History

Europe – Norman Davies

A History of Christianity – Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Story of Philosophy – Will Durant

A Child’s History of England – Charles Dickens

Novels

The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel

The Mirror and the Light – Hilary Mantel

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

Novellas

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

The Little Prince – Antoine de St. Exupéry

A Chess Story – Stefan Zweig

Short Stories

Sketches from a Hunter’s Album – Ivan Turgenev

The Picador Book of Indian Literature – Amit Chaudhuri

The Complete Short Fiction – Oscar Wilde

Collected Short Stories – Anton Chekhov

Essays on Literature

How to Read and Why – Harold Bloom

Languages of Truth – Salman Rushdie

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain – George Sanders

Lectures on Russian Literature – Ivan Panin

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