Reading list for the History Book Club that I am in:
2024
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson (February, March, and April 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 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
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)