• A Book of Travelers’ Tales by Eric Newby, Penguin Books, 1985 [July 2011]
• A Brief History of American Literature by John Huh, Shinasa, 2001 [May 2008]
• A Brief History of American Sports by Elliott J. Gorn and Warren Goldstein, Hill and Wang, 1993 [August 2022]
• A Case for the Divinity of Jesus / Examining the Earliest Evidence by Dean L. Overman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010 [August 2015]
• A Cruel and Shocking Act / The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon, Little, Brown, 2013 [July 2024]
• A Death in Texas / A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston, Owl Books, 2006 [January 2014]
• A Disposition to Be Rich / How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States by Geoffrey C. Ward, Alfred A. Knopf, 2012 [January 2021]
• A Family of Islands / A History of the West Indies from 1492 to 1898 by Alec Waugh, Doubleday, 1964 [May 2021]
• A Flame of Pure Fire / Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ’20s by Roger Kahn, Harcourt, 1999 [September 2013]
• A Futile and Stupid Gesture / How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever by Josh Karp, 2006, Chicago Review Press [May 2022]
• A Hero All His Life by Merlyn, Mickey Jr., David and Dan Mantle, HarperCollins, 1996 [May 2022]
• A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott, Scribner, 1999 [March 2018]
• A History of East Asia / From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century by Charles Holcombe, Cambridge University Press, 2011 [December 2014]
• A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel, Penguin Books, 1996 [November 2017]
• A History of the Breast by Marilyn Yacom, Ballantine Books, 1997 [June 2018]
• A History of the Philippines / From Indios Bravos to Filipinos by Luis H. Francia, Overlook Press, 2010 [October 2019]
• A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yacom, Perennial, 2001 [July 2017]
• A History of the Rod by William M. Cooper (James G. Bertram), AKS Books Ltd., 1865 [July 2020]
• A History of Western Music, Third Edition by Donald Jay Grout, George McLeod, Ltd., 1980 [April 2026]
• A Land So Strange / The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andres Resendez, Basic Books, 2007 [December 2015]
• A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer, Flatiron Books, 2015 [June 2021]
• A Modern History of Japan / From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon, Oxford University Press, 2003 [July 2015]
• A People’s History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons, Viking Penguin, 1999 [February 2018]
• A Place for Summer / A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium by Richard Bak, Wayne State University Press, 1998 [May 2021]
• A Scandalous Life / The Biography of Jane Digby by Mary S. Lovell, Fourth Estate, 1995 [February 2014]
• A Sense of the World / How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts, Harper Perennial, 2006 [November 2013]
• A Short History of Bali / Indonesia’s Hindu Realm by Robert Pringle, Allen & Unwin, 2004 [November 2015]
• A Traveller in Rome by H. V. Morton, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1957 [January 2012]
• A Traveller’s History of India by Sinharaja Tammita-Delgoda, Interlink Books, 2007 [March 2014]
• Age of Ambition / Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2014 [April 2016]
• Age of Assassins / The Loners, Idealists and Fanatics Who Conspired to Change the World by Michael Newton, Faber & Faber, 2012 [August 2018]
• Alan Lomax / The Man Who Recorded the World by John Szwed, Viking, 2010 [February 2018]
• Alaska / Saga of a Bold Land by Walter R. Borneman, HarperCollins, 2003 [June 2022]
• Aleister Crowley / Magic, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World by Gary Lachman, Penguin Books, 2014 [December 2018]
• Alexandre Dumas / Genius of Life by Claude Schopp, Franklin Watts, 1988 [March 2023]
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, Penguin Press, 2004 [April 2023]
• Alfred Russel Wallace / A Life by Peter Raby, Princeton University Press, 2001 [September 2017]
• Allan Pinkerton / The First Private Eye by James Mackay, John Wiley & Sons, 1996 [November 2023]
• All God’s Dangers / The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten, University of Chicago Press, 1974 [July 2014]
• All Roads Led to Shanghai by Clio Calodoukas, CreateSpace, 2012 [January 2015]
• Alone of All Her Sex / The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner, Vintage Books, 1976 [January 2014]
• Amazing Traveler Isabella Bird by Evelyn Kaye, Blue Panda Publications, 1993 [June 2015]
• Ambrose Bierce / Alone in Bad Company by Roy Morris, Jr., Crown Publishers, 1995 [June 2022]
• America’s Queen / The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford, Viking Penguin, 2000 [September 2017]
• America’s Women / 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines by Gail Collins, Perennial Books, 2003 [March 2025]
• American Hero / The True Story of Tommy Hitchcock—Sports Star, War Hero and Champion of the War-Winning P-51 Mustang by Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., Rowman & Littlefield, 1984 [November 2019]
