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Here are a few suggestions. These are all books I've read at one time or another:
By Sir Steven Runciman
The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study in Tenth Century Byzantium
The Great Church in Captivity
The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteen Century.
The Fall of Constantinople
The Last Byzantine Renaissance
By Varlaam Shalamov
Kolyma Tales
Graphite
By Mikhail Bulgakov
Master and Margarita
The White Guard
By John Julius Norwich
The Normans in Sicily
A History of Venice
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
Byzantium: The Apogee
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
By Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time (12 vols.), to wit:
A Question of Upbringing
A Buyer's Market
The Acceptance World
At Lady Molly's
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
The Kindly Ones
The Valley of Bones
The Soldier's Art
The Military Philosophers
Books Do Furnish a Room
Temporary Kings
Hearing Secret Harmonies
More to follow, as time permits.
- Aleksei N. Kronstadt
Here are a few more books that I can recommend off the top of my head, if they aren't already in your collection:
By Evelyn Waugh
When the Going Was Good
Decline and Fall
A Handful of Dust
Scoop
Black Mischief
Work Suspended
Brideshead Revisited
Sword of Honour (3 vols.) to wit
Men at Arms
Officers and Gentlemen
Unconditional Surrender
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
The Loved One
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gulag Archipelago (3 vols)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
In First Circle
August 1914
October 1916
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Mani - Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
Roumeli
A Time of Gifts
Betweent the Woods and the Water
Peter Fleming
Brazilian Adventure
Travels in Tartary
Eric Newby
Love and War in the Apennines
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Slowly Down the Ganges
The Last Grain Race
The Big Red Train Ride
Paul Fussell
The Great War and Modern Memory
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars
Robert Byron
The Station
The Road to Oxiana
A.N. Kronstadt
I recommend the cirque du freak series (12 vols) and The Demonata series.
Here are a few more suggestions of books that I think are worth reading:
by Shelby Foote
The Civil War: A Narrative History
by Robert Conquest
The Great Terror
Harvest of Sorrow
by David Remnick
Lenin's Tomb
Resurrection
by Redmond O'Hanlon
Into the Heart of Borneo
In Trouble Again: A Journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
by Joseph Mitchell
Up in the Old Hotel
by A.J. Liebling
Back Where I Came From
The Earl of Louisiana
The Telephone Booth Indian
The Honest Rainmaker: The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo
The Road Back to Paris
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
by Whittaker Chambers
Witness
ANKronstadt
i think you should get spanish books
Libroj en Esperanto!
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