Cruikshank, Margaret. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1978 ( Read more... )

London, Jack. The Iron Heel (1908 ( Read more... )

It has been my (hitherto secret) custom to award the annual Halifax Prize to books I have read in a given year, in the categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Books of Any Sort That Were Written before 1700. In determining the winner of this award, I tend to value surprise above all else, which means a favorite author probably will not win ( Read more... )

Wilson, Colin. Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors (2000 ( Read more... )

Spretnak, Charlene. Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths (1978 ( Read more... )

Chesterton, G. K. The Innocence of Father Brown (1910-1911 ( Read more... )

Lamb, Harold. Alexander of Macedon: The Journey to the World’s End (1946 ( Read more... )

Gaunt, Peter. Oliver Cromwell (2004 ( Read more... )

Harsanyi, David. Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America into a Nation of Children (2007 ( Read more... )

Potter, Murray Anthony. Sohrab and Rustem: The Epic Theme of a Combat between Father and Son: A Study of Its Genesis and Use in Literature and Popular Tradition (1899 (publ. 1902)). 6/9 ( Read more... )