Reading List : Lugo Labs

2026

1

Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain

Paul Preston

Published on 2022
2

Anatomy of a Murder

Robert Traver

Published on 1958
3

Athenian Democracy: An Experiment for the Ages

Robert Garland

Published on 2017
4

The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France

Jeremy D. Popkin

Published on 2026
5

La levatrice

Bibbiana Cau

Published on 2025
6

The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh, #5)

P.D. James

Published on 1975
7

The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome

Michael Parenti

Published on 2003
8

Food: A Cultural Culinary History

Ken Albala

Published on 2013
9

Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History

John Julius Norwich

Published on 2015
10

Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh, #3)

P.D. James

Published on 1967
11

Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention

Clara E. Mattei

Published on 2026
12

Against Empire

Michael Parenti

Published on 1995
13

Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance

Yanis Varoufakis

Published on 2025
14

Gli occhi di Venezia

Alessandro Barbero

Published on 2011
15

The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump

Max Blumenthal

Published on 2019
16

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

Published on 2012
17

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

Published on 1776
18

The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain

Ian Mortimer

Published on 2017
19

Shrines of Gaiety

Kate Atkinson

Published on 2022

2025

1

The Bat (Harry Hole, #1)

Jo Nesbø

Published on 1997
2

We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir

Anthony Hopkins

Published on 2025
3

The Last Song

Nicholas Sparks

Published on 2009
4

The Story of Human Language

John McWhorter

Published on 2004
5

Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives

Edwin Black

Published on 2006
6

The Wrong Sister

Claire Douglas

Published on 2024
7

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It

Arthur Herman

Published on 2001
8

Couleurs de l'incendie (Les Enfants du désastre, #2)

Pierre Lemaitre

Published on 2018
9

FREEDOM: The Case For Open Borders

Joss Sheldon

Published on 2024
10

Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq

Bartle Bull

Published on 2024
11

The Help

Kathryn Stockett

Published on 2009
12

La prima regina

Alessandra Selmi

Published on 2024
13

Quella volta: Un viaggio nel passato di tutti noi (Italian Edition)

Gerry Scotti

Published on 2024
14

Post mortem

Olivier Tournut

Published on 2024
15

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

Zeinab Badawi

Published on 2024
16

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen

Jacques Pépin

Published on 2003
17

La vita s'impara

Corrado Augias

Published on 2024
18

A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)

Peter Mayle

Published on 1989
19

The Invention of Amsterdam: A History of Europe’s Greatest City in Ten Walks

Ben Coates

Published on 2025
20

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

Published on 1963
21

The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth

Diana Preston

Published on 2022
22

The Familiars

Stacey Halls

Published on 2019
23

This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

David J. Silverman

Published on 2019
24

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

Glenn Greenwald

Published on 2014
25

24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)

Donald P. Ryan

Published on 2018
26

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

Moudhy Al-Rashid

Published on 2025
27

Constantine and the conversion of Europe (Teach yourself history library)

Arnold Hugh Martin Jones

Published on 1948
28

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Published on 2013
29

The Firemaker (China Thrillers, #1)

Peter May

Published on 1999
30

Sonny Boy

Al Pacino

Published on 2024
31

City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

Roger Crowley

Published on 2011
32

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

Adrian Goldsworthy

Published on 2009
33

Le Pont des soupirs

Michel Zévaco

Published on 1909
34

A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Published on 2018
35

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer

Patrick Maguire

Published on 2025
36

How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History

Josephine Quinn

Published on 2024
37

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Bettany Hughes

Published on 2024
38

The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

Published on 2024
39

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Matthew Restall

Published on 2003
40

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Alex Haley

Published on 1976
41

Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations

Brian M. Fagan

Published on 2002
42

Una vida, muchas vidas (Spanish Edition)

Gustavo Petro

Published on 2021
43

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

Published on 1951
44

The Fire Court (Marwood and Lovett, #2)

Andrew Taylor

Published on 2018
45

Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920

Neil Faulkner

Published on 2021
46

L'été meurtrier

Sébastien Japrisot

Published on 1977
47

Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes

Barnaby Phillips

Published on 2021
48

The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

Elly Griffiths

Published on 2009
49

The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent

P.E. Moskowitz

Published on 2019
50

Babel

R.F. Kuang

Published on 2022
51

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Vijay Prashad

Published on 2007
52

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)

