1. "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn
2. "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
3. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
4. "The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome" by Susan Wise Bauer
5. "The Oxford History of the United States" series by various authors
6. "The Silk Roads: A New History of the World" by Peter Frankopan
7. "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. Mann
8. "SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome" by Mary Beard
9. "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough
10. "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson