Before our first child was born ~5 years ago, I started reading one history book per world country (A → Z); got as far as The Bahamas then basically stopped reading Got back on the horse with this pair, which is a break from strict alphabetical reading but it's actually background reading for Bangladesh (which is where my father is from) I settled on this two with some GPT help, which was great because finding history books actually worth reading and not just one damn fact after another is not easy The first one is also a signed copy which I didn't realise (I always buy secondhand whenever I can, as old as my budget allows) and was a nice surprise