Stieg Larsson

Published on 2006
53

The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny

Ian Davidson

Published on 2016
54

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

James W. Loewen

Published on 1999

2024

1

The Persian Empire

John W.I. Lee

Published on 2012
2

A Woman Like Me: A Memoir

Diane Abbott

Published on 2024
3

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)

Stieg Larsson

Published on 2005
4

Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew

Avi Shlaim

Published on 2023
5

The Invention of the Jewish People

Shlomo Sand

Published on 2008
6

La Muse rouge

Véronique de Haas

Published on 2021
7

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

Martin Jacques

Published on 2008
8

Modern Germany: The History and Legacy of the German Nation from Unification to Reunification

Charles River Editors

Published on 2018
9

A People's History of the Russian Revolution

Neil Faulkner

Published on 2017
10

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

Lynne Olson

Published on 2023
11

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek

Published on 2010
12

James Baldwin: A Biography

David A. Leeming

Published on 1994
13

Disordered Minds

Minette Walters

Published on 2003
14

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

Published on 1997
15

Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story

Brian Blessed

Published on 2015
16

Humanly Possible

Sarah Bakewell

Published on 2023
17

A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1)

Elizabeth George

Published on 1988
18

Washington Bullets

Vijay Prashad

Published on 2020
19

Et que ne durent que les moments doux

Virginie Grimaldi

Published on 2020
20

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

Miranda Hart

Published on 2024
21

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

Richard Cockett

Published on 2023
22

The Trial (Adam Green #1)

Rob Rinder

Published on 2023
23

The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies

Andy Beckett

Published on 2024
24

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

Caroline Elkins

Published on 2022
25

Sex Bomb

Sadia Azmat

Published on 2022
26

Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity

Marc Zender

Published on 2013
27

Backlash (Anna Travis, #8)

Lynda La Plante

Published on 2013
28

Self-Care for Autistic People

Megan Anna Neff

Published on 2024
29

Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter

Kerri K. Greenidge

Published on 2019
30

A History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev

Mark D. Steinberg

Published on 2003
31

I Know What I Saw

Imran Mahmood

Published on 2021
32

Prophecy (Giordano Bruno, #2)

S.J. Parris

Published on 2011
33

Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization

Amanda H. Podany

Published on 2018
34

Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

Daniel Chandler

Published on 2024
35

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

Published on 2024
36

Inés y la alegría (Episodios de una guerra interminable, #1)

Almudena Grandes

Published on 2010
37

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

Published on 1998
38

The Age of Capital, 1848–1875

Eric J. Hobsbawm

Published on 1975
39

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

Published on 2023
40

How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

Paul Mason

Published on 2021
41

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Simon Winchester

Published on 2021
42

Suspects

Lesley Pearse

Published on 2021
43

Uncivilised: A science historian explores ten founding ideas of Western civilisation and unearths their flaws

Subhadra Das

Published on 2023
44

La portalettere

Francesca Giannone

Published on 2023
45

Gramsci: Una nuova biografia (Italian Edition)

Angelo d'Orsi

Published on 2017
46

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer

Published on 2006
47

Jar City (Inspector Erlendur, #3)

Arnaldur Indriðason

Published on 2000
48

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

Published on 1999
49

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins

Published on 2005
50

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

Grace Blakeley

Published on 2024
51

Au revoir là-haut (Les Enfants du désastre, #1)

Pierre Lemaitre

Published on 2013
52

The Fall and Rise of China

Richard Baum

Published on 2010
53

A Life in Questions: The Witty and Incisive Memoir of a British Broadcasting Legend

Jeremy Paxman

Published on 2016
54

Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in the Age of Crisis

George Monbiot

Published on 2017
55

Ceasar and Christ: A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325 (The Story of Civilization, Part III)

Will Durant

Published on 1944
56

One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)

Karen M. McManus

Published on 2017
57

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Published on 1939
58

El secreto de Vesalio

Jordi Llobregat

Published on 2015
59

Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain

Charlotte Lydia Riley

Published on 2023
60

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Will Durant

Published on 1926
61

The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

Cheikh Anta Diop

Published on 1974
62

Cast a Cold Eye (Gil Mayo, #1)

Marjorie Eccles

Published on 1988
63

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality

Bhaskar Sunkara

Published on 2019
64

Unmasked: The Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence

Ellie Middleton

Published on 2023
65

Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D.

