This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

Red Pill by Hari Kunzru

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

The Prize by Daniel Yergin (Abridged)

Undermoney by Jay Newman

 One of the ugliest things I've read.