Strategy by Lawrence FreedmanThe Evolution of Nuclear Strategy by Lawrence FreedmanThinking Historically by Francis J. GavinStrategy by B.H. Liddell HartOn Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
Strategy
24 books — 1 voter

Human Nature by Kate MarvelWe Are Eating the Earth by Michael GrunwaldInventing the Renaissance by Ada PalmerEquality by Thomas PikettyBetween Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid
Nonfiction Published in Year: 2025
1,609 books — 172 voters
Nomad Century by Gaia VinceThe Road Before Me Weeps by Nick ThorpeMap of Hope and Sorrow by Helen BenedictEveryone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan BlitzerMy Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally  Hayden
Migration and Refugees
14 books — 1 voter

The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the YoungerThe Persian Expedition by XenophonThe Rise of the Roman Empire by PolybiusLetters from a Stoic by SenecaThe Satyricon by Petronius
Classical World Reading List
115 books — 69 voters
The Carolingian World by Marios CostambeysTwo Lives of Charlemagne by EinhardThe Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. CantorEarly Medieval Europe 300-1000 by Roger CollinsCharlemagne by Rosamond McKitterick
Dark age European history
202 books — 67 voters

The Sense of Style by Steven PinkerPity the Reader by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le GuinOn Writing by Stephen        KingWriting Tools by Roy Peter Clark
The Craft of Writing
62 books — 27 voters
Misbelief by Dan ArielyOff the Edge by Kelly WeillWhen Prophecy Fails by Leon FestingerReal Enemies by Kathryn S. OlmstedSuperSense by Bruce M. Hood
Irrationality
113 books — 2 voters

There Is No Planet B by Mike Berners-LeeBreaking Boundaries by Johan RockströmOur Fragile Moment by Michael E.  MannThe Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff GoodellHow to Prepare for Climate Change by David Pogue
Understanding Climate Crisis
73 books — 5 voters

What Is History? by Edward Hallett CarrIn Defense of History by Richard J. EvansThe Pursuit of History by John ToshHow to Study History by Norman F. CantorWhy Don't We Learn from History? by B.H. Liddell Hart
Historiography
73 books — 11 voters
A Most Improbable Journey by Walter ÁlvarezTimefulness by Marcia BjornerudThe Invention of Yesterday by Tamim AnsaryBig History by David ChristianThe Vital Question by Nick Lane
Big History
265 books — 106 voters

Fraud, Famine and Fascism by Douglas TottleTen Days that Shook the World by John   ReedHow the West Brought War to Ukraine by Benjamin AbelowLiberal Fascism by Jonah GoldbergApocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger
Liars, damned liars and their books
188 books — 8 voters
Our Enemies Will Vanish by Yaroslav TrofimovWar and Punishment by Михаил ЗыгарьOverreach by Owen MatthewsThe Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii PlokhyInvasion by Luke Harding
Ukrainian War of Independence
46 books — 3 voters

The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter EnglundRing of Steel by Alexander    WatsonForged by Fire by Brendon MoorhouseThe Sleepwalkers by Christopher   ClarkCatastrophe 1914 by Max Hastings
Total War Collection
130 books — 7 voters

The Last Kingdom by Bernard CornwellBellarion by Rafael SabatiniPrince of Foxes by Samuel ShellabargerSidi by Arturo Pérez-ReverteThe Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour
Medieval Adventure
110 books — 48 voters
The Upright Thinkers by Leonard MlodinowThe Physics of Life by Adrian BejanThe Big Picture by Sean CarrollThe Age of Genius by A.C. GraylingLife on the Edge by Johnjoe McFadden
Science Literacy
71 books — 19 voters