Freedom and Future Library

Introduction

(2018)

You’d have to be living under a rock buried somewhere halfway down to the center of the earth in order not to be aware that in recent years our beautiful world has been shaken up by a number of crises the likes of which I, at least, have not experienced in my entire lifetime — I can’t remember any other time when I have so consistently felt the urge to put on blinders and wrap myself in a giant comfort blanket approximately 10 seconds after opening a newspaper (or its online edition), or 10 seconds into listening to the news.  Obviously playing ostrich has never done anybody any good, but God knows, it’s getting hard not to succumb to the temptation.

So what does a book lover do in order to keep her sanity, equip herself to separate fact from fiction (in news reporting, politics, and plenty of other places) and deal with rat catchers and fire mongers?  She turns to books, of course.

I’ve decided to build a “Freedom and Future” personal library, containing books which (1) have either deeply impacted my personal thinking or that I expect will come to do so in the future, or which (2) provide valuable food for thought in today’s social and political debate, both nationally and internationally; be it based on a profound analysis of the issues at stake (as a matter of principle or long term), or because even though they may not be of lasting significance, they contain a thought-provoking contribution to the current debate (even if they were not written with that express purpose in mind — e.g., books about historic persons or events or books by long-dead authors).  I’m not expecting to binge-read the books added to this library, but I’m looking to add them to the mix with a bit more focus than I’ve been doing of late.

This is an ongoing project; as I come across more books, I’ll be adding to the library.

Books read are checked off, with the year of reading added in parentheses (and with everything read prior to 2018 just marked like that, since 2018 was the year when I came up with this project.)

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The Books in Alphabetical Order

Edward Abby

• – Desert Solitaire

John Adams

• – Revolutionary Writings, 1755-1783 (2 volumes)

Sarah Addison Allen

• – Garden Spells

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• – Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions √ (2021)
• – Half of a Yellow Sun √ (2018)
• – Purple Hibiscus √ (2019)
• – We Should All Be Feminists √ (2020)

Rabih Alameddine

• – The Wrong End of the Telescope √ (2022)

Madeleine Albright

• – Fascism: A Warning
• – Madam Secretary: A Memoir
• – The Mighty and the Almighty
• – Prague Winter

Svetlana Alexievich

• – Chernobyl Prayer
• – Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
• – The Unwomanly Face of War

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

• – Infidel
• – Heretic
• – Nomad

Isabel Allende

• – De amor y de sombra √ (prior to 2018)

Hala Alyan

• – Salt Houses

Akhil Reed Amar

• – The Bill of Rights Primer

Amnesty International (ed.), Various Authors

• – Here I Stand: Stories that Speak for Freedom

Maya Angelou

• – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Kofi Annan

• – Interventions: A Life in War and Peace √ (2019)
• – We the Peoples (2001 Nobel Lecture)

Anonymous / Attribution Disputed

• –  I Ching

Jean Anouilh

• – Antigone √ (prior to 2018)
• – Becket √ (prior to 2018)

Louise Arbour

• – War Crimes and the Culture of Peace √ (prior to 2018)

Hannah Arendt

• – Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
• – Eichmann in Jerusalem √ (prior to 2018)
• – The Origins of Totalitarianism
• – On Violence
• – The Portable Hannah Arendt
• – Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975

Aristophanes

• – Complete Plays √ ((prior to 2018)

Aristotle

• – The Nicomachean Ethics
• – The Politics

Ayi Kwei Armah

• – The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
• – Osiris Rising

Anrthony Arnove, Colin Firth (eds.), Various Authors

• – The People Speak: Voices That Changed Britain

Thomas Asbridge

• – The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones

Timothy Garton Ash

• – Free Speech

Ed Asner

• – The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs

Assemblée nationale / constituante

• – Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen de 1789 √ ((prior to 2018)
• – Articles de constitution (1789) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Constitution française du 3 septembre 1791 √ (prior to 2018)

Margaret Atwood

• – Freedom
• – Hag-Seed √ (2019)
• – The Handmaid’s Tale √ (prior to 2018, 2019)
• – The Testaments √ (2019)
• – The Robber Bride √ (2021)

Akram Aylisli

• – Steinträume (Stone Dreams)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• – My Own Words

Bernard Bailyn

• – The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

James Baldwin

• – Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
• – The Fire Next Time
• – Giovanni’s Room √ (2022)
• – If Beale Street Could Talk

Edward Ball

• – Slaves in the Family

John Ball

• – In the Heat of the Night √ (prior to 2018)

Russell Banks

• – Continental Drift

Pat Barker

• – The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration / The Eye in the Door / The Ghost Road)

Violet Barungi, Felix Chami, and Ayeta Anne Wangusa (eds.), Various Authors

• – Tears of Hope: A Collection of Short Stories by Ugandan Rural Women

Violet Barungi and Hilda Twongyeirwe (eds.), Various Authors

• – Beyond the Dance: Voices of Women on Female Genital Mutilation

Violet Barungi, Hilda Twongyeirwe, and Rebecca Salonen (eds.), Various Authors

• – Taboo: Voices of Women in Uganda on Female Genital Mutilation

Gary Jonathan Bass

• – Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals

Shrabani Basu

• – Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan

Mary Beard

• – Women & Power: A Manifesto

Simone de Beauvoir

• – Le deuxième sexe (The Second Sex)
• – Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter)

