My readings in the history of the past several centuries.
I have loved reading and studying history since I took classes in American and world history in high school. As an adult, it started when I picked up and read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals.” I was hooked all over again. That started me on a voyage that continues to this day. Reading history is like traveling in both time and space. It is exciting, illuminating, educational and deeply satisfying. Dare I also say, that in an age of such extraordinary ignorance, the past has lots to teach us.
Colonial Period to 1820
| Affairs of Honor--National Politics in the New Republic | Joanne Freeman |
| Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow |
| A. Lincoln | Ronald C. White, Jr. |
| American Creation | Joseph Ellis |
| American Emperor--Aaron Burr's Challenge to America | David O. Stewart |
| American Republics—A Continental History of the US, 1783-1850 | Alan Taylor |
| American Sphinx--The Character of Thomas Jefferson | Joseph J. Ellis |
| Benjamin Franklin | Walter Isaacson |
| Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Jean Lee Latham |
| The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 | Gordon S. Wood |
| Empire of Liberty--A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 | Gordon S. Wood |
| The First American--The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin | H. W. Brands |
| Founding Brothers--The Revolutionary Generation | Joseph Ellis |
| His Excellency George Washington | Joseph Ellis |
| The Failure of the Founding Fathers--Jefferson, Marshall, and | |
| the Rise of Presidential Democracy | Bruce Ackerman |
| A Great Improvisation--Franklin, France and the Birth of America | Stacy Schiff |
| The Hemingses of Monticello--An American Family | Annette Gordon-Reed |
| The Island at the Center of the World--The Epic Story of Dutch | |
| Manhattan and the Forgotton Colony that Shaped America | Russell Shorto |
| James Madison | Richard Brookhiser |
| Jefferson and Hamilton--The Rivalry that Forged a Nation | John Ferling |
| John Adams | David McCullough |
| Mayflower | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams | Joseph J. Ellis |
| Patriotic Treason-- John Brown and and the Soul of America | Evan Carton |
| Patriots--The Men Who Started the American Revolution | A.J. Langguth |
| The Quartet—Orchestrating The Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 | Joseph P. Ellis |
| Thomas Paine and the Promise of America | Harvey Kaye |
| Thomas Jefferson--The Art of Power | Jon Meacham |
| Union 1812--The Americans Who Fought the Second War | |
| of Independence | A. J. Langguth |
| Washington's Crossing | David Fischer |
| Young Patriots--The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their | |
| Impossible Plan and the Revolution that Created the Const. | Charles Cerami |
| Wedding of the Waters--The Erie Canal and the Making | |
| of a Great Nation | Peter L. Bernstein |
| 1776 | David McCullough |
1820 Through WWII
| Against All Odds—A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survivial | |
| In World War II | Alex Kershaw |
| America's Great Debate--Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas and | |
| the Compromise That Preserved the Union | Fergus M. Bordewich |
| American Lion--Andrew Jackson in the White House | Jon Meacham |
| American Midnight--The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s | |
| Forgotten Crisis | Adam Hochschild |
| American Prometheus--The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Kai Bird |
| And There Was Light--Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle | Jon Meacham |
| April 1865--The Month that Saved America | Jay Winik |
| Battle Cry of Freedom--The Civil War Era | James McPherson |
| The Big Burn--Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America | Timothy Egan |
| The Bomber Mafia | Malcolm Gladwell |
| The Bully Pulpit--Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft | |
| and the Golden Age of Journalism | Doris K Goodwin |
| Carnegie | Peter Krass |
| A Country of Vast Design--James K. Polk, the Mexican War and | |
| the Conquest of the American Continent | Robert W. Merry |
| A Crack in the Edge of the World-- | |
| The Great California Earthquake of 1906 | Simon Winchester |
| The Dawn of Innovation--The First American Industrial Revolution | Charles R. Morris |
| Dead Wake--The Last Crossing of the Lusitania | Erik Larson |
| Destiny of the Republic--A Tale of Madness, Medicine | |
| and the Murder of a President | Candice Millard |
| The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson |
| FDR-- The First Hundred Days | Anthony J. Badger |
| Fire In the Sky--The Air War in the South Pacific | Eric M. Bergerud |
| The Glass Universe--How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory | |
| Took the Measure of the Stars | Dava Sobel |
| Grant | Ron Chernow |
