Books Read (History)
A selection of nonfiction I’ve read, covering historical events and biographies. This list is roughly organized by theme.
Author/Artist Biographies & Memoirs
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Shepard, Ernest H.
- Drawn from Memory
The Cold War
Havel, Václav
- The Power of the Powerless
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- “Live Not by Lies”
Current Events & Figures
Lee, Kai-Fu
Peterson, Jordan
- 12 Rules for Life – Part I, Part II, Part III, Conclusion
Yang, Andrew
- Smart People Should Build Things
Holocaust Memoirs
Blatt, Thomas Toivi
- From the Ashes of Sobibor
ten Boom, Corrie
- The Hiding Place
Frank, Anne
Wiesel, Elie
- Night
- Open Heart
Maritime History
Cousteau, Jacques
- The Silent World
North Korea
Bae, Kenneth
- Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea
Bandi
Jang Jin-sung
Polar Exploration
Albanov, Valerian
- In the Land of White Death
- South
- In the Heart of the Antarctic
T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Korda, Michael
- Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- Minorities; Good Poems by Small Poets and Small Poems by Good Poets
- The Mint
- Crusader Castles
- The Forest Giant (Le Gigantesque, written by Adrien Le Corbeau and translated by T. E. Lawrence)
- The Odyssey (written by Homer and translated by T. E. Lawrence)
U.S. History
Ellis, Joseph J.
Women in History
Fraser, Navarro
- Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron
Joan of Arc
- Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words
Woolf, Virginia
