Al Singh's Favorite Books

Louisiana

• Louisiana: A History edited by Bennett Hall and John Rodrigue
• Louisiana: The First 300 Years by Joan Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer
• The Cajuns: Americanization of a People by Shane Bernard
• Creole edited by Sybil Klein
• Old Louisiana by Lyle Saxon
• The Civil War in Louisiana by John Winters
• Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
• Louisiana Hayride by Harnett Kane
• Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long by Richard White
• The Earl of Louisiana by A.J. Liebling
• Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana 1915-1972 by Adam Fairclough
• The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana by Fred Kniffen, Hiram Gregory, and George Stokes
• Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans by Joan Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer
• The French Quarter by Hebert Asbury
• Bourbon Street by Richard Campanella
• Empire of Sin by Gary Krist
• Edwin Edwards by Leo Honeycutt
• The Last Hayride by John Maginnis
• Cross to Bear by John Maginnis
• The Storm by Ivor van Heerden
• Katrina by Andy Horowitz
• Inside the Carnival by Wayne Parent
• They Called Us River Rats by Macon Fry
• Klan of Devils by Stanley Nelson
• Murder in the Bayou by Ethan Brown
• Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell
• Pistols and Politics by Samuel Hyde
• Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU by Robert Mann

American History

• America: A Narrative History by George Tindall and David Shi
• The Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel Boorstin
• Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
• A Little Commonwealth by John Demos
• Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow
• Colonial America by Captivating History
• The French and Indian War by Walter Borneman
• The French-Indian War 1754-1760 by Daniel Marston
• The French and Indian War: 1660-1763 by Christopher Collier and James Collier
• Crucible of War by Fred Anderson
• The American Revolution by Bruce Lancaster
• The American Revolution 1774-1783 by Daniel Marston
• The War for American Independence by Samuel Griffith II
• 1776 by David McCullough
• The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson
• The American Revolution by Gordon Wood
• The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents 1773-1783 by Joseph Ellis
• Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Revolution by Alan Axelrod
• A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution by Carol Berkin
• The Patriots by Winston Groom
• Founding Partisans by H.W. Brands
• The War of 1812 by Francis Beirne
• 1812: The War That Forged a Nation by Walter Borneman
• The War of 1812 by Carl Benn
• The War of 1812 by Donald Hickey
• Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian Toll
• The Americans: The National Experience by Daniel Boorstin
• The Old South by Thomas Wertenbaker
• The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth Stampp
• Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made By Eugene Genovese
• The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• History of the American Frontier 1763-1892 by Frederic Paxson
• The Great West by David Lavender
• Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H.W. Brands
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Old West by Mike Flanagan
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford
• Lone Star Nation by H.W. Brands
• The Mexican War by Otis Singletary
• The Mexican War 1846-1848 by Douglas Meed
• The U.S. War with Mexico 1846-1848 by John Eisenhower
• Imperfect Union by Steve Inskeep
• The Age of Gold by H.W. Brands
• The Civil War by Bruce Catton
• Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
• The Civil War by Harry Hansen
• The Civil War: A Concise History by Louis Masur
• The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume One: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote
• The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume Two: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
• The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume Three: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War by Alan Axelrod
• A New History of the American South edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The President and the Freedom Fighter by Brian Kilmeade
• Teddy and Booker T. by Brian Kilmeade
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
• Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H.W. Brands
• The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel Boorstin
• Labor in America: A History by Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles
• Schools of Democracy by Clayton Sinyai
• Subterranean Fire by Sharon Smith
• Indians by William Brandon
• Indian Wars by Robert Utley and Wilcomb Washburn
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• Saga of Chief Joseph by Helen Addison Howard
• Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
• History of the Spanish-American War by Henry Watterson
• The Spanish-American War by Edward Dolan
• The Spanish War by G.J.A. O'Toole
• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
• The Great Depression by Robert McElvaine
• The Crucial Era by Gerald Nash
• No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Forgotten Man by Amity Schlaes
• The Soul of America by Jon Meacham
• Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley
• Revolt Among the Sharecroppers by Howard Kester
• Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity by Katherine Archibald
• Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
• The Conquerors by Michael Beschloss
• Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss
• The General vs. the President by H.W. Brands
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
• Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan Penningroth
• Eyes on the Prize by Juan Williams
• Nixon and Kissinger by Robert Dallek
• Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
• The Seventies by Bruce Schulman
• Watergate by Fred Emery
• Watergate: A New History by Garett Graff
• The Age of Reagan: A History 1974-2008 by Sean Wilenz
• The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism by Matthew Continetti
• Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
• The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
• A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons
• Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History by Alan Axelrod
• U.S. History for Dummies by Steve Wiegand

