Which Book Are You Currently Reading?

[DARK MASTER]

The enclosed instructions book.

 

[CynicalSquid]

I'm almost finished with Artemis Fowl The Arctic Incident and I'm either going to go to Artemis Fowl The Eternity Code or A Game of Thrones afterward.

 

[prince rallis]

I haven't actually started reading it yet, but I'm going to start reading Sign of Chaos by Roger Zelazny the 7th book in the Chronicles of Amber, and since book 6 & 7 were really good I'm pretty sure this one will be as well.

 

[Afroman104]

Eragon

 

[Jirohnagi]

Eragon and Artemis fowl are both good series i quite like the work of Robin Hobb currently reading Dragon Keepers made by her. Really nice series though you'd have to start at the beginning of the series to understand the plot. Cuz each series of hers has it's own plot but each tie in to each other barring the Soldier Son Trilogy that's stand alone

 

[DoomDash]

You know, I'm terrible at getting around to reading my books. I got 3 that I really should read:
- Metro 2033 ( inspired the game )
- Masters of Doom ( the story of how Doom was created and the clashing between the two biggest guys behind it )
- The Dresden Files ( kind of like harry pottery for adults )

I'd also really like to read the Witcher books.

 

[CynicalSquid]

I'm finally getting around to Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code and I want to read A Game of Throne too.

 

[Justac00lguy]

Ok I'm so glad I bought the Silmarillion. I don't read, like ever, but this book is incredible. It goes into all the little details of the fascinating lore and the style of writing, while sometimes quite complicating to adjust to, flows almost like a poem.

 

[Curmudgeon]

this is one of three lists i'll be receiving.

Spoiler

AMERICAN HISTORY, POST-1865

Ph.D. Reading List

American Capitalism:

Bensel, Richard F., The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900

Chandler, Alfred D. Jr., The Visible Hand

Cohen, Lizabeth, A Consumer’s Republic

Cronon, William, Nature’s Metropolis

Hyman, Louis, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink

Jacobs, Meg, Pocketbook Politics

Lichtenstein, Nelson, The Retail Revolution

Moreton, Bethany, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

Zunz, Olivier, Making America Corporate


Foreign Policy:


Bederman, Gail, Manliness and Civilization

Bradley, Mark, Imagining Vietnam and America

Fousek, John, To Lead the Free World

Hogan, Michael J., A Cross of Iron

Hunt, Michael H., Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy

Jacobson, Matthew Frye, Barbarian Virtues

Kramer, Paul, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

LaFeber, Walter, Inevitable Revolutions (2nd ed.)

LaFeber, Walter, New Empire (1998 ed.)

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, Assuming the Burden

Leffler, Melvyn P., For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War

Manela, Erez, The Wilsonian Moment

Renda, Mary A., Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940

Schwartz, Thomas Alan, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam

Westad, Odd Arne, The Global Cold War

Williams, William Appleman, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy


Gender:


Chauncey, George, Gay New York

Cott, Nancy, The Grounding of Modern Feminism

Gordon, Linda, Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935

Hoganson, Kristen, Fighting for American Manhood

Kessler-Harris, Alice, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

Kraditor, Aileen, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement

Pascoe, Peggy, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939

Rosen, Ruth, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (revised edition)


Gilded Age/Progressive Era:


Brinkley, Douglas, The Wilderness Warrior

Dawley, Alan, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State

Edwards, Rebecca, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905

Flanagan, Maureen, America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890-1920s

Goodwyn, Lawrence, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America

Hays, Samuel P., Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency

Hofstadter, Richard, Age of Reform

Hoganson, Kristin, Consumers’ Imperium

Johnston, Robert D., The Radical Middle Class

Lears, Jackson, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920

Mattson, Kevin, Creating a Democratic Public

McGerr, Michael, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

Postel, Charles, The Populist Vision

Putnam, John, Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle

Rodgers, Daniel, Atlantic Crossings

Sanders, Elizabeth, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers and the American State, 1877-1919

Sklar, Kathryn Kish, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work

Skocpol, Theda, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers

Wiebe, Robert H.,The Search for Order, 1877-1920


Immigration:


Bodnar, John, The Transplanted

Daniels, Roger, Coming to America

Gutierrez,David, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity

Higham, John, Strangers in the Land

Hsu, Madeline, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home

Kazal, Russell, Becoming Old Stock

Ngai, Mae, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Roediger, David, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White

Sanchez, George, Becoming Mexican American

Zolberg, Aristide, A Nation By Design


Labor:


Andrews, Thomas, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War

Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal

Dubofsky, Melvin, We Shall Be All (abridged ed.)

