Reading list for the History Book Club that I am in:
2024
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (June 2024)
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson (February, March, April, and May 2024)
The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (November 2023, December 2023, and January 2024)
The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson (January, February, March, April, May, and June 2024)
2023
The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (November 2023, December 2023, and January 2024)
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 by Jonathan Healey (July 2023)
Her Majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky (May 2023)
The Plantagenets: The Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones (March and April 2023)
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones (January 2023)
2022
Power and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones (September and October 2022)
New Rome: The Empire in the East by Paul Stephenson (June and August 2022)
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (March and April 2022)
The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss (January 2022)
2021
A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (June and October 2021)
Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis (May 2021)
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton (February and April 2021)
The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings by Lars Brownworth (December 2020 and January 2021)
2020
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple (September and November 2020)
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History”by John M. Barry (June and July 2020)
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: The Revolution Trilogy 1 by Rick Atkinson (April and May 2020)
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Reading list for the Political Science Book Club that I am in:
2024
Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World by Bethany Allen
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West by Peter Heather and John Rapley (May 2024)
The War on the West by Douglas Murray (February 2024)
2023
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan (November 2023)
Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture by Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon (July 2023)
Hollowed Out: A Warning about America’s Next Generation by Jeremy Adams (March 2023)
2022
The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan (November 2022)
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio (August 2022)
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher (April 2022)