If you’ve ever visited a different country, or are thinking about visiting one, you may like this listing of Tyler Cowen’s recommendations of the best books about 19 countries.
To count, the book must have some aspirations to be a general survey of what the country is or to cover much of the history of the country. So your favorite book on the French Revolution is not eligible, for instance, nor is Allan Janik’s and Stephen Toulmin’s splendid Wittgenstein’s Vienna.
Link here, with more recommendations in the comments.
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