Ms.
Millers Suggested Reading List: Global History & Geography
The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King
by James Patterson
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence
Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond by Kenneth
Nebenzahl
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by
Jack Weatherford
The Broken Spears: the Aztec Account of the Conquest
of Mexico by Miguel Leon-Portilla
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of
the Fourteenth Century by Ross Dunn
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Born Under a Million Shadows by Andrea Busfield
1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark
Kurlansky
The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Womans
Journey to Love Islam by G. Willow Wilson
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia
Remembers by Loung Ung
Where Underpants Come From by Joe Bennett
Nectar In A Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark
Kurlansky
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Price of Stones: Building a School For My Village
by Twesigye Jackson
To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America by
Tara Bahrampour
Shogun by James Clavell
Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography by Mark Mathabane
Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara by
Jorge G. Castaneda
Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill
Death to the Dictator! by Afsaneh Moqadam
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity
in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the
Worlds Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell
Iqbal by Francesco DAdamo
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
The Black Death and the Dancing Mania by J.F.C.
Hecker
Brunelleschis Dome: How a Renaissance Genius
Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
Tulipomania: The Story of the Worlds Most Coveted
Flower and the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused by
Mike Dash
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H.
Bainton
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-
1850 by Brian Fagan
Galileos Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science,
Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who
Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by
Dava Sobel
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
by Orson Scott Card
Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories by
Robert Van Gulik
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics:
The History of the Explosive that Changed the World
by Jack Kelly
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra
Cortes and Montezuma by Maurice Collins
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by
Jared Diamond
The Ottoman Centuries by Patrick Balfour Kinross
Over the Edge of the World: Magellans Terrifying
Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless
Scholar, Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in
the World by Lawrence Goldstone
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by
James Shapiro