Dickens & Prince by Nick Hornby

Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond

Count Belisarius by Robert Graves

The Machiavellians by James Burnham

Rigged by Mollie Hemingway

On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Naval Ravikant

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim

Catalina by Somerset Maugham

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire by Katja Hoyer

A Programmer's Guide to Computer Science: Vol 1 by William M Springer II

Neil Balme: A Tale of Two Men by Anson Cameron

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien

Tory Boy by Ed West

Trans by Helen Joyce

Eat the Rich by PJ O' Rourke

Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

The Boys by Garth Ennis

Blueprint by Robert Plomin

The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross

Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale

Tex by Tex Perkins

Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil

How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang

The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat

Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein

The Premonition by Michael Lewis

The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Finding Jack Dyer by Tony Hardy

The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith

Asabiyyah: What Ibn Khaldun, the Islamic Father of Social Science, Can Teach Us about the World Today by Ed West

The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein

Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson

Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo

Dune by Frank Herbert

A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick

After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Brodie's Report by Borges

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews by Mark Mazower

Stalin's Wine Cellar by John Baker

Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C Scott

Havana: A Subtropical Delirium by Mark Kurlansky

Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll: My unlikely journey from sex worker to Member of Parliament by Fiona Patten

Talking Back, Talking Black by John McWhorter

The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts by Salvatore Babones

The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist