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| In high school I started keeping track of all the books I finished. Once you start, you sort of feel funny not continuing the list. Now I feel bad I didn't start the list sooner. So, here it is, no longer a list on binder paper, but rather in a database and all that fancy jazz. Perhaps it'll be of some interest to you - getting a sense for my interests. But regardless, it's sort of a legacy thing for me. |
| the 107 books read by matte elsbernd (since 1988) which of course would be History + Geography. |
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| (Auto)Biography | Business | Computers | Creativity + Design | Fiction + Literature | History + Geography | Humor | Language | Psychology + Culture | Science Fiction | Thrillers + Suspense | Writing + Careers | Misc. |
| Recent | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
| Peter Ackroyd |
| 1. London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets (Read from May 22, 2012 to Jun 09, 2012) |
| Tom Adkinson |
| 1. 100 Things to Do in Nashville Before You Die (Read from Mar 20, 2021 to Mar 20, 2021) |
| David Aurora |
| 1. Back To Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now - Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything (Read from Aug 30, 2012 to Sep 11, 2012) |
| David Axe |
| 1. Army of God: Joseph Kony's War in Central Africa with Tim Hamilton (Read from Feb 27, 2018 to Feb 28, 2018) |
| R. B. Bernstein |
| 1. The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (Read from Feb 09, 2012 to Feb 12, 2012) |
| Bill Bishop |
| 1. The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart (Read from Oct 05, 2012 to Oct 15, 2012) |
| Alistair Bonnett |
| 1. Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Read from Apr 01, 2017 to Apr 07, 2017) |
| R. Philip Bouchard |
| 1. You Have Died of Dysentery: The Creation of the The Oregon Trail (Read from Nov 08, 2023 to Nov 18, 2023) |
| Bill Bryson |
| 1. Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe (Read from Jun 19, 2018 to Jun 26, 2018) |
| Henri Charriere |
| 1. Papillon (Read from Sep 16, 2018 to Oct 02, 2018) |
| Andrei Codrescu |
| 1. Hail Babylon! : In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium |
| Michael Crichton |
| 1. The Great Train Robbery (Read from Feb 01, 2013 to Feb 05, 2013) |
| Darryl Cunningham |
| 1. Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful (Read from Dec 31, 2022 to Jan 01, 2023) |
| Richard Dawkins |
| 1. An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist (Read from Jun 23, 2015 to Jun 24, 2015) |
| Harm J. De Blij |
| 1. Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America (Read from Jun 15, 2012 to Jun 24, 2012) |
| Bill Dedman |
| 1. Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune with Paul Clark Newell (Read from Apr 19, 2018 to Apr 22, 2018) |
| DK Eyewitness Travel |
| 1. Top 10 Munich (Read from Dec 28, 2013 to Dec 31, 2013) |
| Joan Druett |
| 1. Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Read from Feb 20, 2013 to Feb 23, 2013) |
| John Dvorak |
| 1. Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault (Read from Oct 14, 2016 to Oct 16, 2016) |
| Timothy Egan |
| 1. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Read from Aug 10, 2018 to Sep 02, 2018) |
| Ian Fleming |
| 1. Thrilling Cities (Read from Jul 13, 2013 to Jul 14, 2013) |
| Richard Florida |
| 1. The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity (Read from Feb 27, 2011 to Feb 28, 2011) |
| Richard Fortey |
| 1. Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Read from Aug 18, 2015 to Sep 07, 2015) |
| James N. Frey |
| 1. Circle of Death |
| George Friedman |
| 1. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Read from Sep 07, 2011 to Sep 13, 2011) |
| Riva Froymovich |
| 1. End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation - and What We Can Do About It (Read from Feb 09, 2018 to Feb 11, 2018) |
| Aaron H. Goldberg |
| 1. Buying Disney's World: The Story of How Florida Swampland Became Walt Disney World (Read from Apr 29, 2021 to May 01, 2021) |
| Robert Graves |
| 1. Goodbye to All That (Read from Apr 30, 2020 to May 08, 2020) |
| Nathan Hale |
| 1. Alamo All-Stars: (Hazardous Tales Book 6) (Read from Jun 27, 2023 to Jun 27, 2023) |
