Book Log for 2009 – 67 Books Total
1) Holland, Jeffrey Scott “Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets” (Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, Executive Editors)
2) Pernoud, Regine & Marie Veronique Clin “Joan of Arc: Her Story” (Translated and Revised by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams)
3) Hart, Martha with Eric Francis “Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart”
4) Weir, Alison “The Children of Henry VIII”
5) Wheatcroft, Andrew “The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire”
6) Bartlett, Wayne & Flavia Idriceanu “Legends of Blood: The Vampire in History and Myth”
7) Miller, Nathan “Theodore Roosevelt A Life”
8) Kissinger, Henry “Diplomacy”
9) Towns, Elmer “Praying the Lord’s Prayer for Spiritual Breakthrough”
10) Malory, Sir Thomas “Le Morte D’Arthur” (Complete, unabridged, new illustrated edition)
11) Gristwood, Sarah “Arbella: England’s Lost Queen”
12) Waldherr, Kris “Doomed Queens (Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends From Cleopatra to Princess Di)”
13) Rice, Anne (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) “The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty”
14) O’Donnell, Kenneth P. & David F. Powers with Joe McCarthy “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy”
15) Dugan, Ellen “The Enchanted Cat: Feline Fascinations, Spells & Magick”
16) King, Stephen “The Stand”
17) Harris, Charlaine “Dead as a Doornail” (Re-read)
18) Harris, Charlaine “All Together Dead”
19) Goodwin, Doris Kearns “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream”
20) Ragone, Nick “Presidents’ Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Extraordinary Executives, Colorful Campaigns, and White House Oddities”
21) Wiseman, Neil “Growing Your Soul: Practical Steps to Increase Your Spirituality”
22) Carroll, Leslie “Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures that Rocked the British Monarchy”
23) Aitken, Jonathan “Nixon: A Life”
24) Cerasini, Marc “Godzilla: At World’s End”
25) Largo, Michael “Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon throughout the Ages”
26) Axworthy, Michael “A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind”
27) Brettell, Andrew; Imwold, Denise; Leonard, Warren; von Rohr, Heather “Cut! Hollywood Murders, Accidents, and Other Tragedies”
28) Cunningham, Scott “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”
29) Erickson, Carolly “The Tsarina’s Daughter” (Fiction)
30) Coville, Bruce (Compiled & Edited by) “The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems and Unicorn Lore”
31) Frazer, Flora “The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline”
32) Prince Michael of Greece “The Empress of Farewells: The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico” (Translated from the French by Vincent Aurora)
33) Lamb, Brian and the C-SPAN Staff “Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites” (With contributions by Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley)
34) Waldherr, Kris “The Book of Goddesses: A Celebration of the Devine Feminine”
35) Fox, Julia “Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford”
36) Switzer, Ellen & Costas “Greek Myths Gods, Heroes and Monsters: Their Sources, Their Stories & Their Meanings”
40) Anderson, Neil T. “The Bondage Breaker”
41) Obama, Barack “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”
42) Cawthorne, Nigel “Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day”
43) Cunningham, Scott “Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”
44) Euripides “Hecuba”, “The Trojan Women”, “Andromache” (Translated & Edited by James Morwood, apart of the Oxford World’s Classics)
45) Eppridge, Bill (Photographs & Text by) “A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties”
46) Boller, Jr., Paul F. “Presidential Anecodes” (Revised edition)
47) Meyer, Stephenie “Twilight”
48) Meyer, Stephenie “New Moon”
49) Goodrich, Norma Lorre “Heroines: Demigoddess, Prima Donna, Movie Star”
50) Meyer, Stephenie “Eclipse”
51) Meyer, Stephenie “Breaking Dawn”
52) Denton, C.S. “Absolute Power: The Real Lives of Europe’s Most Infamous Rulers”
53) Nixon, Richard “RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon”
54) Wilkinson, Philip “Myths & Legends: An Illustrated Guide to their Origins and Meanings”
55) Waggoner, Brenda “Fairy Tale Faith: Living in the Meantime When you Expected Happily Ever After”
56) Beyer, Rick “The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder & Stupefy”
57) Austen, Jane and Seth Grahame-Smith “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
58) Campbell, Ballard C. “American Disasters: 201 Calamities that Shook the Nation”
59) Roeper, Richard “Hollywood Urban Legends: The Truth Behind All Those Delightfully Persistent Myths of Film, Television and Music”
60) Crofton, Ian “The Disappeared: The Stories of 35 Historical Disappearances from the Mary Celeste to Jimmy Hoffa”
61) Sorensen, Ted “Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History”
62) Barry, John M. “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History”
63) Olbermann, Keith “The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders”
64) Breverton, Terry “Immortal Words: History’s Most Memorable Quotations and the Stories Behind Them”
65) Kerr, Gordon “Goners: The Final Hours of the Notable and Notorious”
66) Hibbert, Christopher “Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason”
67) Arterburn, Stephen and Pam Farrel “One Year Book of Devotions for Women on the Go”
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Booklist 2008
Book log for 2008 (total read - 67)
Book Log for 2008
1) Harris, Charlaine “Dead Until Dark” (Re-read)
2) Harris, Charlaine “Living Dead in Dallas” (Re-read)
3) Harris, Charlaine “Club Dead” (Re-read)
4) Harris, Charlaine “Dead to the World” (Re-read)
5) Harris, Charlaine “Dead as a Doornail”
6) Harris, Charlaine “Definitely Dead”
7) Genzmer, Herbert; Sybille Kershner; and Christian Schutz “Great Disasters in History”
8) Wagner, Holly “God Chicks: Living Life as a 21st Century Woman”
9) Reynolds, R.D. and Blade Braxton “The Wrestlecrap Book of Lists!”
