What on earth is a catalogue raisonné you ask? (And very reasonably so.)
A catalogue raisonné is a systematic, annotated catalog. Put another way, it’s a critical bibliography.
Or, put most simply, it’s my guide to little reading projects on a topic.
A little fiction, a little non-fiction. Some mixing and matching. And a solid grounding in whatever topic you are interested in…
Reading order:
The Wilderness of Ruin by Roseanne Montillo
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Reading order:
The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey and Danny Danzinger
1215: The Year of the Magna Carta by Danny Danzinger and John Gillingham
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. Cantor
The Edge of the World by Michael Pye
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchmann
God’s Philosophers by James Hannam
Reading Order:
The Conquerors by Roger Crowley
The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright
Measure the Earth by Larrie D. Ferreiro
The Mapmaker’s Wife by Robert Whitaker
Exploration Fawcett by Col. Percy Fawcett
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
River of Doubt by Candice Millard
