London: The Reading List

a readling list of the general history of the city of London; ghost stories, haunted tales, and other legends; viewpoints of Londonders; and all about the Tube

General History, Art, and Life in London

• London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750 by Robert O. Bucholz

• London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

• Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd

• Black London: History, Art & Culture in Over 120 Places (Old Pond Books) From the Tudor Period to Today, including the Nelson Mandela Statue, Cleopatra's Needle, the Black Lives Matter Mural, and More by Avril Nanton and Jody Burton

• Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now—As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It by Craig Taylor

• Globe: Life in Shakespeare’s London by Catharine Arnold

• London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln

Strange Tales, Ghost Stories, and Secrets

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

• London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Peter Ackroyd

• London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary But True Stories from Over a Thousand Years of London's History by Tom Quinn

Courses by The Teaching Company/The Great Courses

• London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the World by Robert O Bucholz

London Underground (The Tube)

“When we get home, I’m gonna need you to do a writing exercise to explore why the hell you love the Tube so much.”
—my partner, London trip 2022

• Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush? London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam

• London Tube Stations: 1924-1961 edited by Stephen Sorrell Fuel and Joshua Abbott