Summer\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCameron McWhirter
\nwhite riots after the war
\nA Year in Provence\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPeter Mayle<\/p>\n

2020<\/strong>
\nAmericans in Paris\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid McCullough
\nImperfect Union\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Steve Inskeep
\nJesse and John C. Fremont
\nCaste\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIsabell Wilkerson<\/p>\n

2021<\/strong>
\nJesus and John Wayne\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Kristen Kobes Dellez
\nTravels with George\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNathaniel Philbrick
\n38 Nooses\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tScott W. Berg
\nLincoln, Little Crow and the Beginning of the Frontier\u2019s End<\/p>\n

2022<\/strong>
\nThe Kidnapping Club\t\t\t\t\t\t \t Jonathan Daniel Wells
\nWallstreet slavery and resistance on the eve of the Civil War
\nWays and Means\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Roger Levenstein
\nUnworthy Republic The Dispossession and the road to Indian Terr.\t Claudio Saunt
\nTecumseh & the Prophet\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Peter Cozzens
\nHeroic Struggle for America\u2019s Heartland
\nThe Oppermanns\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Lion Feuchtwanger<\/p>\n

2023<\/strong>
\nA Waiter in Paris\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEdward Chisholm
\nAdventure in the dark heart of the city
\nThe Revolutionary Samuel Adams\t\t\t\t\t\tStacy Schiff
\nInto Thin Air\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJonathan Krakauer
\nThe Triumph of William McKinley\t\t\t\t\t\tKarl Rove
\nThe Story of Kansas\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBliss Isely
\nEmpire of the Summer Moon (audio)\t\t\t\t\tS.C. Gwynne
\nQuanah Parker and the Commache Empire
\nNeither Dog nor Wolf \t\t\t\t\t\t\tKent Newburn
\nDiffer We Must an (Audio)\t\t\t\t\t\tSteve Inskeep\t<\/p>\n

2024<\/strong>
\nTime spent collecting my own NYURepublican
\nThe Demon of Unrest (Audio)\t\t\t\t\t\tEric Larson
\nThe Splendid and the Vile (audio)\t\t\t\t\tEric Larson
\nSame territory as book \u201c1933\u201d
\nA Choice of Weapons (rereading)\t\t\t\t\t\tGordon Parks
\nThe Nickle boys (audio?)\t\t\t\t\t\tColson Whitehead
\nThe Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel (audio)\t\t\t\tDouglas Brunt
\nThe Wager (audio)\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Grann
\nJames Baldwin Notes of a Native Son\t\t\t\t\tJames Baldwin
\nUncle Tom\u2019s Cabin\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHarriet Beacher Stowe
\nFounding Rivals (James Madison and James Monroe) Chris DeRose<\/p>\n

2025<\/strong>
\nDriven Out<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJean Pfaelzer
\nThe Wide Sea Fateful Voyage of Captain Cook<\/strong> (audio)\t\t\tHampton Sides
\nMagellan\u2019s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Edge of the World<\/strong>\t(audio)\tLaurence Bergen
\nNative Nations<\/strong> (Audio)\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKathleen DuVal
\nThe Teacher Wars<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDana Goldstein
\nThe Great Influenza<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn M Barry
\nThe Luck of Nineveh<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArnold C. Brackman
\nAlexander Hamilton <\/strong> Ron Chernow
\nAssignment to Hell<\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTimothy M. Gay
\nOf Mice and Men<\/strong> (in French and English) John Steinbeck
\nThe Great Gatsby<\/strong> (in French and English) F. Scott Fitzgerald
\nEveryone who is gone is here<\/strong>(listened to on Audible) Jonathan Blitzer
\nDeadwood<\/strong> (listened to on Audible) Peter Cozzens
\nThe British are Coming<\/strong> (listened to on Audible) Rick Atkinson
\nAmerican Lion<\/strong> (finished after ten year pause) John Meacham<\/p>\n

2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fate of the Day<\/strong>, Vol 22 in Trilogy of Rev War\tRick Atkinson
\n1929 Inside the Greatest Crash\t<\/strong>\t\t\tAndrew Ross Sorkin
\nAlexander Robb and the making of British Columbia <\/strong> B.R.D White
\n(sent to me by a second cousin it tells about my great grandfather
\nThomas Robb’s first cousin who settled for a decade in Canada)
\nTruman<\/strong> The definitive 1000 page bio of Harry T. David McCullough
\nThe Bitter Road to Freedom <\/strong> William I Hitchcock
\nMadamme Fourcades’s Secret War<\/strong> Audible Lynne Olsen
\nBook and Dagger<\/strong>: Librarian Spies of WW II Audible Elyse Graham
\nThe Age of Eisenhower America and the World in the 1950s<\/strong> William I Hitchcock
\nThe Patriarch (life and times of) Joseph P. Kennedy<\/strong> David Nasaw
\nThe Contender Richard Nixon The Congress Years<\/strong> Irwin F. Gellman
\nFather Abraham, Lincoln’s relentless struggle to end slavery<\/strong> Richard Striner
\nAn Inconvenient Widow, the torment … Mary Todd Lincoln<\/strong> Lois Romano
\nThe Lost City of the Monkey God<\/strong> Audible Douglas Preston
\nInvisible Hands, Business crusade against New Deal <\/strong> Kim Phillips-Fein
\nTower Hill A Plantaion on the Edge of Rebellion <\/strong> Alan Taylor <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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