Charles Haywood

Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Roger Crowley)

Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine (Barry Strauss)

The Saxon Savior: The Germanic Transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand (G. Ronald Murphy)

The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (Edward C. Banfield)

When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany (Adam Fergusson)

Against Masks

SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build (Jonathan Waldman)

Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Lawrence Wright)

Lord of All the Dead (Javier Cercas)