World History

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Perhaps this belongs in Recommended Reading, but I think it could fit in here as well.

I feel like I'm woefully ignorant where world history is concerned. Unfortunately, I didn't develop an appreciation or interest in history until my later years of high school, and I only took one class on it in college (and that was just US history) because it just didn't fit into my curriculum.

Nowadays I'm finding that I have forgotten sooo much of what I learned in school, because I was bored and didn't pay as much attention as I now wish I had. I also feel like the public school education I received on world history was probably pretty lacking.

Does anyone know of any good history books out there I might purchase? I'm looking for just a general world history book that covers the gamut of pretty much everything, and I'd like to find a book that's actually interesting to read rather than dry and boring like most school text books.