Books Read in 2018

Books Read in 2018
A good deal of reading was interruped by home renovations.

I spent most of the year reading the first five books of George R.R. Martin's sage A Song of Ice and Fire. Usually referred to as the Game of Thrones.
We also watched the videos of seasons 1 to 7 and are waiting for the next season and the next book
The Winds of Winter.

The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. 2018.

Partially read: Leonardo Da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson. 2017. A large book with a great deal of detail but very interesting. Should finish it in 2019.

Books Read or Partially Read in 2017

Books Read or Partially Read in 2017

Origin, by Dan Brown. 2017

Turing’s Cathedral, The Origins of the Digital Universe, by George Dyson. 2012.

The Story of Physics, by Anne Rooney. 2011.

The War Scientists, The Brains behind military technologies of destruction and defense, by Thomas J. Craughwell. 2011.

The Illustrious Dead, The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon’s Greatest Army, by Stephen Talty. 2009.

Lavoisier in the Year One, The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution, by Madison Smartt Bell. 2005.

A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson. 2004.

Murder as a Fine Art, A True Story of Fraud, Betrayal and Murder Across Two Continents, by Alan J. Bytheway. 2015. [The murder and trial took place near my home town of Princeton, Ontario, Canada.]

Partially Read

The Great Migration Directory, Immigrant’s to New England, 1620-1640, by Robert Charles Anderson. 2015.

Elements of Genealogical Analysis, by Robert Charles Anderson. 2014.

New York Family History Research Guide and Gazetteer, by NYGBS. 2015.

Loyally Yours, 100 Years of the UELAC. Compiled by Frederick Hayward. 2014.

Some books I read in 2014

The Modigliani Scandal, by Ken Follett.

An Astronaut's Guide to Life On Earth, by Chris Hadfield. Random House Canada. 2013.

The Professor and The Madman. A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and The Making Of The Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester. Harper Collins. 1998.

John Glenn, A Memoir, by John Glenn with Nick Taylor. Bantom Books. 1999.

Up Till Now. The Autobiography, by William Shatner with David Fisher. Thomas Dunne Books. New York. 2008.

Frans Hals Museum Haarlem, by H P Baard. Knorr & Hirth Verlag GMBH. 1969.

Norway to America. A History of the Migration, by Ingrid Semmingsen. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis. 1980.

James Douglas. Father of British Columbia, by Dorothy Blakey Smith. Canada Lives series. Oxford University Press. Toronto. 1971.

The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. The McMichael Canadian Collection. Kleinburg, Ontario.

When The Fat Lady Sings. Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught, by David W Barber. Sound and Vision. Toronto, Ontario. 1990. [Humorous]

Rosalind Franklin. The Dark Lady of DNA, by Brenda Maddox. Harper Collins. 2002. [Seems to give a balanced view]

Noose, Knife and Fire. The Bloody Assize. Editor Lois Corey. Fieldcote Memorial Park & Museum, City of Hamilton. 2014.

Insubordinate Spirit. A True Story of Life and Loss in Earliest America. 1610-1665, by Missy Wolfe. Globe Pequot Press, 2012. [This book provides a lot of information on the history of early Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Amsterdam people, as well as much information on the Winthrop, Feake and Hallett families. I am descended from Elizabeth Fones, Winthrop, Feake, Hallett.]

White Devil. An Epic Story of Revenge, by Stephen Brumwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2004. [Seven Years War and Robert Rogers.]

Galileo, by Colin A Ronan. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. 1974.

Code To zero, by Ken Follett. Duton, Penguin. 2000.

Tesla. Sorry didn't note the author.

The Children of Peace and The Village of Hope. Albert Schrarwers.

Some books I have read in 2013

William C Van Horne, by Valerie Knowles. Dundurn Press, Toronto, ON.2010.

The Winthrop Covenant, by Louis Auchincloss, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. 1976.

Vikings: Raiders from the North. Lost Civilizations. Time-Life Books. 1993.

Distant Relations. How My Ancestors Colonized America, by Victoria Freeman. McCelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, ON. 2000. (In particular the section on Thomas Stanton (1616-1677).

King of the Rideau, by Catherine L. Carroll. Manotick Lions Club. 1998. (Moss K. Dickinson).

Thomas Davies in Early Canada. Edited by R.H. Hubbard. Oberon Press. 1972.

Defending Our Homes. Loyalist Families of Dundas County and the Battle of Crysler's Farm. A War of 1812 Novel, by Ronald L. Doering. Borealis Press, Ottawa, ON. 2012.

New Netherlands in a Nutshell. A Concise History of The Dutch Colony in North America, by Firth Haring Fabend. New Netherland Institute, Albany, NY. 2012.

The Casual Vacancy, by J.K. Rowling. Little, Brown and Co., New York. 2012.

Inferno, by Dan Brown. Doubleday, New York. 2013.

