1. The Republic For Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction And The Guilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White 2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf 3. The Year of Decision 1846 by Bernard DeVoto 4. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman 5. Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor 6. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 8. Sartoris by William Faulkner 9. Dracula by Bram Stoker 10. A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield 11. The Quiet American by Graham Greene