More "Must-reads"

[mojosmom]

The third sub-section of the "501 Must-Read Books" is History.

If I've read them, I'll bold them (or link them to reviews if I've read them recently enough for LJ or Bookcrossing entries). This is likely not going to take me long to bold, as my reading in the realm of History tends to be some books on Canadian History, and a few other bits and pieces I had no choice but to read in University or High School.


112. "London, the Biography," Peter Ackroyd
113. "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life," John Lee Anderson
114. "The Hour of Our Death," Phillipe Aries
115. "Berlin - the Downfall," Antony Beevor
116. "The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II," Fernand Braudel
117. "The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century," John Brewer
118. "Frozen Desire: An Enquiry into the Meaning of Money," James Buchan
119. "Hitler and Stalin - Parallel Lives," Alan Bullock
120. "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy," Jacob Burckhardt
121. "Daily Life in Ancient Rome," Jerome Carcopino
122. "The Accursed Kings," Maurice Druon
123. "The Age of the Cathedrals," Georges Duby
124. "The Stripping of the Altars," Eamon Duffy
125. "Rites of Spring," Modris Eksteins
126. "The Wretched of the Earth," Franz Fanon I think I read this in college.
127. "Colossus: THe Rise and Fall of the American Empire," Niall Ferguson
128. "Millennium," Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
129. "Pagans and Christians," Robin Lane Fox
130. "The End of History and the Last Man," Francis Fukuyama
131. "The Naked Heart," Peter Gay
132. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Edward Gibbon
133. "The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy," Martin Gilbert
134. "The Cheese and the Worms," Carlo Ginzburg
135. "God's First Love," Friedrich Heer
136. "Histories," Herodotus (some of it, anyway)
137. "Hiroshima," John Hersey
138. "The Fatal Shore," Robert Hughes
139. "Pandaemonium," Humphrey Jennings
140. "A History of Warfare," John Keegan
141. "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies," Bartolome de las Casas
142. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," Thomas Edward Lawrence
143. "Islam in History," Bernard Lewis
144. "Chinese Shadows," Simon Leys (Pierre Rychmans)
145. "The Crusades through Arab Eyes," Amin Maalouf
146. "The Defeat of the Spanish Armada," Farrett Mattingly
147. "The Story of English," Robert McCrum
148. "The Ornament of the World," Maria Rosa Menocal
149. "The Women's History of the World," Rosalind Miles
150. "Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire," James Morris
151. "Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade," Henri Pirenne
152. "Parallel Lives," Plutarch (not by this title, but I've read theLives
153. "Flesh in the Age of Reason," Roy Porter
154. "Citizens - A Chronicle of the French Revolution," Simon Schama
155. "Leviathan and the Air-Pump," Steven Shapin
156. "The Decline of the West," Oswald Spengler
157. "The Trial of Socrates," Isador Stone
158. "Annals of Imperial Rome," Tacitus
159. "The Origins of the Second World War," A.J.P. Taylor
160. "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century," Barbara M. Tuchman
161. "A People's History of the United States," Howard Zinn

Yeah, but I've read all three volumes of Isaac Deutscher's biography of Trotsky. So there!