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My 2019 reading list totaled 24 books over the year, a slight decrease from 2018. I was excited to pick up a few valuable Medieval and Civil War titles at a major book sale as well as a few really neat books on a trip to Seattle.
I have to admit, I described myself as being “nerdy exited” to shop at the Amazon book store in Bellevue, Seattle. Although they didn’t have a lot on offer (not a very large store) I found a few titles that intrigued me such as Yuval Harari’s “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.”
Also in Seattle I located Half Price Books. Although nowhere near the size of the Texas branch (the entire Seattle store was about the size of the Dallas store’s coffee shop!), I found a few really cool books there including the following titles: “Colloquial Lithuanian,” “Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805,” “Virginians At Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century,” as well as a pristine, hardbound 1937 edition of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations.”
The book titles below with links will take you to Family History Foundation book reviews. Enjoy learning more about those titles!
Enjoy my 2019 READING LIST
• Chernow, Ron. 2018. Grant. New York: Penguin Press.
• Tyerman, Christopher. 2008. God’s War: A New History of the Crusades. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press.
• Storey, Margaret M. 2004. Loyalty and Loss: Alabama’s Unionist in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: LSU Press.
• Rogers, William Warren, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, and Wayne Flynt. 1994. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
• Manco, Jean. 2018. The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons: Decoding the Ancestry of the English. New York: Thames & Hudson.
• Weir, Alison. 2017. Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens, Book One. New York: Ballantine Books.
• Freedman, Lawrence. 2013. Strategy: A History. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Wiley, Bell Irvin. 2017. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: LSU Press.
• Wiley, Bell Irvin. 2008. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Baton Rouge: LSU Press.
• Sypeck, Jeff. 2006. Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800. New York: HarperCollins.
• Graham, John Remington. 2012. Blood Money: The Civil War and the Federal Reserve. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing.
• Hoffer, Peter Charles. 2018. Uncivil Warriors: The Lawyers’ Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Thompson, Christina. 2019. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia. New York: HarperCollins.
• Diamond, Jared. 2019. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
• Tyerman, Christopher. 2019. The World of the Crusades: An Illustrated History. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Taylor, L. B. Jr. 1990. The Ghosts of Tidewater . . . and Nearby Environs. USA: Progress Printing Co.
• Katz, William Loren. 1993. A History of Multicultural America: The Great Migrations, 1800s – 1912. Austin: RSVP.
• Tench, Watkin. 1961. Sydney’s First Four Years: Tench’s Narrative and Complete Account. Sydney: Halstead Press.
• Wilson-Lee, Kelcey. 2019. Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I. London: Picador.
• Manco, Jean. 2015. Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe From the First Venturers to the Vikings. London: Thames & Hudson.
• Meyers, Jeffrey. 2008. Samuel Johnson: The Struggle. New York: Basic Books.
• Martin, Peter. 2009. Samuel Johnson: A Biography. London: Phoenix.
• Fell, Barry. 1978. America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World. New York: Wallaby Books.
• Diamond, Jared. 2011. Collapse. New York: Penguin Press.
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