Monday, January 02, 2017

books read: 2016

this year's tally: 102 books
(that's 1.96 per week)

~ Science & Spirituality ~

Science Books... and Dinosaurs!
  The Crucible of Creation (Simon Conway-Morris)
  Life (Richard Fortey)
  Dinosaurs: The Grand Tour (Keiron Pim)
  The Complete Dinosaur (Michael K. Brett-Surman)
  Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life (Scott D. Sampson)
  The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Gregory S. Paul)
  Predatory Dinosaurs of the World (Paul)
  Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History (David E. Fastovsky)
Religious Books
  The Comeback (Louie Giglio)
  Life After Death & Modern Day Miracles (James Cook)
  The Grand Weaver (Ravi Zacharias)
  Why Suffering? (Zacharias)
  Has Christianity Failed You? (Zacharias)
  The End of Reason (Zacharias)


~ History Books ~

The Ancient World
  Almanac of World History (Daniels & Hyslop)
  The Hittites (Henry Freman)
  The Gallic Wars (Julius Caesar)
  Agricola (Tacitus)
  Germania (Tacitus)
  The Rise of the Roman Empire (Polybius)
  Caesar's Gallic Wars (Kate Gilliver)
  In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won The Empire (Adrian Goldsworthy)
  The Rise of Rome (Anthony Everitt)
  Ancient Rome (Simon Baker)
  Chronicles of the Ancient World (John Haywood)
The Middle Ages
  The Middle Ages: A History (Freeman)
  Atlas of Ancient and Medieval Warfare (Arthur Banks)
  A Short History of Medieval Europe (Oliver Thatcher)
  The Middle Ages (Miri Rubin)
  The Medieval Scene: England in the Middle Ages (R.J. Unstead)
  The Art of War in the Middle Ages (Charles Oman)
  Medieval Warfare (H. W. Koch)
  The Medieval Warrior (Martin Dougherty)
  The Crusades (Mark Black)
  The Black Death (Freeman)
  A History of the Hundred Years War (Ephraim Emerton)
  The Hundred Years War (Charles River Edison)
  A History of the Hundred Years War (Alice Minerva Atkinson)
  A Concise History of the Vikings (Freeman)
  The Ottoman Empire: From Beginning to End (Stephan Weaver)
  A Short History of England and Wales (Mary Platt Parmele)
  A Short History Ireland (Parmele)
  A Short History of Scotland (Parmele)
  A Short History of Germany (Parmele)
  A Short History of France (Parmele)
The Modern World
  The French Revolution (Freeman)
  The French Revolution (William Doyle)
  Napoleon: A Life From Beginning to End (Freeman)
  Guts & Glory: The American Civil War (Ben Thompson)
  The American Civil War (John Keegan)
  The War to End All Wars: World War One (Russell Freedman)
  World War One in 50 Events (James Weber)
  The Western Experience, Volume One (Mortimer Chambers, et. al.)
  The Western Experience, Volume Two (Chambers, et. al.)


~ Fiction & Literature ~

Historical Fiction of Ancient & Medieval Britain
  Prehistoric Britain 
    Stonehenge (Bernard Cornwell)
  Roman Britain
    The Eagle of the Ninth (Rosemary Sutcliff)
    The Silver Branch (Sutcliff)
    The Lantern Bearers (Sutcliff)
  Anglo-Saxon Britain
    The Winter King (Cornwell)
    Enemy of God (Cornwell)
    Excalibur (Cornwell)
  The Hundred Years War
    An Archer's Tale (Cornwell)
    Vagabond (Cornwell)
    Heretic (Cornwell)
    1356 (Cornwell)
    Agincourt (Cornwell)
Historical Fiction of the American Revolution
  Rise to Rebellion (Jeff Shaara)
  The Glorious Cause (Shaara)
  Patrick Henry and the Frigate's Keel (Howard Fast)
  The Hessian (Fast)
  April Morning (Fast)
  Seven Days in June (Fast)
  Conceived in Liberty: A Novel of Valley Forge (Fast)
  The Crossing (Fast)
  The Fort (Bernard Cornwell)
  Redcoat (Cornwell)
Legal Yarns by John Grisham
  Rogue Lawyer
  The Testament
  A Time to Kill
  Sycamore Row
  The Summons
  The Firm
  The Pelican Brief
Works by Michael Crichton
  Rising Sun
  Disclosure
  Timeline
  Micro
Independence Day Saga
  Silent Zone (Stephen Molstad)
  Independence Day (Molstad, et. al.)
  War in the Desert (Molstad)
  Crucible (Greg Keyes)
  Independence Day: Resurgence (Alex Irvine)
Star Wars Prequels
  Darth Plagueis (James Luceno)
  Cloak of Deception (Luceno)
  Episode One: The Phantom Menace (Terry Brooks)
  Episode Two: Attack of the Clones (R.A. Salvatore)
  Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith (Matthew Stover)
  Tarkin (Luceno)
  A New Dawn (John Jackson Miller)
  Star Wars: Complete Vehicles (DK Publishing)
  Star Wars: Complete Cross-Sections (Curtis Saxton & Kerrie Dougherty)
  Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide (Ryder Windham)

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