• American Made / The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor, Bantam Books, 2008 [February 2025]
• American Prometheus / The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Vintage Books, 2005 [April 2024]
• American Sphinx / The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis, Vintage Books, 1996 [May 2016]
• America’s Game / The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation by Michael MacCambridge, Anchor Books, 2004 [October 2011]
• America’s Reluctant Prince / The Life of John F. Kennedy, Jr. by Steven M. Gillon, Dutton, 2019 [March 2022]
• Among the Heroes / United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back by Jere Longman, HarperCollins, 2002 [May 2018]
• Amsterdam / A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto, Vintage Books, 2013 [August 2022]
• An Artist in Treason / The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater, Walker & Co., 2009 [November 2015]
• An Unfinished Life / John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek, Little, Brown, 2003 [December 2013]
• An Ugly Truth / Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecelia Kang, Bridge Street Press, 2021 [November 2023]
• An Unlikely Prince / The Life and Times of Machiavelli by Niccolo Capponi, Da Capo Press, 2010 [April 2016]
• Ancient Angkor by Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques, River Books, 1999 [July 2018]
• Antarctica / A Biography by David Day, Oxford University Press, 2013 [June 2020]
• Apathy for the Devil / A 70s Memoir by Nick Kent, Da Capo Press, 2010 [November 2018]
• April 1865 / The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik, Harper Perennial, 2001 [September 2010]
• Armadillo World Headquarters by Eddie Wilson, University of Texas Press, 2017 [August 2019]
• Art Lover / A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill, HarperCollins, 2001 [February 2023]
• Assignment: Oswald by James P. Hosty, Jr., Arcade Publishing, 1996 [May 2011]
• Assist Me to Proclaim / The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley by John R. Tyson, Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 [October 2014]
• Ataturk / The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango, Overlook Press, 1999 [March 2013]
• Atlas of Korean History by the Department of History, Korea National University of Education, 2004 [August 2010]
• Axis Sally / The American Voice of Nazi Germany by Richard Lucas, Casemate Publishers, 2010 [April 2023]
• Babylon, Irving Finkel and Michael Seymour, editors, Oxford University Press, 2008 [March 2020]
• Bad Boy from Rosebud / The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff by Gary Lavergne, University of North Texas Press, 1999 [November 2021]
• Bad History / How We Got the Past Wrong by Emma Marriott, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 2011 [October 2021]
• Baghdad / City of Peace, City of Blood—A History in Thirteen Centuries by Justin Marozzi, Da Capo Press, 2014 [November 2019]
• Balinese Gamelan Music by Michael Tenzer, Tuttle Publishing, 2011 [January 2015]
• Bamboula! / The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk by S. Frederick Starr, Oxford University Press, 1995 [April 2017]
• Baseball’s Greatest Comeback / The Miracle Braves of 1914 by J. Brian Ross, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 [May 2022]
• Baseball’s Greatest Hit / The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles, Hal Leonard Books, 2008 [September 2020]
• Beau Brummell / The Ultimate Man of Style by Ian Kelly, Free Press, 2006 [September 2016]
• Beale Street Dynasty / Sex, Song and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis by Preston Lauterbach, W.W. Norton, 2015 [September 2015]
• Bedlam / London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold, Simon & Schuster, 2008 [August 2022]
• Before Brown / Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall and the Long Road to Justice by Gary Lavergne, University of Texas Press, 2010 [December 2022]
• Beijing Welcomes You / Unveiling the Capital City of the Future by Tom Scocca, Riverhead Books, 2011 [September 2012]
• Beirut by Samir Kassir, University of California Press, 2010 [March 2014]
• Ben Hogan / An American Life by James Dodson, Broadway Books, 2004 [November 2021]
• Benching Jim Crow / The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980 by Charles H. Martin, University of Illinois Press, 2010 [October 2010]
• Best American Crime Reporting, Nicholas Pileggi, editor, 2002 [June 2024]
• Big Book of Baseball Lineups by Rob Neyer, Fireside, 2003 [January 2018]
• Bill Veeck / Baseball’s Greatest Maverick by Paul Dickson, Walker Publishing, 2012 [March 2019]
• Billy the Kid / The Longest Ride by Michael Wallis, W. W. Norton, 2007 [April 2012]
• Black Athena Revisited by Martin Bernal, University of North Carolina Press, 1996 [February 2017]
• Blake / A Biography by Peter Ackroyd, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 [January 2023]
• Bob Feller / Ace of the Greatest Generation by John Sickels, Brassey’s Inc., 2004 [February 2012]
• Booknotes: Life Stories / Notable Biographers on the People who Shaped America, Brian Lamb, ed., Three Rivers Press, 1999 [March 2021]
• Bolivar / American Liberator by Marie Arana, Simon & Schuster, 2013 [December 2013]
