Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
– Groucho Marx
Books: Reading List
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 form to the right.
* = re-reading
Right Now
- 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life by Don Piper with Cecil Murphy
- Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Second Edition) Steve Krug
- Fox’s [sic] Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs ed. by William Byron Forbush
- Great Voices of the Reformation ed. by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
- Memoirs of my Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber
- Roger Bacon and His Search for a Universal Science: A Reconsideration of the Life and Work of Roger Bacon in the Light of His Own Stated Purposes by Stewart C. Easton
- The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
- Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Tudor Women: Queens and Commoners by Alison Plowden
On the Shelf
- The 1930s by William H. Young with Nancy K. Young
- Acacia by David Anthony Durham
- Accounting for Non-Accountants by Dr. Wayne A. Label
- American Sonnets: An Anthology ed. by David Bromwich
- The Anxious Years: America in the Nineteen Thirties ed. by Louis Filler
- The Book of Common Prayer by The Episcopal Church
- The Broken Lands: A Novel of Arctic Disaster by Robert Edric
- Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
- Dark Fire: A Matthew Shardlake Novel by C. J. Sansom
- Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham
- Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham
- Great Dialogues of Plato trans. by W. H. D. Rouse
- Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir
- Henry VIII: The Politics of Tyranny by Jasper Ridley
- Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
- A Kierkegaard Anthology ed. by Robert Bretall
- Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor by H. F. M. Prescott
- Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft by Simon Houpt
- The Pageant of Elizabethan England by Elizabeth Burton
- Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties by Murray Kempton
- Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister
- Stormy Weather: Crosslights on the Nineteen Thirties by J. C. Furnas
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
- Under Enemy Colors by S. Thomas Russell
- When Rabbit Howls by The Troops for Truddi Chase
- The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory
Upcoming: Fiction
- According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
- Adam Bede by George Eliot
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- The Adventures of the Ectoplasmic Man by Daniel Stashower
- Affinity by Sarah Waters
- Afterlands by Steven Heighton
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durell
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Amanda/Miranda by Richard Peck
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
- Any Approaching Enemy by Jay Worrall
- Armadale by Wilkie Collins
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Batman & Houdini: The Devil’s Workshop by Howard Chaykin, Victor Moore
- Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
- The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
- Believe by William Shatner, Michael Tobias
- Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
- A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
- Black Thunder by Arnaud Wendell Bontemps
- Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The Case of Cabin 13 by Sam McCarver
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- A Cold Treachery by Charles Todd
- A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr
- The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
- Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
- The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter
- The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter
- The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
- A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell
- Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- Dog of the South by Charles Portis
- The Dream Stealer by Gregory Maguire
- Drive by James Sallis
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- Evelina by Frances Burney
- Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- A Fearsome Doubt by Charles Todd
- Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot
- The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella by Charlotte Lennox
- The Fiend In Human by John MacLachlan Gray
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- The Floating Lady Murder by Daniel Stashower
- The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- From Here to Eternity by James Jones
- Fury Beach: The Four-Year Odyssey of Captain John Ross and the VICTORY by Ray Edinger
- A Garbled Titantic by Senan Baloney
- Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
- The Ghost from the Grand Banks by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
- Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- * The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens
- The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson Smith McCullers
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
- Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
- A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding
- Houdini: A Musical by Muriel Rukeyser
- Houdini and the Séance Murders by Christopher Farran
- The Houdini Girl by Martyn Bedford
- Houdini: The Man From Beyond by Brian Haberlin, Jeff Phillips, Gilbert Monsanto
- Houdini’s Last Illusion by Steve Savile
- A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
- Icefields by Thomas Wharton
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Ironweed by William Kennedy
- It by Stephen King
- The Jewel That Was Ours by Colin Dexter
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- A Kayak Full of Ghosts by Lawrence Millman
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- The Lamplighter by Anthony O’Neill
- Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
- Laying the Music to Rest by Dean Wesley Smith
- Legacy of the Dead: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery by Charles Todd
- Les Misèserables by Victor Hugo
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books by Thomas Wharton
- The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster
- A Long Shadow by Charles Todd
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- Lost: A Novel by Gregory Maguire
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez
- Loving by Henry Green
- The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
- The Magus by John Fowles
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
- The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Black, Franklin’s Lieutenant by Peter Steele
- The March by E. L. Doctorow
- Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Maurice by E. M. Forster
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- The Memory of Eva Ryker by Donald A. Stanwood
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
- Miss Lonely Hearts by Nathanael West
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard
- Murder on the “Lusitania” by Conrad Allen
- The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- No Name by Wilkie Collins
- North by Roger Hubank
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- North with Franklin: The Journals of James Fitzjames by John Wilson
- Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- The Once and Future King by T. H. White
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
- Perfume by Patrick Süskind
- The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
- Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
- A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
- The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
- The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
- Raise the Titanic by Clive Cussler
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
- The Riddle of the Third Mile by Colin Dexter
- Romola by George Eliot
- The Ruins by Scott Smith
- Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- Search the Dark by Charles Todd
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
- Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter
- The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
- Sherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini in the Adventure of the Pandora Plague by Lee A. Matthias
- Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright by Val Andrews
- Sherlock Holmes and the TITANIC Tragedy: A Case To Remember by William Seil
- * Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
- The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter
- A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald
- The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris
- A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carrè
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Sunken Treasure by Marian J. A. Jackson
- Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell
- The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
- Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
- Titanic by Paul Brooke
- Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
- The Tomorrow Connection by T. E. Bethancourt
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
- The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- Watchers of Time: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery by Charles Todd
- Wave Cry by Alexander Fullerton
- The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
- The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter
- The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter
- What Rough Beast by H. R. Knight
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
- Wings of Fire by Charles Todd
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
- Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
Upcoming (Non-Fiction)
- 1066: Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford
- 1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank McLynn
- 1776 by David McCullough
- After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World by A. N. Wilson
- Albatross: A True Story of A Woman’s Survival at Sea by Deborah Scaling Kiley and Meg Noonan
- Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of A Nation by Jon Meacham
- Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States by Hiroshi Motomura
- April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici by Lauro Martines
- The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold McClintock — Discoverer of the Fate of Franklin by David Murphy
- The Arctic in the British Imagination, 1818-1914 by Robert G. David
- Barrow’s Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers by Fergus Fleming
- Bear Attacks of the Century: True Stories of Courage and Survival by Larry Mueller and Marguerite Reiss
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour by Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Birth of the TITANIC by Michael Mccaughan
- The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe by Robert S. Gottfried
- Blood Stain by Peter Lalor
- Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Canadian Arctic by McKay Jenkins
- The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You’ll Never Read by Stuart Kelly
- Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
- Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods by Michael Wex
- Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria by Julia P. Gelardi
- Bowing To Necessities: History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 by C. Dallett Hemphill
- Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
- Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by R. Angus Buchanan
- Car Crashes and Other Sad Stories by Jennifer Dumas
- Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda
- Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 by Nat Brandt
- Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric by Veronica Buckley
- Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise W. Knight
- City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London by Vic Gatrell
- The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture by Michael F. Robinson
- A Colored Woman in a White World by Mary Church Terrell
- Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control Since the Sixteenth Century by Michael Palmer
- The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 by N. A. M. Rodger
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
- Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hickman
- A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
- Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle
- Dangerous Crossings: The First Modern Polar Expedition, 1925 by John H. Bryant and Harold N. Cones
- Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan
- A Day in a Medieval City by Chiara Frugoni
- Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin by Martyn Beardsley
- Dead Men Tapping: The End of the HEATHER LYNNE II by Kate Yeomans
- Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective’s Scrapbook by Katherine Dunn
- Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure and Survival by Nate Hardcastle
- Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship GLOBE by Gregory Gibson
- Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors by Edward E. Leslie, Sterling Seagrave
- Die For Me by Don Lasseter
- The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin
- Down With The Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the TITANIC Disaster by Steven Biel
- Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel by Douglas Botting
- Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders
- EASTLAND: Legacy of the Titanic by George W. Hilton
- Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane Dunn
- The Elizabethan Underworld by Gamini Salgado
- Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India by Elizabeth Buettner
- The Encyclopedia of the Arctic by Mark Nuttall, ed.
- ENDURANCE: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
- English Society in the 18th Century by Roy Porter
- Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity by David Chapin
- Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin by Ken McGoogan
- Fear in Early Modern Society by William G. Naphy and Penny Roberts
- Final Seance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle by Massimo Polidoro
- The Fire That Will Not Die by Michele McBride
- Flyboys by James Bradley
- The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won — and Lost by Frank Ryan, M.D.
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
- Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
- The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu by Anthony Sattin
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
- Ghost Ships: Tales of Abandoned, Doomed, and Haunted Vessels by Angus Konstam
- Give Me My Father’s Body: The Story of Minik, the New York Eskimo by Kenn Harper
- God’s Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe by Amir D. Aczel
- The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
- The Greatest Disaster Stories Ever Told: Seventeen Harrowing Tales by Lamar Underwood (ed.)
- Guide for Anchoresses by Ancrene Wisse
- The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
- Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery by Michael Bliss
- Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear by Jim Steinmeyer
- Historical Atlas of the Arctic by Derek Hayes
- Houdini & Conan Doyle: The Story of a Strange Friendship by Bernard M. L. Ernst and Hereward Carrington
- Houdini: A Mind In Chains by Bernard C. Meyer
- Houdini: A Pictorial Biography by Milbourne Christopher
- Houdini’s Box: The Art of Escape by Adam Phillips
- Houdini’s Paper Magic by Harry Houdini
- * Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss by Kenneth Silverman
- The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
- How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman
- The History of Shipwrecks by Angus Konstam
- I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford
- Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
- In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel
- Ivan the Terrible by Isabel de Madariaga
- Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell by Stewart Evans
- Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Goverment and An Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science by John Henry
- Lady Franklin’s Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession, and the Remaking of Arctic History by Ken McGoogan
- Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria by Tony Rennell
- The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster That Claimed 30,000 Lives by Ernest Zebrowski, Jr.
- Last Dinner on the Titanic: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner by Rick Archbold, Dana McCauley
- The Last Dive: A Father and Son’s Fatal Descent into the Ocean’s Depths by Bernie Chowdhury
- The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic by Lawrence Millman and Edward Beauclerk Maurice
- The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic by Robert McGhee
- 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 by Martin Dugard
- The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: ‘The Most Happy’ by E. W. Ives
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
- The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939 by Robert Graves
- The Loss of the TITANIC by Lawrence Beesley
- The Loss of the TITANIC: 1912 by Tim Coates
- Lost At Sea: Ghost Ships and Other Mysteries by Michael Gross and George Behe
- Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford
- Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
- Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers by Henning Nelms
- * A Magician Among the Spirits by Harry Houdini
- The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist by Karl Johnson
- 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 by Richard Russell Lawrence, ed.
- Man and Memory: Breakthroughs in the Science of the Human Mind by D.S. Halacy, Jr.
- The Man Who Killed Houdini by Don Bell
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King
- * Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: An Exposè by Harry Houdini
- Miracles On the Water: The Heroic Survivors of A World War II U-Boat Attack by Tom Nagorski
- Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi
- Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797 by John Sugden
- The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis by
- Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration by Fergus Fleming
- One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Dormurat Dreger
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Lewis Allen
- Pendulum: Leon Foucalt and the Triumph of Science by Amir D. Aczel
- Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne
- Perilous Times: Free Speech In Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798 To the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone
- Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
- Practical Mental Magic by Theodore Annemann
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir
- Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy
- The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the MONITOR and the MERRIMACK by James L. Nelson
- The Rescue of Captain Scott by Don Aldridge
- Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Fanklin, and the Discovery of the Queen’s Ghost Ship by Martin Sandler
- The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World by Amir D. Aczel
- Ring of Ice: True Tales of Adventure, Exploration, and Arctic Life by Peter Stark, ed.
- The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
- The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant by Pamela Horn
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 by N. A. M. Rodger
- The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman
- Science and the Canadian Arctic by Trevor H. Levere
- Scotland: The Story of A Nation by Magnus Magnusson
- The Scottish Enlightenment: The Historical Age of the Historical Nation by Alexander Broadie
- Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind and the Past by Daniel E. Schacter
- The Secret Architecture of Our Nation’s Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C by David Ovason
- The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency by Philip H. Melanson, Ph.D. with Peter F. Stevens
- The Secrets of Houdini by John Clucas Cannell
- The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King by Princess Michael of Kent
- Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea by Frank Delaney
- The Sinking of the EASTLAND: America’s Forgotten Tragedy by Jay Bonansinga
- Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven
- Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies by Edward D. Berkowitz
- The South Pole: An Historical Reader by Anthony Brandt
- Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini by Tom Lalicki
- The Story of the TITANIC: As Told By Its Survivors by Lawrence Beesley
- Strangers Among Us by David C. Woodman
- Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn by Hannah Holmes
- The SULTANA Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster by Jerry O’Potter
- The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London by R. Michael Gordon
- This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin’s Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1838 by Penny Russell
- Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 by Anthony P. Hatch
- TITANIC: A Night Remembered by Stephani Barczewski
- TITANIC Legacy: Disaster As Media Event and Myth by Paul Heyer
- The TITANIC Reader by John Wilson Foster
- The TITANIC Story: Hard Choices, Dangerous Decisions by Stephen Cox
- TITANIC Survivor: The Newly-Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop by Violet Jessop
- TITANIC: The Ship That Never Sank? by Robin Gardiner
- To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman
- Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships by Stephen Fox
- Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia by Lacey Baldwin Smith
- Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle
- Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North by Jean Malaurie
- Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels by Hella Winston
- The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne by Derek Wilson
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith
- Under Sail in the Frozen North: The Log of the 1926 British Arctic Expedition by Frank Arthur Worsley
- Victorian Sensation: Or, the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Michael Diamond
- Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 by Marilyn B. Young
- Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders
- The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Edwin Church’s Arctic Masterpiece by Eleanor Jones Harvey
- Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Reason
- The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
- War Without Mercy: Rage & Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower
- Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
- The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis by Thomas Dormandy
- Wilderness & the American Mind by Roderick Frazi Nash
- The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy by N. A. M. Rodger
- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
- The World of the Celts by Simon James
- The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
- Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against the Iroquois by Glenn F. Williams
