History

Abundance

Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

How the World Made the West

Josephine Quinn

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923

Caroline Finkel

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

William Dalrymple

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

Maria Rosa Menocal

How the World Really Works

Vaclav Smil

India After Gandhi

Ramachandra Guha

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Marc Levinson

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

India in the Persianate Age

Richard M Eaton

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Ezra Vogel

The Gene

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling

The Gulag Archipelago

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Silk Roads

Peter Frankopan

The English Constitution

Walter Bagehot

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Suketu Mehta

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari

Debt: The First 5000 Years

David Graeber

The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

Thomas Asbridge

The Campaigns of Napoleon

David G. Chandler