• Boswell’s Presumptuous Task / The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 [January 2012]
• Bound with an Iron Chain / The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial America by Anthony Vaver, Pickpocket Publishing, 2011 [October 2023]
• Brazil / Five Centuries of Change by Thomas E. Skidmore, Oxford University Press, 1999 [August 2012]
• Breaking Open Japan / Commodore Perry, Lord Abe and American Imperialism in 1853 by George Feifer, HarperCollins, 2006 [February 2021]
• Breaking Through / John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer by Milton S. Katz, University of Arkansas Press, 2007 [July 2019]
• Broken Soldiers by Raymond B. Lech, University of Illinois Press, 2000 [July 2018]
• Brushing Back Jim Crow / The Integration of Minor League Baseball in the American South by Bruce Adelson, University of Virginia Press, 1999 [September 2019]
• Buddha by Karen Armstrong, Penguin Books, 2001 [June 2014]
• Bury Me Standing / The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca, Vintage Books, 1995 [June 2025]
• Byron / Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 [April 2015]
• Calculated Risk / The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom by George Leopold, Purdue University Press, 2016 [April 2022]
• Call Me Burroughs / A Life by Barry Miles, 12 Publishing, 2013 [March 2017]
• Campus Life / Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, University of Chicago Press, 1987 [March 2022]
• Capital Dames / The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts, Harper Perennial, 2015 [March 2025]
• Capote / A Biography by Gerald Clarke, Simon & Schuster, 1988 [October 2017]
• Captain James Cook / A Biography by Richard Hough, W.W. Norton, 1994 [July 2016]
• Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton / A Biography by Edward Rice, Da Capo Press, 1990 [January 2014]
• Carl Sagan / A Life in the Cosmos by William Poundstone, Henry Holt & Co., 1999 [February 2016]
• Casanova’s Women / The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved by Judith Summers, Bloomsbury, 2006 [August 2011]
• Cassius Marcellus Clay / Firebrand of Freedom by H. Edward Richardson, University Press of Kentucky, 1976 [May 2022]
• Cast Away / Lost and Found in History / Epic True Stories of Shipwreck, Piracy and Mutiny on the High Seas by Joseph Cummins, Pier 9, 2008 [December 2023]
• Cecil Rhodes / Flawed Colossus by Brian Roberts, W.W. Norton, 1987 [April 2020]
• Centennial ’36 / The Year America Discovered Texas by Kenneth B. Ragsdale, Texas A&M Press, 1987 [July 2019]
• Chaos Under Heaven / The Shocking Story Behind China’s Search for Democracy by Gordon Thomas, Birch Lane Press, 1991 [April 2016]
• Charleston! Charleston! / The History of a Southern City by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., University of South Carolina Press, 1989 [October 2015]
• Children of the Sun / A Pictorial Anthology from Germany to California 1883-1949 by Gordon Kennedy, Nivaria Press, 1998 [September 2020]
• Chopin / Prince of the Romantics by Adam Zamoyski, Harper Press, 2010 [March 2020]
• Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters / White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 by Robert C. Davis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 [June 2015]
• Chopin’s Funeral by Benita Eisler, Vintage Books, 2003 [October 2023]
• Churchill / Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts, Viking, 2018 [December 2020]
• Citizens of London / The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson, Random House, 2010 [February 2019]
• City of Dreams / The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 [April 2021]
• Classical Music, edited by John Burrows, Dorling Kindersley, 2005 [July 2021]
• Clemente / The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero by David Maraniss, Simon & Schuster, 2006 [January 2022]
• College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era by Kurt Edward Kemper, University of Illinois Press, 2009 [August 2022]
• College Football / History, Spectacle, Controversy by John Sayle Watterson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 [July 2015]
• Color Blind / /The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball’s Color Line by Tom Dunkel, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013 [July 2016]
• Comfort Women / Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II by Yoshimi Yoshiaki, Columbia University Press, 1995 [June 2015]
• Come Have Fun with Frank Rush at Craterville Park and Sandy Lake Amusement Park by Frank Rush III, 2006 [January 2020]
• Completely Queer / The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia by Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson, Henry Holt, 1998 [October 2017]
• Confucius and the World He Created by Michael Schuman, Basic Books, 2015 [January 2018]
• Conspiracy of Silence / Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball by Chris Lamb, University of Nebraska Press, 2012 [September 2019]
• Cotton Bowl Classic / Football Vault / The History of a Proud Tradition by Steve Richardson, Whitman Publishing Co., 2010 [January 2021]