| Grant's Final Victory--Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year | Charles B Flood |
| The Great Bridge--The Epic Story of the Building | |
| of the Brooklyn Bridge | David McCullough |
| The Great Dissent--How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind | |
| And Changed the History of Free Speech in America | Thomas Healy |
| Henry Clay--Statesman for the Union | Robert V. Remini |
| In the Kingdom of Ice--The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage | |
| of the USS Jeannette | Hampton Sides |
| The Johnstown Flood--The Incredible Story Behind One of the | |
| Most Devastating Disasters America Has Ever Known | David McCullough |
| Lincoln’s Melancholy | Joshua Wolf Shenk |
| Lincoln, President-Elect--Abraham Lincoln and the Great | |
| Secession Winter 1860-1861 | Harold Holzer |
| The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes |
| This Mighty Scourge--Perspectives on the Civil War | James McPherson |
| Mornings on Horseback--The Story of an Extraordinary Family, and | |
| the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt | David McCullough |
| Nature's Metropolis--Chicago and the Great West | William Cronon |
| The Path Between the Seas The | |
| Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 | David McCullough |
| Reading the Man--A Portrait of Robert E. Lee | Elizabeth Pryor |
| The Rise of American Democracy--Jefferson to Lincoln | Sean Wilentz |
| The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | Edmund Morris |
| Rise to Greatness--Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year | David von Drehle |
| Team of Rivals--The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | Doris K Goodwin |
| Theodore Rex | Edmund Morris |
| Throes of Democracy--The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 | Walter A. McDougall |
| Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | Ron Chernow |
| To End All Wars--A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 | Adam Hochschild |
| What Hath God Wrought-The Transformation of America, 1815-48 | Daniel W Howe |
| Woodrow Wilson--A Biography | John M Cooper, Jr. |
| The Worst Hard Time--Those Who Survived the Great American Dustbowl | Timothy Egan |
| The Wright Brothers | David McCullough |
| 1861--The Civil War Awakening | Adam Goodheart |
| 1912 Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs--The Election | |
| That Changed the Country | James Chace |
| 1944 FDR and the Year that Changed History | Jay Wini |
Post WWII
| The Age of Eisenhower--America and the World in the 1950s | William I. Hitchcock |
| The Age of Reagan--A History 1974-2008 | Sean Wilentz |
| American Cold War Strategy--Interpreting NSC 68 | Ernest R. May |
| American Theocracy--The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, | |
| Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century | Kevin Phillips |
| At Canaan's Edge | Taylor Branch |
| At the Center of the Storm--My Years at the CIA | George Tenet |
| The Battle For History | John Keegan |
| The Bay of Pigs | Howard Jones |
| Berlin 1961--Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most | |
| Dangerous Place On Earth | Frederick Kempe |
| The Best and the Brightest | David Halberstam |
| Beyond Repair--The Decline and Fall of the CIA | Charles S. Faddis |
| Bobby Kennedy--The Making of a Liberal Icon | Larry Tye |
| Bobby Kennedy--A Raging Spirit | Chris Matthews |
| The Bomb—Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War | Fred Kaplan |
| A Bright Shining Lie: Jonn Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Neil Sheehan |
| The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and | |
| their Secret World War | Stephen Kinzer |
| Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years | David Talbot |
| The Cold War | John Lewis Gaddis |
| Colossus | Niall Ferguson |
| Cronkite | Douglas Brinkley |
| Dawn of the Code War--America's Battle Against Russia, China | |
| and the Rising Global Cyber Threat | John P. Carlin |
| The Dead Hand--The Untold Story of the Cold War | |
| Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy | David E. Hoffman |
| Dereliction of Duty--Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The | |
| Joints Chief of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam | H.R. McMaster |
| Devil in the Grove | Gilbert King |
| The Devil's Highway | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| Eisenhower--The White House Years | Jim Newton |
| An End to Evil--How to Win the War on Terror | David Frum |
| FDR's Funeral Train--A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a | |
| Presidency in the Balance | Robert Klara |
| The Fifties | David Halberstam |
| Fighting Back--The War on Terrorism from Inside the | |
| the Bush White House | Bill Sammon |
| The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy | Jussi Hanhimaki |
| Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy | Peter Robison |
