TEXTBOOKS

Bulliet, The Earth and its Peoples

Stearns, World Civilizations

McKay, A History of World Societies

BY TIME

Prehistoric

Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee

Ancient

Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel

Ancient

Kreeft, You Can Understand the Bible

Ancient

Michener, The Source

Greece

Rome

Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron

Rome

Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

Medieval

Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization

Medieval

Perinne, Mohammad and Charlemagne

Medieval

Bentley, Old World Encounters

Exploration

Crosby, The Columbian Exchange

Exploraton

McNeill, Plagues and Peoples

Enlightenment

Scruton, The West and the Rest

BY REGION

West

Davies, Europe

Russia

Massie, Peter the Great

Middle East

Dunn, Adventures of Ibn Battuta

Middle East

Satrapi, Persepolis

Africa

Wright, The World and a Very Small Place in Africa

Africa

Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

Africa

Michener, The Covenant

Central Asia

Morgan, The Mongols

China

Pomeranz, The Great Divergance

ART

 Clark, Civilisation

PHILOSOPHY

Durant, The Story of Philosophy

ARCHITECTURE

Fletcher, A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method

WARFARE

DK, Battle

Keegan, History of Warfare

Van Creveld, The Transformation of War

POSTMODERN DILEMMAS

Percy, Lost in the Cosmos

Bloom, Closing of the American Mind

Wojtela, Memory and Identity

SPECIAL TOPICS

Kurlansky, Salt: A World History

McNeill, The Human Web

Rees, Before the Beginning

A VISION OF THE FUTURE

Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

Rees, Before the Beginning