History and archaeology
Just as I can't stay away from works on how people speak (see the "popular linguistics" page in this series), I can't resist reading about how they live, or used to. So I have a small, tight collection of history and archaeology books (as well as biographies, which fit here better than anyplace else).
My response to the books listed below is that of a "general" reader, that is, a person who doesn't know much about anything in particular but keeps plugging. Some of these are really worth a trip to the bookstore.
- Secret Soldiers
- Unearthing Gotham
- Sea of Thunder (December, Year 6)
- Athens Memories
- The Mind in the Cave
- The South (December, Year 6)
- Grant and Napoleon
- Tobacco
- Why Switzerland?
- Lost Languages
- The Singing Neanderthals (December, Year 6)
- Krakatoa
- After
- Assassination Vacation (December, Year 6)
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History and archaeology