What to Read After Thinking the twentieth century
Readers who loved Thinking the twentieth century by Tony Judt keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Thinking the twentieth century 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 Thinking the twentieth century
The age of empire, 1875-1914
Main currents of Marxism
Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century
Dark Continent
The Thirty Years War
The vertigo years
Inventing the Individual
Holy Madness
Interesting times
The Weimar Republic
The crooked timber of humanity
On politics
Ill Fares The Land
Postwar
Memory Chalet
The Arabs
Bloodlands
Your Face Tomorrow
The Burden of Responsibility
Scum of the earth
Black earth
The origins of political order
Iron Kingdom
The world of yesterday