More book ideas from a real book lover (music to follow) :

1. The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
2. Civilization by Kenneth Clarke
3. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
4. The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington
5. The Sweet Enemy by Robert and Isabelle Toombs
6. God and Gold by Robert Russell Mead
7. Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
8. The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly
9. Easier Fatherland: Germany and the Twenty First Century by Steve Crawshaw
10. John Maynard Keynes by Robert Sidelsky
11. Churchill by Roy Jenkins
12. Truman by David McCullough
13. The Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly
14. The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester