- European History
- Europe: A History by Norman Davies
- Post-War: A History of Europe by Tony Judt
- The Making of Eastern Europe by Longworth
- Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne
- A History of France by John Julius Norwich
- The Story of Britain by Roy Strong
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- Middle Eastern History
- A History of the Modern Middle East by William Cleveland
- Lawrence of Arabia: War, Deceit… by Scott Anderson
- A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
- Osman’s Dream by Caroline Finkel
- The Ottoman Empire by Inalcik Halil
- Ibn Battuta by Ross E Dunn
- The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer

- Indian History
- East Asian History
- History of Japan by RHP Mason
- The Rising Sun by John Toland
- The Making of Modern Japan by Marius Jansen
- Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction by Chris Goto-Jones
- The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War by Sarah Painen
- China: A History by John Keay
- A Modern History of China by Steve Tsang
- American History
- American Literature
- Mark Twain
- Ernest Hemingway
- Short Stories
- The Sun Also Rises
- The Old Man and the Sea
- A Farewell to Arms
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Torrents of Spring
- To Have and Have Not
- The Garden of Eden
- Across the River and into the Trees
- Islands in the Stream
- John Steinbeck
- Tortilla Flat
- In Dubious Battle
- Cannery Row
- Grapes of Wrath
- Travels with Charley
- East of Eden
- Of Mice and Men
- Joseph Heller
- Henry David Thoreau
- JD Salinger
- F Scott Fitzgerald
- Harper Lee
- Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Meridian

- Blood Meridian
- British Literature
- George Orwell
- French Literature
- Marcel Proust
- Claude Baudelaire
- Russian Literature
- Philosophy
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Voltaire
- Adam Smith
- Karl Marx
- Immanuel Kant
- David Hume
- Georg Hegel
- Rene Descartes
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Plato
- Thomas Hobbes
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- John Stuart Mill
- John Locke