- Books that changed your world:
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Robert M. Pirsig
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Richard Bach
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Douglas Adams
- The Tipping Point; Malcolm Gladwell
- The Beauty Myth; Naomi Wolf
- How to Cook; Delia Smith
- A Year in Provence; Peter Mayle
- A Child Called 'It'; Dave Pelzer
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves; Lynne Truss
- Schott's Original Miscellany; Ben Schott
- History:
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Edward Gibbon
- A History of the English-Speaking Peoples; Winston Churchill
- A History of the Crusades; Steven Runciman
- The Histories; Herodotus
- The History of the Peloponnesian War; Thucydides
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom; T. E. Lawrence
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- A People's Tragedy ; Orlando Figes
- Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Simon Schama
- The Origins of the Second World War; A.J.P. Taylor
- Lives:
- Confessions; St Augustine
- Lives of the Caesars; Suetonius
- Lives of the Artists; Vasari
- If This is a Man; Primo Levi
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man; Siegfried Sassoon
- Eminent Victorians; Lytton Strachey
- A Life of Charlotte Brontë; Elizabeth Gaskell
- Goodbye to All That; Robert Graves
- The Life of Dr Johnson; Boswell
- Diaries; Alan Clark
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