This reader’s recommendations and supporting excerpts from the sampled discussions.
7 books
Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide
Escape From Rome, Walter Scheidel
Hitler: A Biography, by Ian Kershaw.
Lou Reed: The King of New York
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer.
The Black Book of Communism. Among other things, it discusses the famine in China under Mao
The Great Depression: A Diary