(other books consulted (numbering 459) are listed under bibliography)
MOST RECENT
Applebaum, Anne, Iron Curtain: the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
GENERAL
Ahamed, Liquat, Lords of Finance, (about the Great Depression
Appleby, Joyce, The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism
Blackmon, Douglas A, Slavery by Another Name: the Re-Enslavement of Black Americans ...
Bobbitt, Philip, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History
Boot, Max, War Made New: Technology, Warfare and the Course of History, 1500 to Today
Chua, Amy, Day of Empire: Why Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall
Clark, Gregory, A Farewell to Alms: a Brief Economic History of the World
Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Durant, Will and Ariel, The Lessons of History
Gaddis, John Lewis, The Cold War: A New History
Hanson, Victor Davis, The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
Moore Jr, Barrington, Moral Purity and Persecution in History
Painter, Nell Irvin, The History of White People
Richardson, Louise, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
SCIENCE-PHILOSOPHY
Burnham and Phelan, Mean Genes: from Sex to Money to Food – Taming Our Primal Instincts
Honderich, Ted, How Free Are You?
Maalouf, Amin, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
Neiman, Susan, Evil in Modern Thought
Pinker, Steven, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Pinker, Steven, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined.
Searle, John R., Mind: a brief introduction
ANTIQUITY
Burns, Thomas S., Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C. – A.D. 400
Dever, William G. What Did the Bible Writers Know and When Did They Know It
Dever, William G. Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did they Come From
Jahoda, Gustav, Images of Savages
Kagan, Donald, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
Otterbain, Keith, How Wars Began
Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, The Old Way: a Story of the First People
Tougher, Shaun, ed., Eunuchs in Antiquity & Beyond
CHINA, MODERN
Cheng, Nien, Life and Death in Shanghai
CUBA
English, T.J., Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba...And then Lost it to the Revolution
MIDDLE AGES
Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel
Huizinga, Johan, The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Kuran, Timur, The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
Secher, Reynald, A French Genocide
Zagorin, Perez, How the Idea of Religious Toleration came to the West
GERMANY
Clark, Christopher, Kaiser Wilhelm II
Machtan, Lothar, The Hidden Hitler
Meisner, Hans-Otto, Magda Goebbels
Mombauer, Annika, Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War
Rinderle and Norling, Nazi Impact on a German Village
Scheck, Raffael, Alfred von Tirpitz and German Right-win Politics, 1914-1930
Steger, Manfred B., The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism
JAPAN
Bix, Herbert P., Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Takemae Eiji, The Allied Occupation of Japan
Watanabe, Kiyoshi, Shattered God (Kudakareta Kami)
ISLAM
Berkey, Jonathan P., The Formation of Islam [600 to 1800]
Esposito and Mogahed: Who Speaks for Islam?
Feldman, Noah, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
THE MIDDLE EAST
Kimmerling and Migdal, The Palestinians: A History
Oren, Michael B., Six Days of War
Rosen, Nir, In the Belly of the Green Bird: the Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq.
Trofimov, Yaroslav, The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising ... and the Birth of al Qaeda
Trofimov, Yaroslav, A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu
SOVIET UNION AND RUSSIA
Breslauer, George W., Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders
Cohen, Stephen F., Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
Gorbachev, Mikael, Gorbachev: On My Country and the World
SPAIN
Ashford Hodges, Gabrielle, Franco: a Concise Biography
VIETNAM
UNITED KINGDOM, INDIA
Herman, Arthur, Churchill & Gandhi
UNITED STATES
Berkin, Carol, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
Bradley, James, Flags of Our Fathers
Carlson, Lewis H., Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War
Crier, Catherine, Contempt: How the Right is Wronging American Justice
Das, Satyajit, Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
Divine, Robert, Eisenhower and the Cold War
Fukuyama, Francis, The Great Disruption
Hoover, Herbert, Freedom Betrayed
Jacoby, Susan, The Age of American Unreason
Krugman, Paul, The Conscience of a Liberal
Livingston and Groden, High Treason
Margolich, David, Beyond Glory: Joe Lewis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink
Rabe, Stephen G., Eisenhower, the Foreign Policy of Anti-communism and Latin America
Regnery, Alfred S., Upstream: the Ascedance of American Conservatism
Scalia, Antonin, A Matter of Interpretation
Speer, Lonnie, War of Vengeance: Acts of Retaliation against Civil War POWs
Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-five
Zakaria, Fareed, The Post American World