Oh, lord, I never did post the non-fiction books I read in 2022, and here it is 2024 already. I promise I'll do a post with all my 2023 books in less than a year. (joke)
London Under: the secret history beneath the streets, by Peter Ackroyd (I read fiction by him as well - see prior post - the only author with that distinction this year.)
Big Bosses: a working girl’s memoir of Jazz Age America, by Althea McDowell Altemus
A Diary without Dates, by Enid Bagnold
The Vanished Collection, by Pauline Baer di Perignon
Black Diamonds: the downfall of an aristocratic dynasty and the fifty years that changed England, by Catherine Bailey
At Home in Chicago: a living history of Chicago Architecture, by Patrick Cannon and James Caulfield
In Praise of Good Bookstores, by Jeff Deutsch
The Dead Duke, his Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse, by Piu Marie Eatwell
The Greatest Invention: a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts, by Silvia Ferrara
Dress Codes: how the laws of fashion made history, by Richard T. Ford
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World, by Michael Frank
The Missing Ink: the lost art of handwriting (and why it still matters), by Philip Hensher
Truffle Hound: on the Trail of the World’s Most Seductive Scent, by Rowan Jacobsen
Judge This, by Chip Kidd
Come and Hear: What I saw in my seven-and-a-half year journey through the Talmud, by Adam Kirsch
Sabers & Suites: the story of Chicago’s Ambassador East, by Rick Kogan
The Woman and the Car: a chatty little handbook for the Edwardian motoriste [sic], by Dorothy Levitt
The House that Madigan Built: the record run of Illinois' Velvet Hammer, by Ray Lond
Chivalric Festivals at the Ferrarese Court of Alfonso II d’Este, by Alessandro Marcigliano
The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture, by Robert McCarter
Kiss Myself Goodbye: the many lives of Aunt Munca, by Ferdinand Mount
Trade and Romance, by Michael Murrin
Back to Japan: the life and art of Master kimono painter Kunihiko Moriguchi, by Marc Petijean
Embroideries, by Marjane Satrapi
Final Report, by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol
I Will Judge You by your Bookshelf, by Grant SnyderThe English Gentleman, by Douglas Sutherland
Renaissance Woman: the life of Vittoria Colonna, by Ramie Targoff
Poetry and Photography: exhibition catalog, by the P2 collective
Three Girls from Bronzeville, by Dawn Turner
The Wordhord: daily life in Old English, by Hana VideenThe Unpunished Vice: a life of reading, by Edmund White
The Poet and the Murderer: a true story of literary crime and the art of forgery, by Simon Worrall
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