Chancellor Williams

Published on 1971
66

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

Jonathan M. Katz

Published on 2022
67

The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

Gerald Horne

Published on 2020
68

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

Mariana Mazzucato

Published on 2023
69

Fiori sopra l'inferno

Ilaria Tuti

Published on 2018
70

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages

François-Xavier Fauvelle

Published on 2013
71

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure

Don Kladstrup

Published on 2001

2022

1

The Age of Empire, 1875–1914

Eric J. Hobsbawm

Published on 1987
2

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

Colin Ward

Published on 1981

2021

1

Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

S.J. Parris

Published on 2010
2

American Colonies: The Settling of North America

Alan Taylor

Published on 2001
3

Hija del camino

Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio

Published on 2019
4

Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

Mariana Mazzucato

Published on 2020
5

The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean

John Julius Norwich

Published on 2006
6

The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)

Jessie Burton

Published on 2014
7

Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)

C.J. Sansom

Published on 2008
8

Jamaica Inn

Daphne du Maurier

Published on 1936
9

Les louves de Machecoul

Alexandre Dumas

Published on 1894
10

The Ancient Celts

Barry Cunliffe

Published on 2018
11

The Conquest of Happiness

Bertrand Russell

Published on 1930
12

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Published on 2006
13

Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

Noam Chomsky

Published on 2020
14

The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr.

Published on 1918
15

Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

Mark Kurlansky

Published on 2018
16

A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #1)

T.E. Kinsey

Published on 2016
17

Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga

Published on 2016
18

L'appello

Alessandro D'Avenia

Published on 2020
19

Swing Time

Zadie Smith

Published on 2016
20

Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee

Published on 2007
21

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Published on 2005
22

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

Published on 2016
23

The Forgotten Garden

Kate Morton

Published on 2008
24

The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

Martin Meredith

Published on 2014
25

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

Published on 2017
26

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

Published on 2020
27

Death at La Fenice

Donna Leon

Published on 1992
28

Mathias Sandorf

Jules Verne

Published on 1885

2020

1

A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)

Ellis Peters

Published on 1977
2

A Bite-Sized History of France

Stephane Henaut

Published on 2018

2019

1

Night Frost: (DI Jack Frost Book 3)

R. D. Wingfield

Published on 1992

2018

1

A Touch Of Frost: (DI Jack Frost Book 2)

R. D. Wingfield

Published on 1992
2

Frost At Christmas: (DI Jack Frost Book 1)

R. D. Wingfield

Published on 1992
3

Storia della bambina perduta. L'amica geniale: 4

Elena Ferrante

Published on 2014
4

Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta. L'amica geniale: 3

Elena Ferrante

Published on 2013
5

Storia del nuovo cognome. L'amica geniale: 2

Elena Ferrante

Published on 2012
6

L'amica geniale: 1

Elena Ferrante

Published on 2011
7

No Logo

Naomi Klein

Published on 2009
8

Becoming

Michelle Obama

Published on 2018
9

How To Be Right: … in a world gone wrong

James O'Brien

Published on 2018
10

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson

Published on 2016
11

How to Raise the Perfect Dog: Through Puppyhood and Beyond

Cesar Millan

Published on 2010
12

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Published on 2013
13

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

Published on 2017
14

WTF?

Robert Peston

Published on 2018
15

Guns Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

Published on 2005
16

23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

Ha-Joon Chang

Published on 2011
17

The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts

Gary Chapman

Published on 2004
18

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

Published on 2009
19

Fear: Trump in the White House

Bob Woodward

Published on 2018
20

Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal

Aviva Chomsky

Published on 2018
21

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Akala

Published on 2018
22

Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit

Philip Webster

Published on 2017
23

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

Published on 2018
24

The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla

Published on 2018
25

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

Shashi Tharoor

Published on 2018
26

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Published on 2016
27

Temps glaciaires

Max Gallo

Published on 2016
28

Victor Hugo

Max Gallo

Published on 2017
29

The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama

Nigel Cliff

Published on 2013
30

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Afua Hirsch

Published on 2018
31

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Ha-Joon Chang

Published on 2009
32

Economics: The User's Guide

Ha-Joon Chang

Published on 2015
33

The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Compan

David A. Price

Published on 2009
34

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

Alfie Kohn

Published on 2006
35

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

Tim O'Reilly

Published on 2017