User:AnnaKucsma/Full Booklist
Unlike the listing I've included on my userpage, "bold" doesn't really signify any kind of opinion about a book. Instead, it marks what's the book and what's the discussion.
Note that 'some books are listed several times, under different subject headings, and that unless I've said otherwise, ISBN's are for the paperback editions.
- Jane Dunn, Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. ISBN 0375408983.
- John Guy, Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart. ISBN 0618619178.
- Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. ISBN 1405134631.
- Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin, Joan of Arc: Her Story. Translated by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. ISBN 0312227302.
The most thurough biography of Joan of Arc that I've read.
- David Starkey, Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. ISBN 0060959517.
- Retha Warnicke, The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII. ISBN 0521406773.
A biography of Anne Boleyn. Most of it was reasonably well-written, but I can't agree with Warnicke's assertions about Anne's downfall. While I don't dispute what she says about English beliefs about the supernatural at the time — similar beliefs fed into the Salem witch trials, for example — Warnike fails to explain how Anne's death was the only plausible outcome. - Alison Weir, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life. ISBN 0345434870.
- ———, Henry VIII: The King and His Court. ISBN 034543708X.
- ———, The Life of Elizabeth I. ISBN 0345425502.
- Gail Collins, America’s Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. ISBN 0060959819.
- David McCullough, 1776. ISBN 0743226720.
- Lynn Sherr, Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. ISBN 0812927184.
- Russel Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America. ISBN 1400078679.
- David von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire that Changed America. ISBN 080214151X.
- Bruce Watson, Bread & Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. ISBN 0143037359.
- Norman Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages. ISBN 0060925531.
- Frances and Joseph Gies, Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages. ISBN 0060914688.
- John Kelly, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time. ISBN 0060006935.
- Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin, Joan of Arc: Her Story. Translated by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. ISBN 0312227302.
- Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. ISBN 0345349571.
- Alison Weir, The Princes in the Tower. ISBN 0345391780.
- ———, The Wars of the Roses. ISBN 0345404335.
Tudor and Elizabethan England
[edit]- Stephen Budiansky, Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage. ISBN 0452287472.
- Jane Dunn, Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. ISBN 0375408983.
- Antonia Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII. ISBN 067973001X.
- John Guy, Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart. ISBN 0618619178.
- ———, Tudor England.
- Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. ISBN 1405134631.
- David Starkey, Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. ISBN 0060959517.
- ———, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII. ISBN 006005505.
- Retha Warnicke, The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII. ISBN 0521406773.
See comment in the "Biograpgy" section. - Alison Weir, Henry VIII: The King and His Court. ISBN 034543708X.
- ———, The Life of Elizabeth I. ISBN 0345425502.
- ———, The Princes in the Tower. ISBN 0345391780.
- ———, The Six Wives of Henry VIII. ISBN 0345404335.
- ———, The Wars of the Roses. ISBN 0345404335.
Knitting
[edit]- Pam Allen, editor, Scarf Style: Innovative to Traditional, 31 Inspirational Styles to Knit and Crochet. ISBN 1931499543.
- ———, and Ann Budd, Wrap Style: Innovative to Traditional, 24 Inspirational Shawls, Ponchos, and Capelets to Knit and Crochet. ISBN 1931499918.
- Nicky Epstein, Knitting on the Edge: Ribs, Ruffles, Lace, Fringes, Floral, Points & Picots - The Essential Collection of 350 Decorative Borders. Hardcover. ISBN 1931543402.
- Leigh Radford, Alterknits: Imaginative Projects and Creativity Exercises. Spiral-bound hardcover. ISBN 1584794550.
- Debbie Stoller, Stitch 'N Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook. ISBN 0761128182.
- ———, Stitch 'n Bitch Nation. ISBN 0761135901.
Writing & Style Guides
[edit]- R.L. Trask, Mind the Gaffe!. ISBN 0061132209.
- Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Hardcover. ISBN 1592400876.
Fiction, Literature, and Drama
[edit]- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace. ISBN 0385490445.
- ———, The Handmaid's Tale.
- ———, The Penelopiad.
- Jane Austen, Emma.
- ———, Persuasion. ISBN 0375757295.
- ———, Pride and Prejudice.
- ———, Sense and Sensibility.
- Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair. ISBN 0142001805.
- ———, Lost in a Good Book. ISBN 0142004030.
- ———, The Well of Lost Plots. ISBN 0143034359.
- ———, Something Rotten. ISBN 014303541X.
- Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge. ISBN 0141439785.
- Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm. ISBN 0140001409.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear. ISBN 0140714766.
- ———, Much Ado About Nothing.