Maurice Walsh – Nobody writes English like the Irish
The Quiet Man – more than just the movie
Trouble In The Glen
The Small Dark Man
The Key Above The Door
John Masters – Superb trilogy of the Great War
Now God Be Thanked
Heart Of War
In The Green Of The Spring
William Catton Jr – Overuse of resources
Overshoot
John Ehle – Getting by in early America
The Land Breakers
Graham Robb – Dilettante, but interesting speculation on the Celts
The Discovery of Middle Earth
Joe Bageant – Alway on point
Waltzing At The Doomsday Ball
Reread of Deer Hunting with Jesus
Reread of Rainbow Pie
Charles Bowden – Drugs along the Rio
Down By The River
Don Henry Ford Jr – Agonist’s own outlaw.
Contrabando
Charles C Mann – The Columbian Exchange, in depth
1493
John Michael Greer – Yep, we’re crashing
Decline & Fall
Frank Landis – Global Warming by 8°C
Hot Earth Dreams
Garrett Glass – Agonist’s own banker/novelist
Jehoshua: Signs and Wonders
Jehoshua: Conflagration
Lewis Hyde – Native American mythology
Trickster Makes This World
Chris Hedges – Sharp-eyed doom and gloom
Death of the Liberal Class
Joe Wilkins – Heritiage of the West
The Mountain and the Fathers
Jim Webb – Scots-Irish among us
Born Fighting
Gar Alperovitz – Prescription for what ails us.
What Then Must We Do?
Richie Havens – An icon’s story
They Can’t Hide Us Anymore
M. Sukru Hanioglu – Just fascinating
Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
Norman Davies – Rise and Fall is the norm
Vanished Kingdoms
S.C.Gwynne – Comanche
Empire of the Summer Moon
Dan Hancox – Spanish rebels
The Village Against the World
Edward Kritzler – Getting back a bit of their own
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
Philipp Meyer – More Western heritage
The Son
Jeanette Walls – Growing up western
Half Broke Horses
James Earl Jones – Autobiography of a neighbor
Voices and Silences
Elizabeth Wayland Barber – For archaeologists among us
Mummies of Urumchi
N. Scott Momaday – A different point of view
House Made of Dawn
Patrick Leigh Fermor – Splendid travel tales
Between the Woods and the Water
A Time to Keep Silence
A Time of Gifts
The Broken Road
Woody Guthrie – A biography and a novel
Bound For Glory
House Of Earth
David Graeber – The changing face of debt & money
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Larry McMurtry – Tenderfeet on the Missouri, 1830
THe Berrybender Narratives
Mabel Wright – Edit and republish memoir
Rio Grande Ripples – 70+ years of western life
Betty Wallace – Edit and republish Colorado history
Gunnison Country
History With The Hide Off
Ambitious list. I have to throw in a plug for my favorite World War I series:
Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy:
Some Do Not
No More Parades
A Man Could Stand Up
Last Post
They’ve been published together as Parade’s End.
Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy:
Regeneration
The Eye in the Door
The Ghost Road
You started with the Irish. Lowering the brow from books to videos, there should be a fair number of TV programs/miniseries this year for the 100th anniversary of the Easter Post Office uprising. Of the movies already out there, I’ll mention Michael Collins just to remember Alan Rickman, although a fair amount of the criticism of the film was aimed at the portrayal of de Valera. The one I like is The Wind that Shakes the Barley.
I cannot think of the Rising of 1916 without Sinead O’Connor’s Foggy Dew with the Chieftains.
The Masters Trilogy explores how WWI changed the social landscape in the British Empire, at home and abroad.
The Quiet Man is one of the short stories in the book, dealing with the Troubles and its consequences on a personal level. Walsh is a lovely writer.
Guthrie’s House of Earth gives the feel of the Great Depression in rural America as did Henry Miller’s Tropic of Capricorn for urbanites.
I have a huge library in storage which will shortly be excavated, so my 2016 list is likely to be longer – if I don’t get bogged down writing instead of reading. 😀