Zdenka Becker

• – Samy

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• – Uncle Tom’s Cabin √ (prior to 2018)

Lauren Belfer

• – City of Light √ (2022)

Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat

• – Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin-Anwar Sadat Personal Correspondence

John Bercow

• – Unspeakable √ (2020)

Louis de Bernières

• – Birds Without Wings √ (prior to 2018)

Preet Bharara

• – Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law √ (2021)

Benazir Bhutto

• – Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

Kai Bird / Martin J. Sherwin

• – American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Black Hawk

• – The Autobiography of Black Hawk

Daniel J. Boorstin

• – The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Ray Bradbury

• – Fahrenheit 451 √ (prior to 2018)

Taylor Branch

• – America in the King Years 1954-63: Parting the Waters
• – America in the King Years 1963-65: Pillar of Fire
• – America in the King Years 1965-68: At Canaan’s Edge

Willy Brandt

• – Erinnerungen (My Life in Politics) √ (prior to 2018)

Bertolt Brecht

• – Antigone: In a Version by Bertolt Brecht
• – Der Aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui ) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children) √ (prior to 2018)

Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter

• – The Nixon Tapes (2 volumes: 1971-72 & 1973)

Anne Brontë

• – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall √ (2018)
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Charlotte Brontë

• – Jane Eyre √ (prior to 2018)
• – Villette √ (2021)

Dee Brown

• – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Susan Brownmiller

• – Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

• – The Four Noble Truths

Thi Bui

• – The Best We Could Do

NoViolet Bulawayo

• – We Need New Names

Edmund Burke

• – Reflections on the Revolution in France

Tim Butcher

• – Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

Octavia Butler

• – Kindred

Pete Buttigieg

• – Shortest Way Home

Clayborne Carson (ed.), Various Authors

• – Reporting Civil Rights

Rachel Carson

• – Silent Spring

Aimé Césaire

• – Discours sur le colonialisme

William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Paul Ortiz, Robert Parris

• – Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

Suzanne Chazin

• – Land of Careful Shadows √ (2022)

Ruoxi Chen

• – The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

G.K. Chesterton

• – Eugenics and Other Evils

Winston Churchill

• – Their Finest Hour

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• – An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom (Philippicae) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Selections from the Writings of Cicero

Christopher Clark

• – The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Ta-Nehisi Coates

• – Between the World and Me

Andrew Cockburn

• – Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins

J.M. Coetzee

• – Disgrace

Sara Collins

• – The Confessions of Frannie Langton √ (2019)

James Comey

• – A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

Arthur Conan Doyle

• – Danger! √ (2019)

Maryse Condé

• – Moi, Tituba sorcière (I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem)

Richard Condon

• – The Manchurian Candidate √ (prior to 2018)

Michael Connelly

• -Angel’s Flight √ (prior to 2018)
• – The Dark Hours √ (2021)
• – Fair Warning √ (2021)

J.J. Connington

• – Nordenholt’s Million √ (2020)

Joseph Conrad

• – Nostromo

Members of the Constitutional Congress

• – The Constitution of the United States (1787) √ (prior to 2018)

Gordon Corera

• – Intercept

Rory Cormac

• – Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy

Mairead Corrigan Maguire

• – The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

Charlie Craggs

• – To My Trans Sisters

Stephen Crane

• – The Red Badge of Courage

Caroline Criado-Pérez

• – Invisible Women

Juana Inés de la Cruz

• – La Respuesta (The Answer) √ (prior to 2018)

Euclides da Cunha

• – Rebellion in the Backlands

Dalai Lama XIV

• – Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
• – Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
• – Introduction to Buddhism √ (2021)
• – The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures √ (prior to 2018)

Roméo Dallaire

• – Shake Hands With the Devil

Edwidge Danticat

• – Breath, Eyes, Memory

Danny Danziger, John Gillingham

• – 1215: The Year of Magna Carta

Charles Darwin

• – The Origin of Species
• – The Voyage of the Beagle

Richard Dawkins

• – The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution

John W. Dean

• – The Nixon Defense
• – The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court

Michel Debré, Comité Consultatif Constitutionnel

• – Constitution de la 5e République française (1958) (Constitution of the Fifth French Republic) √ (prior to 2018)

Miguel Delibes

• – El hereje (The Heretic)

Daniel C. Dennett

• – Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

René Descartes

• – Discours de la méthode

Jared Diamond

• – Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed √ (prior to 2018)

Jared Diamond, James A. Robinson

• – Natural Experiments of History

Joan Didion

• – Democracy

Assia Djebar

• – L’amour, la fantasia √ (2021)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

• – The Grand Inquisitor √ (prior to 2018)

Frederick Douglass

• – Autobiographies / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass, James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano, Nat Turner, William W. Brown, Henry Bibb, Sojouner Truth, William Craft, Harriet Jacobs, and J.D.Green; William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates (eds.)

