History Reads of 2011-2012

My history reads of 2012 (and a few from 2011)

1. Atonement - Ian McEwan
• Fiction, World War II, England/France
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude -Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
• Fiction, Colombia
3. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe 
• Fiction, 19th c, colonial Nigeria
4. A Grain of Wheat - Ngugi wa Thiong'o 
• Fiction, 20th c, Mau Mau Rebellion, Kenya
5. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
• Fiction, civil rights movement, 1960s, U.S. (Mississipi)
6. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague - Geraldine Brooks
• Fiction, 17th c, England 
7. King Leopold's Ghost -Adam Hochschild
• Non-fiction, colonialism, 19th/20th c, Belgium/Congo 
8. London Journal, 1762-1763 - James Boswell 
• Non-fiction, autobiography, England/Scotland 
9. Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England - Cindy McCreery 
• Non-fiction, social history, visual history, women studies, England 
10. Physick Book of Deliverance Dane -Katherine Howe
• Fiction, 17th/20th c, Salem witch trials, U.S. (Massachusetts) 
11. Speaks the Nightbird -Robert McCammon  
• Fiction, horror mystery, 17th c, colonial America (Carolinas) 
12. Doomsday book - Connie Willis
• Fiction, sci-fi, 14th c, plague, England 
13. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Fiction, 19th c, England
14. Eleanor of Aquitaine: a Biography - Marion Meade
• Non-fiction, biography, royalty, 12th c, England/France
15. Captive Queen - Alison Weir
• Fiction, 12th c, England/ France