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
Black Sea
Pagans and Christians
Armada
The rise and fall of the British Empire
The trial of Socrates
London
Empire
The outline of history
Bible and Sword
The Origins of the Second World War
The battle for the Falklands
Ataturk
Bright Young People
The hour of our death
A history of the English-speaking peoples
The Thirty Years War
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Means of Ascent
The passage of power
Gulag
The Years of Lyndon Johnson