• – Slave Narratives

Philip Dray

• – At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

W.E.B. Du Bois

• – The Souls of Black Folk

Daphne Du Maurier

• – Rule Britannia

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

• – Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Die Physiker (The Physicists) √ (prior to 2018)

George B. Dyson

• – Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution Of Global Intelligence

Angela Eagle, Imran Ahmed

• – The New Serfdom

Esi Edugyan

• – Washington Black √ (2018)

Wolfram Eilenberger

• – Zeit der Zauberer (The Time of the Magicians)

Albert Einstein

• – Essays in Humanism

T.S. Eliot

• – Murder in the Cathedral √ (2023)

Joseph J. Ellis

• – Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation √ (prior to 2018)
• – American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic
• – American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

Ralph Ellison

• – Invisible Man

Mona Eltahawy

• – Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• – Essays √ (prior to 2018)

Nora Ephron

• – Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women
  – The Most of Nora Ephron √ (prior to 2018)

Desiderius Erasmus

• – Praise of Folly

Bernardine Evaristo

• – Girl, Woman, Other √ (2020)
  – The Emperor’s Babe √ (2021)

Ronan Farrow

• – War on Peace

Sebastian Faulks

• – Birdsong
• – War
• – A Week in December

Gaël Faye

• – Petit pays (Small Country) √ (2020)

Ann Fessler

• – The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Their Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

Joachim Fest

• – Hitler √ (prior to 2018)

Lion Feuchtwanger

• – Die Geschwister Oppermann (The Oppermanns)
• – Die Jüdin von Toledo (Raquel, the Jewess of Toledo / A Spanish Ballad) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Jud Süß
• – Narrenweisheit oder Tod und Verklärung des Jean-Jacques Rousseau (‘Tis Folly to Be Wise, or, Death and Transfiguration of Jean-Jaques Rousseau)

Dexter Filkins

• – The Forever War

David Finkel

• – The Good Soldiers
• – Thank You for Your Service

John E. Finn

• – Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights

Helen FitzGerald

• – Viral

Patrick Flanery

• – I Am No One

Moderata Fonte

• – The Worth of Women √ (prior to 2018)

Aminatta Forna

• – The Memory of Love √ (2019)

John Foxe

• – Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

Marshall Frady

• – Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life

Pope Francis, Dominique Wolton

• – A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics and Society

Anne Frank

• – Tagebuch (The Diary of a Young Girl) √ (prior to 2018)

Viktor E. Frankl

• – … trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen (Man’s Search for Meaning)

Benjamin Franklin

• – Writings

Marilyn French

• – The Women’s Room √ (prior to 2018)

Betty Friedan

• – The Feminine Mystique

Thomas L. Friedman

• – The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
• – The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Max Frisch

• – Biedermann und die Brandstifter (The Firebugs) √ (prior to 2018)

Francis Fukuyama

• – The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Mary Fulbrook

• – A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust

Alexandra Fuller

• – Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight √ (2019)

Richard Buckminster Fuller

• – Critical Path

Ernest J. Gaines

• – A Lesson Before Dying

John Kenneth Galbraith

• – The Great Crash, 1929

Elizabeth Gaskell

• – Mary Barton √ (2022)

Joachim Gauck

• – Freiheit (Freedom) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Winter im Sommer — Frühling im Herbst: Erinnerungen (Winter in Summer — Spring in Fall: Memoirs)

Charles de Gaulle

• – Mémoires de guerre (War Memoirs)

Martha Gellhorn

• – Travels with Myself and Another √ (2021)

William Gibson

• – Pattern Recognition

Florence Given

• – Women Don’t Owe You Pretty

Richard J. Goldstone

• – For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator √ (prior to 2018)

Mikhail Gorbachev

• – Memoirs
• – Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World

Al Gore

• – The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-making
• – An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

Stephen Jay Gould

• – Bully for Brontosaurus
• – Ever Since Darwin
• – The Panda’s Thumb

Philip Gourevitch

• – We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Carrie Gracie

• – Equal

David Graeber

• – Debt: The First 5,000 Years √ (prior to 2018)

Katharine Graham

• – Personal History

Peter Grainger

• – But for the Grace √ (2022)

George Grant

• – The American Patriot’s Handbook: The Writings, History, and Spirit of a Free Nation

Ulysses S. Grant

• – Memoirs and Selected Letters

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

• – Spartacus

Toby Green

• – A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

Stephen Greenblatt, William Shakespeare

• • – Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power √ (prior to 2018)

Allen C. Guelzo

• – The American Mind

Yaa Gyasi

• – Homegoing √ (2020)

Richard Haass

• – A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Michihiko Hachiya

• – Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945

Sebastian Haffner (ed.), Various Authors

• – Versailles 1919: Aus der Sicht von Zeitzeugen (Versailles 1919: Seen Through the Eyes of Contemporary Witnesses)

Jonathan Haidt

• – The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Matt Haig

• – Notes on a Nervous Planet

Alex Haley

• – Roots: The Saga of an American Family √ (prior to 2018)

Radclyffe Hall

• – The Well of Loneliness √ (2018)

Barbara Hambly

• – Benjamin January series √ (2021, 2022)

Alexander Hamilton

• – Writings

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

• – The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and others, Bernard Bailyn (ed.)

• – The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: September 1787-August 1788 (2 volumes)

Zahra Hankir (ed.), Christiane Amanpour (foreword), Various Authors

• – Our Women on the Ground √ (2021)

Yuval Noah Harari

• – Money

Nino Haratischwili

• – Die Katze und der General (The Cat and the General)

Kate Harding

• – Asking for It: Slut-shaming, Victim-blaming, and How We Can Change America’s Rape Culture

Luke Harding

• – The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man

Joy Harjo

• – Crazy Brave √ (2021)

Kamala Harris

• – The Truths We Hold √ (2021)

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

• – Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

Stephen Hawking

• – A Brief History of Time

Michael V. Hayden

• – Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

Natalie Haynes

• – A Thousand Ships

Seamus Heaney, Sophocles

• – The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles’ Antigone

Joseph Heller

• – Catch-22
• – Something Happened
• – Work

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

• – Das Leben der anderen (The Lives of Others) √ (prior to 2018)

Alexander Herzen

• – My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen

Hermann Hesse

• – Narziß und Goldmund (Narcissus and Goldmund)
• – Siddhartha √ (prior to 2018)

Patricia Highsmith

• – Carol (The Price of Salt) √ (2021)

Chester Himes

• – A Rage in Harlem √ (2021)
  – The Real Cool Killers √ (2022)

Rolf Hochhuth

• – Juristen (Lawyers) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Der Stellvertreter (The Deputy) √ (prior to 2018)

Andrew Hodges

• – Alan Turing: The Enigma

David E. Hoffman

• – The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

Richard Hofstadter

• – Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
• – The Paranoid Style in American Politics

Tom Holland

• – Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

Maxine Hong Kingston

• – The Woman Warrior √ (2021)

Selina Hossain

• – River of My Blood

David Howarth

• – We Die Alone

Wilhelm von Humboldt

• – Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen (The Sphere and Duties of Government / The Limits of State Action)

David Hume

• – An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
• – Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

John Hume

• – A New Ireland: Politics, Peace, and Reconciliation

Zora Neale Hurston

• – Their Eyes Were Watching God √ (2021)
• – Dust Tracks on a Road √ (2022)

Aldous Huxley

• – Brave New World √ (prior to 2018)

Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, Nancy Caldwell Sorel (eds.), Various Authors

• – Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1946

International Committee of the Red Cross

• – Basic Rules of the Geneva Conventions and Their Additional Protocols √ (prior to 2018)

Peter H. Irons

• – Brennan Vs. Rehnquist: The Battle for the Constitution

Michael Isikoff, David Corn

• – Russian Roulette

Hamid Ismailov

• – The Devils’ Dance

Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón

• – The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation

Hope Jahren

• – Lab Girl

Thomas Jefferson

• – Writings

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, Andrew Jackson, and others, John Grafton (ed.)

• – The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 √ (prior to 2018)

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Otis, John Dickinson, Samuel Adams, Joseph Galloway, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Samuel Seabury, Thomas Hutchinson, and others, Gordon Wood (ed.)

• – The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764-1776 (2 volumes)

Dan Jones

• – Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

Reece Jones

• – Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move

Ernst Jünger

• – In Stahlgewittern (Storms of Steel)

Ismail Kadaré

• – Prilli i thyer (Broken April)

André Kaminski

• – Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem (Kith and Kin)

William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

• – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind √ (2022)

Kazim

• – Post von Karlheinz

Patrick Radden Keefe

• – Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland √ (2021)

John Keegan

• – The Face of Battle

China Keitetsi

• – Child Soldier: Fighting for My Life

Sarah Kendzior

• – The View from Flyover Country

Thomas Keneally

• – Schindler’s List √ (prior to 2018)

Anthony Kennedy, Helen J. Knowles

• – The Tie Goes to Freedom

John F. Kennedy

• – Let the Word Go Forth: Speeches, Statements, and Writings 1947 to 1963
• – A Nation of Immigrants
• – Profiles in Courage

Robert F. Kennedy

• – Thirteen Days

Graeme Kent

• – Devil-Devil √ (2021)

Navid Kermani

• – Ausnahmezustand: Reisen in eine beunruhigte Welt (State of Emergency: Travels in a Troubled World)
• – Einbruch der Wirklichkeit: Auf dem Flüchtlingstreck durch Europa (Upheaval: The Refugee Trek through Europe)
• – Entlang den Gräben: Eine Reise durch das östliche Europa bis nach Isfahan (Along the Trenches: A Trip Through Eastern Europe to Isfahan)
• – Vergesst Deutschland!: Eine patriotische Rede (Forget Germany!: A Patriotic Speech)
• – Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen (Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities)

Ian Kershaw

• – Hitler: A Biography

John Maynard Keynes

• – The Economic Consequences of the Peace
• – The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Jamaica Kincaid

• – A Small Place √ (2020)

Martin Luther King Jr.

• – A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
• – Letter from the Birmingham Jail √ (prior to 2018)
• – Why We Can’t Wait √ (prior to 2018)

Henry Kissinger

• – Diplomacy

Naomi Klein

• – No Is Not Enough

Victor Klemperer

• – LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen

Christopher J. Koch

• – The Year of Living Dangerously √ (prior to 2018)

Arthur Koestler

• – Darkness at Noon

Clea Koff

• – The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo √ (2019)

Eugen Kogon

• – Der SS-Staat (The Theory and Practice of Hell) √ (prior to 2018)

Ted Koppel

• – Lights Out: A Cyberattack: A Nation Unprepared: Surviving the Aftermath

László Krasznahorkai

• – The Melancholy of Resistance

Milan Kundera

• – The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Mark Kurlansky

• – 1968: The Year That Rocked the World

Tony Kushner

• – Angels in America

Stanley I. Kutler

• – The Wars of Watergate

Aung San Suu Kyi

• – Freedom from Fear

Jaron Lanier

• – You Are Not a Gadget

Nella Larsen

• – Passing √ (2021)

John Le Carré

• – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold √ (prior to 2018)

Ursula K. Le Guin

• – The Lathe of Heaven √ (2021)
• – No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters √ (2021)

Denis Leary

• – Why We Don’t Suck and How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches

Harper Lee

• – To Kill a Mockingbird √ (prior to 2018)

Hyeonseo Lee

• – The Girl with Seven Names √ (2019)

Rosamond Lehmann

• – The Weather in the Streets

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

• – Nathan the Wise, Minna von Barnhelm, and Other Plays and Writings √ (prior to 2018)

Steven Levitsky

• – How Democracies Die

C.S. Lewis

• – The Screwtape Letters √ (prior to 2018)

Michael Lewis

• – Liar’s Poker
• – The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Sinclair Lewis

• – It Can’t Happen Here

Juliette Lichtenstein

• – Permanence du discours sur Israël

Savyon Liebrecht

• – Die Banalität der Liebe (The Banality of Love) √ (prior to 2018)

Michael Lienesch

• – In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement

Mark Lilla

• – The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics

Abraham Lincoln

• – The Gettysburg Address √ (prior to 2018)
• – Selected Speeches and Writings

Astrid Lindgren

• – Die Menschheit hat den Verstand verloren: Tagebücher 1939-1945 (A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45) √ (2019)

Attica Locke

• – Bluebird, Bluebird √ (2022)

John Locke

• – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• – Second Treatise of Government
• – Political Writings

James W. Loewen

• – Lies My Teacher Told Me

Chris Lowney

• – A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain

Martin Luther

• – Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen (The Freedom of a Christian) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings

William MacAskill

• – Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference

Tony Macaulay

• – Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles

Niccolò Machiavelli

• – The Prince

Bernard MacLaverty

• – Cal √ (prior to 2018)

Margaret MacMillan

• – Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Okky Madasari

• – The Years of Voiceless

James Madison

• – Writings

Naguib Mahfouz

• – Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth √ (prior to 2018)

Eve Makis

• – The Spice Box Letters √ (2020)

Bernard Malamud

• – The Assistant

Malcolm X, Alex Haley

• – The Autobiography of Malcolm X

David Mamet

• – Glengarry Glen Ross √ (prior to 2018)

Peter C. Mancall

• – Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution

Nelson Mandela

• – Long Walk to Freedom

Abby Mann

• – Judgment at Nuremberg

Heinrich Mann

• – Der Untertan (Man of Straw) √ (prior to 2018)

Klaus Mann

• – Mephisto √ (prior to 2018)

Thomas Mann

• – Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen (Reflections of an Unpolitical Man) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Deutsche Hörer! Radiosendungen nach Deutschland aus den Jahren 1940-1945 (Listen, Germany!  Letters to German listeners broadcast on BBC in 1940-1945) √ (prior to 2018)

Marcus Aurelius

• – Meditations

Joyce Marlow (ed.), Various Authors

• – Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes

Ngaio Marsh

• – Black Beech and Honeydew √ (2021)
• – Death and the Dancing Footman √ (prior to 2018, 2019-2021)
• – Scales of Justice √ (prior to 2018, 2020)
• – Clutch of Constables √ (2018 and prior, 2022)

Paule Marshall

• – The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

Milton Sanford Mayer

• – They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 √ (prior to 2018)

Sarah McBride

• – Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

John McIlwain

• – Magna Carta In Salisbury

Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera

• – All The Devils Are Here: Unmasking the Men Who Bankrupted the World

Francesca Melandri

• – Alle, außer mir (original title: Sangue giusto — “The Right [or Just] Blood”)

Maaza Mengiste

• – Beneath the Lion’s Gaze

Maria Rosa Menocal

• – The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

Maria Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Michael Sells (eds.), Various Authors

• – The Literature of Al-Andalús

Fatima Mernissi

• – Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Muslim Society

Jamie Frederic Metzl

• – Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

Martin Middlebrook

• – The First Day on the Somme

John Stuart Mill

• – On Liberty
• – The Subjection of Women

Frank Millar

• – David Trimble: The Price of Peace

John Milton

• – Areopagitica and Other Writings

Nancy Mitford

• – Wigs on the Green √ (2021)

Nadifa Mohamed

• – The Orchard of Lost Souls

N. Scott Momaday

• – Earth Keeper √ (2023)

Michel de Montaigne

• – Essays

Amanda Montell

• – Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Montesquieu

• – De l’esprit des lois

Anne Moody

• – Coming of Age in Mississippi

Thomas More

• – Utopia √ (prior to 2018)

James McGrath Morris

• – Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press

Toni Morrison

• – Beloved √ (prior to 2018, 2019)
• – The Bluest Eye
• – Sula √ (2021)
• – Song of Solomon
• – The Origin of Others
• – Race

John Mortimer

• • – The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole √ (prior to 2018)
  • – The Fascist Beast √ (prior to 2018)
  • – Murderers and Other Friends √ (2021)

Lisa Mosconi

• – The XX Brain

Mo Moulton

• – Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women √ (2022)

Scholastique Mukasonga

• – Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile)

Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

• – Nairobi Heat √ (2021)
• – Black Star Nairobi
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John Muir

• – Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays

Una Mullally (ed.), Emmet Kiran, Aisling Bea, Tara Flynn, Lisa McInerney, Louise O’Neill, Caitlin Moran, Anne Enright, and Sinéad Gleeson

• – Repeal The 8th

Herta Müller

• – Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel)

David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey

• – Battleground Berlin

Miyamoto Musashi

• – The Book of Five Rings

Barbara Nadel

• – Land of the Blind √ (2022)

Azar Nafisi

• – Reading Lolita in Tehran

Taslima Nasrin

• – No Country for Women
• – Revenge
• – Shame

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

• – The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Muna Ndulo

• – Security, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation: When the Wars End

Muna Ndulo

• – Security, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation: When the Wars End

Barbara Neely

• – Blanche on the Lam √ (2020)

Viet Thanh Nguyen

• – The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen (ed./contrib.), Various Authors

• – The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

Trevor Noah

• – Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood

Anthony Nott

• – Investigating Organised Crime and War Crimes

Sara Nović

• – Girl at War

Bill Nye

• – Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

Barack Obama

• – The Audacity of Hope
• – Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
• – We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
• – A Promised Land √ (2021)

Michelle Obama

• – Becoming √ (2019)

Lawrence O’Donnell

• – Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

Sofi Oksanen

• – Fegefeuer (Purge) √ (2019)

Keith Olbermann

• – Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration’s War on American Values

Tommy Orange

• – There There

Iris Origo

• – War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans Montpensier

• – Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle

George Orwell

• – Animal Farm √ (prior to 2018)
• – 1984 √ (prior to 2018)
• – The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

Nicholas O’Shaughnessy

• – Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda

Carl von Ossietzky

• – Rechenschaft: Publizistik aus den Jahren 1913-1933 (roughly equivalent with the English language compilation The Stolen Republic: Selected Writings)

Ovid

• – Gedichte aus der Verbannung (Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto)

Thomas Paine

• – Collected Writings: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets / Articles & Letters

Dexter Palmer

• – Version Control

Orhan Pamuk

• – My Name Is Red √ (2021)

Sara Paretsky

• – Killing Orders √ (2022)
• – Bitter Medicine √ (2023)

Parlamentarischer Rat

• – Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1949) (German Constitution) √ (prior to 2018)

Blaise Pascal

• – Pensées

J.J. Patrick

• – Alternative War

Robert O. Paxton

• – The Anatomy of Fascism

Iain Pears

• – The Dream of Scipio √ (prior to 2018)

Shimon Peres

• – Battling for Peace: A Memoir

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• – The Yellow Wallpaper √ (prior to 2018)

Ellis Peters

• – The Heretic’s Apprentice √ (prior to 2018, 2022)
  
• – Brother Cadfael’s Penance √ (prior to 2018, 2022)

Markéta Pilátová

• – Der Held von Madrid (The Hero of Madrid)
• – Mit Bat’a im Dschungel (In the Jungle with Bat’a)

Christine de Pizan

• – Le débat sur le roman de la rose (The Debate on the Romance of the Rose) √ (prior to 2018)
• – La Cité des Dames (The City of the Ladies) √ (prior to 2018)
• – Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc (The Ballad of Joan of Arc) √ (prior to 2018)

Valerie Plame Wilson

• – Fair Game √ (2018)

Plato

• – The Republic

Thomas Powers

• – Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb

Dith Pran and Kim DePaul (eds.), Various Authors

• – Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors

Terry Pratchett

• – Guards! Guards! √ (2019)
• – Small Gods √ (2022)
• – Monstrous Regiment √ (2019)

Helen Prejean

• – Dead Man Walking √ (prior to 2018)

Qiu Miaojin

• – Last Words from Montmartre

Anna Quindlen

• – A Short Guide to a Happy Life √ (2018)

Claudia Rankine

• – Citizen: An American Lyric

Christoph Ransmayr

• – Die letzte Welt (The Last World)

Jody Raphael

• – Rape Is Rape

Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner

• – What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism

Slavomir Rawicz

• – The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

• – Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten (Diary of a Man in Despair)

Christopher Reeve

• – Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life

Kathy Reichs

• – Grave Secrets √ (2019)

Tom Reiss

• – The Black Count √ (2019)

Erich Maria Remarque

• – Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) √ (prior to 2018)

Marcie R. Rendon

• – Murder on the Red River √ (2021)
  – Girl Gone Missing √ (2021)

Richard Rhodes

• – The Making of the Atomic Bomb

T.R. Richmond

• – What She Left

Jon Ronson

• – The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right”

Reginald Rose

• – Twelve Angry Men √ (prior to 2018)

Joseph Roth

• – Unter dem Bülowbogen: Prosa zur Zeit (roughly equivalent with the English language collection What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933)

Philip Roth

• – The Plot Against America √ (2021)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• – Les Confessions
• – Du Contrat social
• – Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes (Discourse on the Origin of Inequality)
• – Émile, ou, de l’éducation
• – Les Reveries Du Promeneur Solitaire (Reveries of the Solitary Walker)

Hallie Rubenhold

• – The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper √ (2022)

Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig

• – A Very Stable Genius

Salman Rushdie

• – East, West √ (prior to 2018)
• – Home
• – The Satanic Verses √ (prior to 2018)
• – Shame √ (prior to 2018)
• – Joseph Anton √ (prior to 2018)
• – Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
• – Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

Joanna Russ

• – How to Suppress Women’s Writing

Juri Rytchëu (Yuri Rytkheu)

• – Wenn die Wale fortziehen (When the Whales Leave) √ (2021)

Vita Sackville-West

• – All Passion Spent √ (2022)

Carl Sagan

• – Cosmos
• – Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• – Le Petit Prince √ (prior to 2018)

Andrei Sakharov

• – Memoirs

Zainab Salbi

• – Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam

Carl Sandburg

• – Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years

Ben Sasse

• – Them: Why We Hate Each Other — and How to Heal

Marjane Satrapi

• – Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood & The Story of a Return

Dorothy L. Sayers

• – Are Women Human? √ (prior to 2018)
• – Gaudy Night √ (prior to 2018)
• – Love All √ (2020)
• – The Lost Tools of Learning √ (2020)

Sydney Schanberg

• – The Killing Fields

Barry Scheck, Jim Dwyer, Peter Neufeld

• – Actual Innocence √ (prior to 2018)

Friedrich von Schiller

• – Don Carlos √ (prior to 2018)

Bernhard Schlink

• – Der Vorleser (The Reader)

Helmut Schmidt

• – Sechs Reden (Six Speeches) √ (prior to 2018)

Inge Scholl

• – Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose)

Erwin Schrödinger

• – ‘Nature and the Greeks’ and ‘Science and Humanism’

Tom Schulman

• – Dead Poets Society √ (prior to 2018)

A. Brad Schwartz

• – Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News

André Schwarz-Bart

• – Le dernier des Justes (The Last of the Just)

Seneca

• – Letters from a Stoic

Julia Serano

• – Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

William Shakespeare

• • – Uneasy Lies The Head: William Shakespeare on Power √ (prior to 2018)
  • – The Merchant of Venice √ (prior to 2018)

… but really: The Complete Works √ (prior to 2018)

Kamila Shamsie

• – Home Fire √ (2018)

Ntozake Shange

• – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

George Bernard Shaw

• – Saint Joan

William L. Shirer

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

Anna Maria Sigmund

• – Die Frauen der Nazis (Women of the Third Reich)

Ignazio Silone

• – Bread and Wine

James F. Simon

• – What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States

Peter Singer

• – Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
• – The Life You Can Save: How to Play Your Part in Ending World Poverty
• – Practical Ethics

Adam Smith

• – An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Helen Zenna Smith

• – Not So Quiet ..: Stepdaughters of War

Zadie Smith

• – Feel Free: Essays √ (2021)

Timothy Snyder

• – The Road to Unfreedom
• – On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons form the Twentieth Century

Takuan Soho

• – The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman

Rebecca Solnit

• – Men Explain Things to Me

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• – The Gulag Archipelago √ (prior to 2018)
• – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• – The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005

Sophocles

• – Antigone √ (prior to 2018)

Vladimir Sorokin

• – Der Zuckerkreml (Sugar Kreml)

Sonia Sotomayor

• – My Beloved World √ (2020)

Dale Spender

• – The Writing or the Sex? Or Why You Don’t Have to Read Women’s Writing to Know It’s No Good

Art Spiegelman

• – The Complete Maus

Norman Spinrad

• – Bug Jack Barron

Cath Staincliffe

• – Blue Murder √ (2022)

Ron Stallworth

• – Black Klansman

Saša Stanišić

• – Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert (How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone) √ (2020)
• – Herkunft (Origin) √ (2020)

Alexander Starritt

• – We Germans

John Steinbeck

• – The Grapes of Wrath √ (prior to 2018)
• – The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath √ (prior to 2018)
  
• – The Moon Is Down √ (2021)
• – The Winter of Our Discontent √ (2021)

Gloria Steinem

• – Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Joseph E. Stiglitz

• – Globalization and Its Discontents

Barry Strauss

• – The Spartacus War

Susan Stryker

• – Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution

Rachel Swaby

• – Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

Emma Talbott, Meera Bowman-Johnson, Veronica Kugler, Phiroozeh Petigara, Blaire Topash-Caldwell, Nashormeh Lindo, Michelle “Mush” Lee, Jennifer De Leon, Lisa Jones, Natalie Baszile, Nayomi Munaweera, Massimo Mila, Belva Davis, America Ferrera, Porochista Khakpour, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, Musimbi Kanyoro, Deborah Santana, Samina Ali, Marian Wright Edelman, and Lalita Tademy

• – All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom (Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God)

Natasha Tarpley

• – I Love My Hair!

Max Tegmark

• – Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Janne Teller

• – Krieg: Stell dir vor, er wäre hier (War)

Peter Temple

• – The Broken Shore √ (2021)

Sheri S. Tepper

• – Six Moon Dance

Josephine Tey

• – The Franchise Affair √ (2018)
• – The Daughter of Time √ (prior to 2018, 2019)
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Reg Theriault

• – How to Tell When You’re Tired: A Brief Examination of Work

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

• – Petals of Blood

Angie Thomas

• – The Hate U Give

Mike Thomson

• – Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege

Henry David Thoreau

• – Civil Disobedience √ (prior to 2018)
• – Walden √ (prior to 2018)

Jacobo Timerman

• – Preso sin nombre, celda sin número (Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number)

Rebecca Tinsley

• – When the Stars Fall to Earth √ (2021)

Alexis de Tocqueville

• – Democracy in America

J.R.R. Tolkien

• – The Lord of the Rings √ (prior to 2018; 2022)

Robert Tressel

• – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

George W.S. Trow

• – Within the Context of No Context

Dalton Trumbo

• – Johnny Got His Gun

Chogyam Trungpa

• – Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery

Sojourner Truth

• – The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Barbara W. Tuchman

• – The Guns of August
• – The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

Kurt Tucholsky

• – Das Tucholsky Lesebuch (The Tucholsky Reader)
• – Tucholsky in Berlin: Gesammelte Feuilletons 1912-1930 (Collected Feature Articles)

Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera(eds.), Various Authors

• – Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time

Katy Tur

• – Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

Desmond Tutu

• – No Future Without Forgiveness

Mark Twain

• – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn √ (prior to 2018)
• – Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race

Hilda Twongyeirwe (ed.), Various Authors

• – I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival
• – Nothing to See Here

Anne Tyler

• – Vinegar Girl √ (2019)

Lao Tzu

• – Tao Te Ching

Sun Tzu

• – The Art of War √ (prior to 2018)

Morihei Ueshiba

• – The Art of Peace

Alfred Uhry

• – Driving Miss Daisy √ (prior to 2018)

Ludmila Ulitskaya

• – Just the Plague

United Nations

• – Charter of the United Nations √ (prior to 2018)
• – Statute of the International Court of Justice √ (prior to 2018)
• – Universal Declaration of Human Rights √ (prior to 2018)

Ayu Utami

• – Enrico’s Love Story

Sandra Uwiringiyimana

• – How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child √ (2019)

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

• – The Ox-Bow Incident √ (prior to 2018)

Mario Vargas Llosa

• – Conversación en la Catedral
• – Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society
• – La fiesta del chivo
• – Making Waves

Vassilis Vassilikos

• – Z

Timur Vermes

• – Er ist wieder da (Look Who’s Back)

Katherena Vermette

• – The Break √ (2021)

Andreĭ Volos

• – Hurramabad

Voltaire

• – Candide √ (prior to 2018)

Francesca Wade

• – Square Haunting

Michael Walzer

• – Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

Ayeta Anne Wangusa (ed.), Various Authors

• – Tears of Hope: A Collection of Short Stories by Ugandan Rural Women

Robert Penn Warren

• – All the King’s Men

George Washington

• – Farewell Address √ (2018 and prior)
• – Writings

George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, and others, John H. Rhodehamel (ed.)

• – American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglas, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gregory Suriano (ed.)

• – Great American Speeches

George Washington, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Lee, Daniel Webster, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Chief Joseph, Grover Cleveland, Booker T. Washington, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John F. and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Betty Friedan, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and others, Ted Widmer (ed.)

• – American Speeches: Political Oratory from Patrick Henry to Barack Obama (2 volumes)

George Washington, Queen Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mahatma Gandhi, Clarence Darrow, Emmeline Pankhurst, Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, George S Patton, Stalin, Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, and others, Simon Sebag Montefiore (ed.)

• – Speeches That Changed the World

Edward J. Watts

• – Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

Richard von Weizsäcker

• – Vier Zeiten: Erinnerungen
• – Im Gespräch mit Ulrich Wickert: In der Freiheit bestehen

Lindy West

• – Shrill
• – The Witches Are Coming

Phillis Wheatley

• – Memoir and Poetry √ (2020)

Theodore H. White

• – Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon
• – The Making of the President 1960
• – The Making of the President 1972

Colson Whitehead

• – The Underground Railroad √ (2021)

Elie Wiesel

• –  The Night Trilogy: Night / Dawn / The Accident (Day)

Samantha Wilcoxson

• – Luminous

Oscar Wilde

• – The Picture of Dorian Gray √ (prior to 2018)
• – The Decay of Lying and other Essays √ (prior to 2018)

Isabel Wilkerson

• – Caste √ (2022)

Paul R. Williams

• – Peace with Justice?: War Crimes and Accountability in the Former Yugoslavia

Garry Wills

• – Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Douglas L. Wilson

• – Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words

Jay Winik

• – April 1865: The Month That Saved America

Michael Wolff

• – Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

Mary Wollstonecraft

• – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman √ (prior to 2018)

Gordon S. Wood

• – Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Bob Woodward

• – Shadow
• – The Last of the President’s Men

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

• – All the President’s Men

Virginia Woolf

• – Liberty
• – A Room of One’s Own √ (prior to 2018)
• – Street Haunting and Other Essays
• – The Waves

Jonathan Wright

• – Gustav Stresemann: Weimar’s Greatest Statesman

Lawrence Wright

• – The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Richard Wright

• – Black Boy
• – Native Son
• – Injustice

Robert Wright

• – The Moral Animal

Xinran

• – The Good Women of China √ (2019)

Paul Yoon

• – Run Me to Earth

Muhammad Yunus

• – Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Fareed Zakaria

• – In Defense of a Liberal Education

Yevgeny Zamyatin

• – We

Gerhard Zeillinger

• – Überleben: Der Gürtel des Walter Fantl (Survival: Walter Fantl’s Belt)

Howard Zinn

• – Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
• – A History of the American Empire
• – A People’s History of the United States
• – A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
• – The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

Émile Zola

• – J’accuse √ (prior to 2018)

Shoshana Zuboff

• – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Stefan Zweig

• – Die Welt von Gestern