• Cotton Bowl Days / Growing Up with the Cowboys in Dallas in the 1960s by John Eisenberg, Simon & Schuster, 1997 [November 2010]
• Covering All the Bases by Lou Boudreau, Sagamore Publishing, 1993 [November 2022]
• Cradle of Gold / The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Macchu Picchu by Christopher Heaney, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 [April 2014]
• Cuba and Its Music / From the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette, Chicago Review Press, 2004 [May 2016]
• Custer / The Life of General George Armstrong Custer by Jay Monaghan, Bison Books, 1959 [October 2023]
• Dallas / An Illustrated History by Darwin Payne, Windsor Publications, 1982 [August 2017]
• Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, Twelve Books, 2013 [January 2014]
• Daniel Boone / The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer by John Mack Faragher, Henry Holt Press, 1997 [May 2020]
• Daniel Webster / The Man and His Time by Robert Remini, W.W. Norton, 1997 [September 2020]
• Dark Lover / The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino by Emily W. Leider, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003 [December 2015]
• David Brinkley / 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 [March 2024]
• David Crockett / The Lion of the West by Michael Wallis, W.W. Norton, 2011 [March 2018]
• Defying Dixie / The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, W.W. Norton, 2008 [October 2012]
• Delta Blues / The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia, W.W. Norton, 2008 [June 2016]
• Deng Xiaoping / A Revolutionary Life by Alexander V. Pantsov, Oxford University Press, 2015 [October 2023]
• Design for Living / Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne / A Biography by Margot Peters, Knopf, 2003 [October 2021]
• Detroit Then and Now by Cheri Y. Gay, Thunder Bay Press, 2001 [January 2013]
• Detroit / A Biography by Scott Martelle, Chicago Review Press, 2012 [December 2012]
• Diamonds in the Rough / The Untold History of Baseball by Joel Zoss and John Bowman, University of Nebraska Press, 1989 [August 2016]
• Dixie / A Personal Odyssey through Events that Shaped the Modern South by Curtis Wilkie, Scribner, 2001 [October 2024]
• Dizzy / Dean of Baseball & My Podnah by Gene Kirby, Bo Carter and Mark S. McDonald, Dust Devil Books, 2016 [November 2021]
• Doctors / The Biography of Medicine by Sherwin B. Nuland, Vintage Books, 1988 [May 2019]
• Dogs of God / Columbus, the Inquisition and the Defeat of the Moors by James Reston, Jr., Faber & Faber, 2005 [October 2011]
• Don’t Know Much about the Bible / Everything You Need to Know about the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis, HarperCollins, 1998 [November 2020]
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (translated by Edith Grossman), HarperCollins, 2003 [July 2014]
• Doo-Dah! / Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture by Ken Emerson, Da Capo Press, 1997 [April 2017]
• Dossier / The Secret History of Armand Hammer by Edward Jay Epstein, Random House, 1996 [July 2023]
• Down to the Crossroads / Civil Rights, Black Power and the Meredith March Against Fear by Aram Goudsouzian, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014 [June 2014]
• Downfall / The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank, Penguin Books, 1999 [October 2012]
• Dr. Freud / A Life by Paul Ferris, Counterpoint, 1997 [December 2016]
• Dresden / Tuesday, February 13, 1945 by Frederick Taylor, HarperCollins, 2004 [July 2023]
• East of the Sun / The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia by Benson Bobrick, Poseidon Press, 1992 [October 2020]
• Eating With the Enemy / How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack by Robert Egan, St. Martin’s Press, 2010 [December 2010]
• Edgar Snow / A Biography by John Maxwell Hamilton, Indiana University Press, 1988 [March 2015]
• Egg on Mao / The Story of an Ordinary Man who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship by Denise Chong, Counterpoint, 2009 [March 2021]
• Eiffel’s Tower by Jill Jonnes, Penguin Books, 2009 [September 2014]
• Einstein / His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 2007 [May 2015]
• Eleanor Roosevelt / Volume One: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook, Penguin Books, 1992 [April 2024]
• Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke, Random House, 2014 [December 2024]
• Elon Musk / Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, HarperCollins, 2015 [June 2024]
• Embracing Defeat / Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower, W.W. Norton, 1999 [October 2012]
• Empires of the Sea / The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley, Random House, 2006 [May 2014]
• Empty Mansions / The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark an d the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., Ballentine Books, 2013 [September 2019]
• England’s Dreaming / Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock and Beyond by Jon Savage, St. Martin’s, 1991 [August 2020]
• Enlightening the World / Encyclopedie, the Book that Changed the Course of History by Philipp Blom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 [December 2017]
