History

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

Bridge, Horatio

• Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Conrad, Joseph

• The Mirror of the Sea
• A Personal Record
• Notes on Life and Letters

Doyle, Arthur Conan

• Through the Magic Door

London, Jack

• The Cruise of the Snark

Shepard, Ernest H.

• Drawn from Memory

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The Cold War

Havel, Václav

• The Power of the Powerless
• Open Letters

Kennedy, Robert F.

• Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Mackinder, Halford

• “The Geographical Pivot of History”
• Democratic Ideals and Reality

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

• “Live Not by Lies”

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Current Events & Figures

Brown, Kerry

• CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping – Part I, Part II, Part III

Lee, Kai-Fu

• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Peterson, Jordan

• 12 Rules for Life – Part I, Part II, Part III, Conclusion

Yang, Andrew

• Smart People Should Build Things
• The War on Normal People

Snowden, Edward

• Permanent Record

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Holocaust Memoirs

Blatt, Thomas Toivi

• From the Ashes of Sobibor

ten Boom, Corrie

• The Hiding Place

Frank, Anne

• The Diary of a Young Girl

Wiesel, Elie

• Night
• Open Heart

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Maritime History

Chase, Owen

• The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

Cousteau, Jacques

• The Silent World

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North Korea

Bae, Kenneth

• Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea

Albanov, Valerian

• In the Land of White Death

Shackleton, Sir Ernest

• South
• In the Heart of the Antarctic

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T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

Korda, Michael

• Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence, T. E.

• 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)

Mack, John E.

• A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence

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U.S. History

Ellis, Joseph J.

• After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture

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Women in History

• Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

Joan of Arc

• Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words

Woolf, Virginia

• A Room of One’s Own