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Topic: What's on your TBR list?
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What history books do you have on your TBR pile? Right now I've got Last Edited on: 2/26/09 10:39 PM ET - Total times edited: 1 |
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John Adams by McCullough is on my TBR also. He's a great writer, I really enjoyed 1776 and The Johnstown Flood. Here are a few on my TBR: 1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Thanks Sheila, I'll have to check out The Great Influenza, Bring Out Your Dead and The Affair of the Poisons. |
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I've got: The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption Truman (McCullough) Under the Banner of Heaven Auschwitz A Brief History of the Tudor Age Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Vincent Bugliosi 2 different bio's of Marie Antoinette, (Antonia Fraser and Evelyn Lever) The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 Queens of England - Norah Lofts That's all I can think of at the moment.
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Just a sampling from my PBS TBR: Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty by Arlene Skolnick The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor The Fall of Yugoslavia; The Third Balkan War by Misha Glenny For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James McPherson Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides Hallowed Ground : A Walk at Gettysburg by James McPherson I've got too many to list on my TBR, and then I've got a whole batch that aren't from PBS! I've got plenty to read! |
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I've got John Adams by David McCullough The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir and The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir |
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On my pile or in the mail right now: The Life of Elizabeth I by American Indians in American History, 1870-2001 by Sterling Evans Fire: A Brief History by Stephen J. Pyne The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture by Chris J. Magoc Celia: A Slave by Melton Mclaurin And several more on my wishlist.
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So many wishlist books listed, and so many more to add to my reminder list. (I only have about 300 books waiting for a spot!) I'll have to list mine tomorrow...
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My next book: Castles : Their Construction and History, by Sidney Toy |
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This one might complement Castles, Richard: The Porcelain God: A Social History of the Toilet by L. Julie Horn. Seriously... I liked it, but I'm kind of twisted, LOL. http://www.amazon.com/Porcelain-God-Social-History-Toilet/dp/0806519479/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235360504&sr=1-1 Last Edited on: 2/22/09 10:43 PM ET - Total times edited: 1 |
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The Porcelain God: A Social History of the Toilet by L. Julie Horn sounds interesting and it is kind of book I like. But, the reviews seem to indicate the writer is trying to be humous. With the current economic disaster I am in no mood for humour, perhaps there is a more serious book on this subject. Here's what I have coming up in my reading list: How we die, by Sherwin Nuland: "Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity." Last Edited on: 2/24/09 2:34 AM ET - Total times edited: 2 |
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I was in a reading challenge, so I neglected my history books :( TBR is overflowing and I'm trying to catch up some... Here's a sampling
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