10) Jackson, Guida M. “Women Who Ruled: A Biographical Encylopedia”
11) Edwards, Anne “Royal Sisters: Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret”
12) Gould, Lewis L. “Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans”
13) Witcover, Jules “Party of the People: A History of the Democrats”
14) George, Margaret “Helen of Troy”
15) DeFrank, Thomas M. “Write It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford”
16) Hibbert, Christopher “The House of Medici: It’s Rise and Fall”
17) Fellure, Jacob M. “The Everything Middle East Book: The Nations, Their Histories, and Their Conflicts”
18) Jordan, Hamilton “Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency”
19) Smith, Hannah Whitall “The God of All Comfort”
20) Fraser, Antonia “Mary Queen of Scots”
21) Tyldesley, Joyce “Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt: From Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra”
22) Sebold, Alice “The Almost Moon A Novel”
23) Reynolds, R.D. and Bryan Alvarez “Wrestlecrap and Figure Four Weekly Present: The Death of WCW”
24) Goodwin, Doris Kearns “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys”
25) Josephus “The New Complete Works of Josephus” (Revised and Expanded Edition) Translated by William Whiston, Commentary by Paul L. Maier
26) Carr, Matthew “The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism”
27) Davis, Kenneth C. “Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned”
28) Elliott, Dave; C.J. Henderson and R. Allen Leider “A Field Guide to Monsters”
29) The Bathroom Readers’ Hysterical Institute “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again”
30) Satrapi, Marjane “Persepolis The Story of a Childhood”
31) Riley, Andy “The Book of Bunny Suicides”
32) Riley, Andy “Return of the Bunny Suicides”
33) Norwich, John Julius “Byzantium: The Early Centuries” (Re-read)
34) Norwich, John Julius “Byzantium: The Apogee”
35) Norwich, John Julius “Byzantium: The Decline and Fall”
36) Jericho, Chris “A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex”
37) Gibbs, Nancy and Michael Duffy “The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House”
38) Wiseman, Jay “SM 101 A Realistic Introduction” (Second Edition)
39) Pahlavi, Farah “An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah A Memoir”
40) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor “The Idiot”
41) Pilcher, Tim “E: The Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy”
42) Oram, Richard “The Kings & Queens of Scotland”
43) Skal, David J. “The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror”
44) Loverro, Thom (with Paul Heyman, Tazz and Tommy Dreamer) “The Rise and Fall of ECW Extreme Championship Wrestling”
45) Talbot, David “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years”
46) Laurie, Greg “The Great Compromise”
47) Reagan, Ronald “The Reagan Diaries” (Edited by Douglas Brinkley)
48) Knecht, Robert “The Valois: Kings of France 1328 – 1589”
49) Osgood, Charles “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidental Campaign Trail”
50) Cronin, Mike “Irish History for Dummies”
51) Hurnard, Hannah “Hinds’ Feet on High Places”
52) Busby, Horace “The Thirty-First of March An Imtimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson’s Final Days in Office”
53) Tolkien, J.R.R. “The Lord of the Rings” (The three books in one, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers”, “The Return of the King”.)
54) Prasso, Sheridan “The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient”
55) Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M. “A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House”
56) Weir, Alison “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”
57) Perrottet, Tony “Napoleon’s Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped”
58) McQueen, Keven “Kentucky Book of the Dead”
59) Timberg, Robert “John McCain: An American Odyssey”
60) Gold, Claudia “Queen, Empress, Concubine: Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great”
61) Riggs, Charlie “Learning to Walk With God”
62) Brokaw, Tom “Boom! Talking About the Sixties”
63) Sa, Shan “Empress” (A Novel)
64) Morgan, Michele “Simple Wicca”
65) Husain, Shahrukh “The Virago Book of Erotic Myths and Legends”
66) Felzenberg, Alvin S. “The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn’t): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game”
67) May, Antoinette “Pilate’s Wife” (Novel)
Book Log for 2008
1) Harris, Charlaine “Dead Until Dark” (Re-read)
2) Harris, Charlaine “Living Dead in Dallas” (Re-read)
3) Harris, Charlaine “Club Dead” (Re-read)
4) Harris, Charlaine “Dead to the World” (Re-read)
5) Harris, Charlaine “Dead as a Doornail”
6) Harris, Charlaine “Definitely Dead”
7) Genzmer, Herbert; Sybille Kershner; and Christian Schutz “Great Disasters in History”
8) Wagner, Holly “God Chicks: Living Life as a 21st Century Woman”
9) Reynolds, R.D. and Blade Braxton “The Wrestlecrap Book of Lists!”
10) Jackson, Guida M. “Women Who Ruled: A Biographical Encylopedia”
11) Edwards, Anne “Royal Sisters: Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret”
12) Gould, Lewis L. “Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans”
13) Witcover, Jules “Party of the People: A History of the Democrats”
14) George, Margaret “Helen of Troy”
15) DeFrank, Thomas M. “Write It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford”
16) Hibbert, Christopher “The House of Medici: It’s Rise and Fall”
17) Fellure, Jacob M. “The Everything Middle East Book: The Nations, Their Histories, and Their Conflicts”
18) Jordan, Hamilton “Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency”
19) Smith, Hannah Whitall “The God of All Comfort”
20) Fraser, Antonia “Mary Queen of Scots”
21) Tyldesley, Joyce “Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt: From Early Dynastic Times to the Death of Cleopatra”
22) Sebold, Alice “The Almost Moon A Novel”
23) Reynolds, R.D. and Bryan Alvarez “Wrestlecrap and Figure Four Weekly Present: The Death of WCW”
24) Goodwin, Doris Kearns “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys”
25) Josephus “The New Complete Works of Josephus” (Revised and Expanded Edition) Translated by William Whiston, Commentary by Paul L. Maier
26) Carr, Matthew “The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism”
27) Davis, Kenneth C. “Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned”
28) Elliott, Dave; C.J. Henderson and R. Allen Leider “A Field Guide to Monsters”
29) The Bathroom Readers’ Hysterical Institute “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again”
30) Satrapi, Marjane “Persepolis The Story of a Childhood”
31) Riley, Andy “The Book of Bunny Suicides”
32) Riley, Andy “Return of the Bunny Suicides”
33) Norwich, John Julius “Byzantium: The Early Centuries” (Re-read)
34) Norwich, John Julius “Byzantium: The Apogee”
35) Norwich, John Julius “Byzantium: The Decline and Fall”
36) Jericho, Chris “A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex”
37) Gibbs, Nancy and Michael Duffy “The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House”
38) Wiseman, Jay “SM 101 A Realistic Introduction” (Second Edition)
39) Pahlavi, Farah “An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah A Memoir”
40) Dostoyevsky, Fyodor “The Idiot”
41) Pilcher, Tim “E: The Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy”
42) Oram, Richard “The Kings & Queens of Scotland”
43) Skal, David J. “The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror”
44) Loverro, Thom (with Paul Heyman, Tazz and Tommy Dreamer) “The Rise and Fall of ECW Extreme Championship Wrestling”
45) Talbot, David “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years”
46) Laurie, Greg “The Great Compromise”
47) Reagan, Ronald “The Reagan Diaries” (Edited by Douglas Brinkley)
48) Knecht, Robert “The Valois: Kings of France 1328 – 1589”
49) Osgood, Charles “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidental Campaign Trail”
50) Cronin, Mike “Irish History for Dummies”
51) Hurnard, Hannah “Hinds’ Feet on High Places”
52) Busby, Horace “The Thirty-First of March An Imtimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson’s Final Days in Office”
53) Tolkien, J.R.R. “The Lord of the Rings” (The three books in one, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers”, “The Return of the King”.)
54) Prasso, Sheridan “The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient”
55) Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M. “A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House”
56) Weir, Alison “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”
57) Perrottet, Tony “Napoleon’s Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped”
58) McQueen, Keven “Kentucky Book of the Dead”
59) Timberg, Robert “John McCain: An American Odyssey”
60) Gold, Claudia “Queen, Empress, Concubine: Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great”
61) Riggs, Charlie “Learning to Walk With God”
62) Brokaw, Tom “Boom! Talking About the Sixties”
63) Sa, Shan “Empress” (A Novel)
64) Morgan, Michele “Simple Wicca”
65) Husain, Shahrukh “The Virago Book of Erotic Myths and Legends”
66) Felzenberg, Alvin S. “The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn’t): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game”
67) May, Antoinette “Pilate’s Wife” (Novel)
Booklist 2007
My booklog for 2007 (total read - 89):
1) Matlock, Jr. Jack F. “Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended”
2) Kostova, Elizabeth “The Historian A Novel”
3) Evans, Michael “The Death of Kings: Royal Deaths in Medieval England”
4) Stolley, Richard (Edited by) “Life: Our Century in Pictures”
5) Wilentz, Sean “The American Presidents: Andrew Jackson”
6) Montefiore, Sebag “Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin”
7) Harris, Thomas “Hannibal Rising A Novel”
8) Edwards, Samuel “Lady of France: A Biography of Gabrielle d’Estrees, Mistress of Henry the Great”
9) Fawcett, Bill and Brian M. Thomsen (Edited by) “You Did What? Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters”
10) Gire, Ken “Intimate Moments with the Savior: Learning to Love”
11) Warnes, David “Chronicle of the Russian Tsars: The Reign by Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia”
12) Robinson, Ray (Compiled by) “Famous Last Words: Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes and Exclamations Upon Expiration”
13) Weir, Alison “Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England”
14) Cesaretti, Paolo (Translated from the Italian by Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia, Ph.D.) “Theodora: Empress of Byzantium”
15) Schilling, Mark “The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture”
16) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 1: The Sword of Truth” (Re-read)
17) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 2: The Winds of God” (Re-read)
18) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 3: The Shield of Honor” (Re-read)
19) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 4: The Fields of Glory” (Re-read)
20) Salinger, Pierre; Edwin Guthman; Frank Mankiewicz, and John Seigenthaler (Edited by) “’An Honorable Profession’ A Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”
21) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 5: The Ramparts of Heaven”
22) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 6: The Song of Princes”
23) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 7: The Gathering of Eagles”
24) Traxel, David “Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898 – 1920”
25) Erickson, Carolly “The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette”
26) Greene, Oliver “What Think Ye of Christ? And Other Sermons”
27) Tolstoy, Leo “Anna Karenina”
28) Fraser, Antonia “Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration”
29) Downs, Tim “PlagueMaker”
30) Seagrave, Sterling “The Soong Dynasty”
31) McMurtry, Larry & Diana Ossana “Pretty Boy Floyd A Novel”
32) Cook, Petronelle “Queen Consorts of England: The Power Behind The Throne”
33) Foley, Mick “The Hardcore Diaries”
34) Young, Dwight “Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office, From the Files of the National Archives”
35) The Bathroom Readers’ Hysterical Institute “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History”
36) Castleden, Rodney “Infamous Murderers”
37) Melton, J. Gordon “The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead”
38) Gerges, Fawaz A. “Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy”
39) Tomkins, Stephen “A Short History of Christianity”
40) Barker, Clive “Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three”
41) Herman, Eleanor “Sex with the Queen: Nine Hundred Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics”
42) Petropoulous, Jonathan “Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany”
43) McPherson, James M. (General Editor) “To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents”
44) Bisbort, Alan “Famous Last Words: Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bon Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure”
45) Jardine, Lisa “The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun”
46) Stewart, Ph.D., Robert, with Clint Twist and Edward Horton “National Geographic Mysteries of History”
47) Ehrman, Bart “Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament”
48) Bar-Zohar, Michael “Beyond Hitler’s Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews”
49) Hogan, David J. “Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film”
50) Lord, Walter “A Night to Remember”
51) Hatzfeld, Jean “Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak”
52) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (Re-read)
53) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (Re-read)
54) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (Re-read)
55) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (Re-read)
56) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (Re-read)
57) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” (Re-read)
58) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
59) Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent “The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King”
60) Kamen, Henry “Philip of Spain”
61) Elsberry, Terence “Marie of Romania: The Intimate Life of a Twentieth Century Queen”
62) Leamer, Laurence “The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family”
63) Reagan, Ronald “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”
64) Fraser, Antonia “Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King”
65) Rogerson, John “Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel”
66) Cotterell, Arthur and Rachel Storm “The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology: An A – Z Guide to the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World”
67) “The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States”
68) Packard, Jerrold M. “Victoria’s Daughters”
69) Erickson, Carolly “The Last Wife of Henry VIII”
70) Baldwin, Louis “The Loves of Their Lives: Enduring Romantic Relationships from Antony and Cleopatra to Today”
71) Scott, Susan Holloway “Royal Harlot: A Novel of the Countess of Castlemaine and King Charles II”
72) Warwick, Christopher “Ella: Princess, Saint, Martyr”
73) Varrin, Claudia “Erotic Surrender: The Sensual Joys of Female Submission”
74) Queen Noor “Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life”
75) Weir, Alison “Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley”
76) Stowell, Joseph M. “The Weight of Your Words: Measuring the Impact of What You Say”
77) Davis, PhD., Craig S. “The Middle East for Dummies”
78) Kugler, Francis “The Life of Frederick the Great: Comprehending a Complete History of the Silesian Campaign and the Thirty Years’ War”
79) Seagrave, Sterling “Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China”
80) Tillyard, Stella “A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings”
81) Wolf, Dick (Photographs by Jessica Burstein) “Law and Order Crime Scenes”
82) Manchester, William “Death of a President: November 20 – November 25 1963”
83) Paludan, Ann “Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign by Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China”
84) Radzinsky, Edvard “Alexander II The Last Great Tsar”
85) Gregory, Philippa “The Boleyn Inheritance”
86) Naslund, Sena Jeter “Abundance A Novel of Marie Antoinette”
87) Miller, Philip and Molly Devon “Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism”
88) Gelardi, Julia P. “Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria”
89) Cohen, M.J. and John Major “History in Quotations: Reflecting 5000 Years of World History”
