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1
3 books
100 Million Years Of Food
by Stephen Le
12 Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
1491
by Charles C. Mann
A
42 books
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
by Adam Rutherford
A Brief History of Motion
by Tom Standage
A History of Fake Things on the Internet
by Walter Scheirer
A History of God
by Karen Armstrong
A History of Nigeria
by Toyin Falola
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
by Melissa Fleming
A Million Years In A Day
by Greg Jenner
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
A Peace to End All Peace
by David Fromkin
A People Betrayed
by Linda Melvern
A People’s History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
A Splendid Exchange
by William J. Bernstein
A Spy Among Friends
by Ben Macintyre
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
A Very English Scandal
by John Preston
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
by James Shapiro
Abortion and the Law in America
by Mary Ziegler
Adrift
by Scott Galloway
Age of Anger
by Pankaj Mishra
Agent Sonya
by Ben Macintyre
Alexander the Great
by Philip Freeman
All About Me!
by Mel Brooks
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
by Rebecca Donner
All the Sinners Bleed
by S. A. Cosby
American Carnage
by Tim Alberta
American Prometheus
by Kai Bird & Martin J Sherwin
Americana
by Bhu Srinivasan
An Ordinary Man
by Richard Norton Smith
Ancient Egypt
by Ian Shaw
And There Was Light
by Jon Meacham
Antigone
by Sophocles
Anxious
by Joseph Ledoux
Arabs
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Areopagitica
by John Milton
Astor
by Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
At Home
by Bill Bryson
Atomic Accidents
by James Mahaffey
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
B
18 books
Back Channel to Cuba
by William M. LeoGrande & Peter Kornbluh
Becoming FDR
by Jonathan Darman
Bedtime Biography: An Autobiography
by M.K. Gandhi
Bedtime Biography: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
Bedtime Biography: Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
Bedtime Biography: Stasiland
by Anna Funder
Bedtime Biography: Vindication
by Lyndall Gordon
Begin Again
by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Behind the Cloud
by Marc R. Benioff and Carlye Adler
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Beyond Culture
by Edward Hall
Black Flags
by Joby Warrick
Black and British
by David Olusoga
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
Bloodlands
by Timothy Snyder
Bloody Brilliant Women
by Cathy Newman
Bourbon Empire
by Reid Mitenbuler
Broad Band
by Claire L. Evans
C
13 books
Cannibalism
by Bill Schutt
Capital
by Karl Marx
Capital and Ideology
by Thomas Piketty
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by Joseph Schumpeter
Caste
by Isabel Wilkerson
Chernobyl
by Serhii Plokhy
China In Ten Words
by Yu Hua
Civilizations
by Mary Beard
Clean
by James Hamblin
Code Girls
by Liza Mundy
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
Cosmosapiens
by John Hands
Crowds and Power
by Elias Canetti
D
11 books
Democracy Awakening
by Heather Cox Richardson
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Destined for War
by Graham Allison
Destiny Disrupted
by Tamim Ansary
Devil in the Grove
by Gilbert King
Dominion
by Tom Holland
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Doubt: A History
by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Dreamland
by Sam Quinones
Drinking Water
by James Salzman
Drunk
by Edward Slingerland
E
9 books
Electra
by Sophocles
Elizabeth the Queen
by Sally Bedell Smith
Empire
by Niall Ferguson
Empire of Pain
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Endgame
by Omid Scobie
Endurance
by Alfred Lansing
Escape from Freedom
by Erich Fromm
Eve
by Cat Bohannon
Evil Geniuses
by Kurt Andersen
F
16 books
Faith Still Moves Mountains
by Harris Faulkner
Fall and Rise
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Falling Upwards
by Richard Holmes
Fantasyland
by Kurt Andersen
Fear
by Joanna Bourke
Fifth Sun
by Camilla Townsend
First Principles
by Thomas E. Ricks
Florence Nightingale
by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
by Ian Morris
Forget the Alamo
by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford
Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
Founding Brothers
by Joseph J. Ellis
Four Hundred Souls
by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Free Speech
by Jacob Mchangama
From Silk to Silicon
by Jeffrey E. Garten
Future Stories
by David Christian
G
12 books
G-Man
by Beverly Gage
Genesis
by Guido Tonelli
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
Genome
by Matt Ridley
Germany
by Neil MacGregor
Get Well Soon
by Jennifer Wright
Glass House
by Brian Alexander
Go Like Hell
by A. J. Baime
