Essential Books
The Millions: 28 Books You Should Read If You Want To
Source: 28 Books You Should Read If You Want To – The Millions Image via Abee5/Flickr By Janet Potter Earlier this month Amazon released a list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime. It joins Esquire’s 80 Books Every Man Should Read, The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read, Huffington Post’s more manageable […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — Supplemental List
Off my shelves as listed there and without regard to topical overlaps etc.: WOMEN Freya Stark: The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels Freya Stark: Perseus in the Wind: A Life of Travel Stacy Schiff: Cleopatra Kara Cooney: When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt Elizabeth Norton: Elfrida: The First Crowned […]
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Essential History Reading List
Reblogged from Chris’ Fish Place Well, we have reach 1040 books (Thanks TA). Yeah! Thanks to everyone. Extra thanks to Themis Athena who became my co-organizer with this list. You can find it: here Original post: http://ethiercn.booklikes.com/post/1927487/essential-history-reading-list
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Essential History Reading (NF): State of the List
The list is now up to 897 books — 104 more to get to 1001. Surely we can do that?? So, calling for contributions once more. Non-U.S. / non-European still preferred, but really … anything goes! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1926108/essential-history-reading-nf-state-of-the-list
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@Elentarri, Lillelara, Linda Hilton, Markk, Murder by Death, Obsidian Blue, SirSurly, Tea Stitch Read, and Tigus
I’ve gone through Moonlight Reader’s 1001 books list and identified those entries that are historical nonfiction but currently not yet also on Chris’s History Nonfiction list. Please have a look at the below books you contributed to MR’s list and let Chris and me know whether you want them to be added to Chris’s list […]
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Essential History List
Reblogged from: Chris’ Fish Place Thanks to the wonderful Themis-Athena, we have been able to enter all the books so far. We have a total of 629. You can see the complete list here. We are putting out another call out for books. In particular, we are looking for more books about religion […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — Miscellaneous Further Addenda
TRAVEL HISTORY * Colin Thubron – The Lost Heart of Asia (Central Asia; post-USSR trip with historic sidelights) * Mark Twain – A Tramp Abroad (19th century; Germany, Austria, Italy) * David Dary – The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore (19th century; US) * Terry Townsend – Jane Austen’s Hampshire (19th century; […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 10: Stragglers and Addenda
* 5 books that didn’t seem to fit onto any other list, and * 3 addenda which will also go, retroactively, onto the “first hand accounts”, “women’s history” and “literary and cultural history” lists. THE STRAGGLERS * David P. Silverman: Ancient Egypt * Linda Schele & David A. Freidel: A Forest of Kings: The […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 9: Primary Sources
This is largely a recap; most of these have already appeared on one or several other lists. So instead of cross-referencing, this time I’m just going to put the new entries in bold. (Note: These are primary sources other than first hand accounts.) * Cicero: An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom (Philippicae) * Suetonius: […]
Read MoreCrowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 8: At Home and Abroad
Cross-references to my other topical lists, as always, marked with the addition “cf.” AT HOME: REGIONAL AND LOCAL HISTORY * Peter Ackroyd: London: The Biography (London through the ages, from Roman times to present day) * Anna Quindlen: Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City (London through the ages — cf. list […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 7: Literary and Cultural History
Literary biographies and other works on literary history — as opposed to literary criticism. Cross-references to my other topical lists, as always, marked with the addition “cf.” LITERARY HISTORY Stanley Wells: * Shakespeare: For All Time * Shakespeare: A Life in Drama * Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide * The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare * Shakespeare […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 6: American History
Cross-references to my other topical lists, as always, marked with the addition “cf.” * David McCullough: 1776 and John Adams (Wars of Independence / Foundations of Nationhood / First Presidents) * Joseph J. Ellis: Founding Brothers:The Revolutionary Generation and American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Wars of Independence / Foundations of Nationhood / First […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 5: WWII / National Socialism
Cross-references to my other topical lists, as always, marked with the addition “cf.” * Milton S. Mayer: They Thought They Were Free * Joachim Fest: Hitler and Der Untergang (Inside Hitler’s Bunker) * Eugen Kogon: Der SS-Staat (The Theory and Practice of Hell) * Guido Knopp: Hitlers Helfer (Hitler’s Henchmen) * Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 4: History of the British Isles
RECAP: ALL BOOKS BY … * Antonia Fraser (women’s history, Tudors & Stuarts) * Ian Mortimer (British history, particularly Middle Ages) * Dan Jones (ditto) * Stanley Wells (Shakespeare; everything from biography and history to criticism) * Christopher Hibbert (British and Italian history) * John Julius Norwich (British and Mediterranean history) — for all of […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 3: First Person Accounts
Memoirs / autobiographies, diaries, correspondence, and journalism. Again, cross-references to my other topical lists are marked with the addition “cf.” * Plato: The Last Days of Socrates * Pliny the Younger: Letters * Pierre Abélard: Historia calamitatum (Histoire de mes malheurs / History of My Misfortunes), and Abélard & Heloise: Correspondence * Samuel Pepys: Diary […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 2: Women’s History
.. including a selection of first person accounts and primary historical source texts. Cross-references to my other topical lists are marked with the addition “cf.” * Antonia Fraser: all books (women’s history, Tudors & Stuarts — cf. list no. 1, “Bulk Entries and Basics”) * Joyce A. Tyldesley: Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt […]
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Crowdsourced History Reading — TA’s List No. 1: Bulk Entries and Basics
I’m going to split up my submissions for the crowdsourced history reading list initiated by Chris into several topical lists (with cross references), beginning with the authors and book series I’m submitting in toto, as well as some basic reference material. So: ALL BOOKS BY … * Antonia Fraser (women’s history, Tudors & Stuarts) * […]
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Calling all history readers
Reblogged from Chris’ Fish Place So thanks to Charlton and Themis-Athena we are doing a crowdsourced list for history. The goal is to reach 1001 because why not. So here we go: History (non-fiction) only. Diaries will be allowed (so Anne Frank would be fine). You can have an author’s whole work as part […]
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More Favorite / Essential Historical Fiction: Towards the 200!
OK, so I did get to another full list after all. Here goes, without any further ado: Virginia Woolf: Orlando I’m happy I’m getting another shot for this book alone — could have kicked myself for leaving it off my first list. I’m not a big fan of either time travel or main character sex […]
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My Historical Fiction Essentials
Finally getting around to this — as per Chris’s invitation, here’s my list (in no particular order, and with major reliance on Chris’s dictum that it’s “fine to list a whole author’s work or series and have it count as one entry”): Hillary Mantel’s historical fiction I’ve yet to try her contemporary writing, but both […]
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