1) Matlock, Jr. Jack F. “Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended”
2) Kostova, Elizabeth “The Historian A Novel”
3) Evans, Michael “The Death of Kings: Royal Deaths in Medieval England”
4) Stolley, Richard (Edited by) “Life: Our Century in Pictures”
5) Wilentz, Sean “The American Presidents: Andrew Jackson”
6) Montefiore, Sebag “Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin”
7) Harris, Thomas “Hannibal Rising A Novel”
8) Edwards, Samuel “Lady of France: A Biography of Gabrielle d’Estrees, Mistress of Henry the Great”
9) Fawcett, Bill and Brian M. Thomsen (Edited by) “You Did What? Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters”
10) Gire, Ken “Intimate Moments with the Savior: Learning to Love”
11) Warnes, David “Chronicle of the Russian Tsars: The Reign by Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia”
12) Robinson, Ray (Compiled by) “Famous Last Words: Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes and Exclamations Upon Expiration”
13) Weir, Alison “Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England”
14) Cesaretti, Paolo (Translated from the Italian by Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia, Ph.D.) “Theodora: Empress of Byzantium”
15) Schilling, Mark “The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture”
16) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 1: The Sword of Truth” (Re-read)
17) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 2: The Winds of God” (Re-read)
18) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 3: The Shield of Honor” (Re-read)
19) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 4: The Fields of Glory” (Re-read)
20) Salinger, Pierre; Edwin Guthman; Frank Mankiewicz, and John Seigenthaler (Edited by) “’An Honorable Profession’ A Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”
21) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 5: The Ramparts of Heaven”
22) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 6: The Song of Princes”
23) Morris, Gilbert “The Wakefield Dynasty Vol. 7: The Gathering of Eagles”
24) Traxel, David “Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898 – 1920”
25) Erickson, Carolly “The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette”
26) Greene, Oliver “What Think Ye of Christ? And Other Sermons”
27) Tolstoy, Leo “Anna Karenina”
28) Fraser, Antonia “Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration”
29) Downs, Tim “PlagueMaker”
30) Seagrave, Sterling “The Soong Dynasty”
31) McMurtry, Larry & Diana Ossana “Pretty Boy Floyd A Novel”
32) Cook, Petronelle “Queen Consorts of England: The Power Behind The Throne”
33) Foley, Mick “The Hardcore Diaries”
34) Young, Dwight “Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office, From the Files of the National Archives”
35) The Bathroom Readers’ Hysterical Institute “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History”
36) Castleden, Rodney “Infamous Murderers”
37) Melton, J. Gordon “The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead”
38) Gerges, Fawaz A. “Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy”
39) Tomkins, Stephen “A Short History of Christianity”
40) Barker, Clive “Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three”
41) Herman, Eleanor “Sex with the Queen: Nine Hundred Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics”
42) Petropoulous, Jonathan “Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany”
43) McPherson, James M. (General Editor) “To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents”
44) Bisbort, Alan “Famous Last Words: Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bon Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure”
45) Jardine, Lisa “The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun”
46) Stewart, Ph.D., Robert, with Clint Twist and Edward Horton “National Geographic Mysteries of History”
47) Ehrman, Bart “Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament”
48) Bar-Zohar, Michael “Beyond Hitler’s Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews”
49) Hogan, David J. “Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film”
50) Lord, Walter “A Night to Remember”
51) Hatzfeld, Jean “Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak”
52) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (Re-read)
53) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (Re-read)
54) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (Re-read)
55) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (Re-read)
56) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (Re-read)
57) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” (Re-read)
58) Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
59) Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent “The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King”
60) Kamen, Henry “Philip of Spain”
61) Elsberry, Terence “Marie of Romania: The Intimate Life of a Twentieth Century Queen”
62) Leamer, Laurence “The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family”
63) Reagan, Ronald “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”
64) Fraser, Antonia “Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King”
65) Rogerson, John “Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel”
66) Cotterell, Arthur and Rachel Storm “The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology: An A – Z Guide to the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World”
67) “The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States”
68) Packard, Jerrold M. “Victoria’s Daughters”
69) Erickson, Carolly “The Last Wife of Henry VIII”
70) Baldwin, Louis “The Loves of Their Lives: Enduring Romantic Relationships from Antony and Cleopatra to Today”
71) Scott, Susan Holloway “Royal Harlot: A Novel of the Countess of Castlemaine and King Charles II”
72) Warwick, Christopher “Ella: Princess, Saint, Martyr”
73) Varrin, Claudia “Erotic Surrender: The Sensual Joys of Female Submission”
74) Queen Noor “Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life”
75) Weir, Alison “Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley”
76) Stowell, Joseph M. “The Weight of Your Words: Measuring the Impact of What You Say”
77) Davis, PhD., Craig S. “The Middle East for Dummies”
78) Kugler, Francis “The Life of Frederick the Great: Comprehending a Complete History of the Silesian Campaign and the Thirty Years’ War”
79) Seagrave, Sterling “Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China”
80) Tillyard, Stella “A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings”
81) Wolf, Dick (Photographs by Jessica Burstein) “Law and Order Crime Scenes”
82) Manchester, William “Death of a President: November 20 – November 25 1963”
83) Paludan, Ann “Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign by Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China”
84) Radzinsky, Edvard “Alexander II The Last Great Tsar”
85) Gregory, Philippa “The Boleyn Inheritance”
86) Naslund, Sena Jeter “Abundance A Novel of Marie Antoinette”
87) Miller, Philip and Molly Devon “Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism”
88) Gelardi, Julia P. “Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria”
89) Cohen, M.J. and John Major “History in Quotations: Reflecting 5000 Years of World History”
Booklist 2006
Here's my booklog from 2006 (total read - 83):
1) DC Talk’s Toby Mac and Michael Tait “Under God”
2) Maxwell, Robin “The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn”
3) Michaels, Shawn with Aaron Feigenbaum “Heartbreak & Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Story”
4) Caprio, Robert “Are We There Yet? Tales from the Never Ending Travels of WWE Superstars”
5) Cawthrone, Nigel “Tyrants: History’s 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators”
6) Mackey, Sandra “The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation”
7) Lucado, Max “Life Lessons with Max Lucado: Book of James”
8) Poe, Edgar Allen “Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe”
9) Weitz, Rose “Rapunzel’s Daughters: What Women’s Hair tells us About Women’s Lives”
10) Gregory, Philippa “The Other Boleyn Girl, a Novel”
11) Suetonius “The Twelve Caesars” (Trans. By Robert Graves)
12) Mills, Dorothy “The Middle Ages.
13) Kennedy, Nancy “Move Over Victoria – I know the Real Secret!”
