First Post - Favorite Nonfiction

Without further ado, let me introduce my new book blog. "Hello, book blog. How are you today?" "Just fine, thank you."

I have been writing reviews on Amazon.com since 2006.

My favorite nonfiction reads, roughly in order of preference:

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple

Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander by David Cordingly

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer

Trial of Charles I, The by C. V. Wedgwood

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley

The Exploits of Baron de Marbot by Baron de Marbot

Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler by Anne Nelson

Andrew Jackson by Sean Wilentz

Caesar : life of a colossus by Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith.

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek

Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller

Rubicon by Tom Holland

The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.) by Simon Singh