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Prehistory

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
• War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

Ancient (to 500 CE)

• Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
• The First Great Powers: Babylon and Assyria
• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
• Pontius Pilate
• 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
• After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
• A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
• History of the Peloponnesian War

Medieval (500–1500)

• The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, His Heirs and the Founding of Modern China
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom
• The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
• Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King
• The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950–1350
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
• In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
• The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason

Early Modern (1500–1789)

• The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815
• The Thirty Years War
• The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
• Rembrandt’s Eyes
• Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900
• Discovering Indigenous Lands: The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies
• Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and Useful Life
• An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America
• The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440–1870
• Sengoku Jidai. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu: Three Unifiers of Japan

19th Century (1789–1914)

• The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815–1830
• The House of Rothschild, Vol 1: Money’s Prophets, 1798–1848
• Bolívar: American Liberator
• Microbe Hunters
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
• By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
• Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
• Britain’s War Against the Slave Trade: The Operations of the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron 1807–1867
• Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
• Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America
• The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997
• Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
• The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce (historical fiction)
• The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories (historical fiction)
• Middlemarch (historical fiction)
• How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
• By Author The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams (1st)

WWI & Interwar (1914–1939)

• The Guns of August
• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
• American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
• 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History—and How It Shattered a Nation
• One Summer: America, 1927
• The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
• The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
• The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931
• How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920
• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
• 1000 Years of Annoying the French (cross-period humor/history; heavy modern focus)

WWII (1939–1945)

• Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
• Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day
• Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939–44
• Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
• The Longest Siege: Tobruk – The Battle That Saved North Africa
• Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) (historical fiction)
• A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941–45

Cold War (1945–1991)

• The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
• Witness
• A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
• Gulag: A History
• Hunting Eichmann
• Biko
• Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base
• The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
• The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
• The Game of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics
• The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
• Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
• Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948–1991
• Stalin
• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
• Eisenhower: Soldier and President
• Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
• Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
• Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
• The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
• Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: From Grantham to the Falklands
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (historical fiction)
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Contemporary (1991–present)

• Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016
• Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
• Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq
• The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
• The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
• The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
• Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
• Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
• The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq
• Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
• The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News
• The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
• Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
• The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East
• Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
• Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
• Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
• Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
• The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
• First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
• Obama’s Wars
• Bush at War
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
• How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
• Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
• The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
• The Woodward Trilogy: Fear, Rage, and Peril
• LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority
• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
• Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
• Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
• Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
• Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt
• Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
• Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
• Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion With Radical Islam
• The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
• The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
• The Post-American World
• Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
• The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
• Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
• Razor 03: A Night Stalker’s Wars
• The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
• One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

Regional – Africa (Survey / Interpretation)

• Africa: A Biography of the Continent
• The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
• White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
• A Sword Over the Nile
• River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Regional – Middle East (Modern & Contemporary)

• Slave States: The Practice of Kafala in the Gulf Arab Region
• The End of Modern History in the Middle East (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
• The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
• From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
• Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present
• The Arabs: A History
• The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
• The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
• The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
• The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924
• The Emergence of Modern Turkey

South Asia

• The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
• The Night Diary (historical fiction)
• Midnight’s Children (historical fiction)
• Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World (Americas-focused; cross-listed for colonial exchange)

Survey / General (Global, Cross-period, Thematic)

• A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
• Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
• Salt: A World History
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
• The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
• The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
• The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
• The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
• Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World
• America, América: A New History of the New World
• How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
• The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today
• The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
• How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
• Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• The Lessons of History
• Summary: The Lessons of History (Will and Ariel Durant)
• The Complete Story of Civilization
• The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
• The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
• Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
• Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver
• The Gene: An Intimate History
• The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
• Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
• Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare
• History’s Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach
• Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
• The 33 Strategies of War
• The Causes of War
• The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
• The Rest is History: The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast
• The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present
• The English and Their History
• The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
• The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
• Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
• The Lost History of Western Civilization
• The Rise & Fall of the Plantation Complex
• The Ruin of Kasch
• Modern Times
• Modern Times (Part 1)
• America, regional/civic surveys: Great Plains; American Gospel; The House: The History of the House of Representatives; Leadership: In Turbulent Times

Exploration / Travel History

• River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

U.S. Civil Rights (20th c.) (for quick filtering; also placed by era above)

• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation
• You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
• The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Historical Fiction (for quick filtering; also placed by era above)

• Middlemarch
• The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
• The Night Diary
• The Yellow Wife
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• Kindred

Couldn’t confidently place (title ambiguous)

• A Gracious Enemy
• Api’s Berlin Diaries
• Disturbance