| Book | Author | Read? |
| The Third Chimpanzee | Jared Diamond | |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | x |
| Collapse | Jared Diamond | |
| How the Scots Invented the Modern World | Arthur Herman | |
| Lessons of History | Will Durant | |
| The Story of Civilization | Will Durant | |
| From Third World to First World | Lee Kuan Yew | |
| Deng Xiaopeng and the Transformation of China | Ezra Vogel | |
| India After Gandhi | Ramachandra Guha | |
| How Asia Works | Joe Studwell | |
| Cleopatra, A Life | Stacy Schiff | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Walter Isaacson | |
| Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | |
| The Way to Wealth | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Poor Richard’s Almanac | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny | Robert Wright | |
| The Black Jacobins | C.L.R. James | |
| Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred | Mark Gevisser | |
| The Fourth Turning | Strauss and Howe | |
| Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 | Strauss and Howe |