A list or various books that I recommend.

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akcam

The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas

The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by John Waller

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon

Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G. J. Meyer

Rembrandt’s Eyes by Simon Schama

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King

India: A History by John Keay

China: A History by John Keay

Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich