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One of the few books I kept and re-read after college.

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London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

The author covers everything from the Romans to the 20th Century in such a way that you feel like you are breathing in time with the city and your heartbeats are synchronized. That was cheeesy, sorry. The sensation in hard to explain. The appendix is massive. There's even an entire essay on sources, and there are tons of primary sources.