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- The Best Books on Ancient Rome: From the Republic to the Fall
- Ancient Greece and Persia: The Best Books to Start With
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- History Books for Beginners: Where to Start if You’re New to History
- Primary Sources Everyone Should Read: Voices From the Past
- The Best Books on Empires: Rome, the Mongols, the Silk Roads and the Great Powers
- How to Read History Books: A Practical Guide to Getting More From Every Book
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Books
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome — Mary Beard
- Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic — Tom Holland
- Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West — Tom Holland
- Cleopatra: A Life — Stacy Schiff
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century — Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England — Dan Jones
- The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors — Dan Jones
- The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land — Thomas Asbridge
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World — Jack Weatherford
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern — Stephen Greenblatt
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created — Charles C. Mann
- Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution — Simon Schama
- Napoleon: A Life — Andrew Roberts
- Peter the Great: His Life and World — Robert K. Massie
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus — Charles C. Mann
- 1776 — David McCullough
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era — James M. McPherson
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Empire of the Summer Moon — S. C. Gwynne
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI — David Grann
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration — Isabel Wilkerson
- The Devil in the White City — Erik Larson
- The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 — David McCullough
- The Wright Brothers — David McCullough
- The Guns of August — Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 — Christopher Clark
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania — Erik Larson
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William L. Shirer
- The Second World War — Antony Beevor
- Stalingrad — Antony Beevor
- Band of Brothers — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption — Laura Hillenbrand
- The Splendid and the Vile — Erik Larson
- In the Garden of Beasts — Erik Larson
- The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank
- Night — Elie Wiesel
- John Adams — David McCullough
- Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow
- Grant — Ron Chernow
- Truman — David McCullough
- Churchill: Walking with Destiny — Andrew Roberts
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman — Robert K. Massie
- Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life — Walter Isaacson
- Nicholas and Alexandra — Robert K. Massie
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World — Peter Frankopan
- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers — Paul Kennedy
- The Histories — Herodotus
- History of the Peloponnesian War — Thucydides
- The Twelve Caesars — Suetonius
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- The Art of War — Sun Tzu
- The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon
- The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Frederick Douglass