Reading List of Historical Books

Herein lies a schedule for the reading of historical books.

• The Histories by Herodotus (441 B.C.)
• The Peloponnessian War by Thusydides (400 B.C.)
• The Republic by Plato (375 B.C.)
• Lives (Volume I and Volume II) by Plutarch (A.D. 100-125)
• The City of God by Augustine (426)
• The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede (731)
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (1513)
• Utopia by Sir Thomas Moore (1516)
• The True End of Civil Government by John Locke (1690)
• The History of England by David Hume (1754)
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
  
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
  
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1776-88)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
  
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835-40)
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)
  
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt (1860)
  
• The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. du Bois (1903)
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber (1904)
• Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey (1921)
• The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937)
• The New England Mind by Perry Miller (1939)
• The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith (1955)
• The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan (1959)
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)
• Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese (1974)
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman (1978)
• All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (1987)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson (1988)
• A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Marta Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcther Ulrich (1990)
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (1992)