Top Ten

In progress.

Top ten lists.

Top Ten

How the Scots Invented the World,
The Wooden Horse, Keld Zeruneith 

World History

How the Scots Invented the World, Arthur Herman,
The Wooden Horse, Keld Zeruneith,
A History of Israel, multiple editions, the one I read -- Third Edition, c. 1959, John Bright

 

British Literature, Classic

Shakespeare

 The Truth Will Out, Brenda James 

Novels

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf 

AI

Why Machines Learn, Anil Ananthaswamy, c. 2024 / 2025 

Biographies

The Mystery of Charles Dickens, A. N. Wilson, c. 2020 
The Man Who Made The Movies, William Fox, Vanda Krefft, c. 2017
The Snowball, Warren Buffet, Alicd Schroeder, c. 2008

Autobiographies

Jan S. Wenner, s 2022

The Annotate Volumes

Tale of Twos Cities, Charles Dickens, not by Susanne Alleynknc. 2016  

 

Economics

Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy, c. 2025. 

Language
Proto, Laura Spinney, c.2025

Travelogue

Appetite for America, Stephen Fried

Chemistry for High School Juniors / Seniors

The Disappearing Spoon: the History of the World from The Periodic Table of Elements, Sam Kean, c. 2010

Biology for High School Juniors / Seniors

Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, Nick Lane, c. 2015

20th Century Science History

The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes, c. 2012 -- not yet read; recommended by Nick Lane (posted August 25, 2015)

Scandinavian History

Lewis Chessman
Song of the Vikings