Start with high-confidence literature & history books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Homage to Catalonia (collins Classics)
George Orwell
Exile's Return
Malcolm Cowley, Donald W. Faulkner
Why I Write
On Reading the Grapes of Wrath
Susan Shillinglaw
A Collection of Essays
Worlds Apart
Benjamin Paloff
Orwell: Essays
The Hitler of History
John Lukacs
On the Natural History of Destruction
W.G. Sebald, Anthea Bell
Slaughterhouse-five
Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Eminent Outlaws
Christopher Bram
Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit
The Scars We Carve
Allison M. Johnson
Hard-boiled Masculinities
Christopher Breu
The Infernal Library
Daniel Kalder
The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
Max Morris
Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
George Orwell, Andrea Karola
