Books and Media

John Walker's Reading List New additions to and comments about John Walker’s Reading List at Fourmilab. New postings to that list, which began in January 2001, are mirrored here.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Books and Media category Books and Media	0	353	6 October 2021
Surplus Poetry Books and Media	2	23	18 May 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Hammer of the Gods: King Olaf's Viking Conquest Books and Media history , book-review , biography , vikings , dark-ages	3	17	17 May 2026
A Plague Upon the Oxford University Press! Books and Media	21	651	17 May 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Miss Sally's Son Books and Media book-review , families , novel , contemporary-fiction	0	14	10 May 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Great Lakes Ships of Frank E. Kirby Books and Media history , book-review , naval-architecture , great-lakes , ships	2	20	3 May 2026
What's in a title? Books and Media crime-drama	0	28	1 May 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Dekason Books and Media science-fiction , book-review , hard-science-fiction , adventure-fiction	0	19	26 April 2026
Almost a Greek Tragedy? Books and Media crime-drama , tragedy	0	10	23 April 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas Books and Media history , book-review , history-texas , texas-rangers , borger-texas	0	26	19 April 2026
Top Gun Maverick partially reverse engineered via FOIA Books and Media	20	1145	17 April 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Under the Shadow of Napoleon: The US Army's Doctrine, Education, and Theory of Victory from 1814 to 1941. Second Edition Books and Media military-history , book-review , united-states-army , aviation-history , military-theory	0	15	12 April 2026
The Brian Williams Memorial Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect Reading Room Books and Media gell-mann-amnesia	83	2804	11 April 2026
King of Dogs: Life is the training ground for death Books and Media	36	989	7 April 2026
This Week’s Book Review - An American Yankee in King Alfred's Court Books and Media law , book-review , memoir , travelogue , english-law	0	17	5 April 2026
A Good Tale Spoiled Books and Media science-fiction	0	13	2 April 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Lock and Load Books and Media science-fiction , book-review , space-opera , john-van-stry , combat-sf	0	13	29 March 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Bloody Skies: XV Fighter Command Against all Odds Books and Media book-review , world-war-ii , aviation-history , mediterranean-campaign , xv-fighter-command	0	15	22 March 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Greatest Scientific Gamble Books and Media history , book-review , world-war-ii , nuclear-weapons , 20th-century-history	3	30	15 March 2026
Half Broke Books and Media horses , convicts	4	39	15 March 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Lost Books and Media book-review , aviation , amelia-erhart , conspiracy-theorie , 20th-century-history	6	44	9 March 2026
The Falklands Play Books and Media falklands-conflict , margaret-thatcher , bbc	4	44	8 March 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Redline Heist Books and Media science-fiction , book-review , baen-books , auto-racing , michael-mersault	0	23	1 March 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Texan in Blue Books and Media book-review , texas , biography , american-civil-war , history-texas	3	31	24 February 2026
Relativity -- The Path Not Taken Books and Media einstein , general-relativity	40	1013	15 February 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Boundless Deep Books and Media book-review , biography , tennyson , english-literature , victorian-england	0	16	15 February 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Man Who Stopped the Sultan Books and Media military-history , book-review , military-history-occupied-france , siege-of-rhodes , gabriele-tadino	0	29	8 February 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Crash Landing Books and Media science-fiction , book-review , boys-adventure , raconteur-press , christopher-g-nuttall	0	21	1 February 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Twelve Months Books and Media book-review , fantasy , urban-fantasy , harry-dresden , jim-butcher	0	27	25 January 2026
This Week’s Book Review - 99 Ways to Die Books and Media book-review , disease , medicine , death , accidents	0	19	18 January 2026