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 title; for the list by author, see the shockingly named Book Index by Author.
Extra Special Super Favorites are in bold.
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos, Jennet Conant (City Upon a Hill)
After the Ball, by Patricia Beard (Gilding the Party)
Agent Zigzag, by Ben Macintyre (Doublecross)
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England, by Juliet Barker (Falling in Love, Sailor, Beware)
America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation, by Jim Rasenberger (Centennial)
American Creation, by Joseph Ellis (When Giants Walked the Earth)
American Lion, by Jon Meacham (Executive Decision)
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, by Nick Taylor (Work Study)
An Army at Dawn, by Rick Atkinson (Dulce Bellum Inexpertis)
As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber (Strike Three)
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, Frances Wilson (The Romantics)
Banquet at Delmonico's, by Bruce Werth (Dinner With Friends)
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco, by Marilyn Chase (Pied Pipers At the Golden Gate)
Barrow's Boys, by Fergus Fleming (Cannibals, Communists, and Commanders)
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder, by Daniel Stashower (CSI: Hoboken)
The Big Bang, by Simon Singh (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading, The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)
The Big Burn, by Timothy Egan (Wild Fire)
Big Trouble, by J. Anthony Lukas (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading, Big Trouble, Finally, The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006, Fear Nothing, Dread Nought)
Blitz: The Story of December 29, 1940, by Margaret Gaskin (Life During Wartime)
Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy, Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel (Secret Agent Man)
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson, by Adam Sisman (Constant Companion)
A Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan (The Truth Is Out There)
The Brothers Gardener, by Andrea Wulf (Cultivate Your Own Garden)
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg, by Nicholas Dawidoff (The Catcher Was a Magician)
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam, by Pope Brock (Forever Young)
Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, by Jim Steinmeyer (Believe It or Not)
Codebreakers, by David Kahn (Crazy for Cryptography)
The Coldest Winter, by David Halberstam (Cold War)
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great Earthquake of 1906, by Simon Winchester (Finding Fault)
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856, by Trevor Royle (Crimea River)
Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield, by James A. Garfield (Upset)
Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray, by Linda Simon (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading Some More)
The Day of Battle, by Rick Atkinson (Sine Ira Et Studio)
Death in the Haymarket, by James Green (Trouble With Explosives)
Deceiving the Deceivers, S.J. Hamrick (Spies Like Us)
The Defining Moment, by Jonathan Alter (Time Enough)
Descartes' Bones, by Russell Shorton (Separation Anxiety)
The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice, by Chad Millman (Sabotage)
The Devil Kissed Her, by Kathy Watson (Attachment)
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, by Robert K. Massie (Fear Nothing, Dread Nought)
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man, by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (Last Man Standing)
The Echoing Green, by Joshua Prager (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)
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, by John Matteson (The Best of All Possible Worlds)
Einstein: His Life and His Universe, by Walter Isaacson (What's So Special About Relativity?)
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes (The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)
Explosive Acts : Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Félix Fénẽon and the Art & Anarchy of the Fin de Siècle, by David Sweetman (Art History)
Farther Than Any Other Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook by Martin Dugard (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading)
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics, by Gino Segre (Devil's Bargain)
Fermat's Enigma, by Simon Singh (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading)
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (Better Living Through Association)
A Fly in the Cathedral, by Brian Cathcart (Bigger Faster)
The Forgotten Man, by Amity Shlaes (Let's Face the Music and Dance)
Franklin and Winston, by Jon Meacham (Stand By Me)
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge, by Adam Sisman (Best Friends)
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times, by Susan Quinn (Theatre for the Masses)
Genet, by Brenda Wineapple (Letter from New York)
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, by Georgina Howell (Desert Song)
Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven Johnson (Water Sign)
Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres, by Ruth Brandon (Homeschooled)
Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond (You Are Where You Are)
The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace, by Ross A. Slotten (Drawing the Line)
Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City, by Neal Bascomb (Top of the World)
Hons and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford (Decline and Fall)
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War, by Alexander Waugh (Family Ties)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (Cell Out)
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)
The Judgment of Paris, by Ross King (At the Turn)
Krakatoa, by Simon Winchester, (Finding Fault)
The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo, by Daniel Liebowitz (Madcap Librettists, Maddening Explorers, and Mad Ideas)
