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- Bourke, Angela, The Burning of Bridget Cleary
- Bronowski, Jacob, The Ascent of Man
- Bryson, Bill, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
- Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton, Grant
- de Waal, Edmund, The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
- Du Maurier, Daphne, Vanishing Cornwall
- Flanders, Judith, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- Foreman, Amanda, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
- Frankopan, Peter, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- Galbraith, Kate and Asher Price, The Great Texas Wind Rush
- Gleick, James, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Grann, David, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- Hollandsworth, Skip, The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
- Hopkirk, Peter, The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
- Igort and Jamie Richards (trans.), The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks
- Jardine, Lisa, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
- Jones, Dan, The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors
- Jones, Terry, and others, Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery
- Kapuściński, Ryszard, Shah of Shahs
- Koppel, Lily, The Astronaut Wives Club
- Kurlansky, Mark, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Salt: A World History
- Larson, Erik, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, The Splendid and the Vile
- Lieven, Dominic, Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace
- MacColl, Gail and Carol McD. Wallace, To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery
- McCullough, David, The Johnstown Flood
- Mancall, Peter C., Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson
- Mitford, Nancy, The Sun King
- Orlean, Susan, The Library Book
- Philbrick, Nathaniel, Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
- Schiff, Stacy, The Witches: Salem, 1692
- Seward, Desmond, The Last White Rose: The Secret Wars of the Tudors, Richard III: England’s Black Legend, The Wars of the Roses
- Summerscale, Kate, The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
- Thomas, Keith, Religion and the Decline of Magic
- Twain, Life on the Mississippi
- Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
- Von Bremzen, Anya, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
- Vowell, Sarah, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
- Weir, Alison, Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens
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