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 Disaster

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

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Jerry O’Potter

Nonfiction

Maritime

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Marian J.A. Jackson

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Mystery

Sylvia’s Lovers

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction

Drama

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Charles Dickens

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Drama

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R. Michael Gordon

Nonfiction

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Robert Graves

Nonfiction

History

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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

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Günter Grass

Fiction

Drama

Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903

Anthony P. Hatch

Nonfiction

Disaster/Survival

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Paul Brooke

Fiction

Drama

TITANIC Legacy: Disaster as Media Event and Myth

Paul Heyer

Nonfiction

Maritime

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John Wilson Foster

Nonfiction

Maritime

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Stephen Cox

Nonfiction

Maritime

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Nonfiction

Maritime

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Robin Gardiner

Nonfiction

Maritime

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Sir Peter G. Masefield

Nonfiction

Aviation

To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World

Arthur Herman

Nonfiction

Maritime

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Erskine Caldwell

Fiction

Drama

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Henry Fielding

Fiction

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T.E. Bethancourt

Fiction

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Alicia Erian

Fiction

Drama

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Irvine Welsh

Fiction

Drama

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Stephen Fox

Nonfiction

Maritime

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Lacey Baldwin Smith

Nonfiction

History

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Franz Kafka

Fiction

Drama

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David von Drehle

Nonfiction

Disaster/Survival

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Henry Miller

Fiction

Drama

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Stephenie Meyer

Fiction

Fantasy

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Jean Malaurie

Nonfiction

Exploration

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Milan Kundera

Fiction

Mystery

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Hella Winston

Nonfiction

Religion

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction

Mystery

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Derek Wilson

Nonfiction

History

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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

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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

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Alison Weir

Nonfiction

History

Washington’s Crossing

David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction

History

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Iain Banks

Fiction

Mystery

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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

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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

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Treutsch von Buttlar-Brandenfels

Nonfiction

Aviation

Zeppelins: Rigid Airships, 1893-1940

Peter W. Brooks

Nonfiction

Aviation


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