14) Hilliam, David “Monarchs, Murders & Mistresses: A Calendar of Royal Days”
15) Achilli, Justin & Robert Hatch (Edited by) “Dark Tyrants: A Vampire: The Dark Ages Anthology”
16) Kelly, Amy “Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings”
17) Edwards, Gene “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”
18) Higgs, Liz Curtis “Bad Girls of the Bible (And What We Can Learn from Them)”
19) Howe, Randy “Why I Hate the Democrats”
20) Lofts, Norah “The King’s Pleasure”
21) Davis, Kenneth “Don’t Know Much about the Universe? Everything You Need to Know about the Cosmos but Never Learned”
22) Davis, Kenneth “Don’t Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History but Never Learned”
23) King, Stephen “Cell”
24) Hickman, Tom “Death* A User’s Guide”
25) Webster, Orville V. “The Book of Presidents”
26) Carter, Lauren “The Most Evil Mobsters in History”
27) Higgs, Liz Curtis “Really Bad Girls of the Bible (More Lessons from Less-Than-Perfect Women)”
28) Graham, Billy “Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”
29) Klingaman, William K. “The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman”
30) Algrant, Chrstine Pevitt “Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France”
31) Comfort, Ray (Compiled by) “The Evidence Bible: Irrefutable Evidence for the Thinking Mind”
32) Spignesi, Stephen J. “In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations and Attempts from Julius Caesar to John Lennon”
33) Dole, Bob “Great Presidential Wit (…I Wish I Was in this Book)”
34) Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett “Good Omens”
35) Hannity, Sean “Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism and Liberalism”
36) Sinclair, Andrew “Death by Fame: A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria”
37) Cannistraro, Philip and Brian Sullivan “Il Duce’s Other Woman: The Untold Story of Margherita Sarfatti, Benito Mussolini’s Jewish Mistress, and how she helped him come to power”
38) Donohue, Keith “The Stolen Child”
39) Matyszak, Philip “Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus”
40) Graves, Robert “I, Claudius” (Re-read)
41) Graves, Robert “Claudius, the God and his Wife Messalina”
42) Minkoff, Harvey Ph.D. “The Missing Books of the Bible Volume 1”
43) Nabokov, Vladimir “Lolita”
44) George, Margaret “Mary, Called Magdalene A Novel”
45) Palmer, Alan “Napoleon and Marie Louise: The Emperor’s Second Wife”
46) Minkoff, Harvey Ph.D. “The Missing Books of the Bible Volume 2”
47) Coulter, Ann “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”
48) Leamer, Lawrence “Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty”
49) Murphy, Paul I. With R. Rene Arlington “La Popessa”
50) Moore, Lucy “Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament”
51) Gire, Ken “Intense Moments with the Savior: Learning to Feel”
52) Cowley, Robert (Edited by) “What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been”
53) Anderson, Christine (Compiled by) “Stories of Prayer for a Healthy Soul”
54) Rogerson, John “Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel”
55) Kelly, C. Brian with Ingrid Smyer “Best Little Stories from the White House”
56) Phillips, Jonathan “The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople”
57) Fox, Robin Lane “The Search for Alexander”
58) Lucado, Max “The Gift for All People: Thoughts on God’s Great Grace”
59) Costain, Thomas B. “The Conquerors, the Pageant of England”
60) Boller, Jr., Paul “Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History”
61) Schnakenberg, Robert “Distory: A Treasury of Historical Insults”
62) Flaubert, Gustave “Madame Bovary”
63) Published by Reader’s Digest “When, Where, Why & How It Happened: History’s Most Dramatic Events…and How They Changed the World”
64) Published by Barbour and Company, Inc. in the Christian Library “Josephus 37 B.C. – A.D. 70”
65) Farquhar, Michael “A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History’s Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds”
66) Alexander, John T. “Catherine the Great: Life and Legend”
67) Ogilvie, Lloyd John “The Magnificent Vision: Seeing Yourself Through the Eyes of Christ”
68) Wills, John E. “1688: A Global History”
69) Rabb, Theodore K. “Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age”
70) Weinbert, Gerhard L. “Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders”
71) Bishop, David; Christa Faust & Tim Waggoner “A Nightmare on Elm Street: Ripped from a Dream, A Nightmare on Elm Street Omnibus” (3 Novels in one: David Bishop’s “Suffer the Children”, Christa Faust’s “Dreamspawn”, and Tim Waggoner’s “Protégé”)
72) Forstchen, William R. and Bill Fawcett (Edited by) “It Seemed Like a Good Idea: A Compendium of Great Historical Fiascoes”
73) Cartledge, Paul “Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World”
74) Wein, Len and Leah Wilson (Edited by) “The Unauthorized X-Men: SF and Comic Writers on Mutants, Prejudice, and Adamantium”
75) Woodward, Bob “Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate”
76) Colon, Ernie and Sid Jacobson “The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation”
77) Strauss, Barry “The Trojan War: A New History”
78) Folsom, Allan “Day of Confession” (Novel)
79) Maguire, Gregory “Mirror, Mirror” (Novel)
80) Aikman, David “Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century”
81) Coulter, Ann “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)”
82) Palmer, Alan “Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph”
83) Streatfeild, Dominic “Cocaine (An Unauthorized Biography)”
1) DC Talk’s Toby Mac and Michael Tait “Under God”
2) Maxwell, Robin “The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn”
3) Michaels, Shawn with Aaron Feigenbaum “Heartbreak & Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Story”
4) Caprio, Robert “Are We There Yet? Tales from the Never Ending Travels of WWE Superstars”
5) Cawthrone, Nigel “Tyrants: History’s 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators”
6) Mackey, Sandra “The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation”
7) Lucado, Max “Life Lessons with Max Lucado: Book of James”
8) Poe, Edgar Allen “Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe”
9) Weitz, Rose “Rapunzel’s Daughters: What Women’s Hair tells us About Women’s Lives”
10) Gregory, Philippa “The Other Boleyn Girl, a Novel”
11) Suetonius “The Twelve Caesars” (Trans. By Robert Graves)
12) Mills, Dorothy “The Middle Ages.
13) Kennedy, Nancy “Move Over Victoria – I know the Real Secret!”
14) Hilliam, David “Monarchs, Murders & Mistresses: A Calendar of Royal Days”
15) Achilli, Justin & Robert Hatch (Edited by) “Dark Tyrants: A Vampire: The Dark Ages Anthology”
16) Kelly, Amy “Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings”
17) Edwards, Gene “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”
18) Higgs, Liz Curtis “Bad Girls of the Bible (And What We Can Learn from Them)”
19) Howe, Randy “Why I Hate the Democrats”
20) Lofts, Norah “The King’s Pleasure”
21) Davis, Kenneth “Don’t Know Much about the Universe? Everything You Need to Know about the Cosmos but Never Learned”
22) Davis, Kenneth “Don’t Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History but Never Learned”
23) King, Stephen “Cell”
24) Hickman, Tom “Death* A User’s Guide”
25) Webster, Orville V. “The Book of Presidents”
26) Carter, Lauren “The Most Evil Mobsters in History”
27) Higgs, Liz Curtis “Really Bad Girls of the Bible (More Lessons from Less-Than-Perfect Women)”
28) Graham, Billy “Approaching Hoofbeats: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”
29) Klingaman, William K. “The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman”
30) Algrant, Chrstine Pevitt “Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France”
31) Comfort, Ray (Compiled by) “The Evidence Bible: Irrefutable Evidence for the Thinking Mind”
32) Spignesi, Stephen J. “In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations and Attempts from Julius Caesar to John Lennon”
33) Dole, Bob “Great Presidential Wit (…I Wish I Was in this Book)”
34) Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett “Good Omens”
35) Hannity, Sean “Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism and Liberalism”
36) Sinclair, Andrew “Death by Fame: A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria”
37) Cannistraro, Philip and Brian Sullivan “Il Duce’s Other Woman: The Untold Story of Margherita Sarfatti, Benito Mussolini’s Jewish Mistress, and how she helped him come to power”
38) Donohue, Keith “The Stolen Child”
39) Matyszak, Philip “Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus”
40) Graves, Robert “I, Claudius” (Re-read)
41) Graves, Robert “Claudius, the God and his Wife Messalina”
42) Minkoff, Harvey Ph.D. “The Missing Books of the Bible Volume 1”
43) Nabokov, Vladimir “Lolita”
44) George, Margaret “Mary, Called Magdalene A Novel”
45) Palmer, Alan “Napoleon and Marie Louise: The Emperor’s Second Wife”
46) Minkoff, Harvey Ph.D. “The Missing Books of the Bible Volume 2”
47) Coulter, Ann “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”
48) Leamer, Lawrence “Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty”
49) Murphy, Paul I. With R. Rene Arlington “La Popessa”
50) Moore, Lucy “Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament”
51) Gire, Ken “Intense Moments with the Savior: Learning to Feel”
52) Cowley, Robert (Edited by) “What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been”
53) Anderson, Christine (Compiled by) “Stories of Prayer for a Healthy Soul”
54) Rogerson, John “Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel”
55) Kelly, C. Brian with Ingrid Smyer “Best Little Stories from the White House”
56) Phillips, Jonathan “The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople”
57) Fox, Robin Lane “The Search for Alexander”
58) Lucado, Max “The Gift for All People: Thoughts on God’s Great Grace”
59) Costain, Thomas B. “The Conquerors, the Pageant of England”
60) Boller, Jr., Paul “Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History”
61) Schnakenberg, Robert “Distory: A Treasury of Historical Insults”
62) Flaubert, Gustave “Madame Bovary”
63) Published by Reader’s Digest “When, Where, Why & How It Happened: History’s Most Dramatic Events…and How They Changed the World”
64) Published by Barbour and Company, Inc. in the Christian Library “Josephus 37 B.C. – A.D. 70”
65) Farquhar, Michael “A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History’s Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds”
66) Alexander, John T. “Catherine the Great: Life and Legend”
67) Ogilvie, Lloyd John “The Magnificent Vision: Seeing Yourself Through the Eyes of Christ”
68) Wills, John E. “1688: A Global History”
69) Rabb, Theodore K. “Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age”
70) Weinbert, Gerhard L. “Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders”
71) Bishop, David; Christa Faust & Tim Waggoner “A Nightmare on Elm Street: Ripped from a Dream, A Nightmare on Elm Street Omnibus” (3 Novels in one: David Bishop’s “Suffer the Children”, Christa Faust’s “Dreamspawn”, and Tim Waggoner’s “Protégé”)
72) Forstchen, William R. and Bill Fawcett (Edited by) “It Seemed Like a Good Idea: A Compendium of Great Historical Fiascoes”
73) Cartledge, Paul “Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World”
74) Wein, Len and Leah Wilson (Edited by) “The Unauthorized X-Men: SF and Comic Writers on Mutants, Prejudice, and Adamantium”
75) Woodward, Bob “Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate”
76) Colon, Ernie and Sid Jacobson “The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation”
77) Strauss, Barry “The Trojan War: A New History”
78) Folsom, Allan “Day of Confession” (Novel)
79) Maguire, Gregory “Mirror, Mirror” (Novel)
80) Aikman, David “Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century”
81) Coulter, Ann “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)”
82) Palmer, Alan “Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph”
83) Streatfeild, Dominic “Cocaine (An Unauthorized Biography)”
Booklist 2005
Here's my booklist from 2005 (total: 73):
*Weir, Alison “The Wars of the Roses”
*Bradbury, Ray “Fahrenheit 451”
*Weir, Alison “The Princes in the Tower”
*Cornwell, John “Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII”
*From the Editors of “Christian History” Magazine (Mark Calli & Ted Oldson) “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
*Bin Laden, Carmen “Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia”
*Del Re, Gerard and Patricia “History’s Last Stand”
*Von Drehle, David “Triangle: The Fire that Changed America”
*Lewis, Bernard “What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response”
*Steinbeck, John “East of Eden”
*Pakula, Hannah “The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania”
*Coulter, Ann “Slander”
*Cavendish, Richard (Edited by) “Mythology: An Illustrated Encyclopedia”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: Dragons”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: Ghosts”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: Legends of Valor”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: The Fall of Camelot”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: Night Creatures”
*Chamberlin, E.R. “The Fall of the House of Borgia”
*Little, Dennis (Edited by) “Familiars”
*Haslip, Joan “The Lonely Empress: A Biography of Elizabeth of Austria”
*Codrescu, Andre “The Blood Countess”
*Bulfinch’s Mythology “The Age of Chivalry: Legends of Charlemagne”
*Douglas, J.D. and Philip W. Comfort (Editors) “Who’s Who in Christian History”
*Rubin, Nancy “Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen”
*Takami, Koushun “Battle Royale”
*Weber, Ralph E. and Ralph A. Weber (Editors) “Dear Americans: Letters from the Desk of President Ronald Reagan”
*Grant, Michael “Cleopatra”
*Fraser, Antonia “The Six Wives of Henry VIII”
*George, Margaret “Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles”
*Bull, Chris and Sam Erman (Edited by) “Ground Zero: 25 Stories from Young Reporters Who Were There”
*Crawford, Rosemary and Donald “Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of Michael II, the Last of the Romanov Tsars”
*Saul David “Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency”
*Hannity, Sean “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism”
*Chapman, Caroline; in collaboration with Jane Dormer “Elizabeth & Georgiana: The Duke of Devonshire and His Two Duchesses”
*Doherty, Paul “Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II”
*Brown, Dan “The Da Vinci Code”
*Cloulas, Ivan “The Borgias” (Translated by Gilda Roberts)
*Leon, Vicki “Uppity Women of Medieval Times”
*Martin, Walter “The Kingdom of the Cults” (Now completely revised & updated 1997)
*MacDonogh, Giles “The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II”
*Kelen, Betty “The Mistresses: Domestic Scandals of Nineteenth-Century Monarchs”
*Jacq, Christian “The Empire of Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Egypt”
*Erickson, Carolly “Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs”
*Huxley, Aldous “Brave New World”
*Herman, Eleanor “Sex With Kings”
*Erickson, Carolly “Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography”
*Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
*Grisham, John “The Brethren”
*Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
*Ehrman, Bart D. “Lost Christianities: Battles for Scripture and Faiths We Never Knew”
*Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince”
*Plaidy, Jean “The Rose Without a Thorn”
*Vankin, Jonathan & John Whalen “The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of all Time: History’s Biggest Mysteries, Cover-ups & Cabals”
*Kurlansky, Mark “1968: The Year that Rocked the World”
*Dole, Bob “Great Political Wit: Laughing (Almost) All the Way to the White House”
*Rutherfurd, Edward “Russka: The Novel of Russia”
*Dunn, Jane “Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens”
*Leamer, Laurence “The Kennedy Men 1901-1963”
*Deal, William “A Pilgrim who Made Progress: The Life Story of John Bunyan, Author of ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’”
*Harris, Charlaine “Dead Until Dark” (Re-read)
*Harris, Charlaine “Living Dead in Dallas” (Re-read)
*Harris, Charlaine “Club Dead” (Re-read)
*Harris, Charlaine “Dead to the World”
*National Geographic “Cradle & Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East” (Introduction by Daniel Schorr, with David Fromikin, Zahi Hawass, Yossi Klein Halevi, Sandra Mackey, Charles M. Sennott, Milton Viorst, and Andrew Wheatcroft.)
