Books

Books Referenced on this blog:

Archimedes Palimpsest
     by Archimedes - June 14, 2010

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
     by Bill Bryson - December 8, 2010

Beatrice & Virgil
     by Yann Martel - April 14, 2010; May 24, 2010; January 18, 2011

The Bible

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
     by Timothy Egan - December 8, 2010

The Birds of America
     by John James Audobon - January 23, 2010

Blue Ridge Harvest: A Region's Folklife in Photographs
     by Terry Eiler, Lyntha Scott Eiler, Carl Fleischhauer, and Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project - November 24, 2010

The Book of the Dead
     by Anonymous - November 3, 2010

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
     by Adam Hochschild - May 3, 2011

Charlotte's Web
     by E.B. White - October 17, 2010

Cranford
     by Elizabeth Gaskell - September 29, 2010

The Devil in the White City
     by Erik Larson - November 4, 2010

The Diaries of Adam & Eve
     by Mark Twain - February 14, 2010, November 18, 2010

The Diary of a Young Girl
     by Anne Frank - August 28, 2010

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
     by S. C. Gwynne - June 25, 2011

Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Gordon Parks"
     by Amy Pastan - July 18, 2011

Footnotoes in Gaza
    by Joe Sacco - March 21, 2010

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
     by Miranda Carter - March 29, 2010; April 24, 2010

God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
     by Adam Nicolson - January 10, 2011

The Great Gatsby
     by F. Scott Fitzgerald - October 20, 2010

The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age
     by Juliet Nicolson - July 9, 2011

The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis.
     by Stephen Halliday - December 8, 2010

Harry & Hopper
     by Freya Blackwood - June 24, 2010

The Hobbit
     by J.R.R. Tolkien - March 26, 2011

Home: A Short History of an Idea
     by Witold Rybczynski - December 8, 2010

Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
     by Edward P. Kohn - August 22, 2010

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
     by Jamie Ford - January 1, 2010

King James Bible
     January 10, 2011

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
     by Adam Hochschild - May 3, 2011

Life of Pi
     by Yann Martel - May 24, 2010

Lutheran Bible
     by Jason Hawkes - January 15, 2011

The Marble Faun
     by Nathaniel Hawthorne - March 20, 2011

New York at Night
     by Jason Hawkes - September 20, 2010

North and South
     by Elizabeth Gaskell - September 29, 2010

Parrot and Olivier in American
     by Peter Carey - September 7, 2010

Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment
     by Kevin Kenny - June 25, 2011

The Phantom of the Opera
     by Gaston Leroux - September 6, 2010

Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
     by Carl Schoonover - December 10, 2010

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
     by John Barry - May 13, 2011

The Rochefoucauld Grail
     by Anonymous - November 15, 2010, December 20, 2010

Saint Cuthbert Gospel of St. John
     belonged to Saint Cuthbert - July 16, 2011

The Saint John's Bible
     commissioned by the Monks of St. John's Abbey - August 29, 2010

Samuel Pepys' Diary
     by Samuel Pepys - July 31, 2011

The Scarlet Letter
     by Nathaniel Hawthorne - September 21, 2010

Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
     by Jehanne Wake - July 23, 2011

Tinkers
     by Paul Harding - November 10, 2010

To End All Wars
     by Adam Hochschild - May 3, 2011

To Kill a Mocking Bird
     by Harper Lee - July 11, 2010

Under the Harrow
     by Mark Dunn - October 31, 2010

War & Peace
     by Leo Tolstoy - July 28, 2010

The War Prayer
     by Mark Twain - November 18, 2010

Water For Elephants
     by Sara Gruen - January 21, 2010

Why Don't You Dance
     by Raymond Carver - May 25, 2011

Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired
     by Benson Bobrick. - January 10, 2011

Wolf Hall
     by Hilary Mantel - January 10, 2010

The Wordy Shipmates
     by Sarah Vowell - April 26, 2011