My Library in Korea - Richard Pennington (2024)

•A Book of Travelers’ Talesby Eric Newby, Penguin Books, 1985 [July 2011]

•A Brief History of American Literatureby John Huh, Shinasa, 2001 [May 2008]

•A Brief History of American Sportsby Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Goldstein, Hill and Wang, 1993 [August 2022]

•A Case for the Divinity of Jesus / Examining the Earliest Evidenceby Dean L. Overman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010 [August 2015]

•A Cruel and Shocking Act / The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassinationby Philip Shenon, Little, Brown, 2013 [July 2024]

•A Death in Texas / A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemptionby Dina Temple-Raston, Owl Books, 2006 [January 2014]

•A Disposition to Be Rich / How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United Statesby Geoffrey C. Ward, Alfred A. Knopf, 2012 [January 2021]

•A Family of Islands / A History of the West Indies from 1492 to 1898by Alec Waugh, Doubleday, 1964 [May 2021]

•A Flame of Pure Fire / Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ’20sby Roger Kahn, Harcourt, 1999 [September 2013]

•A Futile and Stupid Gesture / How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Foreverby Josh Karp, 2006, Chicago Review Press [May 2022]

•A Hero All His Lifeby Merlyn, Mickey Jr., David and Dan Mantle, HarperCollins, 1996 [May 2022]

•A History of Celibacyby Elizabeth Abbott, Scribner, 1999 [March 2018]

•A History of East Asia / From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Centuryby Charles Holcombe, Cambridge University Press, 2011 [December 2014]

•A History of Readingby Alberto Manguel, Penguin Books, 1996 [November 2017]

•A History of the Breastby Marilyn Yacom, Ballantine Books, 1997 [June 2018]

•A History of the Philippines / From Indios Bravos to Filipinosby Luis H. Francia, Overlook Press, 2010 [October 2019]

•A History of the Wifeby Marilyn Yacom, Perennial, 2001 [July 2017]

•A History of the Rodby William M. Cooper (James G. Bertram), AKS Books Ltd., 1865 [July 2020]

•A Land So Strange / The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vacaby Andres Resendez, Basic Books, 2007 [December 2015]

•A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Powerby Paul Fischer, Flatiron Books, 2015 [June 2021]

•A Modern History of Japan / From Tokugawa Times to the Presentby Andrew Gordon, Oxford University Press, 2003 [July 2015]

•A People’s History of the Supreme Courtby Peter Irons, Viking Penguin, 1999 [February 2018]

•A Place for Summer / A Narrative History of Tiger Stadiumby Richard Bak, Wayne State University Press, 1998 [May 2021]

•A Scandalous Life / The Biography of Jane Digbyby Mary S. Lovell, Fourth Estate, 1995 [February 2014]

•A Sense of the World / How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Travelerby Jason Roberts, Harper Perennial, 2006 [November 2013]

•A Short History of Bali / Indonesia’s Hindu Realmby Robert Pringle, Allen & Unwin, 2004 [November 2015]

•A Traveller in Romeby H. V. Morton, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1957 [January 2012]

•A Traveller’s History of Indiaby Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda, Interlink Books, 2007 [March 2014]

•Age of Ambition / Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New Chinaby Evan Osnos, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2014 [April 2016]

•Age of Assassins / The Loners, Idealists and Fanatics Who Conspired to Change the Worldby Michael Newton, Faber & Faber, 2012 [August 2018]

•Alan Lomax / The Man Who Recorded the Worldby John Szwed, Viking, 2010 [February 2018]

•Alaska / Saga of a Bold Landby Walter R. Borneman, HarperCollins, 2003 [June 2022]

•Aleister Crowley / Magic, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the Worldby Gary Lachman, Penguin Books, 2014 [December 2018]

•Alexandre Dumas / Genius of Lifeby Claude Schopp, Franklin Watts, 1988 [March 2023]

•Alexander Hamiltonby Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, 2004 [April 2023]

•Alfred Russel Wallace / A Lifeby Peter Raby, Princeton University Press, 2001 [September 2017]

•Allan Pinkerton / The First Private Eyeby James Mackay, John Wiley & Sons, 1996 [November 2023]

•All God’s Dangers / The Life of Nate Shawby Theodore Rosengarten, University of Chicago Press, 1974 [July 2014]

•All Roads Led to Shanghaiby Clio Calodoukas, CreateSpace, 2012 [January 2015]

•Alone of All Her Sex / The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Maryby Marina Warner, Vintage Books, 1976 [January 2014]

•Amazing Traveler Isabella Birdby Evelyn Kaye, Blue Panda Publications, 1993 [June 2015]

•Ambrose Bierce / Alone in Bad Companyby Roy Morris, Jr., Crown Publishers, 1995 [June 2022]

•America’s Queen / The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassisby Sarah Bradford, Viking Penguin, 2000 [September 2017]

•American Hero / The True Story of Tommy Hitchco*ck—Sports Star, War Hero and Champion of the War-Winning P-51 Mustangby Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., Rowman & Littlefield, 1984 [November 2019]

•American Prometheus / The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimerby Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Vintage Books, 2005 [April 2024]

•American Sphinx / The Character of Thomas Jeffersonby Joseph J. Ellis, Vintage Books, 1996 [May 2016]

•America’s Game / The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nationby Michael MacCambridge, Anchor Books, 2004 [October 2011]

•America’s Reluctant Prince/The Life of John F. Kennedy, Jr.by Steven M. Gillon, Dutton, 2019 [March 2022]

•Among the Heroes / United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Backby Jere Longman, HarperCollins, 2002 [May 2018]

•Amsterdam / A History of the World’s Most Liberal Cityby Russell Shorto, Vintage Books, 2013 [August 2022]

•An Artist in Treason / The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinsonby Andro Linklater, Walker & Co., 2009 [November 2015]

•An Unfinished Life / John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963by Robert Dallek, Little, Brown, 2003 [December 2013]

•An Ugly Truth / Inside Facebook’s Battle for Dominationby Sheera Frenkel and Cecelia Kang, Bridge Street Press, 2021 [November 2023]

•An Unlikely Prince / The Life and Times of Machiavelliby Niccolo Capponi, Da Capo Press, 2010 [April 2016]

•Ancient Angkorby Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques, River Books, 1999 [July 2018]

•Antarctica / A Biographyby David Day, Oxford University Press, 2013 [June 2020]

•Apathy for the Devil / A 70s Memoirby Nick Kent, Da Capo Press, 2010 [November 2018]

•April 1865 / The Month that Saved Americaby Jay Winik, Harper Perennial, 2001 [September 2010]

•Armadillo World Headquartersby Eddie Wilson, University of Texas Press, 2017 [August 2019]

•Art Lover / A Biography of Peggy Guggenheimby Anton Gill, HarperCollins, 2001 [February 2023]

•Assignment: Oswaldby James P. Hosty, Jr., Arcade Publishing, 1996 [May 2011]

•Assist Me to Proclaim / The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesleyby John R. Tyson, Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 [October 2014]

•Ataturk / The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkeyby Andrew Mango, Overlook Press, 1999 [March 2013]

•Atlas of Korean Historyby the Department of History, Korea National University of Education, 2004 [August 2010]

•Axis Sally / The American Voice of Nazi Germanyby Richard Lucas, Casemate Publishers, 2010 [April 2023]

•Babylon,Irving Finkel and Michael Seymour, editors, Oxford University Press, 2008 [March 2020]

•BadBoy from Rosebud / The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuffby Gary Lavergne, University of North Texas Press, 1999 [November 2021]

•Bad History / How We Got the Past Wrongby Emma Marriott, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 2011 [October 2021]

•Baghdad / City of Peace, City of Blood—A History in Thirteen Centuriesby Justin Marozzi, Da Capo Press, 2014 [November 2019]

•Balinese Gamelan Musicby Michael Tenzer, Tuttle Publishing, 2011 [January 2015]

•Bamboula! / The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalkby S. Frederick Starr, Oxford University Press, 1995 [April 2017]

•Baseball’s Greatest Comeback / The Miracle Braves of 1914by J. Brian Ross, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 [May 2022]

•Baseball’s Greatest Hit / The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Gameby Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles, Hal Leonard Books, 2008 [September 2020]

•Beau Brummell / The Ultimate Man of Styleby Ian Kelly, Free Press, 2006 [September 2016]

•Beale Street Dynasty / Sex, Song and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphisby Preston Lauterbach, W.W. Norton, 2015 [September 2015]

•Bedlam / London and Its Madby Catharine Arnold, Simon & Schuster, 2008 [August 2022]

•Before Brown / Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall and the Long Road to Justiceby Gary Lavergne, University of Texas Press, 2010 [December 2022]

•Beijing Welcomes You / Unveiling the Capital City of the Futureby Tom Scocca, Riverhead Books, 2011 [September 2012]

•Beirutby Samir Kassir, University of California Press, 2010 [March 2014]

•Ben Hogan / An American Lifeby James Dodson, Broadway Books, 2004 [November 2021]

•Benching Jim Crow / The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980by Charles H. Martin, University of Illinois Press, 2010 [October 2010]

•Best American Crime Reporting, Nicholas Pileggi, editor, 2002 [June 2024]

•Big Book of Baseball Lineupsby Rob Neyer, Fireside, 2003 [January 2018]

•Bill Veeck / Baseball’s Greatest Maverickby Paul Dickson, Walker Publishing, 2012 [March 2019]

•Billy the Kid / The Longest Rideby Michael Wallis, W. W. Norton, 2007 [April 2012]

•Black Athena Revisitedby Martin Bernal, University of North Carolina Press, 1996 [February 2017]

•Blake / A Biographyby Peter Ackroyd, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 [January 2023]

•Bob Feller / Ace of the Greatest Generationby John Sickels, Brassey’s Inc., 2004 [February 2012]

•Booknotes: Life Stories / Notable Biographers on the People who Shaped America,Brian Lamb, ed., Three Rivers Press, 1999 [March 2021]

•Bolivar / American Liberatorby Marie Arana, Simon & Schuster, 2013 [December 2013]

•Boswell’s Presumptuous Task / The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnsonby Adam Sisman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 [January 2012]

•Bound with an Iron Chain / The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial Americaby Anthony Vaver, Pickpocket Publishing, 2011 [October 2023]

•Brazil / Five Centuries of Changeby Thomas E. Skidmore, Oxford University Press, 1999 [August 2012]

•Breaking Open Japan / Commodore Perry, Lord Abe and American Imperialism in 1853by George Feifer, HarperCollins, 2006 [February 2021]

•Breaking Through / John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneerby Milton S. Katz, University of Arkansas Press, 2007 [July 2019]

•Broken Soldiersby Raymond B. Lech, University of Illinois Press, 2000 [July 2018]

•Brushing Back Jim Crow / The Integration of Minor League Baseball in the American Southby Bruce Adelson, University of Virginia Press, 1999 [September 2019]

•Buddhaby Karen Armstrong, Penguin Books, 2001 [June 2014]

•Byron / Child of Passion, Fool of Fameby Benita Eisler, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 [April 2015]

•Calculated Risk / The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissomby George Leopold, Purdue University Press, 2016 [April 2022]

•Call Me Burroughs / A Lifeby Barry Miles, 12 Publishing, 2013 [March 2017]

•Campus Life / Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Presentby Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, University of Chicago Press, 1987 [March 2022]

•Capote / A Biographyby Gerald Clarke, Simon & Schuster, 1988 [October 2017]

•Captain James Cook / A Biographyby Richard Hough, W.W. Norton, 1994 [July 2016]

•Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton / A Biographyby Edward Rice, Da Capo Press, 1990 [January 2014]

•Carl Sagan / A Life in the Cosmosby William Poundstone, Henry Holt & Co., 1999 [February 2016]

•Casanova’s Women / The Great Seducer and the Women He Lovedby Judith Summers, Bloomsbury, 2006 [August 2011]

•Cassius Marcellus Clay / Firebrand of Freedomby H. Edward Richardson, University Press of Kentucky, 1976 [May 2022]

•Cast Away / Lost and Found in History / Epic True Stories of Shipwreck, Piracy and Mutiny on the High Seasby Joseph Cummins, Pier 9, 2008 [December 2023]

•Cecil Rhodes / Flawed Colossusby Brian Roberts, W.W. Norton, 1987 [April 2020]

•Centennial ’36 / The Year America Discovered Texasby Kenneth B. Ragsdale, Texas A&M Press, 1987 [July 2019]

•Chaos Under Heaven / The Shocking Story Behind China’s Search for Democracyby Gordon Thomas, Birch Lane Press, 1991 [April 2016]

•Charleston! Charleston! / The History of a Southern Cityby Walter J. Fraser, Jr., University of South Carolina Press, 1989 [October 2015]

•Children of the Sun / A Pictorial Anthology from Germany to California 1883-1949by Gordon Kennedy, Nivaria Press, 1998 [September 2020]

•Chopin / Prince of the Romanticsby Adam Zamoyski, Harper Press, 2010 [March 2020]

•Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters / White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800by Robert C. Davis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 [June 2015]

•Chopin’s Funeralby Benita Eisler, Vintage Books, 2003 [October 2023]

•Churchill / Walking with Destinyby Andrew Roberts, Viking, 2018 [December 2020]

•Citizens of London / The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hourby Lynne Olson, Random House, 2010 [February 2019]

•City of Dreams / The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New Yorkby Tyler Anbinder, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 [April 2021]

•Classical Music, edited by John Burrows, Dorling Kindersley, 2005 [July 2021]

•Clemente / The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Heroby David Maraniss, Simon & Schuster, 2006 [January 2022]

•College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Eraby Kurt Edward Kemper, University of Illinois Press, 2009 [August 2022]

•College Football / History, Spectacle, Controversyby John Sayle Watterson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 [July 2015]

•Color Blind / /The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball’s Color Lineby Tom Dunkel, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013 [July 2016]

•Comfort Women / Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War IIby Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Columbia University Press, 1995 [June 2015]

•Come Have Fun with Frank Rush at Craterville Park and Sandy Lake Amusem*nt Parkby Frank Rush III, 2006 [January 2020]

•Completely Queer / The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopediaby Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson, Henry Holt, 1998 [October 2017]

•Confucius and the World He Createdby Michael Schuman, Basic Books, 2015 [January 2018]

•Conspiracy of Silence / Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseballby Chris Lamb, University of Nebraska Press, 2012 [September 2019]

•Cotton Bowl Classic / Football Vault / The History of a Proud Traditionby Steve Richardson, Whitman Publishing Co., 2010 [January 2021]

•Cotton Bowl Days / Growing Up with the Cowboys in Dallas in the 1960sby John Eisenberg, Simon & Schuster, 1997 [November 2010]

•Covering All the Basesby Lou Boudreau, Sagamore Publishing, 1993 [November 2022]

•Cradle of Gold / The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Macchu Picchuby Christopher Heaney, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 [April 2014]

•Cuba and Its Music / From the First Drums to the Mamboby Ned Sublette, Chicago Review Press, 2004 [May 2016]

•Custer / The Life of General George Armstrong Custerby Jay Monaghan, Bison Books, 1959 [October 2023]

•Dallas / An Illustrated Historyby Darwin Payne, Windsor Publications, 1982 [August 2017]

•Dallas 1963by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, Twelve Books, 2013 [January 2014]

•Daniel Boone / The Life and Legend of an American Pioneerby John Mack Faragher, Henry Holt Press, 1997 [May 2020]

•Daniel Webster / The Man and His Timeby Robert Remini, W.W. Norton, 1997 [September 2020]

•Dark Lover / The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentinoby Emily W. Leider, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003 [December 2015]

•David Brinkley / 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 [March 2024]

•David Crockett / The Lion of the Westby Michael Wallis, W.W. Norton, 2011 [March 2018]

•Defying Dixie / The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, W.W. Norton, 2008 [October 2012]

•Delta Blues / The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Musicby Ted Gioia, W.W. Norton, 2008 [June 2016]

•Deng Xiaoping / A Revolutionary Lifeby Alexander V. Pantsov, Oxford University Press, 2015 [October 2023]

