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”