• Erik Satie by Mary E. Davis, Reaktion Books, 2007 [June 2022]
• Escaping the Delta / Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald, Amistad, 2004 [June 2012]
• Europe / A History by Norman Davies, Oxford University Press, 1996 [January 2017]
• Everlasting Flower / A History of Korea by Keith Pratt, Reaktion Books, 2006 [July 2010]
• Everest / The First Ascent / The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, The Man Who Made It Possible by Harriet Tuckey, Random House, 2013 [February 2019]
• Everything Baseball by James Mote, Prentice Hall Press, 1989 [July 2022]
• Eyes on the Street / The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel, Alfred A. Knopf, 2016 [November 2023]
• Fab / An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes, Da Capo Press, 2010 [September 2016]
• Fall from Grace / The Truth and Tragedy of “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, Sports Publishing, 2016 [February 2020]
• Fame at Last / Who Was Who According to the New York Times Obituaries by John C. Ball and Jill Jonnes, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000 [August 2019]
• Fatal Purity / Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr, 2006 [April 2013]
• Faulkner’s Oxford / Recollections and Reflections by Herman E. Taylor, Rutledge Hill Press, 1990 [March 2015]
• Femme Fatale / Love, Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari by Pat Shipman, HarperCollins, 2007 [October 2020]
• 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain by Quentin Letts, Constable, 2008 [October 2024]
• Fire in the City / Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence by Lauro Martines, Oxford University Press, 2006 [July 2014]
• First Footprints / The Epic Story of the First Australians by Scott Cane, Allen & Unwin, 2013 [August 2017]
• First in His Class / A Biography of Bill Clinton by David Maraniss, Simon & Schuster, 1995 [May 2024]
• Five Points / 19th Century New York’s Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder, Free Press, 2001 [December 2012]
• Flawless / Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital by Elise Hu, Dutton, 2023 [September 2023]
• 1066 / The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford, Walker & Co., 2005 [May 2020]
• 1453 / The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley, Hyperion Press, 2005 [April 2013]
• 1491 / New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann, Vintage, 2005 [March 2011]
• 1616 / The World in Motion by Thomas Christensen, Counterpoint Press, 2011 [February 2014]
• 1848 / Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport, Abacus, 2008 [May 2011]
• 1889 / The Boomer Movement, the Land Run and Early Oklahoma City by Michael J. Hightower, University of Oklahoma Press, 2018 [March 2023]
• 1959 / The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan, John Wiley & Sons, 2009 [May 2013]
• 1,000 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke, Black Swan, 2010 [May 2024]
• 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz, Workman Publishing Co., 2003 [August 2025]
• 10,000 Years of Art by Larry Ball, et al., Phaidon Press, 2007 [July 2023]
• Fire and Fury / Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff, Picador, 2018 [December 2023]
• Flappers / Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell, Sarah Crichton Books, 2013 [February 2017]
• Fordlandia / The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin, Metropolitan Books, 2009 [December 2017]
• Forgotten Fatherland / The True Story of Nietzsche’s Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony by Ben Macintyre, Broadway Paperbacks, 1992 [February 2022]
• Forever Free / The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction by Eric Foner, Vintage Books, 2005 [August 2016]
• Forty Minutes of Hell / The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson by Rus Bradburd, Amistad, 2010 [March 2010]
• Four Hours in My Lai by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, Penguin Books, 1992 [November 2017]
• Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely, W.W. Norton & Co., 1991 [April 2016]
• Freedom Riders / 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, 2006 [December 2013]
• From Third World to First / Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom by Lee Kuan Yew, HarperCollins, 2000 [August 2021]
• Full Service / My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers, Grove Press, 2001 [August 2019]
• Furious Love / Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, HarperCollins, 2010 [November 2024]
• Fury on Earth / A Biography of Wilhelm Reich by Myron Sharaf, St. Martin’s/Marek, 1983 [January 2023]
• Galapagos / The Islands that Changed the World by Paul D. Stewart, Yale University Press, 2007 [September 2017]
• Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki, Washington Square Press, 2002 [October 2013]
• Genius / The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick, Vintage Books, 1992 [December 2016]
• George Washington Carver / A Life by Christina Vella, LSU Press, 2015 [September 2020]
• George Washington Williams / A Biography by John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago Press, 1985 [July 2018]
