Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf
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- 108 from 29 Dec 2022 to 31 Aug 2026
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2026 11
- REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen
- REVIEW: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey Rinker
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Reader Recommendations
- REVIEW: 1939, by David Gelernter
- REVIEW: Anabasis, by Xenophon
- REVIEW: 50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron Reed
- REVIEW: The Greatest Knight, by Thomas Asbridge
- REVIEW: Boyd, by Robert Coram
- REVIEW: BoyMom, by Ruth Whippman
- JOINT REVIEW: Philosophy Between the Lines, by Arthur M. Melzer
- REVIEW: How to Solve It, by George Pólya
2025 20
- 2025: The Year in Review(s)
- REVIEW: An Amish Paradox, by Charles E. Hurst and David L. McConnell
- GUEST REVIEW: The Triumph of the Moon, by Ronald Hutton
- REVIEW: The Everlasting Empire, by Yuri Pines
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Further Arguments Against Jared Diamond
- GUEST REVIEW: Alexander to Actium, by Peter Green
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Summer Reading
- JOINT REVIEW: Class, by Paul Fussell
- REVIEW: Storia do Mogor, by Niccolao Manucci
- REVIEW: Cuisine and Empire, by Rachel Laudan
- REVIEW: Leap of Faith, by Michael J. Mazarr
- REVIEW: Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1, by the Cambridge School Classics Project
- REVIEW: The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz
- REVIEW: Road Belong Cargo, by Peter Lawrence
- REVIEW: Believe, by Ross Douthat
- REVIEW: Cræft, by Alexander Langlands
- GUEST REVIEW: The Doomed City, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- REVIEW: Imperial China, by F.W. Mote
- JOINT REVIEW: Starting Strength, by Mark Rippetoe
- REVIEW: A Means to Freedom, by H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard
2024 26
- 2024: The Year in Review(s)
- REVIEW: Reentry, by Eric Berger
- REVIEW: Surprised by Joy, by C.S. Lewis
- REVIEW: Boom, by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
- GUEST REVIEW: ...And Ladies of the Club, by Helen Hooven Santmyer
- JOINT REVIEW: Family Unfriendly, by Timothy P. Carney
- REVIEW: Math from Three to Seven, by Alexander Zvonkin
- REVIEW: Fears of a Setting Sun, by Dennis C. Rasmussen
- REVIEW: The Albigensian Crusade, by Jonathan Sumption
- REVIEW: Sick Societies, by Robert B. Edgerton
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Non-Fiction That Could Be RPG Sourcebooks
- REVIEW: The Real North Korea, by Andrei Lankov
- REVIEW: After 1177 B.C., by Eric H. Cline
- GUEST REVIEW: Letter to the Soviet Leaders, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- GUEST REVIEW: The Wake, by Paul Kingsnorth
- REVIEW: Einstein's Unification, by Jeroen van Dongen
- REVIEW: The Spirit of the Mountains, by Emma Bell Miles
- REVIEW: The Powers of the Earth, by Travis J. I. Corcoran
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Mathematical Mayhem
- REVIEW: Mindstorms, by Seymour Papert
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Recommended Reading
- GUEST JOINT REVIEW: Very Important People, by Ashley Mears
- REVIEW: American Nations, by Colin Woodard
- REVIEW: Invitation to a Banquet, by Fuchsia Dunlop
- REVIEW: The Wizard and the Prophet, by Charles C. Mann
- REVIEW: The Education of Cyrus, by Xenophon
2023 49
- 2023: The Year in Review(s)
- REVIEW: A Field Guide to American Houses, by Virginia Savage McAlester
- REVIEW: The Man Who Rode the Thunder, by William H. Rankin
- REVIEW: The Verge, by Patrick Wyman
- REVIEW: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, by Edward Luttwak
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Alternate History
- REVIEW: The Variational Principles of Mechanics, by Cornelius Lanczos
- REVIEW: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, by John McWhorter
- REVIEW: Central Banking 101, by Joseph Wang
- GUEST JOINT REVIEW: Homicide, by David Simon
- REVIEW: The Cruise of the Nona, by Hilaire Belloc
- REVIEW: How to Read a Tree, by Tristan Gooley
- JOINT REVIEW: Origen's Revenge, by Brian Patrick Mitchell
- REVIEW: When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut
- REVIEW: The Philharmonic Gets Dressed, by Karla Kuskin
- REVIEW: Scaling People, by Claire Hughes Johnson
- REVIEW: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott
- REVIEW: Science in Traditional China, by Joseph Needham
- REVIEW: How To Be a Tudor, by Ruth Goodman
- REVIEW: The Longing for Total Revolution, by Bernard Yack
- REVIEW: Burn, by Herman Pontzer
- REVIEW: Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- REVIEW: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, by Robert E. Howard
- REVIEW: Lectures on the Icosahedron and the Solution of the Fifth Degree, by Felix Klein
- REVIEW: The Knowledge, by Lewis Dartnell
- REVIEW: Coup d'État, by Edward Luttwak
- REVIEW: Baby Meets World, by Nicholas Day
- REVIEW: Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900, by David A. Graff
- JOINT REVIEW: Who We Are and How We Got Here, by David Reich
- REVIEW: The Domestic Revolution, by Ruth Goodman
- REVIEW: Energy and Civilization, by Vaclav Smil
- REVIEW: The High Crusade, by Poul Anderson
- REVIEW: In Xanadu, by William Dalrymple
- REVIEW: Akenfield, by Ronald Blythe
- REVIEW: The Children of Men, by P.D. James
- REVIEW: Kindred, by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- REVIEW: MITI and the Japanese Miracle, by Chalmers Johnson
- REVIEW: The WEIRDest People in the World, by Joseph Henrich
- REVIEW: South Africa's Brave New World, by R.W. Johnson
- REVIEW: Bronze Age Mindset, by Bronze Age Pervert
- REVIEW: Galois Theory, by David Cox
- REVIEW: Home Comforts, by Cheryl Mendelson
- JOINT REVIEW: The Ancient City, by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
- REVIEW: The Secret of Our Success, by Joseph Henrich
- REVIEW: Flying Blind, by Peter Robison
- REVIEW: Cooking at Home, by David Chang
- JOINT REVIEW: Napoleon the Great, by Andrew Roberts
- REVIEW: The Art of Not Being Governed, by James C. Scott
- REVIEW: Sea People, by Christina Thompson