Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 1980 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 2 | Communism | 1994 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 3 | London | 1995 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 4 | The Balkans | 2000 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 5 | The German Empire | 2000 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 6 | The Catholic Church | 2001 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 7 | Peoples and Empires | 2001 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 8 | Hitler and the Holocaust | 2001 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 9 | Law in America | 2002 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 10 | The American Revolution | 2002 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 11 | Inventing Japan | 2003 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 12 | The Americas | 2003 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 13 | The Boys’ Crusade | 2003 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 14 | The Reformation | 2003 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 15 | The Company | 2003 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 16 | The Age of Shakespeare | 2004 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 17 | The Age of Napoleon | 2004 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 18 | Infinite Ascent | 2004 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 19 | Evolution | 2004 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 20 | Nazism and War | 2004 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 21 | The City | 2005 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 22 | A Short History of Medicine | 2006 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 23 | Storm from the East | 2006 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 24 | Baseball | 2006 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 25 | The Hellenistic Age | 2007 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 26 | Prehistory | 2007 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 27 | The Renaissance | 2007 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 28 | Islam | 2007 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 29 | The Christian World | 2008 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 30 | Dangerous Games | 2008 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 31 | The Romantic Revolution | 2010 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
| 32 | The Korean War | 2010 | Adrian Wooldridge | Buy |
The Modern Library Chronicles is a publisher’s series of short, accessible histories by expert authors. Each volume covers a single subject — from The Balkans and The Catholic Church to Baseball and The Korean War — in a compact format.
Adrian Wooldridge and John Micklethwait contributed The Company (2003), a short history of corporate enterprise. Over 30 titles were published between 1980 and 2010.