I read a fair number of books, magazines, and other printed publications, but I read far more online these days than “dead tree” stuff. These were the new (or new-to-me) books I got through last year:<\/p>\n
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\nMatt Ridley, Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters<\/em>, 978-0-06-089408-5
\nLarry Correia, Hard Magic<\/em>, 978-1-4516-3824-0
\nRichard Blake, Crown of Empire<\/em>, 978-1-5347-1472-4
\nBarbara Tuchman, The Zimmermann Telegram<\/em>, 0-345-28152-7
\nArturo P\u00e9rez-Reverte, The Fencing Master<\/em>, 0-15-600684-7
\nDon & Petie Kladstrup, Champagne: How the world’s most glamorous wine triumphed over war<\/em>, 978-0-06-073792-4
\nJames Chambers, The Devil’s Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe<\/em>, 0-7607-4798-9
\nLarry Correia, Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge<\/em>, 978-1-4767-8149-5
\nMargaret MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History<\/em>, 978-0-14-305478-8
\nAdmiral W.H. Smyth, The Sailor’s Word-Book<\/em>, 1-897030-05-3
\nAdrian Goldsworthy, The Complete Roman Army<\/em>, 978-0-500-28899-3
\nLois McMaster Bujold, Penric and the Shaman<\/em>, 978-1-59606-815-5
\nEdward N. Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century CE<\/em>, 978-1-4214-1945-9
\nGeorge Orwell, A Kind of Compulsion: 1903-1936<\/em>, 0-43620-542-4
\nKevin Lippert, War Plan Red: The United States’ Secret Plan to Invade Canada<\/em>, 978-1-61689-352-1
\nHoward Tayler, Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries<\/em>, 978-1-9451-2003-9
\nSaul David, 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was fought & won 1914-1918<\/em>, 978-1-444-76338-6
\nStephen Clarke, How the French Won Waterloo (or think they did)<\/em>, 978-1-7808-9376-1
\nTed Barris, Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917<\/em>, 978-0-88762-253-3
\nJonathon Riley, 1813: Empire at Bay – The Sixth Coalition & the Downfall of Napoleon<\/em>, 1-7830-3397-5
\nLarry Correia, Son of the Black Sword<\/em>, 978-1-4767-8157-0
\nLarry Correia, Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners<\/em>, 978-1-4767-8183-9
\nLarry Correia, Monster Hunter Nemesis<\/em>, 978-1-4767-8053-5
\nGeorge Orwell, Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937-1939<\/em>, 0-436-20538-6
\nG.R. Potter, The New Cambridge Modern History I: The Renaissance, 1493-1520<\/em>, 978-0-521-04541-4
\nDavid Kynaston, Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-1962<\/em>, 978-1-4088-4439-7
\nNic Fields, AD69: Emperors, Armies & Anarchy<\/em>, 978-1-78159-188-8
\nAdrian Goldsworthy, Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World<\/em>, 978-0-300-17882-1
\nLarry Correia, Spellbound<\/em>, 978-1-4516-3859-2
\nGeorge Orwell, All Propaganda is Lies: 1941-1942<\/em>, 0-436-20364-2
\nP.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters<\/em>, 978-0-393-33981-9
\nG.R. Elton, The New Cambridge Modern History II: The Reformation, 1520-1559<\/em>, 978-0-5213-4536-1
\nDavid Weigel, The Show That Never Ends: The rise and fall of prog rock<\/em>, 978-0-393-24225-6
\nNeil Gaiman, Norse Mythology<\/em>, 978-0-393-60909-7
\nB.H. Liddell Hart, The War in Outline: 1914-1918<\/em>
\nSarah D’Almeida, Death of a Musketeer<\/em>, 978-0-7394-7670-3
\nGeorge Orwell, Two Wasted Years: 1943<\/em>, 0-436-40409-5
\nRobert Heinlein, Time for the Stars<\/em>,
\nR.B. Wernham, The New Cambridge Modern History III: The Counter-Reformation and the Price Revolution 1559-1610<\/em>, 0-521-04543-6
\nLawrence James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India<\/em>, 978-0-312-26382-9
\nJ.P. Cooper, The New Cambridge Modern History IV: The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War, 1609-48\/59<\/em>, 0-521-07618-8
\nCamille Paglia, Free Women – Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism<\/em>, 978-0-375-42477-9
\nF.L. Carsten, The New Cambridge Modern History V: The Ascendancy of France, 1648-1688<\/em>, 0-521-04544-4
\nGeorge Orwell, I Have Tried To Tell the Truth: 1943-1944<\/em>, 0-436-20552-1
\nH.C. Darby, The New Cambridge Modern History: Atlas<\/em>, 978-0-5210-7708-8
\nMarcus Aurelius, Meditations<\/em>, 0-14-044140-9
\nCharles Stross, The Delirium Brief<\/em>, 978-0-7653-9466-8
\nGeorge Orwell, I Belong to the Left: 1945<\/em>, 0-436-20554-8
\nGeorge Orwell, Smothered Under Journalism: 1946<\/em>, 978-0-436-20556-9
\nJ.S. Bromley, The New Cambridge Modern History VI: The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1725<\/em>, 0-521-07524-6
\nThomas E. Ricks, Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom<\/em>, 978-1-59420-613-9
\nPatrick Macnee, Blind in One Ear<\/em>, 0-245-54674-X
\nJ.O. Lindsay, The New Cambridge Modern History VII: The Old Regime 1713-63<\/em>, 978-0-521-04545-2
\nRichard Holmes, Sahib: The British Soldier in India<\/em>, 0-00-713754-0
\nKelly and Zach Weinersmith, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and\/or Ruin Everything<\/em>, 978-0-399-56382-9
\nLaura M. Mac Donald, Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917<\/em>, 978-0-00-200787-0
\nLarry Correia, Warbound<\/em>, 978-1-4767-3652-5
\nLois McMaster Bujold, Penric’s Mission<\/em>, 978-1-59606-844-5
\nBernard Crick, George Orwell: A Life<\/em>, 0-436-11450-X
\nPhilip Kaplan, Rolling Thunder: A Century of Tank Warfare<\/em>, 1-7815-9243-8
\nBoris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How one man made history<\/em>, 978-1-444-78305-6
\nScott Wynn, Woodworker’s Guide to Handplanes<\/em>, 978-1-56523-453-6
\nPaul Sellers, Essential Woodworking Handtools<\/em>, 978-0-9934-3430-8\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I read a fair number of books, magazines, and other printed publications, but I read far more online these days than “dead tree” stuff. These were the new (or new-to-me) books I got through last year:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aNS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41535,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41532\/revisions\/41535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}