Book List
2023
SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down The Thought Police
★★★★☆
8/11/23The Fatal Conceit: The Errors Of Socialism
★★½☆☆
7/21/23The Shadow Over Innsmouth
(H.P. Lovecraft)
★★★★½
4/8/23Run Silent, Run Deep
★★★★☆
3/28/23Eye
★★½☆☆
3/7/23Viral: The Search For The Origin of Covid-19
★★★★☆
1/29/23
2022
Fahrenheit 451
★★★★☆
11/4/22Joseph Banks: A Life
★★★½☆
10/7/22Sophocles II
★★★½☆
7/28/22Theodicy
★½☆☆☆
6/22/22
2021
Nineteen Eighty-Four
★★★★☆
11/12/21When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
★★★☆☆
10/19/21War And Remembrance
★★★★☆
09/23/21The Winds Of War
★★★★½
07/29/21The Athenian Constitution
(Aristotle)
★★★★☆
06/25/21Sophocles I
★★★★☆
05/19/21Pseudo-Xenophon's Constitution Of The Athenians
(The Old Oligarch)
★★★☆☆
04/15/21The Twelve Chairs
★★★★☆
04/11/21Lawrence Of Arabia (pocket biography)
★★★★☆
02/15/21El Borak And Other Desert Adventures
★★★★☆
02/04/21
2020
Massacre In Beijing: China's Struggle For Democracy
★★★★☆
12/10/20Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
★★★½☆
11/09/20The Sabres Of Paradise
★★★★½
10/02/20Dune
★★★★½
06/17/20Wreck Of The Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft
★★★★½
06/08/20Myths: Tales Of The Greek And Roman Gods
★★★★☆
05/20/20Kull: Exile of Atlantis
★★★★☆
04/07/20Aeschylus II
★★★★☆
03/16/20The Analects Of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation
★★★½☆
02/16/20Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia
★★★½☆
01/23/20
2019
The Trial Of Socrates
★★★★★
12/22/19The Savage Tales Of Solomon Kane
★★★½☆
12/09/19The Diary Of A Young Girl
(Anne Frank)
★★★★★
11/04/19Around The World In Eighty Days
★★★★★
10/11/19The Twelve Caesars
(Suetonius)
★★★★½
09/14/19The Haunter Of The Dark
(H.P. Lovecraft)
★★★☆☆
08/24/19Dreams In The Witch House
(H.P. Lovecraft)
★★★½☆
08/15/19The Whisperer In Darkness
(H.P. Lovecraft)
★★★½☆
08/07/19Claudius The God: And His Wife Messalina
★★★★½
07/28/19The Dunwich Horror
(H.P. Lovecraft)
★★★★☆
07/22/19The Call Of Cthulhu
(H.P. Lovecraft)
★★★★½
07/15/19The Festival
(H.P. Lovecraft)
★★★★☆
07/04/19The Colour Out Of Space
(H.P. Lovecraft)
★★★★☆
06/22/19Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
★★★★☆
06/13/19I, Claudius
★★★★☆
04/19/19Empires Of The Word: A Language History Of The World
★★★½☆
03/09/19Aeschylus I
★★★★☆
01/12/19
2018
Pericles Of Athens And The Birth Of Democracy
★★★★★
12/30/18Suite Française
★★★★★
12/05/18The Rise And Fall Of Athens: Nine Greek Lives
(Plutarch)
★★★★½
10/27/18Bored Of The Rings
★★☆☆☆
09/10/18The Persian Wars To The Fall Of Athens: Books 11 - 14.34
480-401 BCE
(Diodorus Siculus)
★★★½☆
08/26/18The Day Of The Jackal
★★★★★
07/28/18Travels With Herodotus
★★★★★
06/30/18Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
★★★☆☆
06/05/18Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
★★★★★
05/12/18The Happy Prince And Other Stories
★★★★½
03/25/18Thermopylae: The Battle For The West
★★★★★
03/10/18Candide
★★★★★
02/08/18The Histories
(Herodotus)
★★★★½
01/28/18
2017
Zorba The Greek: The Saint's Life of Alexis Zorba
★★★½☆
11/01/17Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
★★★★☆
09/30/17The Searchers
★★★★½
08/19/17The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror
★★★★☆
07/23/17Quo Vadis
★★★★½
06/20/17Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
★★★★★
04/22/17The Lady In The Lake
★★★★★
03/07/17The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11 In Gander, Newfoundland
★★★½☆
02/19/17Childhood's End
★★★☆☆
01/26/17Inherit The Wind
★★★½☆
01/12/17The High Window
★★★½☆
01/02/17
2016
The World Of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture
★★★★☆
12/19/16Fires Of The Dragon: Politics, Murder and the Kuomintang
★★★★★
12/14/16Farewell, My Lovely
★★★★☆
10/22/16Letters From A Stoic
(Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
★★★★☆
10/03/16Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
★★★☆☆
08/27/16Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
★★★★★
07/18/16The Odyssey
(Homer)
(Robert Fagles, transl)
★★★★★
05/25/16Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
★★★★☆
03/02/16The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem
★★★★★
02/17/16
2015
The Flying Inn
★★☆☆☆
12/30/15Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior
★★★☆☆
12/02/15The Glass Key
★★★☆☆
11/30/15Churchill And The Jews: A Lifelong Friendship
★★★★★
11/19/15The Holy Land
★★★☆☆
10/31/15Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
★★★★☆
10/24/15The Egyptian
★★★★★
10/11/15A Conflict Of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
★★★★☆
09/28/15The Dain Curse
★★★☆☆
08/25/15The Clash Of Civilizations? The Debate
★★★☆☆
08/13/15ReviewRed Harvest
★★★★☆
08/06/15Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands
★★★★☆
07/25/15War With The Newts
★★★★☆
07/02/15How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
★★★★★
06/11/15The Big Sleep
★★★★☆
05/27/15Maxims Of La Rochefoucauld
(François de La Rochefoucauld)
★★★★☆
05/14/15On The Origins Of War And The Preservation Of Peace
★★★★☆
05/02/15The Conquering Sword Of Conan
★★★☆☆
03/23/15ReviewThe Doomsday Myth: 10,000 Years of Economic Crises
★★★★★
02/01/15ReviewThe True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
★★★★★
01/05/15Review
2014
How To Run A Country: An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)
★★★★☆
10/08/14ReviewThe Thin Man
★★☆☆☆
08/16/14ReviewGates Of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
★★★★★
07/09/14ReviewLawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
★★★★★
06/28/14ReviewThe Maltese Falcon
★★★☆☆
05/31/14ReviewFlight To Arras
★★★★☆
05/24/14ReviewThe Ancien Regime And The French Revolution
★★★★☆
05/11/14ReviewThe Greek Sophists
★★☆☆☆
03/11/14Review
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