| 2. Big Bad Ironclad!: (Hazardous Tales Book 2) (Read from Jun 23, 2023 to Jun 23, 2023) |
| 3. Blades of Freedom: (Hazardous Tales Book 10) (Read from Jul 07, 2023 to Jul 07, 2023) |
| 4. Cold War Correspondent: (Hazardous Tales Book 11) (Read from Jul 05, 2023 to Jul 05, 2023) |
| 5. Donner Dinner Party: (Hazardous Tales Book 3) (Read from Jun 24, 2023 to Jun 24, 2023) |
| 6. Lafayette!: (Hazardous Tales Book 8) (Read from Jul 08, 2023 to Jul 08, 2023) |
| 7. Major Impossible: (Hazardous Tales Book 9) (Read from Jul 06, 2023 to Jul 06, 2023) |
| 8. One Dead Spy: (Hazardous Tales Book 1) (Read from Jun 22, 2023 to Jun 22, 2023) |
| 9. Raid of No Return: (Hazardous Tales Book 7) (Read from Jul 06, 2023 to Jul 06, 2023) |
| 10. The Underground Abductor: (Hazardous Tales Book 5) (Read from Jun 25, 2023 to Jun 25, 2023) |
| 11. Treaties, Trenches, Mud and Blood: (Hazardous Tales Book 4) (Read from Jun 25, 2023 to Jun 25, 2023) |
| Luke Healy |
| 1. How to Survive In The North (Read from May 30, 2020 to Jun 01, 2020) |
| Tony Horowitz |
| 1. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before |
| T. John Hughes |
| 1. Apparitions: Architecture That Has Disappeared From Our Cities (Read from Nov 19, 2015 to Nov 22, 2015) |
| Daniel Immerwahr |
| 1. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Read from Apr 07, 2019 to Apr 14, 2019) |
| Steve Inskeep |
| 1. Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi (Read from Jul 02, 2012 to Jul 14, 2012) |
| Nicholas Johnson |
| 1. Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange & Menancing World of Antartica (Finished Dec 27, 2006) |
| Steven Johnson |
| 1. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (Read from May 02, 2015 to May 03, 2015) |
| David Jouris |
| 1. All Over The Map: An Extraordinary Atlas of the United States |
| Paul Karasik |
| 1. Paul Aster's City of Glass with David Mazzucchelli (Read from Nov 30, 2015 to Nov 30, 2015) |
| Doris Kearns |
| 1. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Read from Aug 05, 2011 to Aug 19, 2011) |
| Joshua Keating |
| 1. Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood (Listened from Aug 01, 2020 to Aug 10, 2020) |
| Sarah Kendzior |
| 1. Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think! with Andrea Chalupa (Read from Aug 07, 2023 to Aug 08, 2023) |
| William K. Klingaman |
| 1. The Darkest Year: The American Home Front (1941-1942) (Read from Jun 17, 2019 to Jul 01, 2019) |
| Jared Knott |
| 1. Try Blunders, Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changes the World Forever (Read from Jun 01, 2021 to Jun 09, 2021) |
| David Koenig |
| 1. Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World (Finished Dec 08, 2007) |
| Joel Kotkin |
| 1. The City: A Global History (Finished Jan 12, 2009) |
| John le Carre |
| 1. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (Read from Dec 19, 2019 to Dec 26, 2019) |
| John Lewis |
| 1. March: Book One with Andre Aydin (Read from Jul 23, 2017 to Jul 23, 2017) |
| 2. March: Book Three with Andre Aydin (Read from Dec 31, 2017 to Jan 01, 2018) |
| 3. March: Book Two with Andre Aydin (Read from Aug 27, 2017 to Aug 29, 2017) |
| Michael Lewis |
| 1. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Read from Jun 27, 2021 to Jun 28, 2021) |
| Robert Macfarlane |
| 1. Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Read from Nov 03, 2022 to Oct 24, 2023) |
| Doug Mack |
| 1. The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA (Read from Apr 20, 2023 to Apr 30, 2023) |
| Steve Mariah |
| 1. Greetings from New Nashville: How a Sleepy Souther Town Became It City (Read from May 26, 2021 to Jun 08, 2021) |
| Roman Mars |
| 1. 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design with Kurt Kohlstedt (Read from Oct 15, 2021 to Jan 01, 2023) |
| Tim Marshall |
| 1. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Read from Sep 06, 2017 to Oct 13, 2017) |
| Gordon Mathews |
| 1. Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (Read from Jan 27, 2012 to Jan 28, 2012) |
| Heather McGhee |
| 1. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Read from Mar 11, 2023 to Mar 13, 2023) |
| Kembrew McLeod |
| 1. Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity |
| John McPhee |
| 1. Uncommon Carriers (Finished Jul 27, 2009) |
| Gavin Menzies |
| 1. 1421: The Year China Discovered America (Finished May 19, 2008) |
| Christopher Mims |
| 1. Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door (Read from Jun 01, 2023 to Jun 22, 2023) |
| Victor Montejo |
| 1. Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village |
| Diccon Newest |
| 1. Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island (Read from Jul 14, 2012 to Jul 22, 2012) |
| Cormac O'Brien |
| 1. Secret Lives of U.S. Presidents (Read from Aug 25, 2012 to Aug 30, 2012) |
| Jim Ottaviani |
| 1. Feynman with Leland Myrick (Read from Sep 19, 2017 to Oct 01, 2017) |
| 2. Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas with Maris Wicks (Read from Aug 20, 2017 to Aug 26, 2017) |
| Octavio Pena |
| 1. The Pena Files: One Man's War Against Federal Corruption and the Abuse of Power with Bruce C Mckenna & Dary Matera |
| Douglas Preston |
| 1. The Lost City of the Monkey God (Read from Oct 28, 2017 to Nov 03, 2017) |
| Dan Rather |
| 1. What Unites Us with Elliot Kirschner (Read from Oct 21, 2020 to Oct 29, 2020) |
| Jason Reynolds |
| 1. Stamped: (a remix of Stamped From the Beginning) with Ibram X. Kendi (Listened from Jul 13, 2020 to Jul 19, 2020) |
| Anthony Mitchell Sammarco |
| 1. Boston's Back Bay in the Victorian Era: Images of America |
| Bernie Sanders |
| 1. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism (Listened from Jun 28, 2023 to Jul 08, 2023) |
| Eric Schlosser |
| 1. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety (Read from Mar 02, 2014 to Apr 05, 2014) |
| William L. Shirer |
| 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Read from Apr 15, 2012 to May 14, 2012) |
| Ron Stallworth |
| 1. The Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime (Listened from Aug 22, 2020 to Aug 25, 2020) |
| Mark Stein |
| 1. How the States Got Their Shapes (Finished Aug 23, 2008) |
| Jan Stocklassa |
| 1. The Man Who Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin (Read from Jul 19, 2020 to Aug 03, 2020) |
| Bill Streever |
| 1. Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places (Read from Jan 01, 2013 to Jan 12, 2013) |
| Earl Swift |
| 1. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways (Read from Jul 08, 2011 to Jul 13, 2011) |
| Kazuto Tatsuta |
| 1. Ichi-F: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (Read from Sep 12, 2018 to Jan 18, 2019) |
| Michael Ray Taylor |
| 1. Cave Passages: Roaming the Underground Wilderness |
| John Toland |
| 1. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Finished Jun 20, 2008) |
| Fabien Toulme |
| 1. Hakim's Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey with Hanna Chute (Read from Oct 25, 2022 to Oct 26, 2022) |
| Carson Vaughan |
| 1. Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream (Read from May 01, 2019 to May 04, 2019) |
| William T. Vollmann |
| 1. Poor People (Read from Jan 05, 2018 to Jan 26, 2018) |
| Jack Weatherford |
| 1. Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World (Finished Sep 12, 2007) |
| David Willman |
| 1. The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America's Rush to War (Read from Jun 13, 2020 to Jun 29, 2020) |
| Susan Wilson |
| 1. Boston Sites and Insights: A Multicultural Guide to Fifty Historic Landmarks In and Around Boston |
| Simon Winchester |
| 1. The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible (Finished Jul 25, 2014) |
| 2. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Read from Nov 26, 2012 to Nov 26, 2012) |
| Jay Winik |
| 1. April 1865: The Month That Saved America (Read from Jun 07, 2015 to Jun 12, 2015) |
| Thomas Wolfe |
| 1. The Right Stuff |
| Colin Woodard |
| 1. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Read from Jul 02, 2023 to Jul 15, 2023) |
| Bob Woodward |
| 1. Fear: Trump in the White House (Read from Mar 08, 2019 to Mar 13, 2019) |
| Eric Wright |
| 1. Lehman's Guide to the 27 Amendments (Read from Sep 07, 2017 to Sep 18, 2017) |
| Ian Wright |
| 1. Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Read from Dec 31, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023) |
| Gene Luen Yang |
| 1. American Born Chinese (Read from Jun 10, 2017 to Jun 11, 2017) |
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