2. Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
3. Bolt, Robert. A Man For All Seasons.
4. Brinton, Crane. Anatomy of Revolution.
5. Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (a classic study)
6. Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. (primary source)
7. Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring. (historical fiction about a Dutch maid
working in Vermeer's household)
8. Delderfield, R.F. Seven Men of Gascony.
9. Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.
10. Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty.
11. Dickens, Charles. Hard Times.
12. Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers.
13. Fagan, Brian. The Little Ice Age.
14. Ferguson, Niall. The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets (a biography of the
Rothschild family, 19th-century Europe's immensely influential financiers and
diplomats)
15. Figes, Orlando. A People's Tragedy. (long, but beautifully written account of the
Russian Revolution, with great pictures!)
16. Follet, Ken. Pillars of the Earth.
17. Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents.
18. Gardner, Jostein. Sophie's World, A Novel About the History of Philosophy. (makes
philosophy fun)
19. George, Margaret. Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles
20. George, Margaret. The Autobiography of Henry VIII.
21. Goldstone, Lawrence %26amp; Nancy. Out of the Flames.
22. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
23. Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. (a great survey of modern art)
24. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
25. King, Ross. Brunelleschi鈥檚 Dome.
26. Laquer, Walter, ed. Fascism. (a general, well-written survey)
27. Lee, Tanith. The Gods are Thirsty.
28. Maass, Peter. Love Thy Neighbor. (a Washington Post correspondent's account of the
war in Bosnia)
29. Machiavelli. The Prince.
30. Manchester, William. A World Lit Only By Fire. (an interesting, if contested, account
of Europe's transition from the Middle Ages)
31. Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto.
32. Massie, Robert K. Peter the Great: His Life and World (Pulitzer Prize winner!
actually, anything by Massie is worth reading)
33. Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century. (A fun read!)
34. Miles, Rosalind. I, Elizabeth. 35. More, Thomas. Utopia.
36. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
37. O鈥橞rien, Patrick. Master and Commander, et. al.
38. Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago.
39. Rambaud, Patrick. Napoleon鈥檚 Exile.
40. Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. (a classic, anti-war novel)
41. Remnick, David. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Union (an excellent
account by an American journalist)
42. Rosenberg, Tina. Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (winner
of 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction)
43. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract
44. Rutherfurd, Edward. Sarum: The Novel of England (historical fiction about the
history of England)
45. Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness.
46. Smith, Adam. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
47. Sobel, Dava. Galileo鈥檚 Daughter.
48. Stone, Irving. The Agony and the Ecstasy.
49. Spiegelman, Art. Maus I or Maus II (comic books on the Holocaust; sounds weird, but
both are much-acclaimed biographical accounts)
50. Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace.
51. Trotsky, Leon. History of the Russian Revolution. (obviously biased)
52. Tuchman, Barbara. March of Folly
53. Tuchman, Barbara. The Proud Tower. (popular history on the late 19C)
54. Voltaire. Candide.
55. Winwar, Frances. The Eagle and the Rock.
56. Wright, Gordon. The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945. (a wide-ranging survey)
57. Zola, Emile. GerminalWhich book is the best out of this list?
voltaire- candide. but only if you understand historical context.Which book is the best out of this list?
"The Prince"
it has the most useful information either for use or to watch out for in the mindset of the powerful.Which book is the best out of this list?
Tale of Two Cities, The Social Contract, and War and Peace are some excellent pieces of literature in my opinion.
However The Communist Manifesto is only 50 pages or so, there is a bigger Prelude then actual book.
Utopia, Doctor Zhivago, Civilization and its Discontents, Candide, Margaret George (either), and the Origins of Totalitarianism are rather easy reads.
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