Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
by H. Rider Haggard
“As a young man he read this African adventure tale about a dozen times, and once he closely questioned Haggard about what it all meant.”
— Winston Churchill's Beach Reading: His Top Ten Books
by Oscar Wilde
“Though the subject was too scandalous to discuss openly, there is evidence that Churchill considered Wilde’s imprisonment a terrible injustice.”
— Winston Churchill's Beach Reading: His Top Ten Books
by George Orwell
“One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.”
— Winston Churchill Recommended Books
by Graham Greene
“the list included: A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene”
— Winston Churchill's reading list - including a Jane Austen classic
by Honoré de Balzac
“the list included: Béatrix by Honoré de Balzac”
— Winston Churchill's reading list - including a Jane Austen classic
by Aldous Huxley
“Winston Churchill's Recommended Books (26 Recommendations)”
— Winston Churchill's Recommended Books (26 Recommendations)
by Jack London
“the list included: Call of the Wild by Jack London”
— Winston Churchill's reading list - including a Jane Austen classic
by Siegfried Sassoon
“I am not a bit afraid of [this author]. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.”
— 14 Winston Churchill Recommended Books (2026)
by Boris Pasternak
“Winston Churchill's Recommended Books (26 Recommendations)”
— Winston Churchill's Recommended Books (26 Recommendations)
by Leon Uris
“Not the Leon Uris novel, the original Old Testament book. Though he was not very religious, Churchill was convinced that every word of it was true.”
— Winston Churchill's Beach Reading: His Top Ten Books
by Margaret Mitchell
“One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.”
— 14 Winston Churchill Recommended Books (2026)
by Jonathan Swift
“One of the books I would like to take with me to Purgatory.”
— 14 Winston Churchill Recommended Books (2026)
by Unknown
“One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.”
— Winston Churchill Recommended Books
by Sinclair Lewis
“One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.”
— Winston Churchill Recommended Books
by George Bernard Shaw
“One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.”
— Winston Churchill Recommended Books
by Jane Austen
“the list included: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen”
— Winston Churchill's reading list - including a Jane Austen classic
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.”
— 14 Winston Churchill Recommended Books (2026)
by T. E. Lawrence
“Judging from his reading list, Winston Churchill clearly thought a lot about the Roman Empire.”
— 7 of Winston Churchill's Favorite Books - Explore the Archive
by Joseph Conrad
“the list included: The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad”
— Winston Churchill's reading list - including a Jane Austen classic
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“the list included: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky”
— Winston Churchill's reading list - including a Jane Austen classic
by Winston S. Churchill
“Winston Churchill’s monumental The Second World War, is a six volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis.”
— The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
by Pearl S. Buck
“One of Winston Churchill's favorite books.”
— Winston Churchill Recommended Books
by William Manchester
“This first volume of the best-selling biography of the adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman covers the first 58 years of the remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of those darkly troubled times and who looms today as one of the greatest figures of the 20th century.”
— The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Gl…
by Robert Louis Stevenson
“the list included: The Master of Balantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson”
— Winston Churchill's reading list - including a Jane Austen classic
by Erik Larson
“a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz”
— The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family,…
by Winston Churchill
by Edward Gibbon
by Alfred Thayer Mahan
by Winston Churchill