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Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Anonymous Anonymous
Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
Colum McCann
The Norse Myths
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Mythology
Edith Hamilton
Botanicum (Welcome to the Museum)
Katie Scott
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
Laura Sook Duncombe
Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
Edward W. Said
Pakistan: A Personal History
Imran Khan
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
Firas Alkhateeb
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
Edwin Black
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Poverty, by America
The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
Jermaine Fowler
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Truth to Power)
Daniel A. Sjursen
A Peopleâs History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Howard Zinn
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
Richard J. Evans
Islam and The English Enlightenment
Zulfiqar Ali Shah
The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
Jerry Brotton
1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
Ali Humayun Akhtar
Beyond Bilal: Black History In Islam
Mustafa Briggs
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
William Dalrymple
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