New Books!

Reader,

As you might know, I love to read. I have fairly far-ranging tastes in reading, and tend to read a great deal much of the year. Honestly, I have a problem with buying far too many books, and so I have been attempting to discipline myself a bit better in this area of late. My attempts resulted in my purchasing only one book at a time for my library - usually selected from my ever-lengthening Amazon Wishlist when I had completed all my other “to-read” books in my library. (You might want to look to this previous post for more information about my library.) However, due to some very thoughtful Christmas gifts, I was recently able to purchase about 30 new books for my library. Here is a list, in no particular order of the books which I purchased.

Also, I created a document so that I could track my reading habits for the year - titles read, types, et cetera. I’ll share that information with you at year’s end.

So, without further ado, here are the new books:

"Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary"
Simon Winchester

"Golda"
Elinor Burkett

"Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States)"
David M. Kennedy

"Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities"
Paul Cartledge; Hardcover

"The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects"
Deyan Sudjic

"Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention"
Stanislas Dehaene

"Thucydides: The Reinvention of History"
Donald Kagan

"Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography"
Roswell Angier

"Libraries"
Candida Höfer

"The Quakers in America (Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series)"
Thomas D. Hamm

"Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution"
Simon Schama

"Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture"
Nicholas A. Basbanes

"The American Future: A History"
Simon Schama

"President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman"
William Lee Miller

"A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books"
Nicholas A. Basbanes

"Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America"
Jerry Flemmons

"Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory"
Stacy Horn

"Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper"
Nicholson Baker

"Library: An Unquiet History"
Matthew Battles

"Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States)"
Gordon S. Wood

"Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy"
John R. Hale

"What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)"
Daniel Walker Howe

"Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street"
Michael Davis

"Weekend in September"
Weems- J

"A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World"
Nicholas A. Basbanes

"The Book on the Bookshelf"
Henry Petroski

"Library Design"
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