Books read spanning time – from the near beginning of time to the present day of human development.
Books Read
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (2010)
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction (2017)
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (2010)
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000–5000 BC (2006)
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (2007)
Phoenician Secrets: Exploring the Ancient Mediterranean (2011)
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (2016)
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2007)
In Search of Zarathustra (2004)
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (2012)
The Invention of God: The Natural Origins of Mythology and Religion (2011)
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2017)
Hoplite: Torch of Prometheus (2008)
The Afghan Campaign: A Novel (2006)
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire (2012)
The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece (2002)
The Hellenistic Age: A Short History (2008)
Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome (2011)
Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor (2007)
Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory (2001)
Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal (2001)
Carthage Must Be Destroyed (2012)
The King’s Gambit (SPQR I) (1990)
The Blood of Gods: A Novel of Rome (2014)
Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome (2006)
The Parthian (The Parthian Chronicles 1-4) (2013)
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (2018)
The Mysteries of Mithras: The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World (2005)
Terry Jones’ Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History (2007)
Belisarius: The Last Roman General (2014)
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (2017)
The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome (2009)
Alaric, Child of the Goths (2012)
Theodosius: The Empire at Bay (1998)
The Life and Times of Constantine the Great (2007)
When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome (1999)
AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State (2009)
428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (2011)
After Rome: A Novel of Celtic Britain (2013)
The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West (2010)
The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World (2008)
Justinian’s Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (2008)
The Dark Ages 476–918 A.D. (1892)
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (2010)
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (2010)
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad (2014)
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (2010)
The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings (2014)
The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great (2009)
The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D. (1999)
The Normans: From Raiders to Kings (2014)
Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World (1988)
Pride and Honour – The Battle for Saxony (2014)
The First Crusade: A New History (2005)
The Book of Saladin: A Novel (2015)
Brethren: An Epic Adventure of the Knights Templar (2006)
The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars (2008)
The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot (2015)
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire (2003)
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade (2002)
Genghis: Birth of an Empire: A Novel (2010)
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (2013)
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (2015)
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (2006)
The Pillars of the Earth: A Novel (1989)
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged The First Global Empire (2016)
Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors (2006)
City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas (2013)
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (2016)
The Habsburg Empire: A New History (2016)
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe (2010)
Charlemagne: King Of The Franks (2015)
The Falcon of Palermo: A Novel (2006)
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900 (2010)
The Midwife’s Tale: A Mystery (2013)
Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I (2016)
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia (2013)
Young Bloods (Wellington and Napoleon Quartet) (2007)
The Girl Who Fought Napoleon: A Novel of the Russian Empire (2016)
The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789–1848 (1988)
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1980)
Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution (2004)
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82 (2001)
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (2016)
The American Revolution of 1800: How Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction (2014)
The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1993)
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (2005)
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007)
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1997)
Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America (2014)
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American (2019)
Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution (1996)
Brutal Valour: The Tragedy of Isandlwana (The Anglo-Zulu War) (2016)
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 (2014)
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (2013)
Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (1997)
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2009)
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War (1997)
The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War (2001)
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (2008)
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (2006)
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1988)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (200&)
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (1985)
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (2006)
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (2011)
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence (1998)
Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin (1948)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War (2004)
Fascism and Big Business (936)
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (2008)
The Last Town on Earth: A Novel (2007)
Jim Crow’s defense;: Anti-Negro thought in America, 1900-1930 (1965)
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1966)
The Long March, 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism’s Survival (1972)
The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking TRUE Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow F.D.R (2007)
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich (2013)
The Forgotten Soldier (2001)
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1966)
The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II (2008)
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1981)
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (2017)
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (2013)
The day before doomsday: An anatomy of the nuclear arms race (1977)
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government (2016)
The Plot Against America (2005)
The Golden Age: A Novel (1925)
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (1997)
Freedom at Midnight (1975)
O Jerusalem! (1988)
The Affluent Society (1998)
Poverty of Affluence: A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life (1983)
Washington, D. C. (1967)
Dark ghetto: Dilemmas of social power (1967)
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government (2015)
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia (2013)
The Korean War: A History (2011)
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War (2016)
All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (2008)
Iran: The illusion of power (1980)
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (2008)
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters (2008)
Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness (1967)
The End of Cheap China, Revised and Updated: Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Disrupt the World (2014)
The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (2008)
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (2000)
Pillaging the World (2014)
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap (2014)
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (1982)
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (1998)
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (2013)
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia (1972)
Why The Vietnam War?: Nuclear Bombs and Nation Building in Southeast Asia, 1945-1961 (2021)
We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam (2004)
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (2010)
Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969 (1999)
Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire – A Buddhist Proposal for Peace (1967)
The Enemy: What Every American Should Know About Imperialism (1970)
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth (2015)
America’s War Machine: Vested Interests, Endless Conflicts (2015)
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition (1995)
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces (2013)
Towards a New Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Reagan (2003)
After Brezhnev: Sources of Soviet Conduct in the 1980s (1993)
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (2008)
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War (2009)
Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (2018)
The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region (2017)
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War (2016)
Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific (2014)
The Final Days (1976)
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1975)
Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd (2011)
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
In the Belly of the Beast (1981)
The Executioner’s Song (1979)
The Permanent War Economy: American Capitalism in Decline (1976)
Ozone Crisis: The 15-Year Evolution of a Sudden Global Emergency (1990)
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back (1997)
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan (2009)
The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist’s Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan (2001)
Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier’s Story (2001)
The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America (2009)
