quite possibly of interest to no one but me

[truepenny]

Since it has occurred to me that somebody out there may be curious, below is an extremely incomplete list of the nonfiction books I'm currently looking for.

Caveat: Except in exceptional circumstances--such as a gift card--I don't buy books online. When I tell you that the complete (though of course infinitely expanding) list of books I'm looking for--fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama--is 17 pages, 10-point and single spaced, you will perhaps understand that this is an act of mercy upon my bank balance. So please, don't tell me where I can find these books from an online seller. You will only make the baby trellwolves cry.

On the other hand, if you want to recommend other books on these subjects, please feel free!

[ETA: Caveat 2: I'm not actually looking for help in finding these books. I know about libraries and interlibrary loan and all other such marvels. The reason my book posts are always headed UBC (Unread Book Challenge) is because I have MOUNTAINS of unread books in my house--although this doesn't stop me cheerfully going off and buying more books in used bookstores (I almost never buy books new anymore, unless they're written by friends). I get a profound and abiding satisfaction out of trolling used bookstores, a satisfaction which I don't think I can explain. If for some reason I needed one of these books urgently, I would certainly turn to the university libraries. As it is, this list is all about the hunt--and the thrill I get when I capture one of these books in the wild. *ahem* I just realized that my patron saint here is Professor Wormbog. Tra la la lally.]


(AUTO)BIOGRAPHY

• I would love to find a good biography of Kateri Tekawitha. Ditto Shirley Jackson, Anna Pavlova, Florence Nightingale, Sarah Siddons, Bram Stoker, any and all Pre-Raphaelites (men and women), ditto the Golden Dawn.
  
• Bodichon, Barbara. Auguste Rodin.
  
• Carpenter Humphrey, ed. Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien.
  
• Carrington, Charles [Charles Edmonds] A Subaltern's War.
  
• Chevigny, Hector. My Eyes Have A Cold Nose.
  
• Chitty, Susan. The Beast and the Monk: A Life of Charles Kingsley.
  
• Israel, Kali. Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture.
  
• Levi, Peter. Edward Lear.
  
• Lutyens, Mary. Millais and the Ruskins.
  
• Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
  
• Wullschlager, Jackie. Inventing Wonderland.

FEMINIST HISTORY

• Branca, Patricia. Silent Sisterhood: Middle-Class Women in Victorian Homes.
  
• Koehler, Lyle. A Search for Power: The "Weaker Sex" in Seventeenth Century New England.
  
• Neff, Wanda Fraiken. Victorian Working Women, 1832-1850.
  
• Stacey, Michelle. The Fasting Girl.

WORLD WAR I

• Hynes, Samuel. A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture.
  
• Offer, Avner. The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation.
  
• Parker, Peter. The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public School Ethos.
  
• Winter, Denis. Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War.

WORLD WAR II/NAZIS/THE HOLOCAUST
(as I've said before, these are overlapping but not synonymous subjects)

• Aly, Götz, Peter Chrout, and Christian Pross. Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene.
  
• Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth. Berlin Underground 1930-1945.
  
• Bar-On, Dan. Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich.
  
• Bartov, Omer. The Eastern Front, 1941-1945: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare.
  
• ---. Murder in our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation.
  
• Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943.
  
• Bergen, Doris L. The Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich.
  
• Bessel, Richard, ed. Life in the Third Reich.
  
• ---. Nazism and War.
  
• Blackburn, Gilmer W. Education in the Third Reich: Race and History in Nazi Textbooks.
  
• Bridenthal, Renate, Atna Grossman, and Marion Kaplan, eds. When Biology Becomes Destiny.
  
• Broberg, Gunnar, and Nils Roll-Hansen. Eugenics and the Welfare State.
  
• Browden, George C. Foundations of the Nazi Police State.
  
• Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives.
  
• Burleigh, Michael. Death and Deliverance: "Euthanasia" in Germany 1900-1945.
  
• Carter, Erica. Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Films.
  
• Clay, Catrine, and Michael Leapman. Master Race: The Lebensborn Experiment in Nazi Germany.
  
• Cocks, Geoffrey. Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: the Göring Institute.
  
• Cohen, Elie. Human Behavior in the Concentration Camps.
  
• Combs, William L. The Voice of the SS: A History of the SS Journal "Das Schwarze Korps."
  
• Dallin, Alexander. German Rule in Russia, 1941-1945: A Study of Occupation Policies, 2nd ed.
  
• Dickinson, Edward. The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic.
  
• Eisen, George. Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games among the Shadows.
  
• Eisenberg, Azriel. The Lost Generation: Children in the Holocaust.
  
• Engel, David. In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews 1939-1942.
  
• Engelking-Boni, Barbara. Holocaust and Memory: The Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences.
  
• Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich.
  
• Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution.
  
• Friedländer, Saul. Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death.
  
• Gellately, Robert. Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany.
  
• ---. The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945.
  
• Goodrick-Clark, Nicolas. The Occult Roots of Nazism.
  
• Grudzinska-Gross, Irena, and Jan Tomasz Gross, eds. War Through Children's Eyes: The Soviet Occupation of Poland and the Deportations 1939-1941.
  
