Podcasts
- Planet Money
- Slate Money Gabfest
- Freakanomics Radio
- Stuff You Missed in History Class
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
- Revolutions Podcast
Books
All of these books are available from Amazon. Links provided by Goodreads.
Fiction
- Eco, Umberto. Baudolino, Harcourt, 2003
- Liss, David. A Conspiracy of Paper, Time Warner Books UK, 2001.
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo. The Club Dumas, Mariner Books, 2006.
- Rutherford, Edward. Sarum, Gramercy, 2004.
Non-Fiction
Economics
- Graeber, David. Debt, the First 5000 Years, Melville House Publishing, 2011.
- Ferguson, Niall. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. Penguin Press HC, 2008
- Harford, Tim. The Undercover Economist, Oxford University Press USA, 2005.
- Levitt, Steven and Dubner, Stephen. Freakonomics, William Morrow, 2006.
- Wheelan, Charles. Naked Economics, W. W. Norton and Company, 2010.
History
- Ball, Philip. The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science, Straus and Giroux, 2006
- Erdoes, Richard. A. D. 1000: A World on the Brink of Collapse. Ulysses Press, 1998
- Freely, John. Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe, Overlook TP, 2013
- Greenblatt, Stephen. Swerve: How the World Became Modern, W. W. Norton and Company, 2012
- Hibbert, Christopher. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, William Morrow Paperbacks, 1999
- Lester, Toby. The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name, Free Press, 2009
- Lewis, Brenda Ralph. A Dark History: the Popes – Vice, Murder and Corruption in the Vatican, Amber Books, 2009
- Marshall, Peter. The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague, Walker & Company, 2006
- Matthew, Donald. The Atlas of Medieval Europe, Checkmark Books, 1983
- Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History, Penguin Books, 2003
- Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice, Vintage, 1989
- Parks, Tim. Medici Money, W. W. Norton and Company, 2006
- Robins, Nick. The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational, Pluto Press, 2006.
- Singh, Simon. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Anchor, 2000
- Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1987
- Van Der Krogt, Peter. Atlas Maior of 1665, Taschen, 2005
- Wills, Gary. Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire, Washington Square Press, 2002
- Wood, Michael. The Story of England, Viking, 2010