Thursday, January 02, 2025

books read: 2024

this year I read 60 books,
meeting my goal of reading less than last year!

~  Nonfiction  ~

HISTORY
  The Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt (John R. Baines, 2000)
  Egypt: The Fall of the Pharaohs (Paul Cooper, 2024)
  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume One (Edward Gibbon, 1776)
  The Early History of Rome: Books I-V (Livy, from the time of Christ)
  The Celtic Holocaust (Dan Carlin, 2019)
  Home Life in Colonial Days (Alice Morse Earle, 1898)
  Whirlwind: The American Revolution (John Ferling, 2015)
  The Swamp Fox: Francis Marion (John Oller, 2016)
  The Glorious Cause (Robert Middlekauff, 2007)
  Battle Cry of Freedom (James M. McPherson, 1988)
  Plutarch's Lives
    Themistocles
    Camillus
    Pericles
    Sertorius
    Fabius
  The First World War
    The First World War: A Complete History (Martin Gilbert, 1965)
    The Encyclopedia of Weapons of the First World War (Chris Bishop, 2014)
    Great Battles of World War 1 (Anthony Livesey, 1989)
    A Short History of World War One (James Stokesbury, 1981)
    The Battles of World War One (Christopher Catherwood, 2014)
    The Beauty and the Sorrow (Peter Englund, 2011)
    The Battle of Loos 1915 (Philip Werner, 2000)
    The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (Alistair Horne, 1962)
  The Second World War
    Above the Reich (Colin Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis, 2021)
    Above the Pacific (Heaton and Lewis, 2023)
    If You Survive (George Wilson, 1987)
RELIGION
  The Westminster Larger Catechism: A Commentary (Johannes Vos, 2002)
  Rebels Rescued (Brian H. Cosby, 2012)
  Easy Chairs, Hard Words (Douglas Wilson, 2011)
  The Christ of the Covenants (O. Palmer Robertson, 1980)
  The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards (Steven Lawson, 2008)
  To a Thousand Generations (Wilson, 1996)
  The Pleasantness of a Religious Life (Matthew Henry, 1714)
  The Bruised Reed (Richard Sibbes, 1630)
HEALTH
  The Resistance Training Revolution (Sal Di Stefano, 2021)
  Metabolical (Robert H. Lustig, 2021)
  Make Food Simple (Dr. Livingood, 2019)
  Eat Like a Human (Bill Schindler, 2021)
  Dissolving Illusions (Roman Bystrianyk and Suzanne Humphries, 2013)
  Boundaries (Cloud and Townshed, 2017)




~  Fiction  ~

HISTORICAL FICTION
  River God (Wilbur Smith, 1993)
  Soldier of Rome: Empire of the North (James Mace, 2020)
  Eagle in the Snow (Wallace Breem, 1970)
  The Field of Swords (Conn Iggulden, 2006)
  Sharpe's Command (Bernard Cornwell, 2023)
  The King's Coat (Dewey Lambdin, 1989)
  Shiloh (Shelby Foote, 1952)
  Iwo, 26 (Deutermann, 2023)
MODERN FICTION
  The Running Man (Stephen King, 1982)
  Spartan Gold (Cussler, 2009)
  Raise the Titanic (Cussler, 1976)
  Blue Gold (Cussler, 2000)
  Spartan Gold (Cussler, 2009)
  State of Fear (Michael Crichton, 2004)
  The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2006)
  John Dies at the End (Jason Pargin, 2007)
  American Westerns
    The Frontiersmen (Allan W. Eckert, 1967)
    Borderlords (Terry C. Johnston, 1985)
    Colter's Journey (William and Joan Johnstone, 2017)
    Cape Hell (Loren D. Estleman, 2016)


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books read: 2024

this year I read 60 books, meeting my goal of reading less than last year! ~  Nonfiction  ~ HISTORY   The Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt (J...