History of Britain

• Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples (abridged) by Winston Churchill
• The Story of Britain by Rebecca Fraser
• A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins
• The English and Their History by Robert Tombs
• A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama
• A History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
• A History of Britain, Volume III: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
• Normal Women by Philippa Gregory
• Roman Britain by Guy de la Bédoyère
• Anglo-Saxon England by Frank Stenton
• The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction by John Blair
• The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris
• Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede
• Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction by John Gillingham and Ralph Griffiths
• The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
• A Brief History of Magna Carta by Geoffrey Hindley
• Magna Carta by Dan Jones
• The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones
• The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
• The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
• New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden
• Tudor England by John Guy
• The Tudors for Dummies by David Loades and Mel Trow
• A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714 by Mark Kishlansky
• History of England by Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Langford
• Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley
• Industry and Empire by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles 1815-1901 edited by Colin Matthew
• Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Harvie and H.C.G. Matthew
• The Age of Decadence: A History of Britain: 1880-1914 by Simon Sheffer
• The Boer War 1899-1902 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
• Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 by Peter Clarke
• Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Kenneth Morgan
• Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
• A Short History of Scotland by R.L. Mackie
• Scottish History for Dummies by William Knox
• The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon

History of Ireland

• The Story of Ireland by Neil Hegarty
• A Brief History of Ireland by Paul State
• Ireland: A History by Thomas Bartlett
• The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan
• The Troubles by Tim Pat Coogan
• A Brief History of Ireland by Richard Killen
• A Nation and Not a Rabble by Diarmaid Ferriter
• Irish History for Dummies by Mike Cronin

History of the Netherlands and Belgium

• A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day by Friso Wielenga
• A Short History of the Netherlands by P.J. Rietbergen
• Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Emile Cammaerts
• A Short History of Belgium by Léon van der Essen

History of Scandinavia

• A History of Denmark by Knud Jespersen
• History of Norway by John Yilek
• A Concise History of Sweden by Neil Kent
• A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland by T.K. Derry

History of France

• A History of France by John Julius Norwich
• France in the Middle Ages 987 - 1460 by Georges Duby
• The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France by R.J. Knecht
• The Splendid Century by W.H. Lewis
• The French Revolution by Peter Davies
• The French Revolution by George Rudé
• The French Revolution by J.M. Roberts
• The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
• Citizens by Simon Schama
• The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle
• The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by William Doyle
• A Concise History of the French Revolution by Sylvia Neely
• A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy Popkin
• Revolutionary France 1770 - 1880 by François Furet
• Peasants into Frenchmen by Eugen Weber
• France, 1814-1940 by J.P.T. Bury
• France since 1870 by Charles Sowerwine
• France and the Dreyfus Affair by Michael Burns
• France and the Après Guerre by Benjamin Martin
• The French Resistance by Charles River Editors
• A History of Modern France by Jeremy Popkin
• France and the French by Rod Kedward
• Twentieth Century France by James McMillan
• France in the New Century by John Ardagh
• The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
• A Brief History of France by Cecil Jenkins