The Last Stand, by Nathaniel Philbrick (Stand Out)
Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical, Mathematical, Logical Life, by Robin Wilson (Selected Shorts)
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner (Counterintelligence)
The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America, by Rodney Bolt (Madcap Librettists, Maddening Explorers, and Mad Ideas)
Little Heathens, by Mildred Kalish (Selected Shorts)
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of World War II, by Sarah Helm (Spymistress, The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, by Allen Guelzo (Debate Club)
Living on the Black, by John Feinstein (Over and Out)
London 1945, by Maureen Waller (Life During Wartime)
The Longest Night: The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941, by Gavin Mortimer (Life During Wartime)
Lords of Finance, by Liaquat Ahamed (Money)
The Lost City of Z, by David Grann (Disappearing Act)
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, by Jonathan Eig (Luck)
The Lunar Men: Five Men Whose Curiosity Changed the World, by Jenny Uglow (Moonstruck)
Madame de Sevigne: A Life and Letters, by Frances Mosskier (Mail Call)
Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus, by Joshua Kendall (Synonymous)
The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan, by Ben Macintyre (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading)
Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick (The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)
The Metaphysical Club, by Louis Menand (I Tried to Join the Metaphysical Club But Was Quickly Asked to Leave)
Monsieur d'Eon is a Woman, by Gary Kates (Identity Crisis)
Mortal Crimes, by Nigel West (Spies Like Us, Part II)
The Murder of Helen Jewett, by Patricia Cline Cohen (Murder Most Foul)
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America, by Eric Rauchway (Rainbow City)
My Silent War, by Kim Philby (Spies Like Us)
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, by Robert Dallek (The Power and the Unglory)
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World, by Margaret MacMillan (When the Twain Met, The Power and the Unglory)
Nothing to Fear, by Adam Cohen (One Hundred Pages)
Opening Day, by Jonathan Eig (Across Sixty Aprils, Luck)
Operation Mincemeat, by Ben MacIntyre (Dead Man)
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull, by Barbara Goldsmith (Free Love)
The Peabody Sisters, by Megan Marshall (Sisters in Arms)
A People's Tragedy, by Orlando Figes (Revolution Takes Its Turn, Sailor, Beware)
The Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece, by Cynthia Saltzman (Wallflower)
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, by Bryan Burrough (Heat Wave)
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815, by Tim Blanning (Massive, Epic, Sweeping Panoramas of History)
Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin, by Neal Bascomb (Sailor, Beware)
River of Doubt, Candice Millard (Doubtless)
Robert Louis Stevenson, by Frank McGlynn (The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)
Schulz and Peanuts, by David Michaelis (Happiness Is)
The Secret Life of Houdini, by William Kalush and Larry Sloman (The Magician Was a Spy)
The Shakespeare Riots, by Nigel Cliff (Stage Fright)
Ship Ablaze, by Edward T. O'Donnell (Sea Worthy)
The Sisters, by Mary S. Lovell (Massive, Epic, Sweeping Panoramas of History)
The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism, by Stanley G. Payne (Cannibals, Communists, and Commanders)
The Spinster and the Prophet: H.G. Wells, Florence Deeks, and the Case of the Plagiarized Text, by A.B. McKillop (War of the Words)
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag-Montefiore (Desperate Comrades)
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer, by Tim Jeal (Stanley, Not as Presumed)
The Star Machine, by Jeanine Basinger (Star Struck)
Stealing the General, by Russell S. Bonds (Runaway Train)
A Strange Eventful History, by Michael Holroyd (Star-Crossed)
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, by Michael Davis (Open Sesame)
Sunnyside, by Glen David Gold (I Should Worry)
Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism, by Barbara Weisberg (Listen Close)
Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (GoTeam)
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, by David Hajdu (Terror in the Aisles)
A Thread Across the Ocean, by John Steele Gordon (Wired)
Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson (Oh, Yeah, I've Been Reading Some More)
Transatlantic, by Stephen Fox (Turbinia)
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, by David Von Drehle (Into the Fire)
Troublesome Young Men, by Lynne Olson (Rebels With a Cause)
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II, by Jennet Conant (Black Tie)
Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for the Soul of Science, by David Lindley (Not Exactly)
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--And Why, by Amanda Ripley (Prep School)
Waking Giant, by David S. Reynolds (When We Were Young)
A War Like No Other, by Victor Davis Hanson (Will the Last One Out Turn Out the Hoplite?)
The Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, by Peter L. Bernstein (Madcap Librettists, Maddening Explorers, and Mad Ideas)
Wedlock, by Wendy Moore (Marriage Go Round)
The Whisperers, by Orlando Figes (Hush)
The White Nile, by Alan Moorehead (Cannibals, Communists, and Commanders)
Whittaker Chambers, by Sam Tanenhaus (The Informer)
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It, by Tilar Mazzeo (Champagne Wishes)
The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan (The Nine Best Books I Read During 2006)
Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag-Montefiore (Inglorious Results of a Misspent Youth, Desperate Comrades)
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife (Less Than Zero)
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