On Today’s Bookshelf XXIV

Books are not only my working life, they are my relaxation life, too. The beauty of books is that they can increase your knowledge as well as transport you to places and times of interest. For me that means my acquisition of new (to me) titles to read never ends. Here is a list of some of the hardcovers and ebooks that I have acquired and added to my to-be-read pile (other books can be found in earlier On Today’s Bookshelf posts):

Nonfiction –

• Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar
• Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Modernisation of the Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy
• George Washington’s Surprise Attack: A New Look at the Battle That Decided the Fate of America by Phillip Thomas Tucker
• Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas
• Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family — A Test of Will and Faith in World War I by Louisa Thomas
• The Churchills in Love and War by Mary S. Lovell
• A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain’s Convicts After the American Revolution by Emma Christopher
• The Holocaust Encyclopedia edited by Walter Laqueur & Judith Taylor Baumel
• Global Crisis: War, Climate Change & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker
• Army of Evil: A History of the SS by Adrian Weale
• Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest—Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy  by Jack Hurst
• The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the African Slave Trade by Alastair Hazell
• Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine
• The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
• The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR by Jules Archer
• Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobson
• The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman
• A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare by Diana Preston
• The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Antony Beevor
• Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan

Fiction –

• You’re Next by Greg Hurwitz
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• The Man From Berlin by Luke McCallin
• Life for a Life by T. Frank Muir
• The Great Betrayal by Pamela Oldfield
• Traitor’s Blood by Michael Arnold
• The New Neighbor: A Novel by Leah Stewart
• The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfield (2 books)
• The Just City by Jo Walton

What are you reading? Are there new acquisitions that you would recommend to colleagues? Is there a newly found author who excites you?

Richard Adin, An American Editor