*Leon, Vicki “Uppity Women of the Renaissance”
*Forbes, Malcolm (with Jeff Bloch) “They Went That-A-Way: How the Famous, the Infamous, and the Great Died”
*Brown, Mary Beth “Hand of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald Reagan”
*Rendina, Claudio (Translated by Paul D. McCusker) “The Popes: Histories and Secrets”
*Dunlop, Ian “Louis XIV”
*Goldberg, Bernard “100 People who are Screwing up America (And Al Franken is #37)”
*Maguire, Gregory “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”
*Buckley, Veronica “Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric”
*Weir, Alison “The Wars of the Roses”
*Bradbury, Ray “Fahrenheit 451”
*Weir, Alison “The Princes in the Tower”
*Cornwell, John “Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII”
*From the Editors of “Christian History” Magazine (Mark Calli & Ted Oldson) “131 Christians Everyone Should Know”
*Bin Laden, Carmen “Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia”
*Del Re, Gerard and Patricia “History’s Last Stand”
*Von Drehle, David “Triangle: The Fire that Changed America”
*Lewis, Bernard “What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response”
*Steinbeck, John “East of Eden”
*Pakula, Hannah “The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania”
*Coulter, Ann “Slander”
*Cavendish, Richard (Edited by) “Mythology: An Illustrated Encyclopedia”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: Dragons”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: Ghosts”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: Legends of Valor”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: The Fall of Camelot”
*Editors of Time-Life Books “The Enchanted World: Night Creatures”
*Chamberlin, E.R. “The Fall of the House of Borgia”
*Little, Dennis (Edited by) “Familiars”
*Haslip, Joan “The Lonely Empress: A Biography of Elizabeth of Austria”
*Codrescu, Andre “The Blood Countess”
*Bulfinch’s Mythology “The Age of Chivalry: Legends of Charlemagne”
*Douglas, J.D. and Philip W. Comfort (Editors) “Who’s Who in Christian History”
*Rubin, Nancy “Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen”
*Takami, Koushun “Battle Royale”
*Weber, Ralph E. and Ralph A. Weber (Editors) “Dear Americans: Letters from the Desk of President Ronald Reagan”
*Grant, Michael “Cleopatra”
*Fraser, Antonia “The Six Wives of Henry VIII”
*George, Margaret “Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles”
*Bull, Chris and Sam Erman (Edited by) “Ground Zero: 25 Stories from Young Reporters Who Were There”
*Crawford, Rosemary and Donald “Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of Michael II, the Last of the Romanov Tsars”
*Saul David “Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency”
*Hannity, Sean “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism”
*Chapman, Caroline; in collaboration with Jane Dormer “Elizabeth & Georgiana: The Duke of Devonshire and His Two Duchesses”
*Doherty, Paul “Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II”
*Brown, Dan “The Da Vinci Code”
*Cloulas, Ivan “The Borgias” (Translated by Gilda Roberts)
*Leon, Vicki “Uppity Women of Medieval Times”
*Martin, Walter “The Kingdom of the Cults” (Now completely revised & updated 1997)
*MacDonogh, Giles “The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II”
*Kelen, Betty “The Mistresses: Domestic Scandals of Nineteenth-Century Monarchs”
*Jacq, Christian “The Empire of Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Egypt”
*Erickson, Carolly “Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs”
*Huxley, Aldous “Brave New World”
*Herman, Eleanor “Sex With Kings”
*Erickson, Carolly “Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography”
*Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
*Grisham, John “The Brethren”
*Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
*Ehrman, Bart D. “Lost Christianities: Battles for Scripture and Faiths We Never Knew”
*Rowling, J.K. “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince”
*Plaidy, Jean “The Rose Without a Thorn”
*Vankin, Jonathan & John Whalen “The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of all Time: History’s Biggest Mysteries, Cover-ups & Cabals”
*Kurlansky, Mark “1968: The Year that Rocked the World”
*Dole, Bob “Great Political Wit: Laughing (Almost) All the Way to the White House”
*Rutherfurd, Edward “Russka: The Novel of Russia”
*Dunn, Jane “Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens”
*Leamer, Laurence “The Kennedy Men 1901-1963”
*Deal, William “A Pilgrim who Made Progress: The Life Story of John Bunyan, Author of ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’”
*Harris, Charlaine “Dead Until Dark” (Re-read)
*Harris, Charlaine “Living Dead in Dallas” (Re-read)
*Harris, Charlaine “Club Dead” (Re-read)
*Harris, Charlaine “Dead to the World”
*National Geographic “Cradle & Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East” (Introduction by Daniel Schorr, with David Fromikin, Zahi Hawass, Yossi Klein Halevi, Sandra Mackey, Charles M. Sennott, Milton Viorst, and Andrew Wheatcroft.)
*Leon, Vicki “Uppity Women of the Renaissance”
*Forbes, Malcolm (with Jeff Bloch) “They Went That-A-Way: How the Famous, the Infamous, and the Great Died”
*Brown, Mary Beth “Hand of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald Reagan”
*Rendina, Claudio (Translated by Paul D. McCusker) “The Popes: Histories and Secrets”
*Dunlop, Ian “Louis XIV”
*Goldberg, Bernard “100 People who are Screwing up America (And Al Franken is #37)”
*Maguire, Gregory “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”
*Buckley, Veronica “Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric”
Bookalicious
While my other blog will be primarily my 'soapbox', this one will be to post my book lists and thoughts on books I'm reading currently. Apparently I signed this one up in 2008 and forgot all about it, heh. Lets kick this off with the list of books I read in 2004.
*Spignesi, Stephen J. “The 100 Greatest Disasters of All Time”
*Butler, Daniel Allen “Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic”
*Nee, Watchman “The Normal Christian Life”
*Leon, Vicki “Uppity Women of Ancient Times”
*Lang, Andrew (Edited by) “The Brown Fairy Book”
*Ramsland, Katherine “Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today”
*Harris, Robert “Pompeii” (Loaned from Dr. Weiss!)
*Kendall, Paul Murray “Louis XI ‘The Universal Spider’”
*Diamant, Anita “The Red Tent”
*Scott, Darrell with Steve Rabey “Rachel Smiles: The Spiritual Legacy of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott”
*Sebold, Alice “The Lovely Bones”
*Barrett, Anthony A. “Caligula: The Corruption of Power”
*Wilde, Oscar “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories”
*Dziemianowicz, Stefan; Robert Weinberg, & Martin H. Greenberg “Horrors! 365 Scary Stories”
*Perry, John Curtis and Constantine Pleshakov “The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga”
*Kirsch, Jonathan “The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible”
*Sullivan, Michael John “A Fatal Passion: The Story of the Uncrowned Last Empress of Russia”
*Alighieri, Dante “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”
*Newman, Kim “Anno-Dracula”
*MacLeod, John “Dynasty: The Stuarts 1560-1807”
*Patterson, James “Violets are Blue”
*Lockyer, Herbert “Last Words of Saints and Sinners”
*Farmer, Lydia Hoyt “The Book of Famous Queens”
*Limbaugh, Rush “The Way Things Ought to Be”
*Scarre, Chris “Chronicle of the Roman Emperors”
*Erickson, Carolly “Bloody Mary”
*Farquhar, Michael “A Treasury of Royal Scandals”
*Klein, Shelley “The Most Evil Dictators in History”
*Carroll, Lewis “The Best of Lewis Carroll”
*Johnson, PH.D., Kevin Orlin “Why Do Catholics Do That? A Guide to the Teachings and Practices of the Catholic Church”
*Tannahill, Reay “Fatal Majesty: A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots”
*Pratchett, Terry “Carpe Jugulum”
*McNally, Raymond T. “Dracula was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania”
*Castelot, Andre “Queen of France: A Biography of Marie Antoinette”
*Courrier, Kevin & Susan Green “Law and Order the Unofficial Companion”
*Duc De Castries (Translated from French by Anne Dobell) “The Lives of the Kings and Queen of France”
*Stephens, John Richard “Weird History 101”
*Unsworth, Barry “The Songs of Kings”
*Klein, Shelley “The Most Evil Women in History”
*Martines, Lauro “April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici”
*DuBois, Pierre “The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries”
*Lever, Evelyne “Madame de Pompadour, A Life” (Translated by Catherine Temerson.)