• Gershwin / A Biography by Edward Jablonski, Doubleday, 1987 [January 2020]
• Get Happy / The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke, Delta, 2000 [August 2019]
• Ghetto at the Center of the World / Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews, University of Chicago Press, 2011 [August 2021]
• Ghost Colonies / Failed Utopias, Forgotten Exiles and Abandoned Outposts of Empire by Ed Wright, Pier 9, 2009 [November 2024]
• Ghost Flames / Life & Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953 by Charles J. Hanley, Public Affairs, 2020 [August 2021]
• Ghost Wars / The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll, Penguin Books, 2004 [July 2025]
• Ghosts of Manila / The Fateful Blood Feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier by Mark Kram, HarperCollins, 2001 [August 2013]
• Giant Under the Hill / A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas in 1901 by Judith Walker Linsley, Ellen Walker Rienstra and Jo Ann Stiles, Texas State Historical Association, 2002 [October 2022]
• Glorious Contentment / The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900 by Stuart McConnell, University of North Carolina Press, 1992 [May 2022]
• Glory and Honor / The Musical and Artistic Legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach by Gregory Wilbur, Cumberland House, 2005 [December 2010]
• God’s Crucible / Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis, W.W. Norton & Co., 2008 [August 2012]
• God’s Lunatics / Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine by Michael Largo, HarperCollins, 2010 [September 2013]
• Gorbachev / His Life and Times by William Taubman, W.W. Norton, 2017 [June 2022]
• Grand Expectations / The United States, 1945-1974 by James T. Patterson, Oxford University Press, 1996 [March 2024]
• Great Rivers of the World, National Geographic Society, 1984 [December 2023]
• Great Tales from English History / A Treasury of True Stories about the Extraordinary People—Knights and Knaves, Rebels and Heroes, Queens and Commoners—Who Made Britain Great by Robert Lacey, Back Bay Books, 2003 [April 2024]
• Great Time Coming / The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birmingham by David Falkner, Simon & Schuster, 1995 [April 2012]
• Gutenberg / How One Man Remade the World with Words by John Man, John Wiley & Sons, 2002 [November 2013]
• Haka / A Living Tradition by Wira Gardiner, Hodder Moa, 2007 [November 2014]
• Hank Greenberg / The Hero of Heroes by John Rosengren, New American Library, 2013 [July 2018]
• Hank Williams / The Biography by Colin Escott, Little Brown, 2004 [October 2012]
• Harem / The World Behind the Veil by Alev Lytle Croutier, Abbeville Press, 1989 [February 2020]
• Harriet / The Life and World of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Norma Johnston, Simon & Schuster, 1994 [May 2021]
• Harvard Observed / An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century by John T. Bethell, Harvard University Press, 1998 [November 2024]
• Havana Nocturne / How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T. J. English, HarperCollins, 2007 [June 2017]
• Hazardous Duty / An American Soldier in the Twentieth Century by John K. Singlaub, Summit Books, 1991 [June 2025]
• He Calls Me by Lightning / The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice and the Death Penalty by S. Jonathan Bass, Liveright Publishing, 2017 [October 2019]
• Helen Keller / A Life by Dorothy Herrmann, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 [May 2017]
• Hell or High Water / James White’s Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867 by Eilean Adams, Utah State University Press, 2001 [March 2023]
• Hellhound on His Trail / The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides, Doubleday, 2010 [August 2010]
• Hell’s Angel / The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club by Ralph “Sonny” Barger, HarperCollins, 2000 [December 2023]
• Heloise & Abelard / A New Biography by James Burge, Harper San Francisco, 2003 [October 2017]
• Henry Clay / The Essential American by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Random House, 2011 [August 2013]
• Hernando de Soto / A Savage Quest in the Americas by David Ewing Duncan, Crown Publishers, 1996 [August 2023]
• Hero / The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda, Harper Perennial, 2010 [February 2016]
• Heroes without a Country / America’s Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens by Donald McRae, HarperCollins, 2002 [June 2016]
• Hildegard of Bingen / The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks, Doubleday, 2001 [January 2013]
• Hillbilly Elegy / A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance, Harper, 2016 [March 2026]
• Hieronymous Bosch / The Complete Works by Stefan Fischer, Taschen, 2016 [January 2022]
• Himalaya / A Human History by Ed Douglas, W.W. Norton, 2020 [December 2022]
• Hip / The History by John Leland, HarperCollins, 2004 [August 2013]
• His Soul Goes Marching On / Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid, Paul Finkleman, editor, University Press of Virginia, 1995 [May 2013]
• Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea by James E. Hoare, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015 [October 2018]