Gutman, Herbert, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America

Honey, Michael, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights

Korstad, Robert, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

Lichtenstein, Nelson, State of the Union

Lichtenstein, Nelson, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor

Montgomery, David, The Fall of the House of Labor

Salvatore, Nick, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist

Zieger, Robert H., The CIO, 1935-1955


The New South:


Ayers, Ed, The Promise of the New South

Bennett, James B., Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans

Feimster, Crystal, Southern Horrors

Fredrickson, Kari, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968

Gilmore, Glenda, Gender and Jim Crow

Gilmore, Glenda, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

Foley, Neil, The White Scourge

Gregory, James, The Southern Diaspora

Grossman, James, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd and others, Like a Family

Harvey, Paul, Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era

McMillen, Neil, Dark Journey

Ownby, Ted, Subduing Satan

Rosengarten, Theodore, All God’s Dangers

Schulman, Bruce J., From Cotton Belt to Sun Belt

Woodward, C. Vann, The Origins of the New South

Woodward, C. Vann, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel

Wright, Gavin, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War


1920s and 1930s:


Bernstein, Michael, The Great Depression

Brinkley, Alan, The End of Reform

Brinkley, Alan, Voices of Protest

Dumenil, Lynn, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s

Gorn, Elliot J., Dillinger’s Wild Ride

Hawley, Ellis, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order

Kelley, Robin D., Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

Kennedy, David, Freedom From Fear

Leuchtenberg, William, FDR and the New Deal, 1932-1940

MacLean, Nancy, Behind the Mask of Chivalry

Okrent, Daniel, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Phillips, Sarah T., This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal

Smith, Jason Scott, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956

Sutton, Mark Avery, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

Worster, Donald, Dust Bowl


Post-WWII America:


Borstelmann, Thomas, The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality

Crespino, Joseph, In Search of Another Country

Crespino, Joseph, Strom Thurmond’s America

Dochuk, Darren, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt

Hays, Samuel P., Beauty, Health, and Permanence

Jackson, Kenneth T., Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America

Kruse, Kevin M., White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Kutler, Stanley I., The Wars of Watergate

Lassiter, Matthew, The Silent Majority

Levenstein, Lisa, A Movement Without Marches

Mackenzie, G. Galvin and Robert Weisbrot, The Liberal Hour

McGirr, Lisa, Suburban Warriors

Patterson, James, Restless Giant

Rome, Adam, The Bulldozer in the Countryside

Schaller, Michael, Reckoning with Reagan

Schulman, Bruce J., The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics

Self, Robert O., All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy since the 1960s

Sugrue, Thomas J., The Origins of the Urban Crisis

Troy, Gil, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s

Von Eschen, Penny M., Satchmo Blows Up the World

Wiese, Andrew, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century

Wilkinson, Charles F., Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations

Williams, Daniel, God’s Own Party


Race and Race Relations:


Biondi, Martha, To Stand and Fight

Bolton, Charles, The Hardest Deal of All

Borstelmann, Thomas, The Cold War and the Color Line

Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963

Carson, Clayborne, In Struggle

Chafe, William, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Equality

Chappell, David L., A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

Dittmer, John, Local People

Gerstle, Gary, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

Hahn, Steven, A Nation Under Our Feet

Hale, Grace, Elizabeth, Making Whiteness

Jackson, Thomas, From Civil Rights to Human Rights

James, Winston, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia

Jeffries, Hasan, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt


McGuire, Danielle, At the Dark End of the Street

Morris, Aldon, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Norrell, Robert J., Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington

Pascoe, Peggy, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America

Payne, Charles, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom

Ransby, Barbara, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

Sullivan, Patricia, Days of Hope

Tyson, Tim, Radio Free Dixie


Reconstruction:


Blight, David, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Blum, Edward, Reforging the White Republic

DuBois, W.E.B., Black Reconstruction in America

Edwards, Laura, Gendered Strife and Confusion

Foner, Eric, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution

Lane, Charles, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

O’Donovan, Susan, Becoming Free in the Cotton South

Richardson, Heather Cox, West From Appomattox


War and Society:


Alvarez, Luis, The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II

Capozzola, Christopher, Uncle Sam Wants You

Dawley, Alan, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution

Greenwald, Maureen, Women, War, and Work

Jeffries, John W., Wartime America: The World War II Home Front

Johns, Andrew, Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War

Johnson, Marilynn, The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II

Kennedy, David, Over Here

Kruse, Kevin and Stephen Tuck, eds., The Fog of War

Robinson, Greg, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America

Schrecker, Ellen, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America

Whitfield, Stephen,Culture of the Cold War (most recent edition)


The West:


Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Hine, Robert V. and John Mack Faragher, The American West

Hoxie, Frederick E., Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935

Limerick, Patricia, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

Pisani, Donald J., Water and the American Government

Smith, Henry Nash, Virgin Land

Warren, Louis S., Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show

West, Elliott, The Contested Plains

White, Richard, “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”

 

[Dan]

Brave new world.

 

[Jirohnagi]

Currently working through pratchetts works. ^^

 

[Batman]

this is one of three lists i'll be receiving.

Spoiler

AMERICAN HISTORY, POST-1865

Ph.D. Reading List

American Capitalism:

Bensel, Richard F., The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900

Chandler, Alfred D. Jr., The Visible Hand

Cohen, Lizabeth, A Consumer’s Republic

Cronon, William, Nature’s Metropolis

Hyman, Louis, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink

Jacobs, Meg, Pocketbook Politics

Lichtenstein, Nelson, The Retail Revolution

Moreton, Bethany, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

Zunz, Olivier, Making America Corporate


Foreign Policy:


Bederman, Gail, Manliness and Civilization

Bradley, Mark, Imagining Vietnam and America

Fousek, John, To Lead the Free World

Hogan, Michael J., A Cross of Iron

Hunt, Michael H., Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy

Jacobson, Matthew Frye, Barbarian Virtues

Kramer, Paul, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

LaFeber, Walter, Inevitable Revolutions (2nd ed.)

LaFeber, Walter, New Empire (1998 ed.)

Lawrence, Mark Atwood, Assuming the Burden

Leffler, Melvyn P., For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War

Manela, Erez, The Wilsonian Moment

Renda, Mary A., Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940

Schwartz, Thomas Alan, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam

Westad, Odd Arne, The Global Cold War

Williams, William Appleman, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy


Gender:


Chauncey, George, Gay New York

Cott, Nancy, The Grounding of Modern Feminism

Gordon, Linda, Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890-1935

Hoganson, Kristen, Fighting for American Manhood

Kessler-Harris, Alice, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

Kraditor, Aileen, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement

Pascoe, Peggy, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939

Rosen, Ruth, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (revised edition)


Gilded Age/Progressive Era:


Brinkley, Douglas, The Wilderness Warrior

Dawley, Alan, Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State

Edwards, Rebecca, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905

Flanagan, Maureen, America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890-1920s

Goodwyn, Lawrence, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America

Hays, Samuel P., Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency

Hofstadter, Richard, Age of Reform

Hoganson, Kristin, Consumers’ Imperium

Johnston, Robert D., The Radical Middle Class

Lears, Jackson, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920

Mattson, Kevin, Creating a Democratic Public

McGerr, Michael, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

Postel, Charles, The Populist Vision

Putnam, John, Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle

Rodgers, Daniel, Atlantic Crossings

Sanders, Elizabeth, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers and the American State, 1877-1919

Sklar, Kathryn Kish, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work

Skocpol, Theda, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers

Wiebe, Robert H.,The Search for Order, 1877-1920


Immigration:


Bodnar, John, The Transplanted

Daniels, Roger, Coming to America

Gutierrez,David, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity

Higham, John, Strangers in the Land

Hsu, Madeline, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home

Kazal, Russell, Becoming Old Stock

Ngai, Mae, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Roediger, David, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White

Sanchez, George, Becoming Mexican American

Zolberg, Aristide, A Nation By Design


Labor:


Andrews, Thomas, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War

Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal

Dubofsky, Melvin, We Shall Be All (abridged ed.)

Gutman, Herbert, Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America

Honey, Michael, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights

Korstad, Robert, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

Lichtenstein, Nelson, State of the Union

Lichtenstein, Nelson, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor

Montgomery, David, The Fall of the House of Labor

Salvatore, Nick, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist

Zieger, Robert H., The CIO, 1935-1955


The New South:


Ayers, Ed, The Promise of the New South

Bennett, James B., Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans

Feimster, Crystal, Southern Horrors

Fredrickson, Kari, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968

Gilmore, Glenda, Gender and Jim Crow

Gilmore, Glenda, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

Foley, Neil, The White Scourge

Gregory, James, The Southern Diaspora

Grossman, James, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd and others, Like a Family

Harvey, Paul, Freedom’s Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era

McMillen, Neil, Dark Journey

Ownby, Ted, Subduing Satan

Rosengarten, Theodore, All God’s Dangers

Schulman, Bruce J., From Cotton Belt to Sun Belt

Woodward, C. Vann, The Origins of the New South

Woodward, C. Vann, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel

Wright, Gavin, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War


1920s and 1930s:


Bernstein, Michael, The Great Depression

Brinkley, Alan, The End of Reform

Brinkley, Alan, Voices of Protest

Dumenil, Lynn, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s

Gorn, Elliot J., Dillinger’s Wild Ride

Hawley, Ellis, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order

Kelley, Robin D., Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

Kennedy, David, Freedom From Fear

Leuchtenberg, William, FDR and the New Deal, 1932-1940

MacLean, Nancy, Behind the Mask of Chivalry

Okrent, Daniel, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Phillips, Sarah T., This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal

Smith, Jason Scott, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956

Sutton, Mark Avery, Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

Worster, Donald, Dust Bowl


Post-WWII America:


Borstelmann, Thomas, The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality

Crespino, Joseph, In Search of Another Country

Crespino, Joseph, Strom Thurmond’s America

Dochuk, Darren, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt

Hays, Samuel P., Beauty, Health, and Permanence

Jackson, Kenneth T., Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America

Kruse, Kevin M., White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Kutler, Stanley I., The Wars of Watergate

Lassiter, Matthew, The Silent Majority

Levenstein, Lisa, A Movement Without Marches

Mackenzie, G. Galvin and Robert Weisbrot, The Liberal Hour

McGirr, Lisa, Suburban Warriors

Patterson, James, Restless Giant

Rome, Adam, The Bulldozer in the Countryside

Schaller, Michael, Reckoning with Reagan

Schulman, Bruce J., The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics

Self, Robert O., All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy since the 1960s

Sugrue, Thomas J., The Origins of the Urban Crisis

Troy, Gil, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s

Von Eschen, Penny M., Satchmo Blows Up the World

Wiese, Andrew, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century

Wilkinson, Charles F., Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations

Williams, Daniel, God’s Own Party


Race and Race Relations:


Biondi, Martha, To Stand and Fight

Bolton, Charles, The Hardest Deal of All

Borstelmann, Thomas, The Cold War and the Color Line

Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963

Carson, Clayborne, In Struggle

Chafe, William, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Equality

Chappell, David L., A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

Dittmer, John, Local People

Gerstle, Gary, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

Hahn, Steven, A Nation Under Our Feet

Hale, Grace, Elizabeth, Making Whiteness

Jackson, Thomas, From Civil Rights to Human Rights

James, Winston, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia

Jeffries, Hasan, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt


McGuire, Danielle, At the Dark End of the Street

Morris, Aldon, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Norrell, Robert J., Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington

Pascoe, Peggy, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America

Payne, Charles, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom

Ransby, Barbara, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

Sullivan, Patricia, Days of Hope

Tyson, Tim, Radio Free Dixie


Reconstruction:


Blight, David, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Blum, Edward, Reforging the White Republic

DuBois, W.E.B., Black Reconstruction in America

Edwards, Laura, Gendered Strife and Confusion

Foner, Eric, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution

Lane, Charles, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

O’Donovan, Susan, Becoming Free in the Cotton South

Richardson, Heather Cox, West From Appomattox


War and Society:


Alvarez, Luis, The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II

Capozzola, Christopher, Uncle Sam Wants You

Dawley, Alan, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution

Greenwald, Maureen, Women, War, and Work

Jeffries, John W., Wartime America: The World War II Home Front

Johns, Andrew, Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War

Johnson, Marilynn, The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II

Kennedy, David, Over Here

Kruse, Kevin and Stephen Tuck, eds., The Fog of War

Robinson, Greg, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America

Schrecker, Ellen, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America

Whitfield, Stephen,Culture of the Cold War (most recent edition)


The West:


Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Hine, Robert V. and John Mack Faragher, The American West

Hoxie, Frederick E., Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935

Limerick, Patricia, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

Pisani, Donald J., Water and the American Government

Smith, Henry Nash, Virgin Land

Warren, Louis S., Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show

West, Elliott, The Contested Plains

White, Richard, “It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own”

R.I.P. Curmudgeon. You will be missed.

Also, the fact that there are no Noam Chomsky books under the foreign policy section is really depressing.

 

[Batman]

Ok I'm so glad I bought the Silmarillion. I don't read, like ever, but this book is incredible. It goes into all the little details of the fascinating lore and the style of writing, while sometimes quite complicating to adjust to, flows almost like a poem.

The Silmarillion is truly amazing. It can be hard to read at times, but it's hands down the best lore book for a fantasy mythos ever written. Many of the chapters in that book are nothing short of epic masterpieces of fantasy fiction. It's a really beautiful story.

 

[Dan]

The Silmarillion is truly amazing. It can be hard to read at times, but it's hands down the best lore book for a fantasy mythos ever written. Many of the chapters in that book are nothing short of epic masterpieces of fantasy fiction. It's a really beautiful story.

Can you make an audio book version with your fabulous Axle voice.

 

[Batman]

Can you make an audio book version with your fabulous Axle voice.

Even better. I'll do Axle if he were a chav.