| For The Soul of Mankind: The US, | |
| The Soviet Union and the Cold War | Melvyn P. Leffler |
| The General vs. The President--MacArthur and Truman | |
| on the Brink of Nuclear War | H. W. Brands |
| The Greatest Generation | Tom Brokaw |
| The Hawk and the Dove--Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and | |
| the History of the Cold War | Nicholas Thompson |
| Hidden Figures--The American Dream and the Untold Story of the | |
| Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race | Margot Lee Shetterly |
| Hillbilly Elegy | J.D. Vance |
| How the World Ran Out Of Everything | Peter S. Goodman |
| The Imperial Presidency | Arthur Schlesinger |
| In Retrospect--The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam | Robert McNamara |
| Kissinger | Walter Isaacson |
| Kissinger and Cyprus--A Study in Lawlessness | Gene Rossides |
| LBJ Architect of American Ambition | Randall B. Woods |
| Legacy of Ashes--The History of the CIA | Tim Weiner |
| Lessons In Disaster--McGeorge Bundy and the Path | |
| to War in Vietnam | Gordon M. Goldstein |
| The Long Gray Line | Rick Atkinson |
| The Lost Peace--Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953 | Robert Dallek |
| The Main Enemy--The Inside Story of the CIA's | |
| Final Showdown With the KGB | Milt Beardon/James Risen |
| They Marched Into Sunlight--War and Peace, Vietnam | |
| and America, October 1967 | David Maraniss |
| Nixon and Kissinger | Robert Dallek |
| Nixon and Mao | Margaret Macmillan |
| One Minute to Midnight--Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro | |
| On the Brink of War | Michael Dobbs |
| One Summer--America, 1927 | Bill Bryson |
| The Politics of Truth | Joseph Wilson |
| The Premonition—A Pandemic Story | Michael Lewis |
| President Nixon | Richard Reeves |
| Preventable | Andy Slavitt |
| A Promised Land | Barack Obama |
| Robert Kennedy and His Times | Arthur Schlesinger |
| Ronald Reagan--The Triumph of Imagination | Richard Reeves |
| Second Chance--Three Presidents and the Crisis | |
| of American Superpower | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson |
| Tear Down This Myth--How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted | |
| Our Politics and Haunts Our Future | Will Bunch |
| Ten Days to D-Day | David Stafford |
| Truman | David McCullough |
| Vietnam--An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 | Max Hastings |
| An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 | Robert Dallek |
| War in a Time of Peace--Bush, Clinton and the Generals | David Haberstram |
| While America Aged | Roger Lowenstein |
| The Years of Lyndon Johnson--Master of the Senate | Robert A. Caro |
| The Years of Lyndon Johnson--The Passage of Power | Robert A. Caro |
| 9/11 Commission Report | 9/11 Commission |
Other
| American Sketches--Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers and | |
| Heroes of a Hurricane | Walter Isaacson |
| The Big Oyster--History on the Half Shell | Mark Kurlansky |
| The Boys in the Boat--Nine Americans and their Epic Quest | |
| for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Daniel James Brown |
| Brave Companions--Portraits in History | David McCullough |
| Caste--The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Churchill, Roosevelt & Company--Studies in Character and Statecraft | Lewis E. Lehrman |
| The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism | Martin Wolf |
| Einstein | Walter Isaacson |
| The Escape Artist--The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz | Jonathan Freedland |
| How to Hide an Empire | Daniel Immerwahr |
| The Innovators--How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks | |
| Created the Digital Revolution | Walter Isaacson |
| John von Neumann--The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern | |
| Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More | Norman Macrae |
| Just Mercy--A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson |
| Leadership in Turbulent Times | Doris K Goodwin |
| Living Downtown--The History of Hotels in the United States | Paul Groth |
| Ours Was the Shining Future | David Leonhardt |
| Overthrow--America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq | Stephen Kinzer |
| A People's History of the US | Howard Zinn |
| A Personal History | Katharine Graham |
| A Reporter's Life | Walter Cronkite |
| The Rise and Fall of American Productivity--The U.S. Standard | |
| of Living Since the Civil War | Robert J. Gordon |
| The Soul of America--The Battle for Our Better Angels | Jon Meacham |
| The Supreme Court | Jeffrey Rosen |
| These Truths--A History of the United States | Jill Lepore |
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Why Lincoln Matters | |
| Mario Cuomo |
Greater Europe
| All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days | Rebecca Donner |
| Agent Zigzag--Nazi Espionage, Love and Betrayal | Ben Macintyre |