*Murphy, Edwin “After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses”
*O’Reilly, Bill “Who’s Looking Out for You?”
*Lockyer, Herbert “All the Women of the Bible”
*Harris, Thomas “The Silence of the Lambs”
*Lincoln, W. Bruce “The Romanovs: Autocrats of all the Russias”
*Breem, Wallace “Eagle in the Snow: A Novel of General Maximus and Rome’s Last Stand” (Novel. Dr. Weiss came up and handed it to me letting me borrow it out of the blue on 8.30.04 !!)
*Jamison, Kay Redfield “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”
*(Edited by) Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer “The Sandman Book of Dreams”
*Reston, James, Jr. “Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade”
*Shenkman, Richard “Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World History”
*Haeger, Diane “The Secret Wife of King George IV”
*Craughwell, Thomas J. “The Cat in the Dryer and 222 Other Urban Legends”
*Cantor, Norman F. “Antiquity: The Civilization of the Ancient World”
*Clayton, Peter A. “Chronicle of the Pharaohs”
*Tisdall, E. E. P. “Alexandra: Edward VII’s Unpredictable Queen”
*O’Neill, John E. and Jerome R. Corsi, PH.D. “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak out against John Kerry”
*Mattingly, Garrett “Catherine of Aragon”
*Davis, J. Madison “Law and Order: Dead Line”
*Mahoney, Irene “Madame Catherine”
*Fraser, Antonia “Marie Antoinette: The Journey”
*Ende, Michael “The Neverending Story”
*Jordan, Michael “Encyclopedia of Gods”
*Tolstoy, Leo “War and Peace”
*Lockyer, Herbert “All the Women of the Bible”
*Flexner, Stuart & Doris “The Pessimist’s Guide to History”
*Beazely, Jan & Thom Lemmons “King’s Ransom”
Now remember, this was in 2004, when I was still leaning Republican conservative, which explains the Limbaugh, O'Reilly, etc books. Trust me, I'm not too proud of having read those. Plus Ann Coulter's crap. Live and learn.
*Spignesi, Stephen J. “The 100 Greatest Disasters of All Time”
*Butler, Daniel Allen “Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic”
*Nee, Watchman “The Normal Christian Life”
*Leon, Vicki “Uppity Women of Ancient Times”
*Lang, Andrew (Edited by) “The Brown Fairy Book”
*Ramsland, Katherine “Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today”
*Harris, Robert “Pompeii” (Loaned from Dr. Weiss!)
*Kendall, Paul Murray “Louis XI ‘The Universal Spider’”
*Diamant, Anita “The Red Tent”
*Scott, Darrell with Steve Rabey “Rachel Smiles: The Spiritual Legacy of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott”
*Sebold, Alice “The Lovely Bones”
*Barrett, Anthony A. “Caligula: The Corruption of Power”
*Wilde, Oscar “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories”
*Dziemianowicz, Stefan; Robert Weinberg, & Martin H. Greenberg “Horrors! 365 Scary Stories”
*Perry, John Curtis and Constantine Pleshakov “The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga”
*Kirsch, Jonathan “The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible”
*Sullivan, Michael John “A Fatal Passion: The Story of the Uncrowned Last Empress of Russia”
*Alighieri, Dante “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”
*Newman, Kim “Anno-Dracula”
*MacLeod, John “Dynasty: The Stuarts 1560-1807”
*Patterson, James “Violets are Blue”
*Lockyer, Herbert “Last Words of Saints and Sinners”
*Farmer, Lydia Hoyt “The Book of Famous Queens”
*Limbaugh, Rush “The Way Things Ought to Be”
*Scarre, Chris “Chronicle of the Roman Emperors”
*Erickson, Carolly “Bloody Mary”
*Farquhar, Michael “A Treasury of Royal Scandals”
*Klein, Shelley “The Most Evil Dictators in History”
*Carroll, Lewis “The Best of Lewis Carroll”
*Johnson, PH.D., Kevin Orlin “Why Do Catholics Do That? A Guide to the Teachings and Practices of the Catholic Church”
*Tannahill, Reay “Fatal Majesty: A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots”
*Pratchett, Terry “Carpe Jugulum”
*McNally, Raymond T. “Dracula was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania”
*Castelot, Andre “Queen of France: A Biography of Marie Antoinette”
*Courrier, Kevin & Susan Green “Law and Order the Unofficial Companion”
*Duc De Castries (Translated from French by Anne Dobell) “The Lives of the Kings and Queen of France”
*Stephens, John Richard “Weird History 101”
*Unsworth, Barry “The Songs of Kings”
*Klein, Shelley “The Most Evil Women in History”
*Martines, Lauro “April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici”
*DuBois, Pierre “The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries”
*Lever, Evelyne “Madame de Pompadour, A Life” (Translated by Catherine Temerson.)
*Murphy, Edwin “After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses”
*O’Reilly, Bill “Who’s Looking Out for You?”
*Lockyer, Herbert “All the Women of the Bible”
*Harris, Thomas “The Silence of the Lambs”
*Lincoln, W. Bruce “The Romanovs: Autocrats of all the Russias”
*Breem, Wallace “Eagle in the Snow: A Novel of General Maximus and Rome’s Last Stand” (Novel. Dr. Weiss came up and handed it to me letting me borrow it out of the blue on 8.30.04 !!)
*Jamison, Kay Redfield “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”
*(Edited by) Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer “The Sandman Book of Dreams”
*Reston, James, Jr. “Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade”
*Shenkman, Richard “Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World History”
*Haeger, Diane “The Secret Wife of King George IV”
*Craughwell, Thomas J. “The Cat in the Dryer and 222 Other Urban Legends”
*Cantor, Norman F. “Antiquity: The Civilization of the Ancient World”
*Clayton, Peter A. “Chronicle of the Pharaohs”
*Tisdall, E. E. P. “Alexandra: Edward VII’s Unpredictable Queen”
*O’Neill, John E. and Jerome R. Corsi, PH.D. “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak out against John Kerry”
*Mattingly, Garrett “Catherine of Aragon”
*Davis, J. Madison “Law and Order: Dead Line”
*Mahoney, Irene “Madame Catherine”
*Fraser, Antonia “Marie Antoinette: The Journey”
*Ende, Michael “The Neverending Story”
*Jordan, Michael “Encyclopedia of Gods”
*Tolstoy, Leo “War and Peace”
*Lockyer, Herbert “All the Women of the Bible”
*Flexner, Stuart & Doris “The Pessimist’s Guide to History”
*Beazely, Jan & Thom Lemmons “King’s Ransom”
Now remember, this was in 2004, when I was still leaning Republican conservative, which explains the Limbaugh, O'Reilly, etc books. Trust me, I'm not too proud of having read those. Plus Ann Coulter's crap. Live and learn.
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