History of Germany

• Germany: A New History by Hagen Schulze
• The History of Germany Since 1789 by Golo Mann
• Germany: A Nation in Its Time by Helmut Walser Smith
• A History of Germany in the Middle Ages by Ernest Henderson
• A Short History of Germany by Ernest Henderson
• Gold and Iron by Fritz Stern
• History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century by David Blackbourn
• Germany 1800-1870 edited by Jonathan Sperber
• Imperial Germany 1871-1918 edited by James Retallack
• Weimar Germany by Eric Weitz
• The Weimar Republic by Detlev J. K. Peukert
• Nazi Germany edited by Jane Caplan
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
• A History of Germany 1918-2008: The Divided Nation by Mary Fulbrook
• Germany Since 1945 by Lothar Kettenacker

History of Austria

• A Concise History of Austria by Steven Beller
• The Austrian Odyssey by Gordon Brook-Shepherd
• A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 by Robert Kann
• The Habsburgs by Andrew Wheatcroft

History of Switzerland

• The History of Switzerland by John Wilson
• The History of Switzerland by Heinrich Zschokke
• A Concise History of Switzerland by Clive Church and Randolph Head

History of Italy

• The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy edited by George Holmes
• The Italian Renaissance by J.H. Plumb
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burkhardt
• The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
• The Borgias by G.J. Meyer
• Early Modern Italy: A Social History by Christopher Black
• Early Modern Italy, 1550-1800 by Gregory Hanlon
• Modern Italy by Denis Mack Smith
• Modern Italy by John Foot
• The Pursuit of Italy by David Gilmour
• Mussolini's Italy by R.J.B. Bosworth
• The Italians by John Hooper
• Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History by John Julius Norwich
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Italian History and Culture by Gabrielle Euvino

History of Spain

• Spain: A History edited by Raymond Carr
• Spain: A Unique History by Stanley Payne
• The History of Spain by Peter Pierson
• Spain: The Root and the Flower by John Crow
• The Spanish Inquisition by Joseph Pérez
• The Spanish Civil War by Stanley Payne
• The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor

History of Portugal

• Portugal by Sarah Bradford
• The Portuguese: A Modern History by Barry Hatton
• History of Portugal by Captivating History

Europe and Western Civilization

• Europe: A History by Norman Davies
• Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms
• A History of Europe by J.M. Roberts
• A Short History of Europe by Simon Jenkins
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
• From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
• Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
• Civilization by Kenneth Clark
• The Ancient Mediterranean by Michael Grant
• The Sea Peoples by Charles River Editors
• The End of the Bronze Age by Robert Drews
• 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline
• Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather
• The Birth of the West by Paul Collins
• Dominion by Tom Holland
• The Thirty Years War by Peter Wilson
• The Age of Reason: 1700-1789 by Harold Nicolson
• The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
• The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction by John Robertson
• The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Lawrence Principe
• The Napoleonic Wars by Mike Rapport
• Nineteenth Century European Civilization 1815-1914 Geoffrey Bruun
• Nineteenth-Century Europe by Michael Rapport
• 1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport
• 1848: The Revolutionary Tide in Europe by Peter Stearns
• The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Allen
• The Age of Louis XIV by Will and Ariel Durant
• The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant
• Rousseau and Revolution by Will and Ariel Durant
• The Age of Napoleon by Will and Ariel Durant
• The Age of Napoleon by J. Christopher Herold
• The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman
• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric Hobsbawm
• Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower

Russia and Eastern Europe

• Russia and the Russians by Geoffrey Hosking
• Russia: A Short History by Abraham Ascher
• A History of Russia by John Lawrence
• Russia: A History edited by Gregory Freeze
• A Concise History of Russia by Paul Bushkovitch
• The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
• Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor
• Lost Kingdom by Serhii Plokhy
• The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
• A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End by Peter Kenez
• Revolutionary Russia 1891-1991: A History by Orlando Figes
• October by China Miéville
• The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
• The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky
• Russians: The People Behind the Power by Gregory Feifer
• The Future Is History by Masha Gessen
• Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
• Gulag by Anne Applebaum
• Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
• The Soviet-Afghan War 1979-89 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
• Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009 by Mark Galeotti
• The Polish Way by Adam Zamoyski
• Poland: A History by Adam Zamoyski
• A Concise History of Poland by Jewrzy Lukowsky and Hubert Zawadzki
• History of Hungary by Captivating History
• History of Eastern Europe by Captivating History
• The Baltic Republics by Steven Otfinoski
• The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History by Derek Sayer
• Croatia: A Nation Forged in War by Marcus Tanner
• The Balkans by Misha Glenny
• The Balkans by Mark Mazower
• Modern Albania by Fred Abrahams
• The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
• Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Appelbaum
• Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy
• The Caucasus: An Introduction by Thomas de Waal
• Georgia: In the Mountains of Poetry by Peter Nasmyth
• The History of Armenia by Simon Payaslian
• Azerbaijan: A Political History by Suha Bolukbasi
• A Quick History of Modern Greece by Anthone Colovas
• The Greek Revolution by Mark Mazower

The Middle East

• The Middle East by Bernard Lewis
• A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield
• The Ottoman Centuries by Lord Kinross
• A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
• History of the Arabs by Philip Hitti
• The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan
• Orientalism by Edward Said
• The Barbary Pirates by C.S. Forester
• Israel: A History by Martin Gilbert
• Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daneil Gordis
• Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• The Palestinian People by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal
• Modern Egypt by Arthur Goldschmidt
• The History of Syria: 1900-2012 by M. Clement Hall
• Syria: A History of the Last Hundred Years by John McHugo
• Lebanon: A House Divided by Sandra Mackey
• A History of Jordan by Philip Robins
• The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom by Sandra Mackey
• A History of Modern Yemen by Paul Dresch
• A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp
• A History of Modern Libya by Dirk Vandewalle
• Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History by Benjamin Stora
• Tunisia Since the Arab Conquest by Jacob Abadi
• A History of Modern Morocco by Susan Gilson Miller
• Turkey: A Modern History by Erik Zürcher
• The Ottoman Endgame by Sean McMeekin
• The Fall of the Ottomans by Eugene Rogan
• A History of Iran by Michael Axworthy
• Modern Iran by Nikkie Keddie
• Persian Mirrors by Elaine Sciolino
• State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East by Roger Owen
• A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Ian Bickerton and Carla Klausner
• The Shi'ites: A Short History by Heinz Halm
• Hezbollah by Augustus Richard Norton
• The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948 by Efraim Karsh
• The Suez Crisis 1956 by Derek Varble
• 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev
• Six Days of War by Michael Oren
• The Yom Kippur War by Abraham Rabinovich
• The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 by Efraim Karsh
• From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
• Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorism Team by George Jonas
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Middle East Conflict by Mitchell Bard

Africa

• Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
• History of Africa by Kevin Shillington
• History of Africa from 1800 to Present by Harry Gailey
• Africa: Endurance and Change South of the Sahara by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
• Africa: A Short History by Robert Collins
• Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden
• Africa in History by Basil Davidson
• The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony by Molefi Kete Asante
• The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
• The Fortunes of Africa by Martin Meredith
• Modern Africa by Basil Davidson
• Mauritania: History, Early History, Sudanic Empires by Sampson Jerry
• West Africa before the Colonial Era by Basil Davidson
• Designing West Africa by Peter Schwab
• Themes in West Africa's History edited by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
• The History of Nigeria by Toyin Falola
• The History of Ghana by Roger Gocking
• Democracy and Development in Mali edited by R. James Bingen, David Robinson, and John Staatz
• The History of Sierra Leone by C. Magbaily Fyle
• History of Liberia by J.H.T. McPherson
• A History of the Cameroon by Tambi Eyongetah and Robert Brain
• East Africa: An Introductory History by Robert Maxon
• Kenya: Identity of a Nation by Godfrey Mwakikagile
• A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson
• A History of Malawi: 1859-1966 by John McCracken
• History of Botswana by Thomas Tlou and Alec Campbell
• Zambia: The First 50 Years by Andrew Sardanis
• A Short History of Modern Angola by David Birmingham
• Mozambique: A History by Thomas Henriksen
• Equatorial Guinea Political History and Governance, The Hidden History by Anthony Willson
• The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
• Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck
• King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
• A History of Ethiopia by Harold Marcus
• Understanding Somalia and Somaliland by Ioan Lewis
• Sudan: Race, Religion, and Violence by Jok Madut Jok
• Becoming Zimbabwe edited by Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo
• Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell
• Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
• The Zulu War 1879 by Ian Knight

India and Pakistan

• India: A History by John Keay
• India: A Concise History by Francis Watson
• A Brief History of India by Judith Walsh
• A New History of India by Stanley Wolpert
• India: A Short History by Andrew Robinson
• The Sikhs of the Punjab by J.S. Grewal
• The Sikhs by Patwant Singh
• The First and Second Sikh Wars by Reginald George Burton
• A History of Nepal by John Whelpton
• The History of Bhutan by Karma Phuntsho
• Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Husain Haqqani
• The Idea of Pakistan by Stephen Cohen
• A History of Bangladesh by Willem van Schendel

Central Asia

• Mongolia - A Brief History by James Grissom
• Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires by David Isby
• Kazakhstan History by Uzo Marvin
• Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, Turkey, and Iran by Dilip Hiro
• Empires of the Steppes by Kenneth Harl

China

• China: A History by Harold Tanner
• China: A History by John Keay
• China: A New History by John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman
• A Brief History of China by Jonathan Clements
• The Soul of China by Amaury de Riencourt
• Chinese Civilization by Werner Eichhorn
• Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
• The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
• The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence
• The Penguin History of Modern China by Jonathan Fenby
• On China by Henry Kissinger
• China Wakes by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
• The Opium Wars by W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello
• The Boxer Rebellion by Diana Preston
• Thunder Out of China by Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby
• The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikötter
• Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan by Jonathan Manthorpe
• A Concise History of Hong Kong by John Carroll

East Asia

• Korea's Place in the Sun by Bruce Cumings
• The History of Vietnam by Justin Corfield
• A History of Cambodia by David Chandler
• A Short History of Laos by Grant Evans
• A History of Thailand by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit
• A Short History of Malaysia by Virginia Matheson Hooker
• The Malays: A Cultural History by Richard Winstedt
• Burma: The State of Myanmar by David Steinberg
• A History of the Philippines by Luis Francia
• A History of Modern Indonesia by Adrian Vickers
• A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005 by C.M. Turnbull

Japan

• A History of Japan by Kenneth Henshall
• History of Japan from 660 B.C. to 1872 A.D. by William Elliot Griffis
• A History of Japan by R.H.P Mason and J.G. Caiger
• Japan: An Illustrated History by Shelton Woods
• The Making of Modern Japan by Marius Jansen
• A Brief History of Japan by Jonathan Clements

The Commonwealth

• The Penguin History of Canada by Robert Bothwell
• A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre
• The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King

Latin America

• The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz Castillo
• Mexico: A Brief History by Alicia Hernandez Chávez
• A Concise History of Mexico by Brian Hamnett
• A Short History of Guatemala by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.
• El Salvador: The Face of Revolution by Robert Armstrong and Janet Shenk
• El Salvador: Central America in the New Cold War edited by Marvin Gettleman et al
• Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
• Cuba: A New History by Richard Gott
• The History of Venezuela by H. Michael Tarver and Julia Frederick
• A Concise History of Brazil by Boris Fausto
• The Peru Reader edited by Orin Starn, Iván Degregori, and Robin Kirk
• The History of Chile by John Rector
• The History of Argentina by Daniel Lewis

World History

• The Penguin History of the World by J.M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad
• The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• The Outline of History by H.G. Wells
• A People's History of the World by Chris Harman
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• After Eden by John Charles Chasteen
• Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
• The Rest Is History by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook
• World Order by Henry Kissinger
• Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
• Leaders by Richard Nixon
• The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
• The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm
• A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume One: 1900-1933 by Martin Gilbert
• A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Two: 1933-1951 by Martin Gilbert
• A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume Three: 1952-1999 by Martin Gilbert
• 1946: The Making of the Modern World by Victor Sebestyen
• 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
• Salt by Mark Kurlansky
• Cod by Mark Kurlansky
• Milk by Mark Kurlansky
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• The Clash of Fundamentalisms by Tariq Ali
• The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Prize by Daniel Yergin
• World History for Dummies by Peter Haugen

Philosophy

• A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
• From Socrates to Sartre by T.Z. Levine
• Philosophy by Stephen Law
• The Seekers by Daniel Boorstin
• The Problem of Universals edited by Charles Landesman
• Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
• Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
• On Evil by Terry Eagleton
• Seeking Virtue by David Goza
• Early Socratic Dialogues by Plato
• The Republic by Plato
• Timaeus and Critias by Plato
• Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII by Plato
• Gorgias by Plato
• The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
• De Anima by Aristotle
• The Metaphysics by Aristotle
• The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
• The Enneads by Plotinus
• On the Good Life by Cicero
• Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
• The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius
• Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
• The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
• Discourse on Method and the Meditations by René Descartes
• A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
• Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
• Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant
• The Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Hegel
• The Philosophy of History by Georg Hegel
• The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Essential Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard
• Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
• Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

Religion/Theology

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
• The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• The City of God by Augustine
• The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
• Arminian Theology by Roger Olson
• Liberation Theology by Phillip Berryman
• Judaism by Ian Graham
• Islam by Jan Thompson
• Hinduism by Ranchor Prime
• Sikhism by Joy Barrow
• Buddhism by Mel Thompson
• Buddhism by Huston Smith and Philip Novak
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Judaism by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Catholicism by Bob O'Gorman and Mary Faulkner
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Reformation and Protestantism by James Bell and Tracy Macon Sumner
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Bible by James Bell and Stan Campbell

Atheism

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
• Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

Art and Artists

• Art History: A Very Short Introduction by Dana Arnold
• Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction by David Cottington
• Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia Fontenot
• The Renaissance by Will Durant
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• The Lives of Artists (Volume One) by Giorgio Vasari
• The Creators by Daniel Boorstin
• Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory Smith
• Picasso: A Biography by Patrick O'Brian

Psychology

• Psychology by David Meyers
• Life-Span Development by John Santrock
• Life Span Development: A Topical Approach by Robert Feldman
• Abnormal Psychology by David Barlow and Mark Durand
• Psychology Applied to Modern Life by Wayne Weiten and Margaret Lloyd
• Social Psychology by Shelley Taylor, Letitia Peplau and David Sears
• Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience by Neil Carlson
• The Story of Psychology by Morton Hunt
• The Psychology of the Child by Jean Piaget and Bärbel Inhelder
• On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
• The Peter Pan Syndrome by Dan Kiley
• Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders by Aaron Beck
• Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders by Aaron Beck et al
• Feeling Good by David Burns
• The Essential Guide to Mental Health by Jack Gorman
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
• DSM-IV Casebook edited by Robert Spitzer et al
• The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
• The Depression Sourcebook by Brian Quinn
• Bipolar Disorder by David Miklowitz and Michael Goldstein
• Bipolar Disorder by Francis Mondimore
• Surviving Schizophrenia by E. Fuller Torrey
• Toxic Psychiatry by Peter Breggin
• A History of Psychiatry by Edward Shorter
• The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
• The Psychology Book by Wade Pickren
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Psychology by Joni Johnston

Freud, Jung, and Adler

• Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
• Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud
• Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious by Sigmund Freud
• Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
• The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
• Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
• The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
• Psychology of the Unconscious by C.G. Jung
• Dreams by C.G. Jung
• Synchronicity by C.G. Jung
• The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung
• The Development of Personality by C.G. Jung
• Aspects of the Masculine by C.G. Jung
• Psychology and Alchemy by C.G. Jung
• Understanding Human Nature by Alfred Adler
• Understanding Life by Alfred Adler
• What Life Could Mean to You by Alfred Adler

