History and Current Events

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Updated December 7, 2025
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various...
Abundance
Ezra Klein
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
Matthew Gabriele
Paper Book
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones--the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of Europe By...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Laura Spinney
*A GUARDIAN AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world. This is its...
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
Ada Palmer
Paper Book
The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years,...
America, América: A New History of the New World
Greg Grandin
The story of the United States' unique sense of itself was forged facing south - no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Professor Greg Grandin reveals how the Americas emerged from...
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress and How to Bring It Back
Marc J. Dunkelman
Paper Book
A provocative exploration of the forces that keep us from getting things done, and how we can restore confidence in government "Dunkelman summarizes the history perfectly." --David Brooks, The New York Times Named a Best Book of...
The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History
Nicola Clark
Paper Book
'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary ReviewEvery Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers,...
The World After Gaza: A History
Pankaj Mishra
Paper Book
Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe's civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify Israel's policies against Palestinians. But for most people...
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Jake Tapper
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 The damning inside story of Joe Biden's decline while in office - and the desperate attempts of his inner circle to hide it from the American...
Secret History of the Five Eyes
Richard Kerbaj
Paper Book
The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations.
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Peter Beinart
Unkind: How "Be Kind" Entrenches Sexism
Victoria Smith
The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
Helen Rappaport
Paper Book
'What a wonderful book!  The storytelling, the research, the deep love of her subject -- this must be the climax of Rappaport's long and illustrious career'  Lucy Worsley    To Queen Victoria she was Aunt Julie; to Catherine the Great she was Grand...

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