History Library

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

The Iliad

Homer

The Odyssey

Homer

The Histories

Herodotus

A History of Ancient Egypt

Nicolas Grimal

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

The Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

The Republic

Plato

The Aeneid

Virgil

The Gallic War

Julius Caesar

Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

Caroline Finkel

The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600

Halil Inalcik

One Thousand and One Nights

Anonymous

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Travels of Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

The Masnavi

Jalal al-Din Rumi

The Book of Dede Korkut

Anonymous

Shahnameh

Ferdowsi

The Muqaddimah

Ibn Khaldun

The Song of Roland

Anonymous

A Distant Mirror

Barbara W. Tuchman

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Memed, My Hawk

Yashar Kemal

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The Second World War

Winston Churchill

The Cold War: A New History

John Lewis Gaddis

Postwar

Tony Judt

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari