Rome and the Mediterranean- Livy (27-9 BC) This book contains books 31-45 from Livy’s collection of histories. They cover the years 201 BC to 167 BC. 

Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy  (1874) I know, you want to say “maddening” rather than “madding”, but that’s not the title. Madding means frenzied. The

In honor of our trip to Rome at the end of the coming November, I’m reading up on Roman history. So I’ve added some history

Each month this year I’m trying to read at least one political/historical work, and one novel in Italian. Unfortunately, the political works, I’m spending a

Capitalism and Freedom- Milton Friedman  (1962) I have been familiar with Milton Friedman for a while, having listened to some of his talks, interviews, and Q

The Moonstone- Wilkie Collins  (1868) One of the first ‘Detective’ novels. This one felt really familiar to me and about 100 pages into it, I realized

1Q84 Haruki Murakami  (2010) “Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. If you belong to the majority, you

The Color Purple– Alice Walker  (1982) Novel written largely in a black southern dialect phonetic spelling. I’m not a fan of this. The last novel I

Il Gattopardo– Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1956) This book has taken me a long time to read. I started a week before Christmas. When a

Jude The Obscure– Thomas Hardy (1896)  Jude the Obscure is a novel about a common man. The intro says it was the first novel with a lower-class lead