• Hitting the Jackpot / The Inside Story of the Richest Indian Tribe in History by Brett D. Fromson, Grove Press, 2003 [December 2021]
• Ho Chi Minh / A Life by William J. Duiker, Hyperion, 2000 [July 2022]
• Hogarth / A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997 [April 2022]
• Honor Bound / The History of American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 by Stuart I. Rochester and Frederick Kiley, Historical Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1998 [June 2023]
• Hope Diamond / The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem by Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Books, 2006 [May 2022]
• House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger, Scribner, 2004 [June 2023]
• How Asia Works / Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell, Grove Press, 2013 [May 2021]
• How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Other Press, 2010 [June 2023]
• Howard Cosell / The Man, The Myth and the Transformation of American Sports by Mark Ribowsky, W.W. Norton, 2012 [July 2020]
• Howard Hughes / The Untold Story by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske, Dutton, 1996 [October 2018]
• I Have Seen the Future / A Life of Lincoln Steffens by Peter Hartshorn, Counterpoint, 2011 [October 2019]
• Idea Man / A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft by Paul Allen, Portfolio/Penguin, 2011 [April 2020]
• If at All Possible, Involve a Cow / The Book of College Pranks by Neil Steinberg, St. Martin’s Press, 1992 [February 2021]
• In Enemy Hands / A Prisoner in North Korea by Larry Zellers, University Press of Kentucky, 1991 [June 2023]
• In Search of H.V. Morton by Michael Bartholomew, Methuen, 2004 [January 2012]
• In Search of London by H.V. Morton, Da Capo Press, 1951 [December 2011]
• In the Steps of the Master by H.V. Morton, Da Capo Press, 1934 [December 2011]
• Indonesian Upheaval by John Hughes, David McKay Company, 1967 [March 2016]
• Irreversible Damage / The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier, Regnery Publishing, 2020 [January 2023]
• Isak Dinesen / The Life of A Storyteller by Judith Thurman, Picador USA, 1982 [January 2018]
• Istanbul / A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017 [June 2019]
• Istanbul / Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk, Vintage Books, 2003 [February 2026]
• J. Frank Dobie / A Liberated Mind by Steven L. Davis, University of Texas Press, 2009 [January 2021]
• Jackie Robinson / A Biography by Arnold Rampersad, Ballantine Books, 1997 [April 2026]
• Jamaican Warriors / Reggae Roots & Culture by Stephen Foehr, Sanctuary Publishing, 2000 [August 2012]
• James Scarth Gale and his History of the Korean People by Richard Rutt, Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch, 1972 [November 2020]
• Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy, Oxford University Press, 2014 [January 2023]
• Jesse James / Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles, Alfred Knopf, 2002 [April 2020]
• Jesus / An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land and His People by Leith Anderson, Bethany House, 2005 [May 2012]
• Jesus Christ / The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith by J. R. Porter, Oxford University Press, 1999 [May 2011]
• JFK and the Masculine Mystique / Sex and Power on the New Frontier by Steven Watts, Thomas Dunne Books, 2016 [March 2020]
• Jikji, Light from the East, Cheongju Early Printing Museum, 2017 [August 2018]
• Jim Murray: An Autobiography, MacMillan, 1993 [June 2020]
• Jimi Hendrix / The Ultimate Experience by Johnny Black, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999 [January 2020]
• Joan of Arc / A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison, Doubleday, 2014 [December 2015]
• Joe DiMaggio / The Hero’s Life by Richard Ben Cramer, Simon & Schuster, 2000 [April 2011]
• John Adams by David McCullough, Touchstone, 2001 [May 2026]
• John Brown’s War Against Slavery by Robert E. McGlone, Cambridge University Press, 2009 [April 2013]
• John Rosenfield’s Dallas / How the Southwest’s Leading Critic Shaped a City’s Culture, 1925-1966, Three Forks Press, 2002 [July 2019]
• John Wayne / The Life and Legend by Scott Eyman, Simon & Schuster, 2014 [September 2018]
• Johnny Appleseed / The Man, the Myth, the American Story by Howard Means, Simon & Schuster, 2011 [May 2022]
• Johnny Cash / The Biography by Michael Streissguth, Da Capo Press, 2006 [July 2017]
• Josephine Baker in Art and Life / The Icon and the Image by Bennetta Jules-Rosette, University of Illinois Press, 2007 [June 2019]
• Katyń / Stalin’s Massacre and the Triumph of Truth by Allen Paul, Northern Illinois University Press, 1991 [May 2023]
• Killing the Dream / James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Gerald Posner, Random House, 1998 [April 2025]
• King / The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig, Simon & Schuster, 2023 [November 2025]
• King Football / Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press by Michael Oriard, University of North Carolina Press, 2001 [December 2023]