• Grunberger, Richard. A Social History of the Third Reich.
  
• Gutman, Yisrael, and Michael Berenbaum, eds. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
  
• Harvey, Elizabeth. Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization.
  
• Heck, Alfons. The Burden of Hitler's Legacy.
  
• ---. A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika.
  
• Heer, Friedrich. God's First Love.
  
• Henry, Clarissa, and Marc Hillel. Children of the SS.
  
• Hermand, Jost. A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazis' Programme for Evacuating Children during World War II.
  
• Herzstein, Robert Edwin. The War that Hitler Won: Goebbels and the Nazi Media Campaign.
  
• Hirschfield, Gerhard, ed. The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany.
  
• Jäckel, Eberhard. Hitler's Weltanschauung: A Blueprint for Power.
  
• Johnson, Eric. The Nazi Terror: Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans.
  
• Kamentsky, Christa. Children's Literature in Hitler's Germany: The Cultural Policy of National Socialism.
  
• Kater, Michael. Doctors Under Hitler.
  
• Kent, George O., ed. Archives, Archivists, and Historians: Essays in Modern German History and Archival Policy.
  
• Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation.
  
• ---. Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-1945.
  
• Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics.
  
• Klemperer, Victor. The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook.
  
• Köhler, Joachim. Wagner's Hitler: The Prophet and His Disciple.
  
• Kühl, Stefan. The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism.
  
• Kuper, Leo. Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century.
  
• Lebert, Stephan, and Norbert Lebert. My Father's Keeper: Children of the Nazi Leaders--an Intimate History of Damage and Denial.
  
• Loewenberg, Peter. Fantasy and Reality in History.
  
• Maier, Charles S., et al. Theh Rise of the Nazi Regime.
  
• Marten, James Alan, ed. Children and War: A HIstorical Anthology.
  
• Maschmann, Melita. Account Rendered: A Dossier of my Former Self.
  
• Mason, Timothy. Nazism, Fascism, and the Working Class.
  
• Massaquoi, Hans J. Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany.
  
• McFarland, Icke, Bronwyn. Nurses in Nazi Germany: Moral Choice in History.
  
• Moskovitz, Sarah. Love Despite Hate: Child Survivors of the Holocaust and their Adult Lives.
  
• Mosse, George. The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich.
  
• Mulligan, Timothy Patrick. The Politics of Illusion and Empire: German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union 1942-43.
  
• Ofer, Dalia, and Lenore Weitzman, eds. Women in the Holocaust.
  
• Pine, Lisa. Nazi Family Policy 1933-1945.
  
• Proctor, Robert N. Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis.
  
• Reitunger, Gerald. The House Built on Sand: The Conflicts of German Policy in Russia 1939-45.
  
• Rempel, Gerhard. Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS.
  
• Rhodes, James. The Hitler Movement: A Modern Millenarian Revolution.
  
• Rummel, R. J. Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder.
  
• Salisbury, Harrison E. The Nine Hundred Days: The Siege of Leningrad.
  
• Schmitt, Hans A. Quakers and Nazis: Inner Light in Outer Darkness.
  
• Stephenson, Jill. Women in Nazi Society.
  
• Stoddard, Lothrop. Into the Darkness: Nazi Germany Today (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940).
  
• Stern, F. The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study of the Rise of German Ideology.
  
• Waite, Robert G. L. Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923.
  
• Wistrich, Robert S., ed. Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism, and Xenophobia.
  
• Ziemer, Gregor Athalwin. Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi.

USSR

• Applebaum, Anne. Gulag: A History.
  
• Conquest, Robert. The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties.
  
• Ginzberg, Yevgenia. Into the Whirlwind.
  
• ---. Within the Whirlwind.
  
• Heller, Mikhail, and Aleksandr Nekrich. Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present.
  
• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. The Gulag Archipelago vols. 2 & 3.

AMERICAN HISTORY

• Axtell, James. The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America.
  
• ---. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America.
  
• Bourne, Russell. The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England 1675-1678.
  
• Breslaw, Elaine G. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies.
  
• Demos, John. A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymoth Colony.
  
• Godbeer, Richard. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England.
  
• Gragg, Larry. The Salem Witch Crisis.
  
• Hall, David D., ed. Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England, 2nd ed.
  
• ---. Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England.
  
• Hoffer, Peter. The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials.
  
• ---. The Salem Witchcraft Trials.
  
• Kerr, Howard, and Charles L. Crow, eds. The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives.
  
• LeBeau, Bryan. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials.
  
• Namias, June. White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier.
  
• Reis, Elizabeth. Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England.
  
• Robinson, Enders A. The Devil Discovered: Salem Witchcraft 1692.
  
• Rosenthal, Bernard. Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692.
  
• Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier.
  
• Smith, Andrea. Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.
  
• Vaughan, Alden T., and Edward W. Clark, eds. Puritans among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676-1724.
  
• Vanderbeets, Richard. The Indian Captivity Narrative: An American Genre.
  
• Weisman, Richard. Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts.
  
  
  There are dozens more, but I'm giving myself a headache, so I think it's time to stop.

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I'm not actually looking for help in finding them--I have so many unread books that I only look for these when my will power fails me and I go into a used bookstore--but thank you!