Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais
The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club)
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Unorthodox
Deborah Feldman
Old Guard
Keith Laumer
The Federalist papers
Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; John Jay; Lawrence Goldman
The American Civil War and the wars of the Industrial Revolution
Brian Holden Reid; John Keegan
John Adams
David McCullough
Rights of Man
Thomas Paine; Mark Philp