•Design for Living / Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne / A Biographyby Margot Peters, Knopf, 2003 [October 2021]

•Detroit Then and Nowby Cheri Y. Gay, Thunder Bay Press, 2001 [January 2013]

•Detroit / A Biographyby Scott Martelle, Chicago Review Press, 2012 [December 2012]

•Diamonds in the Rough / The Untold History of Baseballby Joel Zoss and John Bowman, University of Nebraska Press, 1989 [August 2016]

•Dizzy/ Dean of Baseball & My Podnahby Gene Kirby, Bo Carter and Mark S. McDonald, Dust Devil Books, 2016 [November 2021]

•Doctors / The Biography of Medicineby Sherwin B. Nuland, Vintage Books, 1988 [May 2019]

•Dogs of God / Columbus, the Inquisition and the Defeat of the Moorsby James Reston, Jr., Faber & Faber, 2005 [October 2011]

•Don’t Know Much about the Bible / Everything You Need to Know about the Good Book but Never Learnedby Kenneth C. Davis, HarperCollins, 1998 [November 2020]

•Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes (translated by Edith Grossman), HarperCollins, 2003 [July 2014]

•Doo-Dah! / Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Cultureby Ken Emerson, Da Capo Press, 1997 [April 2017]

•Dossier / The Secret History of Armand Hammerby Edward Jay Epstein, Random House, 1996 [July 2023]

•Down to the Crossroads / Civil Rights, Black Power and the Meredith March Against Fearby Aram Goudsouzian, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014 [June 2014]

•Downfall/The End of the Imperial Japanese Empireby Richard B. Frank, Penguin Books, 1999 [October 2012]

•Dr. Freud / A Lifeby Paul Ferris, Counterpoint, 1997 [December 2016]

•Dresden / Tuesday, February 13, 1945by Frederick Taylor, HarperCollins, 2004 [July 2023]

• East of the Sun / The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberiaby Benson Bobrick, Poseidon Press, 1992 [October 2020]

•Eating With the Enemy / How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensackby Robert Egan, St. Martin’s Press, 2010 [December 2010]

•Edgar Snow / A Biographyby John Maxwell Hamilton, Indiana University Press, 1988 [March 2015]

•Egg on Mao / The Story of an Ordinary Man who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorshipby Denise Chong, Counterpoint, 2009 [March 2021]

•Eiffel’s Towerby Jill Jonnes, Penguin Books, 2009 [September 2014]

•Einstein / His Life and Universeby Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 2007 [May 2015]

•Eleanor Roosevelt / Volume One: 1884-1933by Blanche Wiesen Cook, Penguin Books, 1992 [April 2024]

•Elon Musk / Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Futureby Ashlee Vance, HarperCollins, 2015 [June 2024]

•Embracing Defeat / Japan in the Wake of World War IIby John W. Dower, W.W. Norton, 1999 [October 2012]

•Empires of the Sea / The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto and the Contest for the Center of the Worldby Roger Crowley, Random House, 2006 [May 2014]

•Empty Mansions / The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark an d the Spending of a Great American Fortuneby Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., Ballentine Books, 2013 [September 2019]

•England’s Dreaming / Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock and Beyondby Jon Savage, St. Martin’s, 1991 [August 2020]

•Enlightening the World / Encyclopedie, the Book that Changed the Course of Historyby Philipp Blom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 [December 2017]

•Erik Satieby Mary E. Davis, Reaktion Books, 2007 [June 2022]

•Escaping the Delta / Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Bluesby Elijah Wald, Amistad, 2004 [June 2012]

•Europe / A Historyby Norman Davies, Oxford University Press, 1996 [January 2017]

•Everlasting Flower / A History of Koreaby Keith Pratt, Reaktion Books, 2006 [July 2010]

•Everest / The First Ascent / The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, The Man Who Made It Possibleby Harriet Tuckey, Random House, 2013 [February 2019]

•Everything Baseballby James Mote, Prentice Hall Press, 1989 [July 2022]

•Eyes on the Street / The Life of Jane Jacobsby Robert Kanigel, Alfred A. Knopf, 2016 [November 2023]

