Seventeen ways in.
Every book stands alone and starts from nothing. Read a collection in order, though, and the books start arguing with each other: one idea picked up, sharpened, and broken by the next person who tried it.
All 17 collections
Each one is a reading order, not a shelf.
The Tudors
One family, two generations, and the century that made England Protestant, paranoid and powerful.
4 books · about 4 hours end to end
British Monarchs
A thousand years of crowns won, lost, and occasionally removed along with the head wearing them. The conquerors, tyrants, and empire-builders who ruled Britain.
7 books · about 7 hours end to end
American Presidents
The men who held the office, from the founding to the end of the Cold War.
8 books · about 8 hours end to end
The Ancient World
Rome, Egypt, Macedon and Carthage: the empires everything else was measured against.
5 books · about 5 hours end to end
Conquerors
The men who took more of the map than anyone thought possible, and what it cost.
6 books · about 6 hours end to endQueens and Empresses
Women who ruled in their own right, and the ones destroyed for getting close to a throne.
8 books · about 8 hours end to end
Scientists and Inventors
The minds that rewrote what was possible, usually while being difficult to be around.
5 books · about 5 hours end to end
Writers
The lives behind the books, which are usually stranger than the books.
4 books · about 4 hours end to end
France
From the Sun King to the guillotine to the empire that followed it.
4 books · about 4 hours end to end
Wars and Events
Not a person but a moment: the events that redrew the map.
3 books · about 3 hours end to end
Russia
Tsars, mystics and the empire that kept collapsing into something worse.
4 books · about 4 hours end to end
Outlaws and Villains
Pirates, tyrants and the men who became stories before they were even dead.
3 books · about 3 hours end to end
Civil Rights
The long fight for equality in America, from slavery to the movement.
4 books · about 4 hours end to end
Artists
Paint, obsession, patrons and poverty.
4 books · about 4 hours end to end
Great Explorers
The people who went first, into places nobody had mapped, and did not always come back.
4 books · about 4 hours end to end
The American Revolution
How thirteen colonies broke from the most powerful empire on earth, told from both sides.
4 books · about 4 hours end to end
The Second World War
The war that redrew the map, told through the people who fought and ran it.
5 books · about 5 hours end to end
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