What to Read After Imperial Reckoning
Readers who loved Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Imperial Reckoning is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Imperial Reckoning
King Leopold's ghost
Facing Mount Kenya
Africa
The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912
The Fate of Africa
A Problem from Hell
In the footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
Blood Diamonds
The state of Africa
Gulag
The Years of Extermination, 1939–1945 (Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 2)
Histories of the Hanged
Annals of the Former World
I Didn't Do It for You
The Dead Hand
Rousseau and Revolution
Beautiful Swimmers
Arab and Jew
And Their Children After Them
So Human an Animal
Africa's World War
Wandering Through Winter
Lenin's Tomb
Common Ground