•Fab / An Intimate Life of Paul McCartneyby Howard Sounes, Da Capo Press, 2010 [September 2016]

•Fall from Grace / The Truth and Tragedy of “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, Sports Publishing, 2016 [February 2020]

•Fame at Last / Who Was Who According to theNew York TimesObituariesby John C. Ball and Jill Jonnes,Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000 [August 2019]

•Fatal Purity / Robespierre and the French Revolutionby Ruth Scurr, 2006 [April 2013]

•Faulkner’s Oxford / Recollections and Reflectionsby Herman E. Taylor, Rutledge Hill Press, 1990 [March 2015]

•Femme Fatale / Love, Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hariby Pat Shipman, HarperCollins, 2007 [October 2020]

•Fire in the City / Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florenceby Lauro Martines, Oxford University Press, 2006 [July 2014]

•First Footprints / The Epic Story of the First Australiansby Scott Cane, Allen & Unwin, 2013 [August 2017]

•First in His Class / A Biography of Bill Clintonby David Maraniss, Simon & Schuster, 1995 [May 2024]

•Five Points / 19th Century New York’s Most Notorious Slumby Tyler Anbinder, Free Press, 2001 [December 2012]

•Flawless / Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capitalby Elise Hu, Dutton, 2023 [September 2023]

• 1066 / The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestryby Andrew Bridgeford, Walker & Co., 2005 [May 2020]

• 1453 / The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the Westby Roger Crowley, Hyperion Press, 2005 [April 2013]

•1491 / New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbusby Charles C. Mann, Vintage, 2005 [March 2011]

•1616 / The World in Motionby Thomas Christensen, Counterpoint Press, 2011 [February 2014]

•1848 / Year of Revolutionby Mike Rapport, Abacus, 2008 [May 2011]

•1889 / The Boomer Movement, the Land Run and Early Oklahoma Cityby Michael J. Hightower, University of Oklahoma Press, 2018 [March 2023]

•1959 / The Year Everything Changedby Fred Kaplan, John Wiley & Sons, 2009 [May 2013]

•1,000 Years of Annoying the Frenchby Stephen Clarke, Black Swan, 2010 [May 2024]

•10,000 Years of Artby Larry Ball, et al., Phaidon Press, 2007 [July 2023]

•Fire and Fury / Inside the Trump White Houseby Michael Wolff, Picador, 2018 [December 2023]

•Flappers / Six Women of a Dangerous Generationby Judith Mackrell, Sarah Crichton Books, 2013 [February 2017]

•Fordlandia / The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle Cityby Greg Grandin, Metropolitan Books, 2009 [December 2017]

•Forgotten Fatherland / The True Story of Nietzsche’s Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colonyby Ben Macintyre, Broadway Paperbacks, 1992 [February 2022]

•Forever Free / The Story of Emancipation and Reconstructionby Eric Foner, Vintage Books, 2005 [August 2016]

•Forty Minutes of Hell / The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardsonby Rus Bradburd, Amistad, 2010 [March 2010]

•Four Hours in My Laiby Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, Penguin Books, 1992 [November 2017]

•Frederick Douglassby William S. McFeely, W.W. Norton & Co., 1991 [April 2016]

•Freedom Riders / 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justiceby Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, 2006 [December 2013]

•From Third World to First / Singapore and the Asian Economic Boomby Lee Kuan Yew, HarperCollins, 2000 [August 2021]

•Full Service / My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Starsby Scotty Bowers, Grove Press, 2001 [August 2019]

•Fury on Earth / A Biography of Wilhelm Reichby Myron Sharaf, St. Martin’s/Marek, 1983 [January 2023]

•Galapagos / The Islands that Changed the Worldby Paul D. Stewart, Yale University Press, 2007 [September 2017]

•Geisha, a Lifeby Mineko Iwasaki, Washington Square Press, 2002 [October 2013]

•Genius / The Life and Science of Richard Feynmanby James Gleick, Vintage Books, 1992 [December 2016]

•George Washington Carver / A Lifeby Christina Vella, LSU Press, 2015 [September 2020]

•George Washington Williams / A Biographyby John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago Press, 1985 [July 2018]

•Gershwin / A Biographyby Edward Jablonski, Doubleday, 1987 [January 2020]

•Get Happy / The Life of Judy Garlandby Gerald Clarke, Delta, 2000 [August 2019]

•Ghetto at the Center of the World / Chungking Mansions, Hong Kongby Gordon Mathews, University of Chicago Press, 2011 [August 2021]

•Ghost Flames / Life & Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953by Charles J. Hanley, Public Affairs, 2020 [August 2021]

•Ghosts of Manila / The Fateful Blood Feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazierby Mark Kram, HarperCollins, 2001 [August 2013]

•Giant Under the Hill / A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas in 1901by Judith Walker Linsley, Ellen Walker Rienstra and Jo Ann Stiles, Texas State Historical Association, 2002 [October 2022]

•Glorious Contentment / The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900by Stuart McConnell, University of North Carolina Press, 1992 [May 2022]

•Glory and Honor / The Musical and Artistic Legacy of Johann Sebastian Bachby Gregory Wilbur, Cumberland House, 2005 [December 2010]

•God’s Crucible / Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215by David Levering Lewis, W.W. Norton & Co., 2008 [August 2012]

•God’s Lunatics / Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divineby Michael Largo, HarperCollins, 2010 [September 2013]

•Gorbachev / His Life and Timesby William Taubman, W.W. Norton, 2017 [June 2022]

•Grand Expectations / The United States, 1945-1974by James T. Patterson, Oxford University Press, 1996 [March 2024]

•Great Rivers of the World, National Geographic Society, 1984 [December 2023]

•Great Tales from English History / A Treasury of True Stories about the Extraordinary People—Knights and Knaves, Rebels and Heroes, Queens and Commoners—Who Made Britain Greatby Robert Lacey, Back Bay Books, 2003 [April 2024]

•Great Time Coming / The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birminghamby David Falkner, Simon & Schuster, 1995 [April 2012]

•Gutenberg / How One Man Remade the World with Wordsby John Man, John Wiley & Sons, 2002 [November 2013]

•Haka / A Living Traditionby Wira Gardiner, Hodder Moa, 2007 [November 2014]

•Hank Greenberg / The Hero of Heroesby John Rosengren, New American Library, 2013 [July 2018]

•Hank Williams / The Biographyby Colin Escott, Little Brown, 2004 [October 2012]

•Harem / The World Behind the Veilby Alev Lytle Croutier, Abbeville Press, 1989 [February 2020]

•Harriet / The Life and World of Harriet Beecher Stoweby Norma Johnston, Simon & Schuster, 1994 [May 2021]

•Havana Nocturne / How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolutionby T. J. English, HarperCollins, 2007 [June 2017]

•He Calls Me by Lightning / The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice and the Death Penaltyby S. Jonathan Bass, Liveright Publishing, 2017 [October 2019]

•Helen Keller / A Lifeby Dorothy Herrmann, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 [May 2017]

•Hell or High Water / James White’s Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867by Eilean Adams, Utah State University Press, 2001 [March 2023]

•Hellhound on His Trail / The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassinby Hampton Sides, Doubleday, 2010 [August 2010]

•Hell’s Angel / The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Clubby Ralph “Sonny” Barger, HarperCollins, 2000 [December 2023]

•Heloise & Abelard / A New Biographyby James Burge, Harper San Francisco, 2003 [October 2017]

•Henry Clay / The Essential Americanby David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Random House, 2011 [August 2013]

•Hernando de Soto / A Savage Quest in the Americasby David Ewing Duncan, Crown Publishers, 1996 [August 2023]

•Hero / The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabiaby Michael Korda, Harper Perennial, 2010 [February 2016]

•Heroes without a Country / America’s Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owensby Donald McRae, HarperCollins, 2002 [June 2016]

•Hildegard of Bingen / The Woman of Her Ageby Fiona Maddocks, Doubleday, 2001 [January 2013]

•Hieronymous Bosch / The Complete Worksby Stefan Fischer, Taschen, 2016 [January 2022]

•Himalaya / A Human Historyby Ed Douglas, W.W. Norton, 2020 [December 2022]

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