Books I Have Read Since Arriving in Korea

• A Book of Travelers’ Tales by Eric Newby, Penguin Books, 1985 [July 2011]

• A Brief History of American Literature by John Huh, Shinasa, 2001 [May 2008]

• A Brief History of American Sports by Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Goldstein, Hill and Wang, 1993 [August 2022]

• A Case for the Divinity of Jesus / Examining the Earliest Evidence by Dean L. Overman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010 [August 2015]

• A Death in Texas / A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston, Owl Books, 2006 [January 2014]

• A Disposition to Be Rich / How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States by Geoffrey C. Ward, Alfred A. Knopf, 2012 [January 2021]

• A Family of Islands / A History of the West Indies from 1492 to 1898 by Alec Waugh, Doubleday, 1964 [May 2021]

• A Flame of Pure Fire / Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ’20s by Roger Kahn, Harcourt, 1999 [September 2013]

• A Futile and Stupid Gesture / How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever by Josh Karp, 2006, Chicago Review Press [May 2022]

 A Hero All His Life by Merlyn, Mickey Jr., David and Dan Mantle, HarperCollins, 1996 [May 2022]

• A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott, Scribner, 1999 [March 2018]

• A History of East Asia / From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century by Charles Holcombe, Cambridge University Press, 2011 [December 2014]

• A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel, Penguin Books, 1996 [November 2017]

• A History of the Breast by Marilyn Yacom, Ballantine Books, 1997 [June 2018]

• A History of the Philippines / From Indios Bravos to Filipinos by Luis H. Francia, Overlook Press, 2010 [October 2019]

• A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yacom, Perennial, 2001 [July 2017]

• A History of the Rod by William M. Cooper (James G. Bertram), AKS Books Ltd., 1865 [July 2020]

• A Land So Strange / The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andres Resendez, Basic Books, 2007 [December 2015]

• A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer, Flatiron Books, 2015 [June 2021]

• A Modern History of Japan / From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon, Oxford University Press, 2003 [July 2015]

• A People’s History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons, Viking Penguin, 1999 [February 2018]

• A Place for Summer / A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium by Richard Bak, Wayne State University Press, 1998 [May 2021]

• A Scandalous Life / The Biography of Jane Digby by Mary S. Lovell, Fourth Estate, 1995 [February 2014]

• A Sense of the World / How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts, Harper Perennial, 2006 [November 2013]

• A Short History of Bali / Indonesia’s Hindu Realm by Robert Pringle, Allen & Unwin, 2004 [November 2015]

• A Traveller in Rome by H. V. Morton, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1957 [January 2012]

• A Traveller’s History of India by Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda, Interlink Books, 2007 [March 2014]

• Age of Ambition / Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2014 [April 2016]

• Age of Assassins / The Loners, Idealists and Fanatics Who Conspired to Change the World by Michael Newton, Faber & Faber, 2012 [August 2018]

• Alan Lomax / The Man Who Recorded the World by John Szwed, Viking, 2010 [February 2018]

 Alaska / Saga of a Bold Land by Walter R. Borneman, HarperCollins, 2003 [June 2022]

• Aleister Crowley / Magic, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World by Gary Lachman, Penguin Books, 2014 [December 2018]

• Alexandre Dumas / Genius of Life by Claude Schopp, Franklin Watts, 1988 [March 2023]

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, 2004 [April 2023]

• Alfred Russel Wallace / A Life by Peter Raby, Princeton University Press, 2001 [September 2017]

• Allan Pinkerton / The First Private Eye by James Mackay, John Wiley & Sons, 1996 [November 2023]

• All God’s Dangers / The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten, University of Chicago Press, 1974 [July 2014]

• All Roads Led to Shanghai by Clio Calodoukas, CreateSpace, 2012 [January 2015]

• Alone of All Her Sex / The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner, Vintage Books, 1976 [January 2014]

• Amazing Traveler Isabella Bird by Evelyn Kaye, Blue Panda Publications, 1993 [June 2015]

• Ambrose Bierce / Alone in Bad Company by Roy Morris, Jr., Crown Publishers, 1995 [June 2022]

