Margaret MacMillan: Paris 1919. Six Months That Changes the World.

Frank Dikötter: The Tragedy of Liberation. A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-57.

Chris Scarre: Chronicle of the Roman Emperors. The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome.

David Reynolds: America, Empire of Liberty. A New History.

Neil MacGregor: Germany. Memories of a Nation.

Dominic Lieven: Russia Against Napoleon. The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace.

Robert K. Massie: Nicholas and Alexandra.

Robert K. Massie: Dreadnought. Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War.

Norman Davis: Vanished Kingdoms. The History of Half-Forgotten Europe.

John Julius Norwich: Byzantium. 1-3. The Early Centuries. The Apogee. The Decline and Fall.

Laurence Bergreen: Magellan. Over the Edge of the World. The True Story of the Terrifying First Circumnavigation of the Globe.

Stefan Zweig: Conqueror of the Seas. The Story of Magellan.

Nathaniel Philbrick: In the Heart of the Sea. The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.

Walter A. McDougall: Let the Sea Make a Noise... A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur.

Glenn Diesen: The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order.

Marcus Rediker: Villains of All Nations. Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age.

David Willis McCullough (ed) Chronicles of the Barbarians. Firsthand Accounts of Pillage and Conquest, from the Ancient World to the Fall of Constantinople.

Alan Dundes: The Study of Folklore.