| Beneath a Scarlet Sky | Mark Sullivan |
| The Birth of Britain | Winston Churchill |
| Black Count--Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real | |
| Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss |
| Castles of Steel--Britain, Germany, and the Winning | |
| of the Great War at Sea | Robert K. Massie |
| Catherine the Great | Simon Dixon |
| Catherine the Great—Portrait of a Woman | Robert K. Massie |
| The Classical World--An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian | Robin Lane Fox |
| The Coming of the Third Reich | Richard J. Evans |
| The Crimean War | Orlando Figes |
| The Dark Valley--A Panorama of the 1930s | Piers Brendon |
| The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 | Piers Brendon |
| The Economic Consequences of the Peace | John Maynard Keynes |
| Elizabeth I, The Life of | Alison Weir |
| The End of the Old Order--Napoleon and Europe 1801-1805 | Frederick Kagan |
| The European Economy Since 1945 | Barry Eichengreen |
| Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe | George Friedman |
| Galileo--A Brief Insight Book | Stillman Drake |
| Galileo A Life | James Reston |
| Galileo's Daughter | Dava Sobel |
| Gallipoli | Alan Moorehead |
| Germania--In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans | Simon Winder |
| The Global Age--Europe 1950-2017 | Ian Kershaw |
| Gorbachev On My Country and the World | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| The Greatest Battle--Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate | |
| Struggle for Moscow | Andrew Nagorski |
| The Guns of August | Barbara Tuchman |
| To Hell and Back--Europe 1914-1949 | Ian Kershaw |
| The History of the Ancient World | Susan Wise Bauer |
| History of Europe | J.M. Roberts |
| ILL Fairs the Land | Tony Judt |
| Journey to a Revolution--A Personal Memoir and History of | |
| the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | Michael Korda |
| Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | William Taubman |
| The Lady Elizabeth | Alison Weir |
| The Last Lion-- Winston Churchill Alone 1932-1940 | William Manchester |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Walter Isaacson |
| Madame Curie--A Biography | Eve Curie |
| Medieval Cities--Their Origins and the Revival of Trade | Henri Pirenne |
| Midnight in Chernobyl | Adam Higginbotham |
| Munich, 1938 Appeasement and WWII | David Faber |
| Napoleon—A Life | Andrew Roberts |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Robert K. Massie |
| The Order of the Day | Eric Vuillard |
| Paris 1919--Six Months that Changed the World | Margaret McMillan |
| Peter the Great His Life and World | Robert K. Massie |
| Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 | Tony Judt |
| Putin's Kleptocracy--Who Owns Russia? | Karen Dawisha |
| The Rape of Europa--The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the | |
| Third Reich and the Second World War | Lynn H. Nicholas |
| Revolution 1989--The Fall of the Soviet Empire | Victor Sebestyen |
| The Roman Empire | Alessandro Barbero |
| The Sleepwalkers--How Europe Went to War in 1914 | Christopher Clark |
| The Spanish Civil War | Paul Preston |
| Stalin The Court of the Red Tsar | Simon Sebag Montefiore |
| The Storm of War--A New History of the Second World War | Andrew Roberts |
| The Swerve--How the World Became Modern | Stephen Greenblatt |
| The Third Reich At War | Richard J Evans |
| The Third Reich In Power | Richard J Evans |
| A Train In Winter--An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and | |
| Resistance in Occupied France | Caroline Moorehead |
| The War of Wars--The Epic Struggle Between Britain | |
| and France: 1789-1815 | Robert Harvey |
| The War that Ended Peace--The Road to 1914 | Margaret MacMillan |
| Yalta The Price of Peace |
Asia
| China: Fragile Superpower | Susan Shirk |
| The Coldest Winter--America and the Korean War | David Halberstam |
| Dealing With China--An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower | Henry M. Paulson, Jr. |
| Elephant Company--The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the | |
| Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II | Vicki C Croke |
| Embers of War--The Fall of an Empire and the | |
| Making of America's Vietnam | Frederik Logevall |
| Embracing Defeat--Japan in the Wake of World War II | John Dower |
| Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | Herbert Bix |
| The Korean War A History | Bruce Cumings |
| Mao Zedong a Life | Jonathan Spence |
| North Korea Another Country | Bruce Cumings |
| The Party--The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers | Richard McGregor |
| The Rising Sun--The Decline and Fall of | |
| the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 | John Toland |
| Tombstone--The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962 | Yang Jisheng |
| When China Rules the World | Martin Jacques |
| When Heaven and Earth Changed Places | Le Ly Hayslip |