Gods of the Upper Air
by Charles King
Grand Transitions
by Vaclav Smil
Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond
Gutenberg the Geek
by Jeff Jarvis
H
14 books
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Happy Accidents
by Morton A. Meyers
Hawai'i
by Sumner La Croix
Heart
by Sandeep Jauhar
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
His Truth Is Marching On
by Jon Meacham and John Lewis
Holy Sh*t
by Melissa Mohr
How Innovation Works
by Matt Ridley
How To Be Like Walt
by Pat Williams
How the Word Is Passed
by Clint Smith
How the World Really Works
by Vaclav Smil
Hue 1968
by Mark Bowden
Humanly Possible
by Sarah Bakewell
I
12 books
I Am Malala
by Malala Yousafzai
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
ISIS
by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan
Impeachment
by Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali and Peter Baker
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
In Pursuit of the Unknown
by Ian Stewart
In a Different Key
by John Donvan and Caren Zucker
India After Gandhi
by Ramachandra Guha
Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World
by Claire Smith and Graeme K. Ward
Isaac's Storm
by Erik Larson
Islam
by Karen Armstrong
Israel
by Daniel Gordis
J
3 books
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Jerusalem
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
K
7 books
Killing Lincoln
by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Killing the Killers
by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Killing the Mob
by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Killing the Rising Sun
by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Killing the Witches
by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
King
by Jonathan Eig
King Leopold's Ghost
by Adam Hochschild
L
4 books
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
Letter to the American Church
by Eric Metaxas
Little Women
by Louisa M. Alcott
Lives of the Stoics
by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
M
10 books
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Madness in Civilization
by Andrew Scull
Maoism
by Julia Lovell
Material World
by Ed Conway
Mayflower
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Metropolis
by Ben Wilson
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
Myanmar's Enemy Within
by Francis Wade
Myth America
by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
Mythos
by Stephen Fry
N
5 books
Napoleon the Great
by Andrew Roberts
Napoleon’s Buttons
by Penny LeCouter & Jay Burreson
Native Son
by Richard Wright
Nine Lives
by William Dalrymple
Nine Lives
by Aimen Dean with Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister
O
10 books
Oath and Honor
by Liz Cheney
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
On Paper
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz
One Summer
by Bill Bryson
Open
by Johan Norberg
Ordinary Men
by Christopher R. Browning
Orientalism
by Edward W. Said
Origin Story
by David Christian
Ours Was the Shining Future
by David Leonhardt
P
12 books
Palestine
by Nur Masalha
Patient H.M.
by Luke Dittrich
Pegasus
by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud
Picasso's War
by Hugh Eakin
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
by Nicholas Griffin
Politics
by Aristotle
Poor Things
by Alasdair Gray
Powers and Thrones
by Dan Jones
Prequel
by Rachel Maddow
Presidents of War
by Michael Beschloss
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Putin's People
by Catherine Belton
Q
2 books
Quantum Supremacy
by Michio Kaku
Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
by Hédi Fried
R
5 books
Raising Men
by Eric Davis
Reagan
by H. W. Brands
Revolutionary Iran
by Michael Axworthy
River of the Gods
by Candice Millard
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
S
20 books
Salt
by Mark Kurlansky
Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari
Saving Aziz
by Chad Robichaux with David L. Thomas
Saving Time
by Jenny Odell
Sea Power
by James Stavridis
Secondhand Time
by Svetlana Alexievich
Sex and the Citadel
by Shereen El Feki
Shakespeare in a Divided America
by James Shapiro
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh
by Carl Zimmer
Shoot for the Moon
by James Donovan
Shrinks
by Jeffrey A. Lieberman and Ogi Ogas
Slouching Towards Utopia
by J. Bradford DeLong
Some People Need Killing
by Patricia Evangelista
Songs of America
by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw
Stamped from the Beginning
by Ibram X. Kendi
Stoned
by Aja Raden
Stonewall
by Martin Duberman
Strange Glow
by Timothy J. Jorgensen
Strangers in Their Own Land
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Sula
by Toni Morrison
T
131 books
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay
by Simon Napier-Bell
Teddy and Booker T.
