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Rick's Reads

Reading Feb 17, 2025

Military

2034: A Novel of the Next World War
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Art Of War
Bring Out the Dog: Stories
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Call Sign Chaos
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Eat the Apple: A Memoir
The End of October
The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Leaders: Myth and Reality
The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
The Song of Achilles
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome


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Greek & Roman Literature, Mythology

The Aeneid
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
Circe
The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation
Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau
Delphi
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Galatea
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
The Iliad
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
Medea of Euripides
Meditations


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Plagues

Algerian Chronicles
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Bring Out Your Dead: The Literature and History of Epidemics
The Decammeron
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
The Iliad
A Journal of the Plague Year
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History
A Life Worth Living: Meditations on God, Death and Stoicism
On the Nature of Things
The Plague
Plagues and Their Aftermath: How Societies Recover from Pandemics
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity
The Roman Republic
The Song of Achilles
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Stand


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Enlightenment & Philosophy

A Macat Analysis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
The Age of Reason
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of Eric Hoffer
An Analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Anni Ultimi: A Roman Stoic Guide to Retirement, Old Age and Death
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
The Bhagavad Gita
Bring Out Your Dead: The Literature and History of Epidemics
The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics
Collected Works of Edmund Burke
Common Sense
Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living


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History

The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back
All Quiet on the Western Front
An American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God
American Prometheus
An Analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Becoming
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Bring Out the Dog: Stories
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome
Call Sign Chaos
The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
Circe
Collected Works of Edmund Burke


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Politics

2034: A Novel of the Next World War
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Art Of War
Bring Out the Dog: Stories
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Call Sign Chaos
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Eat the Apple: A Memoir
The End of October
The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Leaders: Myth and Reality
The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
The Song of Achilles
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome


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Good Bug Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically
All New Square Foot Gardening
Alton Brown's Gear for Your Kitchen
American Tacos: A History and Guide
Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking
Attracting Native Pollinators; Protecting North America's Bees and Butterflies
Back to Basics
The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving
Beautiful and Abundant: Building the World We Want
Beekeeping for Dummies
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Bringing it to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food
Build Your Own Earth Oven: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven, Simple Sourdough Bread, Perfect Loaves
Building Beehives For Dummies
The Cook's Illustrated How-to-Cook Library: An illustrated step-by-step guide to Foolproof Cooking
Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front


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