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98 books

100 Greatest Books

The Great Gatsby
Ulysses
Swann's Way
The Catcher in the Rye
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Lolita
Wuthering Heights

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47 books

2024

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
The Life of Greece
Henry VIII: The King and His Court
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Il libro dell'inquietudine
The Age of Reason Begins

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7 books

American Civil War

The Coming Fury
Terrible Swift Sword
Never Call Retreat
The American Civil War
The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

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124 books

Audiobooks

All the Light We Cannot See
The 42nd Parallel
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Eisenhower: in War and Peace
American Lion
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
Stalin: Breaker of Nations

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6 books

Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
J. S. Bach, Volume One
Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work
J.S. Bach, Volume Two
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
The Life and Works of Bach

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53 books

Biographies

Napoleon: A Life
Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words
Eisenhower: in War and Peace
American Lion
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
Stalin: Breaker of Nations
James Monroe: A Life

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6 books

Durant

The Age of Reason Begins
The Life of Greece
Our Oriental Heritage
The Renaissance
The Age of Faith
Caesar and Christ

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18 books

GildedAge

Andrew Carnegie
Greater Gotham
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
The Last Days of Night
The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World
Colonel Roosevelt

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4 books

History

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
The Life of Greece
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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1 book

Home

How It Ended

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9 books

IRL Library

Caesar and Christ
The Renaissance
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Greater Gotham
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Garner's Modern English Usage

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2 books

Italy

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
The Borgias: Power and Fortune

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27 books

Kindle

Play it Again
The Last Lion
Piano Technique
By Heart: The Art of Memorizing Music
The Art and Politics of Science
A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character

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4 books

Middleages

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
The Civilization of the Middle Ages

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3 books

Music

Great Masters: Mahler—His Life and Music
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
Alfred Brendel on music

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0 books

Owned

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25 books

Physics

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
Infinite Powers
Isaac Newton
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
A Most Elegant Equation
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
The Pope of Physics

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1 book

Piano

Alfred Brendel on music

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4 books

Renaissance

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
The Life of Greece
Henry VIII: The King and His Court

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7 books

Revolutionary War

Bunker Hill
The American Revolution
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
Alexander Hamilton
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
1776

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41 books

US Presidents

American Lion
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
James Monroe: A Life
The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Grant
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Truman

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2 books

Ww1

The First World War: A Complete History
All Quiet on the Western Front

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9 books

Ww2

Pacific Crucible War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1942
The Conquering Tide
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Pope of Physics
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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2 books

Ww2 Pacific

The Conquering Tide
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

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1 book

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