This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: How Is Sovereignty Is Gained And Lost?
What Is Sovereignty:
Individual Sovereignty:
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
- The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
- The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
General Understanding Of Sovereignty:
- The Politics by Aristotle
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
Various States:
Around The World
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
Empires Of Islam
Which State Are You Interested In?
China:
- Ancient China: Chinese Civilization From Its Origins To The Tang Dynasty by Maurizio Scarpari
- Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
Egypt:
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
France:
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
Greece:
Haiti:
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
India / Fiction
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Indonesia:
- Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
Iraq:
- Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
Israel:
Japan:
- Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik
Norway:
Macedonia:
- Alexander the Great's Legacy: The Decline of Macedonian Europe in the Wake of the Wars of the Successors by Mike Roberts
- The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
Mongolia:
- The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
- The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford
Persia:
Portugal:
- The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World by Martin Page
Roman Empire:
- Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy
- Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Russia:
- Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
- October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
Singapore
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
South Korea:
- Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik
Spain:
- Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen
- The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire by William S. Maltby
United Kingdom:
- Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World by Tristram Hunt
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
United States of America:
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
- These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Ukraine:
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
Vikings:
