I thought I'd start a list of all of the books I've read this year so that I can keep track of them. I'll include a link to this list in the sidebar and continue to add to it as I finish books.
* = repeat read
2013
1. Stonehenge by Mike Parker Pearson
2. Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
3. The History of St. -'s Church by H.
4. Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson
5. One for the Books by Joe Queenan
6. A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich*
7. The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity by James C. Russell
8. The Battersea Shield by Ian M. Stead
9. Playing the Hero by Ann Dooley
10. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Culange translated by Joseph Dunn
11. Columbanus: The Earliest Voice of Christian Ireland by Kate Tristram
12. Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede*
13. Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness
14. Insubordinate Spirit by Missy Wolfe
15. Last Places by Lawrence Millman
16. The Thing by Alan Dean Foster
17. The Quest of Three Abbots by Brendan Lehane
18. A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
19. At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
20. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
21. The Ramapo Mountain People by David Cohen
22. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
23. Misery by Stephen King
24. Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
25. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
26. Deliverance by James Dickey
27. The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
28. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
29. Lost Antarctica by James McClintock
30. Stranger Stop and Cast an Eye by G. Walker Jacobs
31. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen*
32. Help Me To Find My People by Heather Andrea Williams
33. Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill
34. This Mighty Scourge by James McPherson
35. In Small Things Forgotten by James Deetz
36. The Enemy Within by John Demos
2012
1. Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede*
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond*
3. The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
4. Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston Jr.
5. Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris by David O'Connor
6. The Archaeological Process: An Introduction by Ian Hodder
7. Cosmopolitan Archaeologies ed. by Lynn Meskell
8. A Hundred and Fifty Years of Archaeology by Glyn Daniel
9. Enamels of Limoges 1100-1350 by Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye, Barbara Drake Boehm, et al.
10. Stonehenge Complete by Christopher Chippindale
11. A Brief History of Stonehenge by Aubrey Burl*
12. Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape by Timothy Darvill
13. Archaeologies of Landscape edited by W. Ashmore and A. B. Knapp
14. Stonehenge: Plans, Descriptions, and Theories by Flinders Petrie
15. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
16. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Second Edition, by Charles C. Mann
17. Class: A Guide Through the American Class System by Paul Fussell
18. Reading the OED by Ammon Shea
19. Our Quaker Ancestors by Ellen Thomas Berry and David Allen Berry
20. The Humans Who Went Extinct by Clive Finlayson
21. Masters of the Planet by Ian Tattersall
22. The Hanged Man by Robert Bartlett
23. Dorchester Through the Ages ed. by Jean Cook and Trevor Rowley
24. Hengeworld by Mike Pitts
25. History of Iceland: From the Settlement to the Present Day by Jón R. Hjálmarsson
26. The Reconstructed Medieval Farm in Þjórsárdalur and the Development of the Icelandic Turf House by Guðmundur Ólafsson, Hörður Ágústsson, and Sigrún Kristjánsdóttir
27. The Undead by Dick Teresi
28. The Stones Speak by Þórbergur Þórðarson
29. Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock
30. Iceland's Bell by Halldór Laxness
31. About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang by Adam Frank
32. Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
33. Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb
34. Celtic Britain by Lloyd Laing*
35. Cattle Lords and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland by Nerys Patterson
36. The Art of Illumination by Timothy Husband
37. The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry by Millard Meiss and Elizabeth Beatson
38. Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
39. The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin by Bernard Meehan
40. The Book of Kells: Forty-Eight Pages and Details in Color from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin by Peter Brown
41. The Book of Kells and the Art of Illumination by the National Gallery of Australia
42. The Book of Kells: Proceedings from a Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, 6-9 September 1992 by Felicity O'Mahony et al.
43. The Book of Kells: Selected Plates in Full Color by Blanche Cirker
44. The Book of Kells: Its Function and Audience by Carol Farr
45. Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
46. Vikings in America by Graeme Davis
47. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
48. Celtic Britain and Ireland: Art and Society by Lloyd and Jennifer Laing
49. Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Art: Geometric Aspects by Derek Hull
50. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles by Ronald Hutton
51. A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor by Christine de Pizan
52. The City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
53. Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells by Ruth and Vincent Megaw*
54. A Book of Christmas by William Sansom
55. Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson
56. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
2011
1. The Human Web by J.R. and William McNeill
2. The Book Before Printing by David Diringer
3. Hard Times by Studs Turkel
4. Vernacular Architecture by R. W. Brunskill
5. The Black Death by Philip Ziegler
6. Gateway to the Middle Ages: Monasticism by Eleanor Shipley Duckett
7. Remembering Slavery ed. by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven Miller
8. Early Medieval Art by John Beckwith
9. The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop
10. The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
11. Listening is an Act of Love by David Isay
12. Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
13. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
14. A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
15. The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert
16. Agricola by Tacitus
17. Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress by Candacy Taylor
18. Germania by Tacitus
19. Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells by Ruth and Vincent Megaw
20. The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
21. Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination by Kurt Weitzmann
22. Voices of Resistance by Alison Baker
23. Lives in Context by Adra Coles and J. Gary Knowles
24. Women's Words, Women's Voices by Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai
25. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories by Alessandro Portelli
26. A Shared Authority by Michael Frisch
27. Monasticism and the Arts edited by Timothy Gregory Verdon
28. Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
29. Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade
30. The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens
31. Celtic Britain by Lloyd Laing
32. The Common Stream by Rowland Parker
33. Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self by Leslie Fiedler
34. The Great Divorce by Ilyon Woo
35. Sea Room by Adam Nicolson
36. The People of the Sea by David Thomson
37. Stonehenge: An Unpublished Manuscript by William Stukeley
38. The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger
39. The Medieval Foundation of England by Sir Arthur Bryant
40. The Stonehenge People by Rodney Castleden
41. William the Conqueror by David C. Douglas
42. Living With the Dead in the Middle Ages by Patrick J. Geary
43. Orientalism by Edward Said
44. Occidentalism by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
45. A World Art History and Its Objects by David Carrier
46. Islam and the West by Bernard Lewis
47. Britain B.C. by Francis Pryor*
48. Knossos: Searching For the Legendary Palace of King Minos by Alexandre Farnoux
49. Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere
50. The Villa Ariadne by Dilys Powell
51. Fakes by Otto Kurz
52. The Code Book by Simon Singh
53. Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1884-1945 by Chris Gosden and Frances Larson with Alison Petch
54. The Ashmolean Museum: A Brief History of The Institution and Its Collections by Arthur MacGregor
55. An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair*
56. The Horse, The Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony
2010
1. A Brief History of Stonehenge by Aubrey Burl
2. The Archaeology of Death and Burial by Mike Parker Pearson
3. Bioarchaeology by Clark Spencer Larsen
4. Britain in the Middle Ages by Francis Pryor
5. Britain B.C. by Francis Pryor
6. Seahenge by Francis Pryor
7. The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris by Andrew Robinson
8. The Seneca Restoration by Kurt Jordan
9. Digging Up the Dead by Michael Kammen
10. Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
11. Entertaining Satan by John Putnam Demos
12. Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
13. The Mole People by Jennifer Toth
14. Voices from Mutira by Jean Davison
15. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak
16. The Age of Homespun by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
17. Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle
18. Escaping Salem by Richard Godbeer
19. Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson by Alfred Young
20. Remembering Jim Crow edited by William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad
21. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans by Wallace Terry
22. The History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham
23. Mapping Human History by Steve Olson
24. How the Celts Came to Britain by Michael A. Morse
Favorites from Years Past
1. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
2. Collapse by Jared Diamond
3. A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
4. The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
5. Wedlock by Wendy Moore
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
7. Maus by Art Spiegelman
8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
9. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen
10. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
11. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch
12. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
13. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
14. Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
15. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
16. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
17. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
18. The Mummy Congress by Heather Pringle
19. Sermons in Stone by Susan Allport
20. The Slaves' War by Andrew Ward
21. An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England by Peter Hunter Blair
22. King Alfred: Burnt Cakes and Other Legends by David Horspool
23. Quicksand by Nella Larsen
24. The Murder of Helen Jewett by Patricia Cline Cohen
25. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
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I love looking at people's book lists! Thanks for posting yours.
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