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Corinne Fowler: The Countryside: (Hardcover, 2024, Scribner)

Perrault, Pierre: J'habite une ville (French language, 2009, L'Hexagone)

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed (Hardcover, 1991, Harper Paperbacks)

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Yei Theodora Ozaki, Lucy Fraser: Japanese Folktales (Paperback, 2018, Tuttle Publishing)

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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Selected Canterbury Tales (2012)

Zeinab Badawi: An African History of Africa (2024)

Elena Kostyuchenko: I love Russia (Hardcover, Penguin Random House)

2025 Reading Goal

70% complete! David has read 17 of 24 books.

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David finished reading The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

Joshua Hammer: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts (2017)

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

David finished reading J’habite une île by Rodolphe Lasnes

Rodolphe Lasnes: J’habite une île (Paperback, Français language, Leméac)

J’habite une île by Rodolphe Lasnes

En 2019, Rodolphe Lasnes entreprend de faire le tour de l’île de Montréal à pied. Cinq jours, cent soixante kilomètres …

David finished reading Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler

Nicholas Ostler: Empires of the Word (2006, Harper Perennial)

Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler

David set a goal to read 24 books in 2025

David rated Petit traité de résilience locale: 3 stars

Agnès Sinaï: Petit traité de résilience locale (French language, 2017)

Petit traité de résilience locale by Agnès Sinaï

David rated Haymarket - Récit des origines du 1er mai: 4 stars

Martin Cennevitz: Haymarket - Récit des origines du 1er mai (French language, 2023)

Haymarket - Récit des origines du 1er mai by Martin Cennevitz

David rated Les croisades vues par les Arabes: 5 stars

Amin Maalouf: Les croisades vues par les Arabes (French language, 1999)

Les croisades vues par les Arabes by Amin Maalouf

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (French: Les Croisades vues par les Arabes) is a French language historical essay by Lebanese …

David rated The Collapse of Complex Societies.: 3 stars

Joseph A. Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies. (1990)

The Collapse of Complex Societies. by Joseph A. Tainter

Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of …

David rated Malte, 7000 ans d'histoire: 3 stars

No cover — Alain Blondy: Malte, 7000 ans d'histoire (French language, 2011, Bouchêne)

Malte, 7000 ans d'histoire by Alain Blondy

David rated Lost in the taiga: 4 stars

Lost in the taiga by V. Peskov

David rated The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: 3 stars

J. McIver Weatherford: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens (2010, Crown Publishers)

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by J. McIver Weatherford

The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. The daughters of the …

David rated The Anarchy: 5 stars

William Dalrymple: The Anarchy (2019, Bloomsbury Publishing)

The Anarchy by William Dalrymple

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the …