a reader

an eudæmonistreading

to be read (maybe)

This is a list of books I might like to read. Then again, I might not like to read them. In any case, they are books I thought at one time I might be interested in reading and considered it worthwhile to try to remember. I’m not at all sure that this will be particularly up-to-date when you look at it, but I will try to keep it current (see the revision date below). Linked titles intended for ILL.

Shopping My Own Shelves

  1. Roland Betancourt. Byzantine Intersectionality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2020.
  2. Laonikos Chalkokondyles. The Histories. 2 vols. ed. & trans. Anthony Kaldellis. Cambridge, MA: Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard UP, 2014.
  3. Anthony Fletcher. Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500–1800. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1995.
  4. Vivian Green, ed. Love in a Cool Climate: The Letters of Mark Pattison and Meta Bradley, 1879–1884. Oxford: OUP, 1986.
  5. Patricia Herlihy. Odessa: A History 1794–1914. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1991.
  6. Judith Herrin. Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2020.
  7. Michael Hunter. The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2021.
  8. Michael Khodarkovsky. Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads: 1660–1771. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1992.
  9. Nancy Shields Kollmann. The Russian Empire 1450–1801. Oxford: OUP, 2017.
  10. Ümit Kurt. The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021.
  11. Tim Mackintosh-Smith. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2019.
  12. Alexander Mikaberidze The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History. Oxford: OUP, 2020.
  13. Fred Naiden. Supplication. Oxford: OUP, 2006.
  14. Mark Pattison. Isaac Casaubon: 1559–1614. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892.
  15. Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2019.
  16. Courtenay Raia. The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siècle. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2019.
  17. Emma Rothschild. An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022.
  18. Hugh Seton-Watson. The Russian Empire, 1801–1917. Oxford: OUP, 1967.
  19. Laura Swift. Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: OUP, 2019.

Mediterranean

Microcosmographia Academica

None so sweet

Initial list in this section based on the bibliography in Mary Ann Lund’s A User’s Guide to Melancholy (Cambridge: CUP, 2021).

Ritual / Occult

Russia / Central Asia / Persia

Social History (Europe)

(last revised: 8 July 2025)

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