[rhadin]

I primarily read nonfiction but I do so in hardcover, not in ebook. However, I will give you some recommendations for books (but I do not guarantee either price or availability in ebook).

1. The Nature of the Book by Adrian Johns (I reviewed it today at my blog).
   
2. Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem’s Sacred Esplanade, edited by Oleg Grabbar and Benjamin Z. Kedar (I discussed it generally on my blog several days ago.)
   
3. The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of “Proper” English from Shakespeare to South Park by Jack Lynch (I reviewed the book earlier this month at my blog.)
   
4. Louis Brandeis: A Life by Melvin Urofsky (2009) (I reviewed this biography at my blog last month. It is one of the best written biographies I have ever read.)

The following are books that I bought recently and are in my to-read pile.

1. Churchill by Paul Johnson (2009)
2. Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution by Kirkpatrick Sale (1995)
   
3. A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerillas in the American Civil War by Daniel E. Sutherland (2009)
   
4. The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition by Thomas P. Slaughter (2008)
   
5. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithridates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor (2010)
   
6. Jewish Terrorism in Israel by Ami Pedhazur and Arie Perliger (2009)
   
7. Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp by Christopher R. Browning (2010)
   
8. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer (2010) (I previously bought and read her excellent The History of the Ancient World)
   
9. For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus by Frederick Brown (2010)

The following book I read years ago but would still highly recommend:

Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored by Mary Gabriel (1998)

Victoria Woodhull lived in the late 1800s and was the first woman to run for president of the United States and was the first female stockbroker on Wall Street. This book is a fascinating look at one of the women who changed American attitudes at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.