Honors World History Book List
Pre-1000's - 1680's = The Development of the European Identity, the Age of Monarchs, and the Age of
Exploration
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The Prince (Renaissance)
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Reformation)
John Calvin: A Sixteenth Century Portrait (Reformation)
The Three-Inch Golden Lotus (Ancient China)
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Middle Ages)
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made (The Black Death)
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai (Feudal Japan)
Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi (African Slave Trade)
When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne (Age of Exploration)
My Name is Red (Ottoman Empire)
Middle Passage (Africa – Slave Trade)
Sacred Hunger (African Slave Trade)
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta : A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century (Islam / Age of Exploration)
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: How One Man’s Courage Changed the Course of History (Age of Exploration)
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan (Feudal Japan)
The Travels of Marco Polo (Age of Exploration)
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Age of Exploration)
The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Age of Exploration)
1680's - 1810's = The Age of Enlightenment, Political Revolution, and Democratic Changes within World
Societies
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Galileo’s Daughter (Scientific Revolution)
The Social Contract (Enlightenment)
Two Treaties of Government (Enlightenment)
On Crime and Punishment (Enlightenment)
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus (Scientific Revolution)
Ines of My Soul: A Novel (Colonial Latin America)
All Souls’ Rising (Haitian Revolution)
The Glass-Blowers (French Revolution)
Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel (Haitian Revolution)
1810's - 1940's = The Industrialization of the Globe, European Imperialism, and Attempted Reforms /
New Ideas
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Forgotten Fire (Armenian Genocide)
Things Fall Apart (Africa / Imperialism)
Heart of Darkness (Africa / Imperialism)
King Leopold’s Ghost (Africa – Imperialism)
A Grain of Wheat (Africa – Imperialism)
Burmese Days (British Imperialism)
Women of the Silk (China prior to the Revolution)
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
(Imperialism)
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Colonial India)
The Desert Road to Turkestan (Imperialism)
The Communist Manifesto (Industrial Reformers)
The White Nile (Africa – Imperialism)
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the War (World War I)
1940's - 1990's = The Age of Global Conflicts and Political Change
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Mao’s Last Dancer (Communist China / Cultural Revolution)
Kaffir Boy (Apartheid)
The God of Small Things (India / Cold War)
Cry, The Beloved Country (Apartheid)
Son of the Revolution (Communist China / Cultural Revolution)
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Chinese Civil War)
In the Time of Butterflies (Latin America – Dominican Republic)
The Marines of Autumn (Asia – Korean War)
The Tree of Red Stars (Latin America – Cold War)
Clear Light of Day (Asia – Partitioning of India)
The Shadow Lines (India – Independence / Partition)
Snow County (Imperial Japan)
Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (Imperial Japan)
The Painted Bird (The Holocaust)
The Feast of the Goat (Latin America – Dominican Republic)
In Country (Vietnam War)
The Journey of Tao Kim Nam (Vietnam War)
The Quiet American (Vietnam War)
Paradise of the Blind (Vietnam War)
To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge (Khmer Rouge)
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Khmer Rouge)
To Swim Across the World (Korea)
Cracking India (Partitioning of India)
Imagining Argentina (Latin America – Cold War)
Mornings in Jenin (Israeli-Palestinian Conflict)
Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook (Imperial Japan)
Red Scarf Girl (Communist China – Cultural Revolution)
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Chinese Civil War)
The Good Earth (Chinese Civil War)
Falling Leaves (Communist China)
Red Azalea (Communist China)
Darkness at Noon (Russian Revolution)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Life in the USSR)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Afghanistan under USSR)
Shallow Graves in Siberia (USSR in WWII)
1990's - present = Unresolved Problems and Global Issues
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Three Cups of Tea (Islam / War in Afghanistan)
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Islam)
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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Caroline Maria de Jesus (Modern Latin America – Poverty)
What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Middle East – Islam)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier (Modern-Day Africa)
Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom (Modern-Day Afghanistan)
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families (Rwandan Genocide)
Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Modern World History)
Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq’s 7,000-year History of War, Profit, and Conflict (Iraq Conflicts)