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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Three Cups of Tea (Islam / War in Afghanistan)
- Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (Islam)
- 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)