by Brian Kilmeade
The 1619 Project
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The 33 Strategies of War
by Robert Greene
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine
The Alchemy of Us
by Ainissa Ramirez
The Alignment Problem
by Brian Christian
The American War in Afghanistan
by Carter Malkasian
The Anarchy
by William Dalrymple
The Anglo-Saxons
by Marc Morris
The Art Thief
by Michael Finkel
The Art of Rivalry
by Sebastian Smee
The Better Brain
by Bonnie J. Kaplan and Julia J. Rucklidge
The Black Church
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
The Chemistry Book
by Derek B Lowe
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
The Code
by Margaret O’Mara
The Code Book
by Simon Singh
The Cold War
by Robert J. McMahon
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
The Consolation of Philosophy
by Boethius
The Dawn of Everything
by David Graeber & David Wengrow
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
The Doomsday Machine
by Daniel Ellsberg
The Dying Citizen
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Economists’ Hour
by Binyamin Appelbaum
The End of the Myth
by Greg Grandin
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
by Peter Zeihan
The Evolution of Everything
by Matt Ridley
The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
The Fate of Rome
by Kyle Harper
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
The First Conspiracy
by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
The Forgotten 500
by Gregory A. Freeman
The Four Agreements
by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills
The Fourth Turning
by William Strauss and Neil Howe
The Future Is History
by Masha Gessen
The Gatekeepers
by Chris Whipple
The Gates of Europe
by Serhii Plokhy
The Geography of Bliss
by Eric Weiner
The Go-Getter
by Peter B. Kyne
The Golden Thread
by Kassia St Clair
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Influenza
by John M. Barry
The Great Leveler
by Walter Scheidel
The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
by Ralph Watson McElvenny & Marc Wortman
The Happiest Man on Earth
by Eddie Jaku
The Happiness Fantasy
by Carl Cederström
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
by Don Lattin
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
by David Treuer
The House of Morgan
by Ron Chernow
The House of Rothschild
by Niall Ferguson
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
by Rashid Khalidi
The Idea Factory
by Jon Gertner
The Iliad
by Homer
The Immortality Key
by Brian C. Muraresku
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
The Light of Days
by Judy Batalion
The Lincoln Conspiracy
by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright
The Making of Modern South Africa
by Nigel Worden
The Maniac
by Benjamín Labatut
The Metaphysics
by Aristotle
The Monopolists
by Mary Pilon
The Mosquito Bowl
by Buzz Bissinger
The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson
The Motorcycle Diaries
by Ernesto Che Guevara
The Muqaddimah
by Ibn Khaldūn
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
by Thomas Morris
The Myth of American Inequality
by Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund & John Early
The Nazi Conspiracy
by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
The New Silk Roads
by Peter Frankopan
The Next Great Migration
by Sonia Shah
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
The Peloponnesian War
by Donald Kagan
The Plantagenets
by Dan Jones
The Pope at War
by David I. Kertzer
The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Rest Is Noise
by Alex Ross
The Revolutionary
by Stacy Schiff
The Rift
by Alex Perry
The River of Doubt
by Candice Millard
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
The Romanovs
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Science of Happily Ever After
by Ty Tashiro
The Seventh Million
by Tom Segev
The Silk Roads
by Peter Frankopan
The Sleepwalkers
by Christopher Clark
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
The Song of Roland
by Anonymous
The Soul of America
by Jon Meacham
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Splendid and the Vile
by Erik Larson
The Spy and the Traitor
by Ben Macintyre
The Square and the Tower
by Niall Ferguson
The Story of Sushi
by Trevor Corson
The Things We Make
by Bill Hammack
The Third Chimpanzee
by Jared Diamond
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
by Christopher Hitchens
The Triumph of Seeds
by Thor Hanson
The Trojan Women
by Euripides
The True Believer
by Eric Hoffer
The Twelve Caesars
by Suetonius
The Upstarts
by Brad Stone
The Volunteer
by Jack Fairweather
The WEIRDest People in the World
by Joseph Henrich
The Wager
by David Grann
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Thirteen Days
by Robert F. Kennedy
This Blessed Plot
by Hugo Young
This Is Your Brain on Sports
by L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers
This Is Your Mind on Plants
by Michael Pollan
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
Time of the Magicians
by Wolfram Eilenberger
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Too Big to Fail
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Transcendence
by Gaia Vince
Tribe
by Sebastian Junger
Tsunami
by James Goff and Walter Dudley
U
4 books
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Under the Banner of Heaven
by Jon Krakauer
Understanding Power
by Noam Chomsky, Peter R. Mitchell & John Schoeffel
Upheaval
by Jared Diamond
V
3 books
VISA
by Paul Chutkow
Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher
Vanguard
by Martha S. Jones
W
16 books
Wagnerism
by Alex Ross
War
by Margaret MacMillan
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
What Is the Bible?
by Rob Bell
What’s Our Problem?
by Tim Urban
When Einstein Walked with Gödel
by Jim Holt
When Women Ruled the World
by Kara Cooney
White Trash
by Nancy Isenberg
Who Built That
by Michelle Malkin
Why Don't We Learn from History?
by B. H. Liddell Hart
Why The West Rules – For Now
by Ian Morris
Women, Race & Class
by Angela Y. Davis
Wonderland
by Steven Johnson
Words Like Loaded Pistols
by Sam Leith
Work
by James Suzman
Written in History
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Y
1 book
You Never Forget Your First
by Alexis Coe
Z
2 books
Zero
by Charles Seife
Zero Fail
by Carol Leonnig
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