Below you'll find an annotated version of the further reading list for this component (p. 289). 

Bowden, H., Alexander the Great, A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
An accessible but scholarly overview of Alexander’s life and achievements.

Briant, P., trans. by A. Kuhrt, Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012)
A highly regarded book that offers a version of Alexander’s story from a new perspective: in particular, Briant allows us to understand its overthrow from the perspective of the defeated as well as the victor.

Cartledge, P., Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (London: Pan, 2004)
A lucid and authoritative assessment of Alexander the Great.

Freeman, P., Alexander the Great (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011)
Provides a version of Alexander’s life and his achievements.

Heckel, W., and L. Tritle, eds., Alexander the Great: A New History (Oxford and Chichester,: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

Lane-Fox, R., Alexander the Great (London: Penguin, 1973)
A classic biography that combines historical scholarship and acute psychological insight. Lane-Fox was the main historical advisor to Oliver Stone on his film Alexander, and took part in many of its most dramatic re-enactments.

Supplementary reading

Romm, J., Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (New York: Knopf, 2011) This book examines the aftermath of the death of Alexander, and the conflicts between his various generals that led to the carve-up of the Greek world and the creation of the different Hellenistic dynasties (the Ptolemies, Antigonids, Seleucids, etc.), which in turn fell to the Romans.

Mary Beard’s rather more subversive review of various books on Alexander from the New York Review of Books: here.