Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
Reading List
Book List
Updated September 2, 2008
Currently listing 374 books
This is an ever-growing, ever-changing list of the books I plan to read—if I can ever find the time, that is! I’ve found that reading lists often allow an interesting glimpse into a person’s character and interests. In my case, my main interests currently tend towards classics, history, maritime, aviation, survival, and biographies, but my lighter interests are notoriously varied, so I generally come home from the library with books on all kinds of odd and obscure subjects. If you’ve read any of these books and want to comment on them, or if you’ve got a title to suggest, do please drop me a line via the contact form.
Title |
Author |
Type |
Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
Currently Reading |
Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War |
Gregory F. Michno |
Nonfiction |
History |
When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust |
Arthur L. Caplan |
Nonfiction |
History |
On The Shelf |
Belly of the Beast: A POW’s Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous WWII Japanese Hell Ship ORYOKU MARU |
Judith L. Pearson |
Nonfiction |
History |
Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945 |
Frances B. Cogan |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Vaughan: A Wartime Diary of the Philippines |
Elizabeth Vaughan |
Nonfiction |
Memoir |
Surrender & Survival: The Experience of American POWs in the Pacific 1941-1945 |
E. Bartlett Kerr |
Nonfiction |
History |
What Really Sank the TITANIC: New Forensic Discoveries |
Jennifer Hooper McCarty |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Upcoming |
1066: Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry |
Andrew Bridgeford |
Nonfiction |
History |
1215: The Year of Magna Carta |
Danny Danziger |
Nonfiction |
History |
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus |
Charles C. Mann |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World |
Frank McLynn |
Nonfiction |
History |
1776 |
David McCullough |
Nonfiction |
History |
According to Queeney |
Beryl Bainbridge |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Adventures of the Ectoplasmic Man |
Daniel Stashower |
Fiction |
Mystery |
After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World |
A.N. Wilson |
Nonfiction |
History |
Albatross: A True Story of a Woman’s Survival at Sea |
Deborah Scaling Kiley |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
Alexander Hamilton |
Ron Chernow |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar |
Edvard Radzinsky |
Nonfiction |
History |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
Erich Maria Remarque |
Fiction |
Drama |
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation |
Jon Meacham |
Nonfiction |
History |
American Psycho |
Bret Easton Ellis |
Fiction |
Drama |
Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States |
Hiroshi Motomura |
Nonfiction |
History |
April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici |
Lauro Martines |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold McClintock—Discoverer of the Fate of Franklin |
David Murphy |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The Arctic in the British Imagination, 1818-1914 |
Robert G. David |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Artemis Fowl |
Eoin Colfer |
Fiction |
Fantasy |
The Ascent of Rum Doodle |
W.E. Bowman |
Fiction |
Humor |
Barrow’s Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers |
Fergus Fleming |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Batman & Houdini: The Devil’s Workshop |
Howard Chaykin |
Fiction |
Graphic Novel |
Bear Attacks of the Century: True Stories of Courage and Survival |
Larry Mueller |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality |
Gordon W. Allport |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
Believe |
William Shatner |
Fiction |
Science Fiction |
Belinda |
Maria Edgeworth |
Fiction |
Humor |
A Bend in the River |
V.S. Naipaul |
Fiction |
Drama |
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life |
Walter Isaacson |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour |
Barbara W. Tuchman |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Birth of the TITANIC |
Michael McCaughan |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe |
Robert S. Gottfried |
Nonfiction |
Health |
Black Thunder |
Arna Wendell Bontemps |
Fiction |
Drama |
Blimps & U-Boats: U.S. Navy Airships in the Battle of the Atlantic |
J. Gordon Vaeth |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
Blood Stain |
Peter Lalor |
Nonfiction |
Crime |
The Boer War |
Thomas Pakenham |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You’ll Never Read |
Stuart Kelly |
Nonfiction |
Literature |
Book of the Dead |
Muriel Rukeyser |
Fiction |
Poetry |
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America |
James Webb |
Nonfiction |
History |
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria |
Julia P. Gelardi |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Bowing to Necessities: History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 |
C. Dallett Hemphill |
Nonfiction |
History |
Bread and Wine |
Ignazio Silone |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Thornton Wilder |
Fiction |
Drama |
The British Rigid Airship, 1908-1931 |
Robin Higham |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
R. Angus Buchanan |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture |
Ross King |
Nonfiction |
Architecture |
The Call of the Wild |
Jack London |
Fiction |
Adventure |
Car Crashes and Other Sad Stories |
Jennifer Dumas |
Nonfiction |
Crime |
The Case of Cabin 13 |
Sam McCarver |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
Fiction |
Drama |
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France |
Leonie Frieda |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 |
Nat Brandt |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric |
Veronica Buckley |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy |
Louise W. Knight |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London |
Vic Gatrell |
Nonfiction |
History |
A Clockwork Orange |
Anthony Burgess |
Fiction |
Drama |
Cold Comfort Farm |
Stella Gibbons |
Fiction |
Humor |
A Cold Treachery: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery |
Charles Todd |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture |
Michael F. Robinson |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
A Colored Woman in a White World |
Mary Church Terrell |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control Since the Sixteenth Century |
Michael Palmer |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 |
N.A.M. Rodger |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The Communist Manifesto |
Karl Marx |
Nonfiction |
Politics |
A Conspiracy of Paper |
David Liss |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century |
Katie Hickman |
Nonfiction |
History |
Cranford |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
Fiction |
Drama |
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors |
Stephen E. Ambrose |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 |
Trevor Royle |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Crooked Hinge |
John Dickson Carr |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Cruel Sea |
Nicholas Monsarrat |
Fiction |
Adventure |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
Alan Paton |
Fiction |
Drama |
Dangerous Crossings: The First Modern Polar Expedition, 1925 |
John H. Bryant |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Dangerous Nation: America’s Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century |
Robert Kagan |
Nonfiction |
Politics |
Daniel Deronda |
George Eliot |
Fiction |
Drama |
Darkness at Noon |
Arthur Koestler |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Daughters of Cain: An Inspector Morse Mystery |
Colin Dexter |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Dead Men Tapping: The End of the HEATHER LYNNE II |
Kate Yeomans |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The Dead of Jericho: An Inspector Morse Mystery |
Colin Dexter |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Dead Secret |
Wilkie Collins |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin |
Martyn Beardsley |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective’s Scrapbook |
Katherine Dunn |
Nonfiction |
Crime |
Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure and Survival |
Nate Hardcastle |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship GLOBE |
Gregory Gibson |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors |
Edward E. Leslie |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion |
David Hume |
Nonfiction |
Philosophy |
Die for Me |
Don Lasseter |
Nonfiction |
Crime |
The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Doctor Zhivago |
Boris Pasternak |
Fiction |
Drama |
Dog of the South |
Charles Portis |
Fiction |
Humor |
Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the |
Steven Biel |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel |
Douglas Botting |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
The Dream Stealer |
Gregory Maguire |
Fiction |
Fantasy |
Drive |
James Sallis |
Fiction |
Adventure |
Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions |
Jelle Zeilinga de Boer |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
EASTLAND: Legacy of the TITANIC |
George W. Hilton |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens |
Jane Dunn |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Elizabethan Underworld |
Gamini Salgado |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Emperor’s Children |
Claire Messud |
Fiction |
Drama |
Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India |
Elizabeth Buettner |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Encyclopedia of the Arctic |
Mark Nuttall |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The End of the Affair |
Graham Greene |
Fiction |
Drama |
ENDURANCE: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage |
Alfred Lansing |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
English Society in the 18th Century |
Roy Porter |
Nonfiction |
History |
Evelina |
Frances Burney |
Fiction |
Drama |
Existence |
Rollo May |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity |
David Chapin |
Nonfiction |
Science |
Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin |
Ken McGoogan |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Fear in Early Modern Society |
William G. Naphy |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
A Fearsome Doubt: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery |
Charles Todd |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella |
Charlotte Lennox |
Fiction |
Humor |
Final Seance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle |
Massimo Polidoro |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Fingersmith |
Sarah Waters |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Fire that Will Not Die |
Michele McBride |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
The Floating Lady Murder |
Daniel Stashower |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Flyboys |
James Bradley |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won—and Lost |
Frank Ryan, M.D. |
Nonfiction |
Health |
The Forsyte Saga |
John Galsworthy |
Fiction |
Drama |
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism |
Susan Jacoby |
Nonfiction |
Philosophy |
From Here to Eternity |
James Jones |
Fiction |
Drama |
Fury Beach: The Four-Year Odyssey of Captain John Ross and the VICTORY |
Ray Edinger |
Fiction |
Adventure |
Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love |
Dava Sobel |
Nonfiction |
Science |
A Garbled TITANIC |
Senan Baloney |
Fiction |
Humor |
The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu |
Anthony Sattin |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The Ghost from the Grand Banks |
Arthur C. Clarke |
Fiction |
Science Fiction |
Ghost Ships: Tales of Abandoned, Doomed, and Haunted Vessels |
Angus Konstam |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Giants in the Sky: A History of the Rigid Airship |
Douglas H. Robinson |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
The Ginger Man |
J. P. Donleavy |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Stieg Larsson |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Give Me My Father’s Body: The Story of Minik, the New York Eskimo |
Kenn Harper |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
God’s Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe |
Amir D. Aczel |
Nonfiction |
Science |
The Good Thief |
Hannah Tinti |
Fiction |
Drama |
Goodnight Mr. Tom |
Michelle Magorian |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Great Hunger |
Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Greatest Disaster Stories Ever Told: Seventeen Harrowing Tales |
Lamar Underwood |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
Guide for Anchoresses |
Ancrene Wisse |
Nonfiction |
Religion |
The Guns of August |
Barbara W. Tuchman |
Nonfiction |
History |
A Handful of Dust |
Evelyn Waugh |
Fiction |
Drama |
Hard Times |
Charles Dickens |
Fiction |
Drama |
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery |
Michael Bliss |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Hatchet |
Gary Paulsen |
Fiction |
Adventure |
The Haunted Hotel |
Wilkie Collins |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Heart of Darkness |
Joseph Conrad |
Fiction |
Adventure |
The Heart of the Matter |
Graham Greene |
Fiction |
Drama |
A High Wind in Jamaica |
Richard Hughes |
Fiction |
Drama |
Historical Atlas of the Arctic |
Derek Hayes |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The History of Love |
Nicole Krauss |
Fiction |
Drama |
The History of Shipwrecks |
Angus Konstam |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Houdini & Conan Doyle: The Story of a Strange Friendship |
Bernard M.L. Ernst |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Houdini and the Seance Murders |
Christopher Farran |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Houdini Girl |
Martyn Bedford |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Houdini’s Last Illusion |
Steve Saville |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Houdini: A Mind in Chains |
Bernard C. Meyer |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Houdini: A Musical |
Muriel Rukeyser |
Fiction |
Drama |
Houdini: A Pictorial Biography |
Milbourne Christopher |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Houdini: The Man from Beyond |
Brian Haberlin |
Fiction |
Graphic Novel |
A House for Mr. Biswas |
V. S. Naipaul |
Fiction |
Drama |
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall |
Christopher Hibbert |
Nonfiction |
History |
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything In It |
Arthur Herman |
Nonfiction |
History |
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination |
Francis Spufford |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
I, Claudius |
Robert Graves |
Fiction |
Drama |
Icefields |
Thomas Wharton |
Fiction |
Fantasy |
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya |
Caroline Elkins |
Nonfiction |
History |
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind |
Eric R. Kandel |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
In the Time of the Butterflies |
Julia Alvarez |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Inferno |
Dante |
Fiction |
Poetry |
Infinite Jest |
David Foster Wallace |
Fiction |
Drama |
Interview with the Vampire |
Anne Rice |
Fiction |
Fantasy |
Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
Fiction |
Drama |
It |
Stephen King |
Fiction |
Horror |
Ivan the Terrible |
Isabel de Madariaga |
Nonfiction |
History |
Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell |
Stewart Evans |
Nonfiction |
Crime |
The Jewel That Was Ours: An Inspector Morse Mystery |
Colin Dexter |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Kim |
Rudyard Kipling |
Fiction |
Adventure |
Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science |
John Henry |
Nonfiction |
Science |
Lady Franklin’s Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession, and the Remaking of Arctic History |
Ken McGoogan |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Last Bus to Woodstock: An Inspector Morse Mystery |
Colin Dexter |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives |
Ernest Zebrowski, Jr. |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
The Last Dive: A Father and Son’s Fatal Descent into the Ocean’s Depths |
Bernie Chowdhury |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic |
Lawrence Millman |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic |
Robert McGhee |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain’s Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery |
Martin Dugard |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Laying the Music to Rest |
Dean Wesley Smith |
Fiction |
Science Fiction |
Les Liaisons Dangereuses |
Choderlos de Laclos |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
Charles Dickens |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: ’The Most Happy’ |
E.W. Ives |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books |
Thomas Wharton |
Fiction |
Humor |
A Long Shadow: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery |
Charles Todd |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Longest Journey |
E. M. Forster |
Fiction |
Drama |
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time |
Dava Sobel |
Nonfiction |
Science |
Lord Jim |
Joseph Conrad |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Loss of the TITANIC |
Lawrence Beesley |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The Loss of the TITANIC: 1912 |
Tim Coates |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Lost |
Gregory Maguire |
Fiction |
Fantasy |
Lost at Sea: Ghost Ships and Other Mysteries |
Michael Gross |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez |
Fiction |
Drama |
Loving |
Henry Green |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil |
Philip Zimbardo |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy |
Sarah Bradford |
Nonfiction |
History |
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason |
Michel Foucault |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
The Mammoth Book of Storms, Shipwrecks, and Sea Disasters: Over 70 First-Hand Accounts of Peril on the High Seas, from St. Paul’s Shipwreck to the PRESTIGE Disaster |
Richard Russell Lawrence |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Man and Memory: Breakthroughs in the Science of the Human Mind |
D.S. Halacy, Jr. |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
Man and Wife |
Wilkie Collins |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Man Who Killed Houdini |
Don Bell |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Black, Franklin’s Lieutenant |
Peter Steele |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Mary Barton |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
Fiction |
Drama |
Maurice |
E. M. Forster |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary |
Simon Winchester |
Nonfiction |
Literature |
Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts |
Ulric Neisser |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
The Memory of Eva Ryker |
Donald A. Stanwood |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling |
Ross King |
Nonfiction |
Art |
Midnight’s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Millionth Chance: The Story of the R101 |
James Leasor |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life |
Steven Johnson |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack |
Tom Nagorski |
Nonfiction |
History |
Mirror Mirror |
Gregory Maguire |
Fiction |
Fantasy |
Mr. Timothy |
Louis Bayard |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body |
Armand Marie Leroi |
Nonfiction |
Health |
Native Son |
Richard Wright |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Navigator of New York |
Wayne Johnston |
Fiction |
Drama |
Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797 |
John Sugden |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
Fiction |
Science Fiction |
No Name |
Wilkie Collins |
Fiction |
Drama |
North and South |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
Fiction |
Drama |
North with Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames |
John Wilson |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis |
Lucy Jago |
Nonfiction |
Science |
Noughts and Crosses |
Malorie Blackman |
Fiction |
Drama |
Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration |
Fergus Fleming |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The Old Curiosity Shop |
Charles Dickens |
Fiction |
Drama |
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal |
Alice Dormurat Dreger |
Nonfiction |
Health |
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s |
Frederick Lewis Allen |
Nonfiction |
History |
Our Mutual Friend |
Charles Dickens |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Pale Blue Eye |
Louis Bayard |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Pale Fire |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Fiction |
Poetry |
A Pale View of Hills |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
Fiction |
Drama |
Parade’s End |
Ford Madox Ford |
Fiction |
Drama |
A Passage to India |
E. M. Forster |
Fiction |
Drama |
Pendulum: Leon Foucalt and the Triumph of Science |
Amir D. Aczel |
Nonfiction |
Science |
Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson |
Paula Byrne |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
Perfume |
Patrick Süskind |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism |
Geoffrey R. Stone |
Nonfiction |
Politics |
Personal Memoirs |
Ulysses S. Grant |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
The Pickwick Papers |
Charles Dickens |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Plague |
Albert Camus |
Fiction |
Drama |
Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians |
Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Power and the Glory |
Graham Greene |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary |
Simon Winchester |
Nonfiction |
Literature |
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England |
Alison Weir |
Nonfiction |
History |
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart |
John Guy |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Quiet American |
Graham Greene |
Fiction |
Drama |
Raise the TITANIC |
Clive Cussler |
Fiction |
Adventure |
The Red and the Black |
Stendhal |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Reformation: A History |
Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Nonfiction |
Religion |
Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the MONITOR and the MERRIMACK |
James L. Nelson |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The Rescue of Captain Scott |
Don Aldridge |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen’s Ghost Ship |
Martin Sandler |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The Return of the Soldier |
Rebecca West |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Return to Nature: A Defence of the Vegetable Regimen |
John Frank Newton |
Nonfiction |
Health |
The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World |
Amir D. Aczel |
Nonfiction |
Science |
The Riddle of the Third Mile: An Inspector Morse Mystery |
Colin Dexter |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Ring of Ice: True Tales of Adventure, Exploration, and Arctic Life |
Peter Stark |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire |
Lawrence James |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany |
William L. Shirer |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant |
Pamela Horn |
Nonfiction |
History |
Romola |
George Eliot |
Fiction |
Drama |
Ruth |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 |
N.A.M. Rodger |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Science and the Canadian Arctic |
Trevor H. Levere |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Scoop |
Evelyn Waugh |
Fiction |
Humor |
Scotland: The Story of a Nation |
Magnus Magnusson |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Scottish Enlightenment: The Historical Age of the Historical Nation |
Alexander Broadie |
Nonfiction |
History |
Search the Dark: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery |
Charles Todd |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind and the Past |
Daniel E. Schacter |
Nonfiction |
Psychology |
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 |
Sue Townsend |
Fiction |
Humor |
The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King |
Princess Michael of Kent |
Nonfiction |
History |
Service of All the Dead: An Inspector Morse Mystery |
Colin Dexter |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Shenandoah Saga |
Thom Hook |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
Sherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini in the Adventure of the Pandora Plague |
Lee A. Matthias |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright |
Val Andrews |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Sherlock Holmes and the TITANIC Tragedy: A Case to Remember |
William Seil |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Silent in the Grave |
Deanna Raybourn |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn: An Inspector Morse Mystery |
Colin Dexter |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea |
Frank Delaney |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
A Simple Story |
Elizabeth Inchbald |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Sinking of the EASTLAND: America’s Forgotten Tragedy |
Jay Bonansinga |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The Sirens Sang of Murder |
Sarah Caudwell |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Sky Ships: A History of the Airship in the United States Navy |
William F. Althoff |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
Sleep, Pale Sister |
Joanne Harris |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London |
Seth Koven |
Nonfiction |
History |
Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies |
Edward D. Berkowitz |
Nonfiction |
History |
Sons and Lovers |
D. H. Lawrence |
Fiction |
Drama |
The South Pole: An Historical Reader |
Anthony Brandt |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini |
Tom Lalicki |
Nonfiction |
Biography |
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
John le Carrè |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Stories of Eva Luna |
Isabelle Allende |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Story of the TITANIC: As Told By Its Survivors |
Lawrence Beesley |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The Stranger |
Albert Camus |
Fiction |
Drama |
Strangers Among Us |
David C. Woodman |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The SULTANA Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster |
Jerry O’Potter |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The Sunken Treasure: A Miss Danforth Mystery |
Marian J.A. Jackson |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Sylvia’s Lovers |
Elizabeth Gaskell |
Fiction |
Drama |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London |
R. Michael Gordon |
Nonfiction |
Crime |
The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939 |
Robert Graves |
Nonfiction |
History |
Thirteen Steps Down |
Ruth Rendell |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Thirty-Nine Steps |
John Buchan |
Fiction |
Mystery |
This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin’s Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1838 |
Penny Russell |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Thomas Cranmer: A Life |
Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Thorn Birds |
Colleen McCollough |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Tin Drum |
Günter Grass |
Fiction |
Drama |
Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 |
Anthony P. Hatch |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
TITANIC |
Paul Brooke |
Fiction |
Drama |
TITANIC Legacy: Disaster as Media Event and Myth |
Paul Heyer |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The TITANIC Reader |
John Wilson Foster |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The TITANIC Story: Hard Choices, Dangerous Decisions |
Stephen Cox |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
TITANIC: A Night Remembered |
Stephani Barczewski |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
TITANIC: The Ship That Never Sank? |
Robin Gardiner |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
To Ride the Storm: The Story of the Airship R101 |
Sir Peter G. Masefield |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World |
Arthur Herman |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Tobacco Road |
Erskine Caldwell |
Fiction |
Drama |
Tom Jones |
Henry Fielding |
Fiction |
Humor |
The Tomorrow Connection |
T.E. Bethancourt |
Fiction |
Science Fiction |
Towelhead |
Alicia Erian |
Fiction |
Drama |
Trainspotting |
Irvine Welsh |
Fiction |
Drama |
Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships |
Stephen Fox |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia |
Lacey Baldwin Smith |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Trial |
Franz Kafka |
Fiction |
Drama |
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America |
David von Drehle |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
Tropic of Cancer |
Henry Miller |
Fiction |
Drama |
Twilight |
Stephenie Meyer |
Fiction |
Fantasy |
Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North |
Jean Malaurie |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
Milan Kundera |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels |
Hella Winston |
Nonfiction |
Religion |
The Unconsoled |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne |
Derek Wilson |
Nonfiction |
History |
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
Stephen E. Ambrose |
Nonfiction |
History |
Under Enemy Colors |
S. Thomas Russell |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Under Sail in the Frozen North: The Log of the 1926 British Arctic Expedition |
Frank Arthur Worsley |
Nonfiction |
Exploration |
Under the Net |
Iris Murdoch |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets |
Stephen Smith |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag |
Robert A. Heinlein |
Fiction |
Science Fiction |
Vanity Fair |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
Fiction |
Drama |
Victorian Sensation: Or, the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain |
Michael Diamond |
Nonfiction |
History |
Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 |
Marilyn B. Young |
Nonfiction |
History |
Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions |
Jelle Zeilinga de Boer |
Nonfiction |
Disaster/Survival |
The Voyage of the NARWHAL |
Andrea Barrett |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Wapshot Chronicle |
John Cheever |
Fiction |
Mystery |
War Without Mercy: Rage and Power in the Pacific War |
John W. Dower |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Wars of the Roses |
Alison Weir |
Nonfiction |
History |
Washington’s Crossing |
David Hackett Fischer |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Wasp Factory |
Iain Banks |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Watchers of Time: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery |
Charles Todd |
Fiction |
Mystery |
Wave Cry |
Alexander Fullerton |
Fiction |
Drama |
The Wench is Dead: An Inspector Morse Mystery |
Colin Dexter |
Fiction |
Mystery |
When We Were Orphans |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
Fiction |
Drama |
The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis |
Thomas Dormandy |
Nonfiction |
Health |
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
Gregory Maguire |
Fiction |
Fantasy |
Wide Sargasso Sea |
Jean Rhys |
Fiction |
Drama |
Wilderness and the American Mind |
Roderick Frazi Nash |
Nonfiction |
History |
Wings of Fire: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery |
Charles Todd |
Fiction |
Mystery |
The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy |
N.A.M. Rodger |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
The World of the Celts |
Simon James |
Nonfiction |
History |
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution |
Christopher Hill |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Wreck of the WILLIAM BROWN: A True Tale of Overcrowded Lifeboats and Murder at Sea |
Tom Koch |
Nonfiction |
Maritime |
Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against the Iroquois |
Glenn F. Williams |
Nonfiction |
History |
The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the German Naval Airship Division, 1912-1918 |
Douglas H. Robinson |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
Zeppelin! A Battle for Air Supremacy in World War I |
Raymond Laurence Rimell |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
Zeppelins Over England |
Treutsch von Buttlar-Brandenfels |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
Zeppelins: Rigid Airships, 1893-1940 |
Peter W. Brooks |
Nonfiction |
Aviation |
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