What to Read After Pax Britannica
Readers who loved Pax Britannica by Jan Morris keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Pax Britannica 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 Pax Britannica
The Pleasures of the Imagination
Leviathan and the Air-Pump - Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Colossus
Pagans and Christians
Black Sea
The rise and fall of the British Empire
The trial of Socrates
Armada
London
Empire
The Outline of History
Bible and Sword
Time for a Tiger
Ataturk
The battle for the Falklands
Bright Young People
The Hour of Our Death
The Origins of the Second World War
A history of the English-speaking peoples
The Thirty Years War
Dreadnought
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Means of Ascent
The Passage of Power