History Nonfiction Reading Challenge
Host:
Hibernator's Library (
sign up post)
From the host: I will post a linky on the first day of every month so you can include
any nonfiction history books you’re reading. The rules are not strict –
if you consider the book to be history, then go ahead and post it.
Duration: December 1, 2019 - December 31, 2020
# of books: host doesn't specify; my aim is 52.
1.
On the Horizon. Lois Lowry. Illustrated by Kenard Pak. [April 2020]
HMH. 80 pages. [Source: Review copy] [Autobiography; Biography;
Children's Nonfiction; World War II; poetry]
2.
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport. 2020. 368
pages. [Source: Library] [nonfiction; world war II; world at war]
3.
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. Jim Murphy. 2003. 165 pages. [Source: Library]
[nonfiction, mg nonfiction; history]
4.
Anna Komnene and the Alexiad: The Byzantine Princess and the First Crusade. 2020. [July] Pen and Sword. 272 pages. [Source: Review copy]
[nonfiction]
5.
Jeannie's Demise: Abortion on Trial in Victorian Ontario. Ian Radforth.
2020. [October] 258 pages. [Source: Review copy] [adult nonfiction;
history]
6.
The Taste of Longing: Ethel Mulvany and Her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook. Suzanne Evans. 2020. Between the Lines. 306 pages. [Source:
Review copy] [nonfiction; World War II; mental illness]
7.
Letters from the Few: Unique Memories from the Battle of Britain. Dilip
Sarkar. 2020. [November 2020] 272 pages. [Source: Review copy]
My goal is to get caught up (or better caught up) on my nonfiction review copies. The list so far...as of December 11, 2019. It has
77 titles
76 titles. 80 titles.
| Operation Chowhound | Dando-Collins, Stephen |
| Restoration | Larman, Alexander |
| How the Post Office Created America | Gallagher, Winifred |
| The Big Change | Allen, Frederick Lewis |
| The Games | Goldbatt, David |
| Victoria: The Queen | Baird, Julia |
| The Memoirs of Count Boruwlaski | Boruwlaski, Joseph |
| Fireball | Matzen, Robert |
| The Book Thieves | Rydell, Anders |
| Red Fire | Chao, Wei Yang |
| Ice Ghosts | Watson, Paul |
| The Court of Last Resort | Gardner, Erle Stanley |
| The Road to Jonestown | Guinn, Jeff |
| The Zoo | Charman, Isobel |
| An English Governess in the Great War | de Schaepdrijve, Sophie |
| The Radium Girls | Moore, Kate |
| Baking Powder Wars | Civitello, Linda |
| Eight is Enough | Braden, Tom |
| The Young Victoria | Plowden, Alison |
| The Heir of Douglas | de la Torre, Lillian |
| Elizabeth is Missing | de la Torre, Lillian |
| A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England | Hall, Monica |
| Alexander Hamilton's Revolution | Tucker, Phillip Thomas |
| The Burning Time | Roundling, Virginia |
| Queens of Georgian Britain | Curzon, Catherine |
| Dickens and Christmas | Hawksley, Lucinda |
| Sinking the Sultana | Walker, Sally M. |
| Agatha Christie | Thompson, Laura |
| Margaret Tudor | Clegg, Melanie |
| Murder by the Book | Harman, Claire |
| Murder Aboard | Hiam, C. Michael |
| Ronnie and Hilda's Romance | Williams, Wendy |
| Chasing the Moon | Stone, Robert and Alan Andres |
| Battle of Britain Broadcaster | Gardner, Robert MBE |
| Following in the Footsteps of Henry Tudor | Carradice, Phil |
| Operation Swallow | Felton, Mark |
| A History of Women's Lives on the Isle of Wight | Plant, Daisy |
| Neville Chamberlain's Legacy | Milton, Nicholas |
| Stephen and Matilda's War | Lewis, Matthew |
| Solid State | Womack, Kenneth |
| Freedom Libraries | Selby, Mike |
| The Queens of Animation | Holt, Nathalia |
| Admiral Albert Hastings Markham | Jastrzembski, Frank |
| Charles II and His Escape | Beardsley, Martyn R |
| My LIfe in a Cat House | Cooper, Gwen |
| Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation Postmaster | Lett, Brian |
| The Ship of Dreams | Russell, Gareth |
| There's Something About Darcy | Malcom, Gabrielle |
| The Mutual Admiration Society | Moulton, Mo |
| The Zookeeper's War | Mohnhaupt, J.W. |
| Nancy Wake | Braddon, Russell |
| Trailblazing Georgians | Rendell, Mike |
| Holocaust | Wynn, Stephen |
| Sir Francis Bryan | Watkins, Sarah-Beth |
| The Lost Queen | Stott, Anne |
| Footnotes | Fiennes, Peter |
| The Life and Letters of Emma Hamilton | Tours, Hugh |
| The Splendid and the Vile | Larson, Erik |
| Bubble in the Sun | Knowlton, Christopher |
The Clutter-Free Home | Lipp, Kathi |
| The Sum of the People | Whitby, Andrew |
| War Fever | Roberts Randy and John Smith |
| Genealogy for Beginners | Pennavaria, Katherine |
| Fighting Words | Cott, Nancy F. |
| The Women with silver Wings | Landdeck, Katherine Sharp |
| Black Earth | Snyder, Timothy |
| Lost at Sea Found at Fukushima | Millar, Andy |
| Edward VII | Arnold, Catherine |
| The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books | Edwards, Martin |
| Victoria and Abdul | Basu, Shrabani |
| Life on the Victorian Stage | Darby, Nell |
| The Bronte Sisters | Rayner, Catherine |
| Lightning Sky | George, R.C. | |
| The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities | Jones, Paul Anthony |
| Hollywood's Dark History | MacNabb, Matt |
| A Bookshop in Berlin | Frenkel, Francoise |
| The Imprisoned Princess | Curzon, Catherine |
| Square Haunting | Wade, Francesca |
| Entertaining the Troops | Walden, Kiri Bloom |
| Secret Casualties of World War II | Webb, Simon |
| Napoleon's Downfall | Walton, Geri |
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Becky's Book Reviews
1 comment:
Wow! That's quite the list of review copies! I hope things to go well in catching up! Thanks for joining my challenge.
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