If you’ve read these books, I need suggestions.

By on October 22nd, 2009

Book List

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman

Renaissance Lives by Theodore K. Rabb

The Last Days of the Renaissance & The March to Modernity by Theodore K. Rabb

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg

Tudor England by John Guy

Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick

The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey

The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey

Anne Boleyn by E. W. Ives

A Crown for Elizabeth by Mary M. Luke

The Virgin Queen by Christopher Hibbert

Mary Queen of Scotts by Antonia Fraser

Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda

The Habsburg Monarchy by A. J. P. Taylor

Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin

Isabella of Castille by Nancy Rubin

The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis

Cavaliers and Roundheads by Christopher Hibbert

Cromwell the Lord Protector by Antonia Fraser

Crisis, Revolution, and Absolutism: Europe 1648-1715 by Raymond Biln

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Louis XIV by Maurice Ashley

Louis XIV A Royal Life by Oliver Bernier

The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton

Galileo Courtier: The Practise of Science in the Culture of Absolutism by Mario Biagioli

Candide by Voltaire

Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great by Isabel de Madariaga

Catherine the Great by Zoe Oldenbourg

Joseph II: In the Shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741-1780, Volume I by Derek Beales

Joseph II: Against the World, 1780-1790, Volume II by Derek Beales

Louis and Antoinette by Vincent Cronin

Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre

The French Revolution by J. M. Thompson

The French Revolution by J. F. Bosher

The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France by David Andress

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

Earthly Powers by Michael Burleigh

Napoleon by Vincent Cronin

Napoleon by Felix Markham

Nelson: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert

Moscow 1812 by Adam Zamoyski

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian

Lord Nelson by David and Steven Howarth

Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and The Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski

Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites by Kirkpatrick Sale

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Queen Victoria by Giles St. Aubyn

Personas of Consequence: Queen Victoria by Louis Anchincloss

The Royal Victorians by Christopher Hibbert

The Victorians by A. N. Wilson

Victoria: The Young Queen by Monica Charlot

Queen Victoria by Cecil Woodham-Smith

Sophia’s World by Jostein Gaarder

1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

Disraeli by Robert Blake

Garibaldi by Christopher Hibbert

A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People by Steven Ozment

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark

Bismarck: The Man and Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky

The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman

Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

The Great War 1914-1918 by Cyril Falls

World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone

The First World War by Hew Strachan

The Fall of the Dynasties by Emond Taylor

The Fall of Eagle: Great European Dynasties by G. I. Sulzberger

Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erick Remarque

Modernism by Peter Gay

Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes

A Concise History of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes

Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars by Marc Ferro

Nicholas and Alexandria by Robert K. Massie

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

Winston and Clementine: The Churchills by Richard Hough

The Last Lion: Winston Churchill by William Manchester

Hitler and Stalin by Allan Bullock

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans

The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by Robert Payne

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by C. R. Browning