• America’s Queen / The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford, Viking Penguin, 2000 [September 2017]

• American Hero / The True Story of Tommy Hitchcock—Sports Star, War Hero and Champion of the War-Winning P-51 Mustang by Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., Rowman & Littlefield, 1984 [November 2019]

• American Prometheus / The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Vintage Books, 2005 [April 2024]

• American Sphinx / The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis, Vintage Books, 1996 [May 2016]

• America’s Game / The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation by Michael MacCambridge, Anchor Books, 2004 [October 2011]

• America’s Reluctant Prince / The Life of John F. Kennedy, Jr. by Steven M. Gillon, Dutton, 2019 [March 2022]

• Among the Heroes / United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back by Jere Longman, HarperCollins, 2002 [May 2018]

• Amsterdam / A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto, Vintage Books, 2013 [August 2022]

• An Artist in Treason / The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater, Walker & Co., 2009 [November 2015]

• An Unfinished Life / John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek, Little, Brown, 2003 [December 2013]

• An Ugly Truth / Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecelia Kang, Bridge Street Press, 2021 [November 2023]

• An Unlikely Prince / The Life and Times of Machiavelli by Niccolo Capponi, Da Capo Press, 2010 [April 2016]

• Ancient Angkor by Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques, River Books, 1999 [July 2018]

• Antarctica / A Biography by David Day, Oxford University Press, 2013 [June 2020]

• Apathy for the Devil / A 70s Memoir by Nick Kent, Da Capo Press, 2010 [November 2018]

• April 1865 / The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik, Harper Perennial, 2001 [September 2010]

• Armadillo World Headquarters by Eddie Wilson, University of Texas Press, 2017 [August 2019]

• Art Lover / A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill, HarperCollins, 2001 [February 2023]

• Assignment: Oswald by James P. Hosty, Jr., Arcade Publishing, 1996 [May 2011]

• Assist Me to Proclaim / The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley by John R. Tyson, Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 [October 2014]

• Ataturk / The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango, Overlook Press, 1999 [March 2013]

• Atlas of Korean History by the Department of History, Korea National University of Education, 2004 [August 2010]

• Axis Sally / The American Voice of Nazi Germany by Richard Lucas, Casemate Publishers, 2010 [April 2023]

• Babylon, Irving Finkel and Michael Seymour, editors, Oxford University Press, 2008 [March 2020]

• Bad Boy from Rosebud / The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff by Gary Lavergne, University of North Texas Press, 1999 [November 2021]

• Bad History / How We Got the Past Wrong by Emma Marriott, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 2011 [October 2021]

• Baghdad / City of Peace, City of Blood—A History in Thirteen Centuries by Justin Marozzi, Da Capo Press, 2014 [November 2019]

• Balinese Gamelan Music by Michael Tenzer, Tuttle Publishing, 2011 [January 2015]

• Bamboula! / The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk by S. Frederick Starr, Oxford University Press, 1995 [April 2017]

• Baseball’s Greatest Comeback / The Miracle Braves of 1914 by J. Brian Ross, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 [May 2022]

• Baseball’s Greatest Hit / The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles, Hal Leonard Books, 2008 [September 2020]

• Beau Brummell / The Ultimate Man of Style by Ian Kelly, Free Press, 2006 [September 2016]

• Beale Street Dynasty / Sex, Song and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis by Preston Lauterbach, W.W. Norton, 2015 [September 2015]

• Bedlam / London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold, Simon & Schuster, 2008 [August 2022]

• Before Brown / Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall and the Long Road to Justice by Gary Lavergne, University of Texas Press, 2010 [December 2022]

• Beijing Welcomes You / Unveiling the Capital City of the Future by Tom Scocca, Riverhead Books, 2011 [September 2012]

• Beirut by Samir Kassir, University of California Press, 2010 [March 2014]

• Ben Hogan / An American Life by James Dodson, Broadway Books, 2004 [November 2021]

• Benching Jim Crow / The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980 by Charles H. Martin, University of Illinois Press, 2010 [October 2010]

• Big Book of Baseball Lineups by Rob Neyer, Fireside, 2003 [January 2018]

• Bill Veeck / Baseball’s Greatest Maverick by Paul Dickson, Walker Publishing, 2012 [March 2019]

• Billy the Kid / The Longest Ride by Michael Wallis, W. W. Norton, 2007 [April 2012]

• Black Athena Revisited by Martin Bernal, University of North Carolina Press, 1996 [February 2017]

• Blake / A Biography by Peter Ackroyd, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 [January 2023]

• Bob Feller / Ace of the Greatest Generation by John Sickels, Brassey’s Inc., 2004 [February 2012]

• Booknotes: Life Stories / Notable Biographers on the People who Shaped  America, Brian Lamb, ed., Three Rivers Press, 1999 [March 2021]

• Bolivar / American Liberator by Marie Arana, Simon & Schuster, 2013 [December 2013]

• Boswell’s Presumptuous Task / The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 [January 2012]

 Bound with an Iron Chain / The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial America by Anthony Vaver, Pickpocket Publishing, 2011 [October 2023]

• Brazil / Five Centuries of Change by Thomas E. Skidmore, Oxford University Press, 1999 [August 2012]

• Breaking Open Japan / Commodore Perry, Lord Abe and American Imperialism in 1853 by George Feifer, HarperCollins, 2006 [February 2021]

• Breaking Through / John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer by Milton S. Katz, University of Arkansas Press, 2007 [July 2019]

• Broken Soldiers by Raymond B. Lech, University of Illinois Press, 2000 [July 2018]

• Brushing Back Jim Crow / The Integration of Minor League Baseball in the American South by Bruce Adelson, University of Virginia Press, 1999 [September 2019]

• Buddha by Karen Armstrong, Penguin Books, 2001 [June 2014]

• Byron / Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 [April 2015]

• Calculated Risk / The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom by George Leopold, Purdue University Press, 2016 [April 2022]

• Call Me Burroughs / A Life by Barry Miles, 12 Publishing, 2013 [March 2017]

• Campus Life / Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, University of Chicago Press, 1987 [March 2022]

• Capote / A Biography by Gerald Clarke, Simon & Schuster, 1988 [October 2017]

• Captain James Cook / A Biography by Richard Hough, W.W. Norton, 1994 [July 2016]

• Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton / A Biography by Edward Rice, Da Capo Press, 1990 [January 2014]

• Carl Sagan / A Life in the Cosmos by William Poundstone, Henry Holt & Co., 1999 [February 2016]

• Casanova’s Women / The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved by Judith Summers, Bloomsbury, 2006 [August 2011]

• Cassius Marcellus Clay / Firebrand of Freedom by H. Edward Richardson, University Press of Kentucky, 1976 [May 2022]

• Cast Away / Lost and Found in History / Epic True Stories of Shipwreck, Piracy and Mutiny on the High Seas by Joseph Cummins, Pier 9, 2008 [December 2023]

• Cecil Rhodes / Flawed Colossus by Brian Roberts, W.W. Norton, 1987 [April 2020]

• Centennial ’36 / The Year America Discovered Texas by Kenneth B. Ragsdale, Texas A&M Press, 1987 [July 2019]

• Chaos Under Heaven / The Shocking Story Behind China’s Search for Democracy by Gordon Thomas, Birch Lane Press, 1991 [April 2016]

• Charleston! Charleston! / The History of a Southern City by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., University of South Carolina Press, 1989 [October 2015]

• Children of the Sun / A Pictorial Anthology from Germany to California 1883-1949 by Gordon Kennedy, Nivaria Press, 1998 [September 2020]

• Chopin / Prince of the Romantics by Adam Zamoyski, Harper Press, 2010 [March 2020]

• Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters / White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 by Robert C. Davis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 [June 2015]

• Chopin’s Funeral by Benita Eisler, Vintage Books, 2003 [October 2023]

• Churchill / Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts, Viking, 2018 [December 2020]

• Citizens of London / The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson, Random House, 2010 [February 2019]

• City of Dreams / The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 [April 2021]

• Classical Music, edited by John Burrows, Dorling Kindersley, 2005 [July 2021]

• Clemente / The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero by David Maraniss, Simon & Schuster, 2006 [January 2022]

