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