Deciphering The Cosmic Number. The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung, by Arthur I. Miller. W.W. Norton & Co. New York. 2009.

Mercator. The Man Who Mapped The Planet, by Nicolas Crane. Weiden & Nicolson, London. 2002.

Captain Cook, by Alistair MacLean. Fontana/Collins. 1974.

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind. Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The life of William Dampier, by
Diana & Michael Preston. Viking Canada, Toronto. 2004.

What I Read in 2011

• Pendulum. Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science, by Amir D. Aczel. 2003.
• Clothing The Colonists. Fashions in New Netherlands, by Friends of Crailo State Historic Site. 1995.
• Our Young Soldier. Lieutenant Francis Simcoe 6 June 1791 - 6 April 1812, by Mary Beacock Fryer. 1996.
• New York, by Edward Rutherfurd, 2009.
• The Immigrant Experience: The German Americans, by Anne Galicich & Sandra Stotsky, General Editor. Chelsea House Publishers, New York. 2001.
• Edison: The Man Who Made The Future. by Ronal W. Clark. G P Putnam's Sons, New York. 1977.
• Oxford, by Michael Hall. The Pevensey Press. Cambridge, England. 1988.
• The Seafarers. The Atlantic Crossing, by Melvin Maddocks. Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Virginia. 1981.
• The Seafarers. The Venetians, by Colin Thubron. Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Virginia. 1980.
• A Traveller’s Companion to Florence, ed. by Edward Chaney. Robinson, London, England. 2002.
• The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by his son Ferdinand. Translated and annotated by Benjamin Keen. The Folio Society, London, England. 1960.
• The Life and Times of Columbus. Editor Dr. Enzo Orlandi. The Curtis Publishing Co., Philadelphia. 1967.
• Reluctant Genius. The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell, by Charlotte Gray. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Toronto, ON. 2006.
• Humboldt’s Cosmos, by Gerard Helferich. Gotham Books. New York. 2004.
• Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science, by John Gribbin. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, England. 1998.
• Benjamin Franklin, by Edwin S Gaustad. Lives and Legacies. Oxford University Press. 2006.
• Buckskin Baronet, by Margaret Widdemer. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York, 1960.
• Electric Universe. How Electricity Switched on the Modern World, by David Bodanis. Three Rivers Press, New York. 2005.
• The Alchemy of Air, by Thomas Hager. Three Rivers Press, New York. 2008.
• Entanglement, by Amir D Aczel. A Plume Book. 2003.
• Charles Darwin, by Cyril Aydon. Robinson, London, England. 2003.
• Battles for The Crown 1066, by Hope Muntz. Chatto & Windus, London, England. 1966.
• Hudson River School Paintings. Wadsworth Atheneum. A Book of Postcards. Pomegranate, San Francisco. 1996.
• Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area. Heritage Site Guidebook. 2010.
• Uncle Tungsten, Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, by Oliver Sacks. Alfred A Knopf, New York. 2001.
• Naming Nature. The Clash Between Instinct and Science. Carol Kaesuk Yoon. W.W. Norton & Co., New York. 2009.
• Wilbur and Orville. A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Fred Howard. Ballantine Books, New York. 1988.
• Marco Polo. From Venice to Xanadu, by Laurence Bergreen. Vintage Books, Random House, Inc., New York. 2008.
• Governor Simcoe and his Lady, by Marcus Van Steen. Hodder and Stoughton, Toronto and London. 1968.
• The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown, 2009.
• The Broker, by John Grisham. Bantam Dell, New York. Dec. 2005.
• The Testament, by John Grisham. Bantam Dell, New York.
• The Partner, by John Grisham. Bantam Dell, New York. 1997.
• The Firm, by John Grisham.
• The King of Torts, by John Grisham.
• The Run Away Jury, by John Grisham.
• A Painted House, by John Grisham.
• A Time to Kill, by John Grisham.
• Going to America, by Terry Coleman. Anchor Books, Garden City, NY. 1973.
• Springtime in Britain, by Edwin Way Teale. Dodd, Mead and Co., New York. 1970.
• Tories. Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War, by Thomas B Allen. Harper Collins. 2010.
• Dutch New York, The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, edited by Roger Panetta. Hudson River Museum and Fordham University Press. 2009.
• The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon’s Greatest Army, by Stephen Talty. Crown Publishers. NY. 2009.
• To Keep The British Isles Afloat, by Thomas Parrish. Smithsonian Book. Collins. 2009.
• The Chamber, by John Grisham.
• Lavoisier in The Year One. The Birth of a New Science in the Age of Revolution, by Madison Smartt Bell. Atlas Books. W.W. Norton & Co. New York, London.2005.
• Freemasonry. Its History and Myths Revealed, by Giles Morgan. 2008. 2011 edition Indigo Books & Music.
• The Story of Physics, by Anne Rooney. Arcturus Publishing Ltd. London, England. 2011.
• The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. A Signet Book.
• World Without End, by Ken Follett. New American Library.