Reading That Inspires

Fiction

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Any of the Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, though the novels The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four are masterful

• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes is a highly recommended edition for anyone wanting to know more about the historical setting of the stories

J. R. R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• Beowulf

P. G. Wodehouse

• The Code of the Woosters
• Right Ho, Jeeves
• Leave It to Psmith

Oscar Wilde

• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Importance of Being Earnest

Stephen Fry

• The Hippopotamus

Non-Fiction

Niall Ferguson

• The War of the World
• The Square and the Tower
• Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Andrew Roberts

• Masters and Commanders
• Churchill
• George III

Steven Pinker

• The Language Instinct
• The Better Angels of Our Nature

Yuval Noah Harari

• Sapiens

Daniel Kahneman

• Thinking Fast and Slow

Tom Holland

• Dominion

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Incerto

Hannah Arendt

• Between Past and Future
• The Origins of Totalitarianism
• The Life of the Mind

Michael Burleigh

• Sacred Causes