What I read last month.
MODERN:
The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan
Warbound, by Larry Correia
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
NOT SO MODERN:
The Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
RENAISSANCE ERA:
The Renaissance, by Will Durant
Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
The Institutes of the Christian Religion, by John Calvin
...and the usual assortment of historical murder mysteries set in the age.
Enjoy!