Here is a list of books I have enjoyed, I think you will enjoy, and have been an inspiration to me.
- Tocqueville, Old Regime and the Revolution
- Saramago, History of the Siege of Lisbon
- Saramago, Blindness,
- Saramago, All the Names
- Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
- Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
- Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- Norwich, Byzantium
- Holland, Rubicon
- Shakespeare, Tempest
- Overy, Why the Allies Won
- Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
- Eco, The Name of the Rose
- Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
- Duffy, The World as I Found it
- Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- Ogawa, Revenge
- Bloch, Strange Defeat
- Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
- Proust, Swann’s Way
- Dostoyevsky, Brothers Karamazov