Books I’m Not Recommending for Christmas: History and Biography, Culture and Faith, and Poetry

Continuing from last week, here are more books I’m not recommending for Christmas this year for history and biography, culture and faith, and poetry. Last week, the books were in the categories of mystery; art, literature, and criticism; and fiction.

Books that would be included if I had published the reviews (coming soon) include Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth; and In These Days of Prohibition: Poems by Caroline Bird.  

History and Biography

Rebellion by Peter Ackroyd.

Pax Romana by Adrian Goldsworthy.

A Year in the South 1865 by Stephen Ash.

The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani.

Dunkirk by Lt. Col. Ewan Butler and Maj. J.S. Bradford.

Martin Luther by Eric Metaxas.

Life, Culture, and Faith

One: Unity in a Divided World by Deidra Riggs.

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.

Our Church by Roger Scruton.

Flee, Be Silent, Pray by Ed Cyzewski.

Disruptive Discipleship by Sam Van Eman.

Reintegrate Your Vocation with God’s Mission by Bob Robinson.

Living the Season Well by Jody Collins.

Poetry

Disinheritance by John Sibley Williams.

Jackself by Jacob Polley.

Praise: Poems and Faces in a Crowd by Mary Harwell Sayler.

The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutsky.

Still Pilgrim by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell.

You Know the Ones by Dave Malone.

Olio by Tyehimba Jess.

From Ashes to Glory by Karin Fendick.

Phases by Mischa Willett.

Brooklyn Antediluvian by Patrick Rosal.

Cain by Luke Kennard.

The Amoeba Game by Tara Skurtu.

Pearl by Simon Armitage.

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Books I’m Not Recommending for Christmas: Mystery, Art and Literature, and Fiction.

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