Non-fiction: 2022

 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 Snyder

The 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 Videen

The 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