- A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that shaped the Middle East by James Barr
- Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
- Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Shadowplay by Tim Marshall
- The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
- The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley
- The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
- World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry Kissinger