1001 Nonfiction Books That D&Ders will want to read.

267. When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

Someone reccomended Gimbutas earlier, which reminded me of this book. It's a study of Goddess religion in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East and re-examines contemporary perspectives on the subject. Inspired me with more world-building ideas than any RPG book I've read in the last year.
 

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268-320

Not gonna renumber all these to take into account the one book added by the above post while I was typing all these!

267. Myths and Legends of the Ancient Near East, by Rachel Storm.
268. Myths and Legends of India, by William Radice.
269. The Icelandic Sagas, Volume I, by Magnus Magnusson.
270. The Icelandic Sagas, Volume II (Skarp Hedin should love these! :D They're pretty much fiction, though).
271. The Illiad, by Homer.
272. The Odyssey, by Homer.
273. The World of Odysseus, by M.I. Finley.
274. The Vikings, by Gwyn Jones.
275. The Celts, by Nora Chadwick.
276. The Normans, by David C. Douglas.
277. The Egyptians, by Alan Gardiner.
278. The Aztecs, by Nigel Davies.
279. The Persians, by J.M. Cook.
280. The Birth of the Middle Ages, by Henry St. L.B. Moss.
281-292 The Folio History of England (in 12 Volumes, covering Britannia (Roman Britain) to 2,000 AD, by various authors).
293-5. Scenes of Medieval Life, by Joseph & Frances Gies. (Contains Life in a Medieval Castle, City, and Villiage).
296. Medieval People, by Eileen Power.
297. Medieval Women, by Eileen Power.
298. A History of Chinese Civilization, by Jacque Gernet.
299. Captain Cook's Voyages 1768-1779, by Glyndwr Williams.
300. Into the Dark Continent: The Travels of Henry Morton Stanley, by Frank McLynn.
301. Memoirs of a Seafaring Life, by William Spavens.
302. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia!).
303. Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales.
304. Grimm's Fairy Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
305. Perrault's Fairy Tales, by Charles Perrault.
306. East of the Sun and West of the Moon, by ??? (Norse fairy tales).
307. The Arabian Nights, by ? (Nine tales from the 1,001).
308. The Adventures of Robin Hood, by Roger Lancelyn Green.
309. Rob Roy, by Walter Scott.
310. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas.
311. The Scarlet Pimpernell, by Baroness Orczy.
312. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
313. The Silmarillion, by J.R.R.T.
314-6. The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King (in three volumes, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King).
317. The Tolkien Companion (author forgotten).
318. The Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth, by Ruth S. Noel.
319. Zorro (author forgotten)...

Okay, some are fiction, but I got tired of trying to figure out which where, and which were supposedly historical.
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320-328

So many great books have already been mentioned, it's hard to come up with something else. Here's some ideas...

Travelogues by medieval/ancient travellers:

320: Travels With a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah (or any book on Ibn Battutuh's travels

321: Travels of Marco Polo

322: URL=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140444351/ref=cm_wl_ovu-pg.1-pos.5/103-9427683-7132648?v=glance&coliid=I3VSBICFU5B001&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER]Travels of John Mandeville[/URL]

(already mentioned) Herodotus's Histories


Other History works:

I'm a big fan of Robert Graves' works. White Goddess has already been mentioned. Also

323:
Greek Myths

324: The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, translated by Graves

Robert Graves' Historical Novels (fiction, but historically based)

325: I Claudius
326: Claudius the God
327: Belisarius



Also...

A great book on how medieval manuscripts were preserved and copied:

328: Scribes and Scholars



I'll think of more later.
 


I am suprised no-one has mentioned these before:

329 The Conquest of Gaul
by Julius Ceasar

330The Arts in the Middle Ages and the Reneissance
by Paul Lacroix

331Writing & Illuminating & Lettering
by Edward Johnston

332Mediaeval builder and his methods
by Francis B. Andrews

332Essay on the military architecture of the Middle Ages
by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

333The History of Landmines
by Mike Croll
 

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