Art

Analysis

Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions

Evan Puschak

2022

Art

Art Theft

Boston

Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist

Stephen Kurkjian

2016

Art

Renaissance

Italy

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

Ross King

2002

Art

Second World War

Europe

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

Robert M. Edsel

2009

Baseball

Autobiography

Ball Four

Jim Bouton

1970

Baseball

Japan

Nippon Professional Baseball

You Gotta Have Wa

Robert Whiting

1989

Baseball

New York Mets

History of the NY Mets

So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports

Devin Gordon

2021

Biography

100 Great Lives

John Allen

1945

Biography

Ancient History

Biography

Attila the Hun

John Man

2005

Current Affairs

Japan

Military

Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power

Sheila A. Smith

2019

Current Affairs

Japan

Okinawa

The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism

Shinnosuke Takahashi

2024

Current Affairs

United States of America

Constitution

A More Perfect Constitution: Why the Constitution Must be Revised: Ideas to Inspire a New Generation

Larry J. Sabato

2008

Current Events

Robotics

War

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

P.W. Singer

2009

Economics

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

2005

Economics

Super Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

2009

Economics

Baseball

Oakland A's

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Michael Lewis

2004

Economics

Behavioral Economics

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis

2016

Economics

Behavioral Economics

The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life

Richard Thaler

1991

Economics

Behavioral Economics

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Richard Thaler

2016

Economics

International Affairs

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Paul Collier

2007

Economics

Prediction

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

Nate Silver

2012

Economics

United States of America

2008 Financial Crisis

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

2011

Fiction

Science Fiction

The Martian

Andy Weir

2011

General

The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions

Scott Adams

1996

Graphic Novel

Maus

Art Spiegelman

1986

Graphic Novel

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

James D. Hornfischer, Doug Murray, Steven Sanders

2021

Graphic Novel

Japan's Longest Day: A Graphic Novel About the End of WWII: Intrigue, Treason and Emperor Hirohito's Fateful Decision to Surrender

Kazutoshi Hando and Yukinobu Hoshino

2024

Graphic Novel

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore

1990

Graphic Novel

Watchmen

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

1987

Graphic Novel

From Hell

Alan Moore

1999

Historical Documents

United States of America

Anthology

We, the People: Great Documents of the American Nation

Jerome B Agel

2000

Historical Documents

United States of America

Anthology

Let the Word Go Forth: The Speeches, Statements, and Writings of John F. Kennedy 1947 to 1963

Theodore Sorensen

1991

Historical Fiction

Israel

Arab-Israeli-Wars

The Glory

Herman Wouk

1994

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Israel

Arab-Israeli-Wars

The Hope

Herman Wouk

1993

Historical Fiction

Second World War

U.S. Navy

The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk

1951

Historical Fiction

Second World War

U.S. Navy

The Winds of War

Herman Wouk

1971

Historical Fiction

Second World War

U.S. Navy

War and Remembrance

Herman Wouk

1978

History

20th Century War

Asia

The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949

S.C.M. Paine

2012

History

Ancient History

Egypt

A History of Ancient Egypt

Nicolas Grimal

1988

History

Asia

Hong Kong

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Louisa Lim

2022

History

Britain/UK

British Empire

The British Empire’s Image of East Asia, 1900–41 chapter of Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century

Malcolm H. Murfett

2014

History

Britain/UK

Maritime History

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

1959

History

Britain/UK

Maritime History

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel

2011

History

Britain/UK

Middle Ages

The Wars of the Roses

Alison Weir

1996

History

Britain/UK

Middle Ages

The Princes in the Tower

Alison Weir

2011

History

Britain/UK

Middle Ages

The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones

2014

History

Britain/UK

Middle Ages

The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

Dan Jones

2012

History

Britain/UK

Middle Ages

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

Dan Jones

2015

History

Britain/UK

Middle Ages

Richard, Duke of York: King by Right

Matthew Lewis

2016

History

Britain/UK

Middle Ages

The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case

Philippa Langley

2023

History

Britain/UK

Reference

The English and Their History

Robert Tombs

2014

History

Britain/UK

Royal Navy

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

Caroline Alexander

2004

History

Britain/UK

Royal Navy

Ships of the Royal Navy

J.J. Colledge

2010

History

Britain/UK

Royal Navy

Endeavour: The Ship that Changed the World

Peter Moore

2018

History

Britain/UK

Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth

Charles Beauclerk

2010

History

Britain/UK

Shakespeare

"Shakespeare" Identified

J. Thomas Looney

1920

History

Classical History

A History of the Ancient World

Chester G. Starr

1965

History

Classical History

Ancient Rome

The Punic Wars

Adrian Goldsworthy

2000

History

Classical History

Ancient Rome

Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

Edward J. Watts

2018

History

Classical History

Ancient Rome

The Works of Josephus

Flavius Josephus

History

Classics

Ancient Rome

The Rise of Rome

Plutarch

History

Classics

Ancient Rome

The Histories

Polybius

History

Classics

Ancient Rome

The Rise of the Roman Empire

Polybius

History

Classics

Ancient Rome

Annals

Tacitus

History

Counter-insurgency

Southeast Asia

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

John A. Nagl

2002

History

Europe

The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

Graham Robb

2013

History

Europe

1848: Year of Revolution

Mike Rapport

2008

History

Europe

Balkans

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Rebecca West

1941

History

Europe

Nazi Germany

Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany

John Weiss

1995

History

Europe

Nazy Germany

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer

1960

History

First World War

End of WWI

A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East

David Fromkin

1989

History

First World War

Japan

War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919

Frederick R. Dickinson

1999

History

First World War

Japan

World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919-1930

Frederick R. Dickinson

2013

History

First World War

Origins of WWI

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

2012

History

First World War

Origins of WWI

Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

Michael Neiberg

2011

History

First World War

Origins of WWI

George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

Miranda Carter

2010

History

First World War

Paris Peace Conference

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

2001

History

First World War

Worldwide history of WWI

The First World War

Hew Strachan

2005

History

Historiography

Reference

The Modern Historiography Reader

Adam Budd

2008

History

Historiography

Reference

The Pursuit of History

John Tosh

1984

History

Imperial Japan

Records

War and Armament Expenditures of Japan

Giichi Ono

1922

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887-1941

David C. Evans, Mark R. Peattie

2012

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Battleships

Battleship Musashi: The Making and Sinking of the Worlds Biggest Battleship

Akira Yoshimura

1999

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Battleships

Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Translated by Richard H. Minear)

Yoshida Mitsuru

1999

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Combined Fleet Operations

Japanese Combined Fleet 1942-43: Guadalcanal to the Solomons Campaign

Mark Stille

2024

History

Imperial Japanese Navy

Records

Imperial Japanese Navy

Fred T. Jane

1904

History

Japan

Autobiography

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

Yukuchi Fukuzawa

1899

History

Japan

Biography

Ten years in Japan

Joseph Grew

1944

History

Japan

Britain/UK

Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1894-1907

Ian Nish

1966

History

Japan

Emperor Hirohito

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert Bix

2000

History

Japan

Emperor Hirohito

Hirohito and His Times: A Japanese Perspective

Toshiaki Kawahara

1990

History

Japan

End of WWII

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John Dower

2000

History

Japan

Imperial Japan

Nan'yo: Imperial Japan in Micronesia 1885-1945

Mark R. Peattie

1992

History

Japan

Imperial Japan

Population pressure and economic life in Japan

R. Ishii

1937

History

Japan

Imperial Japan

The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War

S.C.M. Paine

2017

History

Japan

Imperial Japanese Navy

From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States

Sadao Asada

2006

History

Japan

International Affairs

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922

Phillips O'Brien

2009

History

Japan

Meiji Restoration

To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History

Mark J. Ravina

2017

History

Japan

Militarism

Japan at War 1914-1952

Jeremy Yellen

2024

History

Japan

Post-War Japan

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World

John Dower

2012

History

Japan

Tokugawa Shogunate

Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu

A.L. Sadler

1937

History

Middle Ages

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

2021

History

Middle East

Arab-Israeli Wars

The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East

Chaim Herzog

1982

History

Naval History

Maritime History

Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night, 1904-1944

Vincent P. Ohara and Trent Hone

2023

History

New World

Maritime History

The Republic of Pirates

Colin Woodard

2007

History

Second World War

American Analysis

The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima

Daniel Marston

2005

History

Second World War

American Analysis

Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan

Ronald H. Spector

1985

History

Second World War

Anthology

The Pacific Rivals: A Japanese View of Japanese-American Relations

Asahi Shinbun

1972

History

Second World War

Atomic Bombings

Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

Paul Ham

2014

History

Second World War

Autobiography

Fading victory : the diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945

Admiral Matome Ugaki

1991

History

Second World War

Autobiography

Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

William Manchester

2002

History

Second World War

Aviation Maintenance and Supply

Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific

Stan Fisher

2023

History

Second World War

Battle of Leyte Gulf

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

James D. Hornfischer

2005

History

Second World War

Biography

The Mussolini Memoirs 1942-1943

Benito Mussolini

1944

History

Second World War

Biography

The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1936-1943

Galeazzo Ciano

1990

History

Second World War

Central Pacific Campaign

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific 1944-45

James D. Hornfischer

2016

History

Second World War

Emperor Hirohito

Hirohito: Behind the Myth

Edward Behr

1990

History

Second World War

End of WW2

Japan's Longest Day

Kazutoshi Hando

1968

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

First into Nagasaki: The CENSORED Eyewitness Dispatches On Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

Anthony and George Weller

2007

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II

Samuel Eliot Morison

1962

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

Triumph and Tragedy

Winston S. Churchill

1953

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

The Grand Alliance

Winston S. Churchill

1948

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

The Gathering Storm

Winston S. Churchill

1948

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

Closing the Ring

Winston S. Churchill

1951

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

The Hinge of Fate

Winston S. Churchill

1950

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Account

Their Finest Hour

Winston S. Churchill

1962

History

Second World War

Eyewitness Accounts

Japan at War: an Oral History

Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook

1992

History

Second World War

Guadalcanal Campaign

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

James D. Hornfischer

2011

History

Second World War

Imperial Japanese Army

In the service of the Emperor : essays on the Imperial Japanese Army

Edward Drea

1998

History

Second World War

Japanese Analysis

Shōwa Tennō no Jū-go Nen Sensō (Shōwa Emperor's Fifteen-year War)

Akira Fujiawara

1991

History

Second World War

Japanese Analysis

The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945

Saburo Ienaga

1979

History

Second World War

Japanese Occupation of Guam

The Massacre at Atate

Jose M. Torres

2015

History

Second World War

Japanese Perspective

Journey to the Missouri

Toshikazu Kase

1950

History

Second World War

Military Strategy

The Military Strategy of the Emperor Hirohito

Akira Yamada

2002

History

Second World War

Submarines

Wake of the Wahoo: The Heroic Story of America's Most Daring WWII Submarine, USS Wahoo

Forest J. Sterling

1960

History

Second World War

Tsushima Maru Loss

Tsushima Maru Sank Into the Sea - Battle of Okinawa children (Iwanamijuniashinsho)

Tatsuhiro Oshiro

2008

History

Second World War

Tsushima Maru Loss

Tsushima Maru

Yasuo Kayou

2005

History

Second World War

U.S. Army, Europe

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

1992

History

Second World War

U.S. Marine Corps Aviation

Devilbirds: The Story of United States Marine Corps Aviation in World War II

John A. DeChant

1947

History

Second World War

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

"Execute Against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Joel Ira Holwitt

2009

History

Sino-Japanese War

Japan, China, Korea

The Sino-Japanese War Of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power, And Primacy

S.C.M. Paine

2002

History

Southeast Asia

Cold War, Vietnam

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

Max Boot

2018

History

United States Navy

A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy

Thomas J. Cutler

2005

History

United States Navy

Aircraft Carriers

Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation

James L. Holloway III

2007

History

United States Navy

Biography

No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf

Bradley Peniston

2006

History

United States Navy

Civil War

Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy

Dennis J. Ringle

1998

History

United States Navy

Foundation of the U.S. Navy

If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy-from the Revolution to the War of 1812

George C. Daughan

2008

History

United States Navy

Persian Gulf War

Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War

Edward J. Marolda, Robert J. Schneller

1998

History

United States Navy

Reference

One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U. S. Navy, 1890-1990

George W. Baer

1994

History

United States Navy

War of 1812

1812: The Navy's War

George C. Daughan

2011

History

United States of America

Foundations and Tradition

American Nations: The Eleven Rival Regional Nations of North America

Colin Woodard

2011

History

United States of America

Foundations and Tradition

Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

Colin Woodard

2020

History

United States of America

Foundations and Tradition

American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good

Colin Woodard

2016

History

United States of America

Revolutionary War

Washington's Crossing

David Hackett Fischer

2004

History

United States of America

Revolutionary War

1776

David McCullough

2005

History

United States of America

Revolutionary War

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Rick Atkinson

2019

History

United States of America

War

The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

Max Boot

2002

History

United States of America

War on the Barbary Pirates

Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1805

Joseph Wheelan

2001

History

World History

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

Peter Frankopan

2023

History

World History

The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

Peter Frankopan

2018

History

World History

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan

2015

History

World History

War

The World Aflame: A New History of War and Revolution: 1914-1945

Dan Jones and Marina Amaral

2020

History

World History

War

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared DIamond

1997

International Affairs

Asia

China

The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the Twenty-first Century

Bernard D. Cole

2001

International Affairs

Asia

Indian Ocean

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

Robert D. Kaplan

2010

International Affairs

Asia

Japan, China, Russia

Korea and Manchuria between Russia and Japan, 1895-1904;: The observations of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan (1895-1900) and China

Ernest Mason Satow

1968

International Affairs

Asia

Northeast Asia

Red Star Over the Pacific

James Holmes, Toshi Yoshihara

2010

International Affairs

Asia

Northeast Asia

Asia's Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century

Richard McGregor

2017

International Affairs

Asia

South China Sea

Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

Robert D. Kaplan

2014

International Affairs

United States of America

The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order

Colin S. Gray

2004

Literature

The Arabian Nights

Anonymous

800

Literature

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales

Washington Irving

1820

Literature

The Collected Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

1623

Literature

Patriotism

Yukio Mishima

1961

Literature

19th Century

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

1850

Literature

19th Century

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

1843

Literature

19th Century

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

1838

Literature

20th Century

The Chronicles of Narnia

C.S. Lewis

1950

Literature

Analysis

The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist

John Mullan

2020

Literature

Asia

United States, China

The Sand Pebbles

Richard McKenna

1962

Literature

Britain/UK

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

1861

Literature

Britain/UK

The Collected Works of Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

Literature

Britain/UK

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

1719

Literature

Britain/UK

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

1847

Literature

Britain/UK

Animal Farm

George Orwell

1945

Literature

Britain/UK

1984

George Orwell

1948

Literature

Britain/UK

Peter Pan

J.M. Barrie

1911

Literature

Britain/UK

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

1937

Literature

Britain/UK

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

1955

Literature

Britain/UK

The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien

1977

Literature

Britain/UK

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

1813

Literature

Britain/UK

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

1871

Literature

Britain/UK

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

1883

Literature

Britain/UK

The Black Arrow

Robert Louis Stevenson

1888

Literature

Britain/UK

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

1886

Literature

Britain/UK

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

1988

Literature

Britain/UK

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

1886

Literature

Britain/UK

Royal Navy

Master and Commander

Patrick O'Brien

1969

Literature

Classics

Ancient Rome

The Aeneid

Virgil

Literature

Classics

Philosophy

The Republic

Plato