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Saturday, January 2, 2021

Narrative Non-Fiction from my 2020 readings -

 



 


Narrative Non-Fiction from my 2020 readings  



Best four of my year



  1. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich - 2018 - 
  2. The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen - 2008 - 510 pages - an amazing work of narrative non-fiction.
  3. 999 The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam 2020 - 486 Pages - very valuable edition to Holocaust Studies 
  4. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina - 2019



January 


  1. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl - 2019
  2. WASHINTON’S IMMORTALS The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution by Patrick K. O’Donnell - 2012



February 


  1. Brothers At Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It by Larrie D. Ferreiro. 2016


March 


  1. TOM PAINE A Political life by JOHN KEANE - 1999 -676 pages


April, May and June were slow reading months for me, I read no non-fiction during these three months.


July -devoted to Parisian matters 

 

  1. The Mistress of Paris- The 19th Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt - 2015
  2. Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte by Kate Williams - 2014
  3. Marc Chagall by Jonathan Wilson - 2007


August


  1. 999 The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam 2020 - 486 Pages
  2. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich - 2018


September


  1. The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and The Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose - 2002
  2. The Extraordinary Life of A. A. Milne by Nadia Cohen - 2018
  3. Hitler and the Hab­s­burgs: The Führer’s Vendet­ta Against the Aus­tri­an Royals by James Longo- 2018


October 


  1. SPREADING THE GOSPEL OF BOOKS ESSAE M. CULVER AND THE GENESIS OF LOUISIANA PARISH LIBRARIES       By FLORENCE M. JUMONVILLE      2019 - 272 Pages
  2. The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen - 2008 - 510 pages
  3. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy - 2013 - 720 pages
  4. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina - 2019


November 


  1. Montaigne by Stefan Zweig Original text © Atrium Press Ltd, 1976 First published in German in Europäisches Erbe, S. Fischer Verlag, 1960 Translation © Will Stone 2015 First published by Pushkin Press
  2. I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family’s Story of Exhile and Return by Anna Goldenberg - Translated from the German by Alta L. Price 2020
  3. Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany by Edward Westermann - forthcoming March  2021

December 



  1. James Edward Oglethorpe by Joyce Blackburn with a Preface by Eugenia Price-1970
  2. Joseph Roth: A Search for the Wandering Jew by Dennis Marks - 2011
  3. Books Promiscuously Read - Reading As a Way of Life by Heather Cass White - forthcoming July 2021 - no post. 
  4. The last kings of Shanghai : the rival Jewish dynasties that helped create modern China by Jonathan Kaufman - 2020 - no post
  5. The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker - no post




1 comment:

Buried In Print said...

What a fantastic lineup! I'm interested in many of these (the only one I've read is the Urbina one). And I love the title Books Promiscuously Read (even though it sounds like one of the lighter volumes)!