• College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era by Kurt Edward Kemper, University of Illinois Press, 2009 [August 2022]

• College Football / History, Spectacle, Controversy by John Sayle Watterson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 [July 2015]

• Color Blind / /The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball’s Color Line by Tom Dunkel, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013 [July 2016]

• Comfort Women / Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II by Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Columbia University Press, 1995 [June 2015]

• Come Have Fun with Frank Rush at Craterville Park and Sandy Lake Amusement Park by Frank Rush III, 2006 [January 2020]

• Completely Queer / The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia by Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson, Henry Holt, 1998 [October 2017]

• Confucius and the World He Created by Michael Schuman, Basic Books, 2015 [January 2018]

• Conspiracy of Silence / Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball by Chris Lamb, University of Nebraska Press, 2012 [September 2019]

• Cotton Bowl Classic / Football Vault / The History of a Proud Tradition by Steve Richardson, Whitman Publishing Co., 2010 [January 2021]

• Cotton Bowl Days / Growing Up with the Cowboys in Dallas in the 1960s by John Eisenberg, Simon & Schuster, 1997 [November 2010]

• Covering All the Bases by Lou Boudreau, Sagamore Publishing, 1993 [November 2022]

• Cradle of Gold / The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Macchu Picchu by Christopher Heaney, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 [April 2014]

• Cuba and Its Music / From the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette, Chicago Review Press, 2004 [May 2016]

• Custer / The Life of General George Armstrong Custer by Jay Monaghan, Bison Books, 1959 [October 2023]

• Dallas / An Illustrated History by Darwin Payne, Windsor Publications, 1982 [August 2017]

• Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, Twelve Books, 2013 [January 2014]

• Daniel Boone / The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Faragher, Henry Holt Press, 1997 [May 2020]

• Daniel Webster / The Man and His Time by Robert Remini, W.W. Norton, 1997 [September 2020]

• Dark Lover / The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino by Emily W. Leider, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003 [December 2015]

• David Brinkley / 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 [March 2024]

• David Crockett / The Lion of the West by Michael Wallis, W.W. Norton, 2011 [March 2018]

• Defying Dixie / The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, W.W. Norton, 2008 [October 2012]

• Delta Blues / The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia, W.W. Norton, 2008 [June 2016]

 Deng Xiaoping / A Revolutionary Life by Alexander V. Pantsov, Oxford University Press, 2015 [October 2023]

• Design for Living / Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne / A Biography by Margot Peters, Knopf, 2003 [October 2021]

• Detroit Then and Now by Cheri Y. Gay, Thunder Bay Press, 2001 [January 2013]

• Detroit / A Biography by Scott Martelle, Chicago Review Press, 2012 [December 2012]

• Diamonds in the Rough / The Untold History of Baseball by Joel Zoss and John Bowman, University of Nebraska Press, 1989 [August 2016]

• Dizzy / Dean of Baseball & My Podnah by Gene Kirby, Bo Carter and Mark S. McDonald, Dust Devil Books, 2016 [November 2021]

• Doctors / The Biography of Medicine by Sherwin B. Nuland, Vintage Books, 1988 [May 2019]

• Dogs of God / Columbus, the Inquisition and the Defeat of the Moors by James Reston, Jr., Faber & Faber, 2005 [October 2011]

• Don’t Know Much about the Bible / Everything You Need to Know about the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis, HarperCollins, 1998 [November 2020]

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (translated by Edith Grossman), HarperCollins, 2003 [July 2014]

• Doo-Dah! / Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture by Ken Emerson, Da Capo Press, 1997 [April 2017]

• Dossier / The Secret History of Armand Hammer by Edward Jay Epstein, Random House, 1996 [July 2023]

• Down to the Crossroads / Civil Rights, Black Power and the Meredith March Against Fear by Aram Goudsouzian, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014 [June 2014]

• Downfall The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank, Penguin Books, 1999 [October 2012]

• Dr. Freud / A Life by Paul Ferris, Counterpoint, 1997 [December 2016]

• Dresden / Tuesday, February 13, 1945 by Frederick Taylor, HarperCollins, 2004 [July 2023]

• East of the Sun / The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia by Benson Bobrick, Poseidon Press, 1992 [October 2020]

• Eating With the Enemy / How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack by Robert Egan, St. Martin’s Press, 2010 [December 2010]

• Edgar Snow / A Biography by John Maxwell Hamilton, Indiana University Press, 1988 [March 2015]

• Egg on Mao / The Story of an Ordinary Man who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship by Denise Chong, Counterpoint, 2009 [March 2021]

• Eiffel’s Tower by Jill Jonnes, Penguin Books, 2009 [September 2014]

• Einstein / His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 2007 [May 2015]

• Eleanor Roosevelt / Volume One: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook, Penguin Books, 1992 [April 2024]

• Embracing Defeat / Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower, W.W. Norton, 1999 [October 2012]

• Empires of the Sea / The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley, Random House, 2006 [May 2014]

• Empty Mansions / The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark an d the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., Ballentine Books, 2013 [September 2019]

• England’s Dreaming / Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock and Beyond by Jon Savage, St. Martin’s, 1991 [August 2020]

• Enlightening the World / Encyclopedie, the Book that Changed the Course of History by Philipp Blom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 [December 2017]

 Erik Satie by Mary E. Davis, Reaktion Books, 2007 [June 2022]

• Escaping the Delta / Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald, Amistad, 2004 [June 2012]

• Europe / A History by Norman Davies, Oxford University Press, 1996 [January 2017]

• Everlasting Flower / A History of Korea by Keith Pratt, Reaktion Books, 2006 [July 2010]

• Everest / The First Ascent / The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, The Man Who Made It Possible by Harriet Tuckey, Random House, 2013 [February 2019]

• Everything Baseball by James Mote, Prentice Hall Press, 1989 [July 2022]

• Eyes on the Street / The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel, Alfred A. Knopf, 2016 [November 2023]

• Fab / An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes, Da Capo Press, 2010 [September 2016]

• Fall from Grace / The Truth and Tragedy of “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, Sports Publishing, 2016 [February 2020]

• Fame at Last / Who Was Who According to the New York Times Obituaries by John C. Ball and Jill Jonnes, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000 [August 2019]

• Fatal Purity / Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr, 2006 [April 2013]

• Faulkner’s Oxford / Recollections and Reflections by Herman E. Taylor, Rutledge Hill Press, 1990 [March 2015]

• Femme Fatale / Love, Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari by Pat Shipman, HarperCollins, 2007 [October 2020]

• Fire in the City / Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence by Lauro Martines, Oxford University Press, 2006 [July 2014]

• First Footprints / The Epic Story of the First Australians by Scott Cane, Allen & Unwin, 2013 [August 2017]

• Five Points / 19th Century New York’s Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder, Free Press, 2001 [December 2012]

 Flawless / Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital by Elise Hu, Dutton, 2023 [September 2023]

• 1066 / The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford, Walker & Co., 2005 [May 2020]

• 1453 / The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley, Hyperion Press, 2005 [April 2013]

• 1491 / New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, Vintage, 2005 [March 2011]

• 1616 / The World in Motion by Thomas Christensen, Counterpoint Press, 2011 [February 2014]

• 1848 / Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport, Abacus, 2008 [May 2011]

• 1889 / The Boomer Movement, the Land Run and Early Oklahoma City by Michael J. Hightower, University of Oklahoma Press, 2018 [March 2023]

• 1959 / The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan, John Wiley & Sons, 2009 [May 2013]

• 10,000 Years of Art by Larry Ball, et al., Phaidon Press, 2007 [July 2023]

• Fire and Fury / Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff, Picador, 2018 [December 2023]

• Flappers / Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell, Sarah Crichton Books, 2013 [February 2017]

• Fordlandia / The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin, Metropolitan Books, 2009 [December 2017]

• Forgotten Fatherland / The True Story of Nietzsche’s Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony by Ben Macintyre, Broadway Paperbacks, 1992 [February 2022]

• Forever Free / The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction by Eric Foner, Vintage Books, 2005 [August 2016]

• Forty Minutes of Hell / The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson by Rus Bradburd, Amistad, 2010 [March 2010]

