NOTE: This entry no longer updated. See my Works Covered page for a list of all books reviewed on this blog.
Since I spend a lot of time with nonfiction and initially I did not make any comments on these books I wanted to have one page that provided an easy round-up for me to reference back to those I did cover. I have added a "Nonfiction summary" link under the "Works Covered" link in the right side-bar for easier access to these books and will add to these links as I read more.
Essays
Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen
U.S. History
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Mourt’s Relation by George Morton, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Robert Cushman
Good Newes from New England by Edward Winslow
His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
No review, but highly recommended: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier
William Goetzmann on My Confession: Reflections of a Rogue by Samuel Chamberlain (C-SPAN video) and some of the links with Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
World History
The Histories by Herodotus
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
(and an excerpt of a review by Katie Low in The Oxonian Review)
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor
The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss and some thoughts on such a
speculative history (before I knew about John Lewis Gaddis’ Landscape of History and Niall Ferguson’s Virtual History)
A Hidden Life: A Memoir of August 1969 by Johanna Reiss
Short reviews of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century and The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Literary Nonfiction
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
Other Nonfiction
The Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi
The Painting of You by William Michaelian
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
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