A Reading List a Mile Long: Daedalus Books Early Fall 2013

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”-C.S. Lewis

  1. The Medieval World at War Matthew Bennett, ed.
  2. The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the West by Christopher Corbett
  3. Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason by Christina Shelton
  4. “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You”: The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams by Herbert Leibowitz
  5. The Cheaper The Crook, The Gaudier the Patter: Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems by Alan Axelrod
  6. The New Moon with the Old by Dodie Smith
  7. Time and Tide in Acadia: Seasons on Mount Desert Island by Christopher Camuto
  8. The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley
  9. A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Anthony Blond
  10. Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France’s Belle Epoque by Kate Cambor
  11. The Way We Were: California Nostalgic Images of the Golden State by M.J. Howard and Laurie Mayer
  12. The Way We Were: New England Nostalgic Images of America’s Northeast by Lew Freedman
  13. Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth Susan Walker and Peter Higgs, eds.
  14. Mae West: Movie Icons by Dominique Mainon and James Ursini
  15. The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York by Matthew Goodman
  16. Oxford and Cambridge: An Uncommon History by Peter Sager
  17. The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs by Joseph Cunningham
  18. Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War by Arlen J. Hansen. George Plimpton, foreword
  19. Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World by Douglas Hunter
  20. Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family-A Test of Will and Faith in World War I by Louisa Thomas
  21. Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
  22. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
  23. Success Secrets of Sherlock Holmes: Life Lessons from the Master Detective by David Acord
  24. Fabulism by Klauss Kertess
  25. A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered J. David Riva, ed.
  26. British Vision: Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950 Robert Hoozee, ed.
  27. Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
  28. Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millenium B.C. Joan Aruz, Kim Benzel & Jean M. Evans, eds.
  29. Last Nocturne: A Mystery by Marjorie Eccles
  30. Facing the Light: The Photography of Hill and Adamson by Sara Stevenson
  31. The Pocket Guide to English Architecture by Philip Wilkinson
  32. Martyr: An Elizabethan Thriller by Rory Clements
  33. Beth Chatto’s Garden Notebook by Beth Chatto
  34. The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story by Mary-Kay Wilmers

8 thoughts on “A Reading List a Mile Long: Daedalus Books Early Fall 2013

  1. Mmm! LOOK at all these wonderful titles. I’m pleased that “Double Indemnity” made the list.

    In reference to the CS Lewis quote, this summer I read “The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich”. 1200 pages of superb writing and utterly horrifying/fascinating history. I actually felt a bit sad when it was done…

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    • I love James M. Cain! I do not own a copy of Double Indemnity, so I had to include it here.

      That Lewis quote is one of my favourites, because I love both books and tea. That book sounds really interesting. I will have to look it up.

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