Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond

Sapiens: a brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

The Mosquito: a human history of our deadliest predator by Timothy C. Winegard

Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weatherford

The power of African cultures by Toyin Falola

Africa: a biography of the continent by John Reader

African perspectives on colonialism by A. Adu Boahen

Natural resources and conflict in Africa: the tragedy of endowment by Abiodun Alao

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 by John Thornton

The wonder that was India: a study of the history and culture of the Indian sub-continent before the coming of the Muslims by A. L. (Arthur Llewellyn) Basham

The discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru

India after Gandhi: the history of the world's largest democracy by Ramachandra Guha

The great Partition : the making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan

The Rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang

Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the creation of a political space by Wu Hung

An intellectual history of China by He Zhaowu

Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W.Tuchman

Religion in China: survival and revival under communist rule by Fenggang Yang