| Wild Swans--Three Daughters of China | Jung Chang |
Middle East
| The Accidental Empire--Israel and the | |
| Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 | Gershom Gorenberg |
| All The Shah's Men--An American Coup and the | |
| Roots of Middle East Terror | Stephen Kinzer |
| American Orientalism--The United States and the | |
| Middle East since 1945 | Douglas Little |
| The Assasins's Gate--America in Iraq | George Packer |
| The Ayatollah Begs to Differ--The Paradox of Modern Iran | Hooman Majd |
| Behind the Beautiful Forevers--Life, Death and Hope | |
| In a Mumbai Undercity | Katherine Boo |
| Between Memory and Desire-- | |
| The Middle East in a Troubled Age | R. Stephen Humphreys |
| Black Flags--The Rise of ISIS | Joby Warrick |
| Churchill's Folly--How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq | Christopher Catherwood |
| Cobra II--The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq | Michael Gordon |
| Confronting Iran | Ali M. Ansari |
| Descent into Chaos--The U.S. and the Disaster in | |
| Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia | Ahmed Rashid |
| The Devil We Know--Dealing With The New Iranian Superpower | Robert Baer |
| The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yum Kippur War | Howard Blum |
| The Forever War | Dexter Filkins |
| From Baghdad, With Love--A Marine, the War and | |
| a Dog Name Lava | Jay Kopelman |
| From Beirut to Jerusalem | Thomas Friedman |
| From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map | Edward W. Said |
| Ghost Wars--The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and | |
| Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 | Steve Coll |
| The Great War for Civilization--The Conquest of the Middle East | Robert Fisk |
| Heretic--Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| A History of the Arab Peoples | Albert Hourani |
| A History of the Modern Middle East | William L. Cleveland |
| In the Graveyard of Empires--America's War in Afghanistan | Seth G. Jones |
| In the Line of Fire--A Memoir | Pervez Musharraf |
| In the Rose Garden of Martyrs--A Memoir of Iran | Christopher de Bellaigue |
| Inside the Kingdom--Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists | |
| and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia | Robert Lacey |
| Israel—A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth | Noa Tishby |
| The Israeli Solution--A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East | Caroline B. Glick |
| Jerusalem in the 20th Century | Martin Gilbert |
| Lawrence In Arabia--War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making | |
| of the Modern Middle East | Scott Anderson |
| Like Dreamers--The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who | |
| Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation | Yossi Klein Halevi |
| The Looming Tower | Lawrence Wright |
| The Missing Peace--The Inside Story of the Fight | |
| for Peace in the Middle East | Dennis Ross |
| My Promised Land--the Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | Ari Shavit |
| No Good Men Among the Living--America, The Taliban,and | |
| the War Through Afghan Eyes | Anand Gopal |
| One Bullet Away--The Making of a Marine Officer | Nathaniel Fick |
| One Palestine, Complete--Jews and Arabs Under the | |
| British Mandate | Tom Segev |
| A Peace to End All Peace--The Fall of the Ottoman Empire | |
| and the Creation of the Modern Middle East | David Fromkin |
| Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon | Robert Fisk |
| Power, Faith & Fantasy--America in the Middle East | |
| 1776 to the Present | Michael Oren |
| Quicksand--America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East | Geoffrey Wawro |
| The Shia Revival--How Conflicts with Islam Will Shape the Future | Vali Masr |
| Sleeping With The Devil--How Washington Sold Our | |
| Soul for Saudi Crude | Robert Baer |
| Thicker Than Oil--America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia | Rachel Bronson |
| The Threatening Storm | Kenneth Pollack |
| The Unmaking of Israel | Gershom Gorenberg |
| 13 Hours--The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi | Mitchell Zukoff |
Africa
| A Continent for the Taking--The Tragedy and Hope of Africa | Howard French |
| Dancing In the Glory of Monsters--The Collapse of the Congo | |
| and the Great War of Africa | Jason K. Stearns |
| The Devil Came on Horseback--Bearing Witness to the Genocide | |
| In Darfur | Brian Steidle |
| In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz--Living On the Brink of Disaster | |
| In Mobutu's Congo | Michela Wrong |
| The Looting Machine--Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, | |
| and the Theft of Africa's Wealth | Tom Burgis |
| King Leopold's Ghost--Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial | |
| Africa | Adam Hochschild |
| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| The Translator--A Tribeman's Memoir of Darfur | Daoud Hari |
| We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With | |
| Our Families--Stories From Rwanda | Philip Gourevitch |
Other
| Age of Revolutions | Fareed Zakaria |
| Alan Turing: The Enigma | Andrew Hodges |
| Beethoven's Hair--An Extraordinary Odyssey and a | |
| Scientific Mystery Solved | Russell Martin |
| The Blood Telegram--Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotton Genocide | Gary J. Bass |
| Chasing Venus--The Race to Measure the Heavens | Andrea Wulf |
| Che Guevara-- A Revolutionary Life | Jon Lee Andeerson |
| Chip War--The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology | Chris Miller |
| The Choice | Z. Brzezinski |
| Collapse--How Societies Choose to Fall or Succeed | Jared Diamond |
| David and Goliath--Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Doing Justice--A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment | |
| and the Rule of Law | Preet Bharara |
| The Dictator's Shadow--Life Under Augusto Pinochet | Heraldo Muñoz |
| Endurance--Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | Alfred Lansing |
| Factfulness--Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World | Hans Rosling, et al |
| Failed States--The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy | Noam Chomsky |
| Forge of Empires 1861-1871--Three Revolutionary Statesmen ( Lincoln, | |
| Tsar Alexander II, Bismarck) and the World they Made | Michael K. Beran |
| Franklin and Winston | Jon Meachem |
| Gandhi & Churchill--The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed An Empire And Forged Our Age | Arthur Herman |
| Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World | Jack Weatherford |
| Great Feuds In History | Colin Evans |
| Guns, Germs & Steel--The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond |
| The Hare With Amber Eyes--A Hidden Inheritance | Edmund De Waal |
| Hegemony Or Survival | Noam Chomsky |
| A Higher Call--Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn | |
| Skies of World War II | Adam Makos |
| The History of the 20th Century--1901-2000 | J. M. Roberts |
| A History of the 20th Century: 1933-1951 | Martin Gilbert |
| A History of the 20th Century: 1952-1999 | Martin Gilbert |
| In the Heart of the Sea--The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Krakatoa | Simon Winchester |
| Longitude--The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved | |
| the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time | Dava Sobel |
| Longitudes and Latitudes | Thomas Friedman |
| The March of Folly--From Troy to Vietnam | Barbara Tuchman |
| The Mother Tongue | Bill Bryson |
| Nathaniel's Nutmeg--The Spice Trader Who Changed | |
| the Course of History | Giles Milton |
| The Next 100 Years--A Forecast for the 21st Century | George Friedman |
| Over the Edge of the World--Magellan's Terrifying | |
| Circumnavigation of the Globe | Laurence Bergreen |
| People Love Dead Jews—Reports from a Haunted Present | Dara Horn |
| The Prize--The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power | Daniel Yergin |
| The Quest--Energy, Security and the | |
| Remaking of the Modern World | Daniel Yergin |
| Red Heat--Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean | A.V. Tunzelman |
| Red Notice | Bill Browder |
| The Rise and Fall of Great Powers | Paul Kennedy |
| Small Wars, Faraway Places--Global Insurrection and the | |
| Making of the Modern World 1945-1965 | Michael Burleigh |
| A Splendid Exchange-- How Trade Shaped the World | William J. Bernstein |
| Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century | David Reynolds |
| Thief at the End of the World-- | |
| Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire | Joe Jackson |
| Triumph of the City--How Our greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, | |
| Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier | Edward Glaeser |
| Unbroken--A World War II Story of Survival, | |
| Unstoppable—Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey | Joshua Greene |
| Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hellenbrand |
| The War of the World--Twentieth Century Conflict and the | |
| Descent of the West | Niall Ferguson |
| What Are You Looking At?--The Surprising, Shocking and Sometimes | |
| Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art | Will Gompertz |
| The Wild Blue--The Men and Boys Who Flew B-24s | |
| Over Germany 1944-45 | Stephen Ambrose |
| Winners Take All--The Elite Charade of Changing the World | A. Giridharadas |
| Windfall--How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics | |
| and Strengthens America's Power | M. L. O'Sullivan |
| Wizard--The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla | Marc J. Seifer |
| A Woman of No Importance—The Untold Story of the American | |
| Spy Who Helped Win World War II | Sonia Purnell |
| World Order | Henry Kissinger |
