Reading list for the History Book Club that I am in:
2026
The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson (February 2026 – )
The Dead March by Peter Guardino (February and March 2026)
1812: The War That Forged a Nation by Walter Borneman (November 2025, December 2025, and January 2026)
The Iliad by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson (January 2024 – January 2026)
2025
The Iliad by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson (January 2024 – February 2026)
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin (September, October, November, December 2024 & January 2025)
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Alexander Mikaberidze (February and March 2025)
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: The Revolution Trilogy Book 1 by Rick Atkinson (April, May, June, and July 2025)
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780: The Revolution Trilogy Book 2 by Rick Atkinson (August, September, and October 2025)
1812: The War That Forged a Nation by Walter Borneman (November 2025, December 2025, and January 2026)
2024
The Iliad by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson (January 2024 – January 2026)
The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (November, December 2023, and January 2024)
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson (February, March, April, and May 2024)
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (June, July, and August 2024)
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin (September, October, November, December 2024 – January 2025)
2023
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones (January 2023)
The Plantagenets: The Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones (March and April 2023)
Her Majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky (May 2023)
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 by Jonathan Healey (July 2023)
The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch (November, December, and January 2024)
2022
The Trojan War: A New History by Barry Strauss (January 2022)
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (March and April 2022)
New Rome: The Empire in the East by Paul Stephenson (June and August 2022)
Power and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones (September and October 2022)
2021
The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings by Lars Brownworth (December 2020 and January 2021)
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton (February and April 2021)
Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis (May 2021)
A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (June and October 2021)
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)
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (June and July 2020)
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple (September and November 2020)
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Reading list for the Political Science Book Club that I am in:
2026
Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier by Matthew Weinzierl (February 2026)
2025
The Man Who Would Be King by Karen Elliott House (December 2025)
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Contested Histories by Neil Caplan (October 2025)
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Craig Mundie (July 2025)
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (April 2025)
2024
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy B. Zegart (September 2024)
Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World by Bethany Allen (July 2024)
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)