• Four Hours in My Lai by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, Penguin Books, 1992 [November 2017]

• Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely, W.W. Norton & Co., 1991 [April 2016]

• Freedom Riders / 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, 2006 [December 2013]

• From Third World to First / Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom by Lee Kuan Yew, HarperCollins, 2000 [August 2021]

• Full Service / My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers, Grove Press, 2001 [August 2019]

• Fury on Earth / A Biography of Wilhelm Reich by Myron Sharaf, St. Martin’s/Marek, 1983 [January 2023]

• Galapagos / The Islands that Changed the World by Paul D. Stewart, Yale University Press, 2007 [September 2017]

• Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki, Washington Square Press, 2002 [October 2013]

• Genius / The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick, Vintage Books, 1992 [December 2016]

• George Washington Carver / A Life by Christina Vella, LSU Press, 2015 [September 2020]

• George Washington Williams / A Biography by John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago Press, 1985 [July 2018]

• Gershwin / A Biography by Edward Jablonski, Doubleday, 1987 [January 2020]

• Get Happy / The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke, Delta, 2000 [August 2019]

• Ghetto at the Center of the World / Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews, University of Chicago Press, 2011 [August 2021]

• Ghost Flames / Life & Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953 by Charles J. Hanley, Public Affairs, 2020 [August 2021]

• Ghosts of Manila / The Fateful Blood Feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier by Mark Kram, HarperCollins, 2001 [August 2013]

• Giant Under the Hill / A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas in 1901 by Judith Walker Linsley, Ellen Walker Rienstra and Jo Ann Stiles, Texas State Historical Association, 2002 [October 2022]

• Glorious Contentment / The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900 by Stuart McConnell, University of North Carolina Press, 1992 [May 2022]

• Glory and Honor / The Musical and Artistic Legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach by Gregory Wilbur, Cumberland House, 2005 [December 2010]

• God’s Crucible / Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis, W.W. Norton & Co., 2008 [August 2012]

• God’s Lunatics / Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine by Michael Largo, HarperCollins, 2010 [September 2013]

• Gorbachev / His Life and Times by William Taubman, W.W. Norton, 2017 [June 2022]

• Grand Expectations / The United States, 1945-1974 by James T. Patterson, Oxford University Press, 1996 [March 2024]

• Great Rivers of the World, National Geographic Society, 1984 [December 2023]

• Great Tales from English History / A Treasury of True Stories about the Extraordinary PeopleKnights and Knaves, Rebels and Heroes, Queens and CommonersWho Made Britain Great by Robert Lacey, Back Bay Books, 2003 [April 2024]

• Great Time Coming / The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birmingham by David Falkner, Simon & Schuster, 1995 [April 2012]

• Gutenberg / How One Man Remade the World with Words by John Man, John Wiley & Sons, 2002 [November 2013]

• Haka /  A Living Tradition by Wira Gardiner, Hodder Moa, 2007 [November 2014]

• Hank Greenberg / The Hero of Heroes by John Rosengren, New American Library, 2013 [July 2018]

• Hank Williams / The Biography by Colin Escott, Little Brown, 2004 [October 2012]

• Harem / The World Behind the Veil by Alev Lytle Croutier, Abbeville Press, 1989 [February 2020]

• Harriet / The Life and World of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Norma Johnston, Simon & Schuster, 1994 [May 2021]

• Havana Nocturne / How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T. J. English, HarperCollins, 2007 [June 2017]

• He Calls Me by Lightning / The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice and the Death Penalty by S. Jonathan Bass, Liveright Publishing, 2017 [October 2019]

• Helen Keller / A Life by Dorothy Herrmann, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 [May 2017]

 Hell or High Water / James White’s Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867 by Eilean Adams, Utah State University Press, 2001 [March 2023]

• Hellhound on His Trail / The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides, Doubleday, 2010 [August 2010]

• Hell’s Angel / The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club by Ralph “Sonny” Barger, HarperCollins, 2000 [December 2023]

• Heloise & Abelard / A New Biography by James Burge, Harper San Francisco, 2003 [October 2017]

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