The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages

10 best books like The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages (Robert Fossier): A Canticle for Leibowitz, History of the Peloponnesian War, The Lost World, Till We Have Faces, Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, Master of the Five Magics, The Campaigns of Alexander, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, The Four Loves

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Author	Walter M. Miller Jr.
ISBN	0060892994

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature—a chilling and still provocative...

History of the Peloponnesian War

Author	Thucydides
ISBN	0140440399

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...

The Lost World

Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN	0812967259

Move aside, Sherlock…Sir Arthur has conjured a protagonist who's an even more arrogant assbag than you. 

Everyone...the intrepid, the indefatigable, the insufferable Professor G.E. Challenger…


If, like me, you enjoy characters that are gruff, prideful curmudgeonly...

Till We Have Faces

Author

C.S. Lewis

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. This is the story of Orual, Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves...

Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength

Author

C.S. Lewis

The Cosmic Trilogy relates the interplanetary travels of Ransom, C.S. Lewis's ill-informed and terrified victim who leaves Earth much against his will and who, in the first book of the trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, published by the Bodley Head in 1938, encounters the imaginary and delightful...

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Author

Mortimer J. Adler

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve...

Master of the Five Magics

Author

Lyndon Hardy

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.



Maxwell's Demon: "Master of the Five Magics" by Lyndon Hardy



(Original Review, 1980-10-02)


Just out from Del Rey is MASTER OF THE FIVE MAGICS by Lyndon Hardy (who "became interested in fantasy...

The Campaigns of Alexander

Author	Arrian
ISBN	0140442537

'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred years after Alexander’s death, Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian’s own experience as a military commander gave him unique...

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Author	Nicholas Carr
ISBN	0393339750

“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing...

The Four Loves

Author	C.S. Lewis
ISBN	0062565397

A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.

C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster,...

The Abolition of Man

Author

C.S. Lewis

When things get bad, I take out the bourbon. When, as occasionally happens, time drags on and things don't get any better, I put the bourbon away and take out C. S. Lewis. His books are short, readable, and filled with an uncanny amount of wisdom. His genius, and the reason he's always been a comfort to me,...

Children of Dune

Author	Frank Herbert
ISBN	0593098242

Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.

The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis...

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

Author	Alan Jacobs
ISBN	0199747490

In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America....