December
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, by Evelyn Waugh (1957)
November
Melting Point, by Rachel Cockerell (2024)
From Citizen to Refugee, by Mahmood Mamdani (1973)
October
The Killing of Osama bin Laden, by Seymour Hersh (2016)
The Battle of the Ayatollahs in Iran, by Alex Vatanka (2021)
Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift (1726)
September
The Master of the Day of Judgement, by Leo Perutz (1923)
Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart (1984)
Wife to Mr. Milton, by Robert Graves (1943)
Shielding the Flame, by Hanna Krall and Marek Edelman (1977)
August
Seven Brothers, by Alexis Kivi (1870)
July
The Crisis of Canadian Democracy, by Andrew Coyne (2025)
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, by Ronen Bergman (2018)
June
Bring Up The Bodies, by Hilary Mantel (2012)
Leonardo’s Judas, by Leo Perutz (1959)
The War and the Jews, by Vladimir Jabotinsky (1940)
Perfidy, by Ben Hecht (1961)
May
With The Turks in Palestine, by Alexander Arohnson (1916)
April
Fervor, by Toby Lloyd (2024)
March
Travel Light, by Naomi Mitchison (1952)
The 1970s: A New Global History, by Thomas Borstelmann (2011)
February
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse (1927)
The Swedish Cavalier, by Leo Perutz (1936)
January 2025
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back, by Julius Margolin (1949)
Ivory Towers on Sand, by Martin Kramer (2001)
The Wisdom of Plagues, by Donald G. Mcneill Jr. (2024)
December
A World Apart, by Gustav Herling-Grudzinski (1951)
The City Without Jews, by Hugo Bettauer (1922)
November
Demian, by Hermann Hesse (1919)
The Perfect Wagnerite, by George Bernard Shaw (1898)
October
Vienna’s Golden Autumn, 1866-1938, by Hilde Spiel (1987)
September
Animal Liberation Now, by Peter Singer (2023)
August
The Netanyahus, by Joshua Cohen (2021)
July
Benazir Bhutto: Favoured Daughter, by Brooke Allen (2005)
The Clockwork Universe, by Edward Dolnick (2011)
Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition, by Nisid Hajari (2015)
June
The Dark Forest, Liu Cixin (2008)
Wagnerism, by Alex Ross (2020)
May
Apeirogon, by Colum McCann (2020)
April
Burma Sahib, by Paul Theroux (2024)
March
A Clergyman’s Daughter, by George Orwell (1935)
February
Out of Italy, by Fernand Braudel (1974)
January 2024
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville (1851)
December
Bat Bomb, by Jack Couffer (1992)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, by George Orwell (1936)
November
Narrative Economics, by Robert Shiller (2019)
Bicycles in War, by Martin Caidin (1974)
October
The Bomber Mafia, by Malcolm Gladwell (2021)
September
War with the Newts, by Karel Capek (1936)
The Löwensköld Ring, by Selma Lagerlöf (1925)
Tolkien and the Great War, by John Garth (2003)
August
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, by Franz Werfel (1933)
Coming Up For Air, by George Orwell (1939)
July
Abdul Aziz Al-Saud and the great game in Arabia, 1896-1946, by Hassan Syed Abedin (2002)
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking, by Brendan I. Koerner (2013)
June
Ties, by Dimenico Starnone (2014)
On Saudi Arabia, by Karen Elliot House (2012)
May
The Last Man in Europe, by Dennis Glover (2017)
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina, by Robert Graves (1934)
The End of the End of the Earth, essays by Jonathan Franzen (2018)
April
Free of Fear, by Hussain al-Shahristani (2021)
Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel by Omri Boehm (2021)
No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs, by Lezlie Lowe (2018)
March
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens (1854)
Numbers Don’t Lie, by Vaclav Smil (2020)
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000, by Stephen Kotkin (2001)
February
Floating to Space: The Airship to Orbit Program, by John M. Powell (2008)
January 2023
Big Sister Little Sister Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth Century China, by Jung Chang (2019)
December
The Naked Olympics: the True Story of the Ancient Games, by Tony Perrottet (2004)
November
The Han: China’s Diverse Majority, by Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi (2015)
Summer Will Show, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1936)
October
Geography is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History, by Ian Morris (2022)
September
The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis (1946)
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, by Angie Schmitt (2020)
August
That Hideous Strength, by C.S. Lewis (1945)
The Great Railway Revolution: The History of Trains in America, by Christian Wolmar (2012)
July
Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar (2020)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, by Tom Shippey (2000)
To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, by Christian Wolmar (2013)
June
Kingdom of Characters, by Jing Tsu (2022)
Distant Lands, by Halford Mackinder (1912)
Creating the 20th Century, by Vaclav Smil (2004)
Gentlemen of the Road, by Michael Chabon (2007)
May
Helena, by Evelyn Waugh (1950)
The Nineties, by Chuck Klosterman (2022)
The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson (2020)
The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa (2000)
Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1932)
April
The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin (2006)
The Premonition, by Michael Lewis (2021)
March
The Every, by Dave Eggers (2021)
February
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (1899)
January 2022
The Road to Middle-Earth, by Tom Shippey (1982)
December
The Cat’s Cradle Book, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1940)
November
Orwell and Politics, collected writings by George Orwell (2001)
October
Earth, by Emile Zola (1887)
Koba the Dread, by Martin Amis (2002)
September
Kingdoms of Elfin, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1977)
Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future, by Evelyn Waugh (1953)
August
Men at Arms, by Evelyn Waugh (1952)
Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirlees (1926)
The Lanchaster Tradition, by GF Bradby (1913)
July
The Late Mattia Pascal, by Luigi Pirandello (1904)
Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
War of Shadows, by Gershom Gorenberg (2021)
June
Hav, by Jan Morris (1985)
May
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education, by Sybille Bedford (1989)
April
Of Smiling Peace, by Stefan Heym (1944)
March
Hitler, My Neighbour, by Edgar Feuchtwanger (2013)
February
The Iron Road: The Illustrated History of Railways, by Christian Wolmar (2014)
January 2021
The Corner That Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1948)