Political and Economic Theory

• The Republic by Plato
• Politics by Aristotle
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
• Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Politics and the Arts by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
• Political Order in Changing Societies by Samuel Huntington
• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington
• The Third Wave by Samuel Huntington
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore
• Man, the State, and War by Kenneth Waltz
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer
• Social Theory of International Politics by Alexander Wendt
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
• Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
• The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama
• World Order by Henry Kissinger
• On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
• State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
• What Is to Be Done? by Vladimir Lenin
• Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
• Selections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci
• The Meaning of Marxism by Paul D'Amato
• Build It Now! by Michael Lebowitz
• Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
• Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
• How to Change the World by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Conservative Sensibility by George Will
• Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

Insects

• The Butterfly Effect by Edward Melillo
• Tales from the Ant World by Edward Wilson
• Mosquito by Andrew Spielman
• Bugs in Danger by Mark Kurlansky
• Extraordingary Insects by Anne Sverdup-Thygeson

Infectious Diseases

• The Hot Zone by James Preston
• Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC by Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch
• Virus X by Frank Ryan
• The Forgotten Plague by Frank Ryan
• Killer Germs by Pete Moore
• The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
• Man and Microbes by Arno Karlen
• Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill
• Emerging Viruses edited by Stephen Morse
• The Black Death by Robert Gottfried
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
• The Great Influenza by John Barry
• Influenza by Jeremy Brown
• The Life and Death of Smallpox by Ian and Jenifer Glynn
• Zika by Donald McNeil
• Virus Hunt by Dorothy Crawford
• Germ Warfare: Breakthrough Immunology by Alan Baxter
• Infectious Disease: A Scientific American Reader
• Microbe by Alan Zelicoff and Michael Bellomo
• The New Killer Diseases by Elinor Levy and Mark Fischetti
• Superbugs by Matt McCarthy
• COVID-19 by Debora Mackenzie
• Pandemic by Sonia Shah

Medical Science

• Anatomy and Physiology by Michael McKinley, Valerie O'Loughlin, and Theresa Bidle
• Medical-Surgical Nursing Demystified by Jim Keogh
• Multiple Sclerosis by Louis J. Rosner and Shelley Ross
• Cystic Fibrosis by David M. Orenstein
• Parkinson's Disease by William J. Weiner
• Brock Biology of Microorganisms by Michael Madigan
• The Body by Bill Bryson
• Stiff by Mary Roach
• The Better Half by Sharon Moalem
• Journey into the Heart by David Monogan
• Open Heart by David K.C. Cooper
• Heart 411 by Marc Gillinov and Steven Nissen
• The Living Heart in the 21st Century by Michael DeBakey and Antonio Gotto
• Heart: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Heroic Organ by Johannes Hinrich von Borstel
• Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar
• Brain Story by Susan Greenfield
• Brain: The Complete Mind by Michael Sweeney
• The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall
• The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
• Neuroscience for Dummies by Frank Amthor
• Gut by Giulia Enders
• Gulp by Mary Roach
• Genome by Matt Ridley
• The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
• Extreme Medicine by Kevin Fong
• When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Radium Girls by Kate Moore
• Poisons by Peter Macinnis
• The Drug Book by Michael Gerald
• The Medical Book by Clifford Pickover
• Opium by John Halpern, MD and David Blistein
• Pharma by Gerald Posner
• The Definitive Guide to Prostate Cancer by Aaron Katz
• Pancreatic Cancer by Michael Lippe and Dung Le
• The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs by Jack Gorman
• The Cambridge History of Medicine edited by Roy Porter
• The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Diabetes for Dummies by Alan Rubin
• Fibromyalgia for Dummies by Roland Staud
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for Dummies by Susan Lisman

Physical Science

• Physics Demystified by Stan Gibilisco
• Electricity Demystified by Stan Gibilisco
• All New Electronics Self-Teaching Guide by Harry Kybett
• Electronics for Dummies by Doug Lowe
• The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
• Big Bang by Simon Singh
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• Organic Chemistry I for Dummies by Arthur Winter
• Thermodynamics for Dummies by Mike Pauken
• Statics for Dummies by James Allen III
• Geology for Dummies by Alecia Spooner
• Astronomy for Dummies by Stephen Maran
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Space Book by Jim Bell
• The Chemistry Book by by Derek Lowe
• The Physics Book by Clifford Pickover