Book Index by Author

 

 

Here is a list of all the books I've discussed, noted, raved about and complained about, followed by links to the posts in which they are mentioned. Alphabetized by author; for the list organized by title, see, well, Book Index by Title.

 

 

 

Extra Special Super Favorites are in bold.

 

Ackerman, Kenneth D., Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield (Upset)

Ahamed, Liaquat, Lords of Finance (Money)

Albright, Joseph and Kunstel, Marcia, Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy (Secret Agent Man) 

Alter, Jonathan, The Defining Moment (Time Enough)

Atkinson, Rick, An Army at Dawn (Dulce Bellum Inexpertis)

Atkinson, Rick, The Day of Battle (Sine Ira Et Studio)

Barker, Juliet, Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England (Falling in Love, Sailor, Beware)

Bascomb, Neal, Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin (Sailor, Beware)

Bascomb, Neal, Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City (Top of the World)

Basinger, Jeanine, The Star Machine (Star Struck)

Beard, Patricia, After the Ball (Gilding the Party)

Bernstein, Peter L., The Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation (Madcap Librettists, Maddening Explorers, and Mad Ideas)

Blanning, Tim, The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 (Massive, Epic, Sweeping, Panoramas of History)

Bolt, Rodney, The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America (Madcap Librettists, Maddening Explorers, and Mad Ideas)

Bonds, Russell S., Stealing the General (Runaway Train)

Brandon, Ruth, Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres (Homeschooled)

Brock, Pope, Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam (Forever Young)

Burrough, Bryan, Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 (Heat Wave)

Cathcart, Brian, A Fly in the Cathedral (Bigger Faster)

Chase, Marilyn, The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Pied Pipers At the Golden Gate)

Cliff, Nigel. The Shakespeare Riots (Stage Fright)

Cohen, Adam, Nothing to Fear (One Hundred Pages)

Cohen, Patricia Cline, The Murder of Helen Jewett (Murder Most Foul)

Conant, Jennet 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos) (City Upon a Hill)

Conant, Jennet Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II (Black Tie)

Dallek, Robert, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (The Power and the Unglory)

Davis, Michael, Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (Open Sesame)

Dawidoff, Nicholas, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg (The Catcher Was a Magician)

Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel (You Are Where You Are)

Dugard, Martin, Farther Than Any Other Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading)

Dugard, Martin, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone, by Martin Dugard (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading, The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)

Egan, Timothy, The Big Burn (Wild Fire)

Egan, Timothy, The Worst Hard Time (The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)

Eig, Jonathan, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Luck)

Eig, Jonathan, Opening Day (Across Sixty Aprils, Luck)

Ellis, Joseph, American Creation (When Giants Walked the Earth)

Feinstein, John, Living on the Black (Over and Out)

Figes, Orlando, A People's Tragedy, (Revolution Takes Its Turn, Sailor, Beware)

Figes, Orlando, The Whisperers (Hush)

Fleming, Fergus, Barrow's Boys (Cannibals, Communists, and Commanders)

Fox, Stephen, Transatlantic (Turbinia)

Gaskin, Margaret, Blitz: The Story of December 29, 1940  (Life During Wartime)

Gold, Glen David, Sunnyside (I Should Worry)

Goldsmith, Barbara, Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull (Free Love)

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals (Go Team)

Gordon, John Steel, A Thread Across the Ocean (Wired)

Grann, David, The Lost City of Z (Disappearing Act)

Green, James, Death in the Haymarket (Trouble With Explosives)

Guelzo, Allen, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America (Debate Club)

Hajdu, David, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Terror in the Aisles)

Halberstam, David, The Coldest Winter (Cold War)

Hamrick, S.J., Deceiving the Deceivers (Spies Like Us)

Hanson, Victor Davis, A War Like No Other (Will the Last One Out Turn Out the Hoplite?)

Helm, Sarah, A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of World War II (Spymistress, The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)

Holroyd, Michael, A Strange Eventful History (Star-Crossed)

Howell, Georgina, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations (Desert Song)

Isaacson, Walter, Einstein: His Life and His Universe (What's So Special About Relativity?)

Jeal, Tim, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (Stanley, Not as Presumed)

Johnson, Steven, Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Water Sign)

Jonnes, Jill, Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World (The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)

Kahn, David, Codebreakers (Crazy for Cryptography)

Kalish, Mildred, Little Heathens (Selected Shorts)

Kalush, William and Sloman, Larry, The Secret Life of Houdini (The Magician Was a Spy)

Kaplan, Fred, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer (Pen and Sword)

Kates, Gary, Monsieur d'Eon is a Woman (Identity Crisis)

Kendall, Joshua, Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus (Synonymous)

King, Ross, The Judgment of Paris (At the Turn)

Larson, Erik, Thunderstruck (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading Some More)

Liebowitz, Daniel, The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo (Madcap Librettists, Maddening Explorers, and Mad Ideas)

Lindley, David, Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for the Soul of Science (Not Exactly)

Lovell, Mary S., The Sisters (Massive, Epic, Sweeping Panoramas of History)

