Book Reviews

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This section collects links to some of my notable reviews of books about history, archaeology, and the unusual.

Irving Shulman, Children of the Dark (1956)
Review

Peter Kolosimo, Not of This World (1968)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 •

Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, Civilization One (2004)
Review

Philip Gardiner, Secret Societies (2007)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 •

Erich von Däniken, Twilight of the Gods (2009)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Part 6 • Part 7 •

W. Scott Poole, Monsters in America (2011)
• Part 1 • Part 2 •

Gavin Menzies, The Lost Empire of Atlantis (2011)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Part 6 • Part 7 •

Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy, Black Genesis (2011)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 •

Frank Joseph (ed.), Lost Worlds of Ancient America (2012)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Part 6 • Part 7 • Part 8 • Part 9 • Part 10 • Part 11 •

Scott Wolter, Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers (2013)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 •

Graham Robb, The Discovery of Middle Earth (2013)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 •

Richard Dewhurst, The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America (2014)
Review

Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (2014)
Review

Matthew Reilly, The Great Zoo of China
Review

Scott Creighton, The Secret Chamber of Osiris (2015)
Review

David M. Krueger, Myths of the Rune Stone (2015)
Review

Matt Kaplan, Science of the Magical (2015)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 •

Mark Adams, Meet Me in Atlantis (2015)
Review

Jim Vieira and Hugh Newman, Giants on Record (2015)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 •

Graham Hancock, Magicians of the Gods (2015)
Review

Erich von Däniken, The End of the Silence (2015)
Review

Alan Butler and Janet Wolter, America: Nation of the Goddess (2015)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 •

William F. Mann, Templar Sanctuaries in North America (2016)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 •

Graham Phillips, The Lost Tomb of King Arthur (2016)
• Part 1 • Part 2 •

David Wilcock, The Ascension Mysteries (2016)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 •

Donald L. Zygutis, The Sagan Conspiracy (2016)
• Part 1 • Part 2 •

Jason Reza Jorjani, Prometheus and Atlas (2016)
Review

Scott Creighton, The Great Pyramid Hoax (2017)
• Part 1 • Part 2 •

Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God (2017)
Review

Peter Kolosimo with Nick Redfern, Giants (2017)
Review

Robert M. Schoch and Robert Bauval, Origins of the Sphinx (2017)
• Part 1 • Part 2 •

Erich von Däniken, Astronaut Gods of the Maya (2017)
Review

Tom DeLonge with Peter Levenda, Sekret Machines: Gods (2017)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 •

Zena Halpern, The Templar Mission to Oak Island and Beyond (2017)
• Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 •

Chandra Wickramasinghe and Robert Bauval, Cosmic Womb (2017)
Review

John J. McKay, Discovering the Mammoth (2017)
Review

Greg King and Penny Wilson, Twilight of Empire (2017)
Review

Erich von Däniken, The Gods Never Left Us (2018)
Review

Erich von Däniken, Impossible Truths (2018)
Review

Andrew Collins, The Cygnus Key (2018)
• Part 1 • Part 2 •

Xaviant Haze, Ancient Giants (2018)
Review

Frank Joseph, Power Places and the Master Builders of Antiquity (2018)
Review

Mark Stavish, Egregores (2018)
Review

Nick Redfern, The Slenderman Mysteries (2018)
Review

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now (2018)
Review

Andrew Lawler, The Secret Token (2018)
Review

Timothy Wyllie, Secret History of the Watchers (2018)
Review

Jan Erik Sigdell, Reign of the Anunnaki (2018)
Review

Frank Joseph, Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials (2018)
Review

Gary Lachman, Dark Star Rising (2018)
Review

Mitch Horowitz, The Miracle Club (2018)
Review

David Luke and Roy Spowers (eds.), DMT Dialogues (2018)
Review

Peter Biskind, The Sky Is Falling (2018)
Review

Jeb J. Card, Spooky Archaeology (2018)
Review

Steve P. Kershaw, The Search for Atlantis (2018)
Review

J. A. Kerswell, The Teenage Slasher Movie Book, 2nd ed. (2018)
Review

Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island (2018)
Review

Chandra Wickramasinghe, Kamala Wickramasinghe, and Gensuke Tokoro, Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars: The Panspermia Revolution and the Origins of Humanity (2019)
Review