What's Your 2015 Reading List?

[Mister D]

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997
A History of War in 100 Battles
Life in Biblical Israel
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
Almanac of World History
The Secret History of the World
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The People Have Spoken (and they are wrong)
The Beauty and the Sarrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
The Classic Slave Narratives
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Police State USA: How Orwell's Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality
Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World
The World's Bloodiest History: Massacre, Genocide, and the Scars They Left on Civilization
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
All The President's Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
The World's Greatest Conspiracies: History's Biggest Mysteries, Cover-Ups, and Cabals

I would like a good history of the British Empire myself.

[Common]

Crime and Punishment and Dracula are two of my favorite novels. Let me know how #11 is. I was looking at this which is along similar lines:

http://www.amazon.com/Germanization-...Transformation

Russell argues that Christianity (i.e. Catholicism) underwent a very significant transformation in its contact with European cultures.

I did read a book on the real Dracula he was called the Impaler he would impale all those he fought and killed. He eventually out did himself, went to another kingdom to make a pact and the king locked him in a room in the ground till his death. Seems the king was afraid of him and didnt trust him either. Thats how the legend began

[Mister D]

I did read a book on the real Dracula he was called the Impaler he would impale all those he fought and killed. He eventually out did himself, went to another kingdom to make a pact and the king locked him in a room in the ground till his death. Seems the king was afraid of him and didnt trust him either. Thats how the legend began

The real story of his life is as exciting as the novel. It really gives you some insight into the politics of the day and the precarious position of a lesser prince like Dracula. BTW, he was killed in battle. He was imprisoned for a while in what is now Hungary or Austria.

[Common]

The real story of his life is as exciting as the novel. It really gives you some insight into the politics of the day and the precarious position of a lesser prince like Dracula. BTW, he was killed in battle. He was imprisoned for a while in what is now Hungary or Austria.

Thats right he did finally gain release, I read that years ago. It always amazed me how they had no value life through out history.

[kilgram]

My reading list of 2015 in no particular order:

- Fiction

Read:

The Wheel of the Time (15 books)
The Kingkiller Chronicle (2 books - read again)

Reading:

- Earthsea

To read:

- Joe Abercrombie - Trilogy: The First Law (Finally decided to read those books - I have them from long time ago)
- Lev Grossman - Mages
- Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen
- Andrzej Sapkowski - The Witcher (read again)
- Robin Hobb - The Farseer Trilogy and Liveship Traders Trilogy
- Brandon Sanderson - Infinity Sword

And I think that with this I am going to be pretty busy

Non-Fiction:

To-Do-List (not decided yet)

- Any recommendation of fiction (books with good feeling and science fiction or fantasy related) and non-fiction?

[kilgram]

The real story of his life is as exciting as the novel. It really gives you some insight into the politics of the day and the precarious position of a lesser prince like Dracula. BTW, he was killed in battle. He was imprisoned for a while in what is now Hungary or Austria.

A Prince in the Slavic nobility did not have the same category as it would have in the other European countries.

I don't know very well about this topic, but I am sure that however they were the highest rank of nobility before the Tsar, they were relatively precarious.

[Mister D]

A Prince in the Slavic nobility did not have the same category as it would have in the other European countries.

I don't know very well about this topic, but I am sure that however they were the highest rank of nobility before the Tsar, they were relatively precarious.

Wallachia (present day Romania) was a petty state right on the border of the Ottoman Empire. It was indeed a very precarious situation. All these little princedoms were sandwiched between the Ottomans and the Holy Roman Empire.

[Captain Obvious]

@Mister D - didn't read the LoTR yet?

[Mister D]

@Mister D - didn't read the LoTR yet?

Oh crap. lol No, I haven't. I did say I wanted to do that. I just ordered some books too. It just never occurs to me to order fiction. I have to order some tea tomorrow so I'll throw that set in. I'm sure I can get a cheap paperback.

[Captain Obvious]

Oh crap. lol No, I haven't. I did say I wanted to do that. I just ordered some books too. It just never occurs to me to order fiction. I have to order some tea tomorrow so I'll throw that set in. I'm sure I can get a cheap paperback.

I would be surprised if you don't find it engaging.