Lukas, J. Anthony, Big Trouble (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading, Big Trouble, Finally, The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006, Fear Nothing, Dread Nought)

Macintyre, Ben, The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading)

Macintyre, Ben, Agent Zigzag (Doublecross)

MacIntyre, Ben, Dead Man (Dead Man)

MacMillan, Margaret, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (When the Twain Met, The Power and the Unglory)

Marshall, Megan, The Peabody Sisters (Sisters in Arms)

Massie, Robert K., Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War (Fear Nothing, Dread Nought)

Matteson, John, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father (The Best of All Possible Worlds)

Mazzeo, Tilar, The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It   (Champagne Wishes)

McGerr, Michael, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (Better Living Through Association)

McGlynn, Frank, Robert Louis Stevenson (The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)

McKillop, A.B. The Spinster and the Prophet: H.G. Wells, Florence Deeks, and the Case of the Plagiarized Text (War of the Words)

Meacham, Jon, American Lion (Executive Decision)

Meacham, Jon, Franklin and Winston (Stand By Me)

Menand, Louis, The Metaphysical Club (I Tried to Join the Metaphysical Club But Was Quickly Asked to Leave)

Michaelis, David, Schulz and Peanuts (Happiness Is)

Millard, Candice, River of Doubt (Doubtless)

Millman, Chad, The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice (Sabotage)

Mitford, Jessica, Hons and Rebels (Decline and Fall)

Moore, Wendy, Wedlock (Marriage Go Round)

Moorehead, Alan, The White Nile (Cannibals, Communists, and Commanders)

Mortimer, Gavin, The Longest Night: The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941 (LIfe During Wartime)

Mosskier, Frances, Madame de Sevigne: A Life and Letters (Mail Call)

O'Donnell, Edward T., Ship Ablaze (Sea Worthy)

Olson, Lynne, Troublesome Young Men (Rebels With a Cause)

Payne, Stanley G., The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism (Cannibals, Communists, and Commanders)

Philbrick, Nathaniel, The Last Stand (Stand Out)

Philbrick, Nathaniel, Mayflower (The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)

Philby, Kim, My Silent War (Spies Like Us)

Prager, Joshua, The Echoing Green (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading Some More, The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006, Fear Nothing, Dread Nought, Across Sixty Aprils, Luck, The Catcher Was a Magician, Runaway Train, More Than You Wanted, Over and Out)

Quinn, Susan, Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times (Theatre for the Masses)

Rasenberger, Jim, America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation (Centennial)

Rauchway, Eric, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America (Rainbow City)

Reynolds, David S., Waking Giant (When We Were Young)

Ripley, Amanda, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--And Why (Prep School)

Royle, Trevor, Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 (Crimea River)

Saltzman, Cynthia The Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece (Wallflower)

Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh, Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man (Last Man Standing)

Sebag-Montefiore, Simon, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Desperate Comrades)

Sebag-Montefiore, Simon, Young Stalin (Inglorious Results of a Misspent Youth)

Segre, Gino, Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics (Devil's Bargain)

Seife, Charles, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Less Than Zero)

Sheehan, Neil, A Bright Shining Lie (The Truth Is Out There)

Shlaes, Amity, The Forgotten Man (Let's Face the Music and Dance)

Shorto, Russell Descartes' Bones (Separation Anxiety)

Simon, Linda, Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading Some More)

Singh, Simon, The Big Bang (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading, The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)

Singh, Simon, Fermat's Enigma (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading)

Sisman, Adam, Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (Constant Companion)

Sisman, Adam, The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge (Best Friends)

Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Cell Out)

Slotten, Ross A., The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace (Drawing the Line)

Stashower, Daniel, The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder (CSI: Hoboken)

Steinmeyer, Jim, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural (Believe It or Not)

Sweetman, David, Explosive Acts : Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Félix Fénẽon and the Art & Anarchy of the Fin de Siècle (Art History)

Tanenhaus, Sam, Whittaker Chambers (The Informer)

Taylor, Nick, American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work (Work Study)

Uglow, Jenny, The Lunar Men: Five Men Whose Curiosity Changed the World (Moonstruck)

Von Drehle, David, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Into the Fire)

Waller, Maureen, London 1945 (Life During Wartime)

Watson, Kathy, The Devil Kissed Her (Attachment)

Waugh, Alexander, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War (Family Ties)

Weber, Bruce, As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires (Strike Three)

Weiner, Tim, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Counterintelligence)

Weisberg, Barbara, Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism (Listen Close) 

Werth, Bruce, Banquet at Delmonico's (Dinner with Friends)

West, Nigel, Mortal Crimes (Spies Like Us, Part II)

Wilson, Frances, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth (The Romantics)

Wilson, Robin, Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical, Mathematical, Logical Life (Selected Shorts)

Winchester, Simon, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (Finding Fault)

Winchester, Simon, Krakatoa (Finding Fault)

Wineapple, Brenda, Genet (Letter from New York)

Wineapple, Brenda, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson (The Proud Tower)

Wulf, Andrea, The Brothers Gardener (Cultivate Your Own Garden)