• King Leopold’s Ghost / A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, Mariner Books, 1998 [August 2014]
• King of the World by David Remnick, Random House, 1998 [May 2016]
• King of Spies / The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea by Blaine Harden, Viking, 2017 [August 2023]
• Kissinger / A Biography by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 1992 [October 2022]
• KL / A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015 [May 2025]
• Korea / A Walk Through the Land of Miracles by Simon Winchester, Harper Perennial, 1988 [January 2024]
• Korea / The Impossible Country by Daniel Tudor, Tuttle Publishing, 2012 [October 2014
• Korea’s Olympic Icon / Kim Un-yong’s Resolute Odyssey by David Miller, Seoul Selection, 2019 [December 2020]
• Korean Atrocity! / Forgotten War Crimes, 1950-1953 by Philip D. Chinnery, Pen & Sword, 2000 [July 2018]
• Korean Unification / Inevitable Challenges by Jacques L. Fuqua Jr., Potomac Books, 2011 [November 2019]
• Korean War 1129 by Lee Joong-keun, Woojung Books, 2015 [April 2021]
• Krakatoa / The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester, Harper Perennial, 2003 [May 2017]
• La Salle / Explorer of the North American Frontier by Anka Muhlstein, Arcade Publishing, 1992 [May 2022]
• Last Boat Out of Shanghai / The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution by Helen Zia, Ballantine Books, 2019 [October 2021]
• Last King of the Sports Page / The Life and Career of Jim Murray by Ted Geltner, University of Missouri Press, 2012 [June 2020]
• Lawrence in Arabia / War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson, Doubleday, 2013 [February 2021]
• Lay This Body Down / The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves by Gregory A. Freeman, Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 [March 2022]
• Leaving Birmingham / Notes of a Native Son by Paul Hemphill, University of Alabama Press, 1993 [August 2016]
• Lefty / An American Odyssey by Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone, Ballantine Books, 2012 [June 2022]
• Leni / The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven Bach, Vintage Books, 2007 [June 2013]
• Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale, Penguin Books, 2016 [September 2017]
• Lenin the Dictator / An Intimate Portrait by Victor Sebestyen, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017 [October 2020]
• Leonardo / The Artist and the Man by Serge Bramly, Penguin Books, 1988 [December 2014]
• Letters from Joseon / 19th Century Korea through the Eyes of an American Ambassador’s Wife by Robert Neff, Seoul Selection, 2012 [February 2013]
• Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, Grove Press, 1986 [December 2014]
• Life Itself / A Memoir by Roger Ebert, Grand Central Publishing, 2011 [March 2016]
• Lili Marlene / The Soldiers’ Song of World War II by Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller, W.W. Norton, 2009 [July 2019]
• Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg, Berkley Books, 1998 [July 2013]
• Lisbon / War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 by Neill Lochery, PublicAffairs, 2011 [May 2017]
• London / The Biography by Peter Ackroyd, Anchor Books, 2000 [November 2011]
• Lone Star Justice / The First Century of the Texas Rangers by Robert M. Utley, Berkley Books, 2002 [January 2019]
• Lone Star Nation / How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence An by H. W. Brands, Doubleday, 2004 [March 2012]
• Look Away! / A History of the Confederate States of America by William C. Davis, Free Press, 2002 [October 2018]
• Lost and Found / The 9,000 Treasures of Troy / Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold that Got Away by Caroline Moorehead, Penguin Books, 1994 [December 2020]
• Lost Prophet / The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio, University of Chicago Press, 2003 [October 2017]
• Love for Sale / A World History of Prostitution by Nils Johan Ringdal, trans. Richard Daly, Grove Press, 1997 [November 2021]
• Love, Life, Goethe / Lessons from the Imagination of the Great German Poet by John Armstrong, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 [June 2023]
• Luckiest Man / The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig, Simon & Schuster, 2005 [September 2016]
• MacArthur’s War / Korea and the Undoing of an America Hero by Stanley Weintraub, Free Press, 2000 [November 2022]
• Made in America / An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson, Harper Perennial, 1994 [April 2018]
• Made in Detroit / A South of 8 Mile Memoir by Paul Clemens, Doubleday, 2005 [January 2013]
• Malcolm X / A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, Viking Press, 2011 [June 2013]
• Manson / The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn, Simon & Schuster, 2013 [November 2019]
• Mao’s Great Famine / The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikötter, Walker & Co., 2010 [February 2015]
• Marcel Proust / A Life by William C. Carter, Yale University Press, 2000 [February 2023]
• Marco Polo / From Venice to Xanadu by Lawrence Bergreen, Vintage Books, 2007 [September 2011]
• Marco Polo / Journey to the End of the Earth by Robin Brown, Sutton Publishing, 2005 [August 2011]
• Margaret Mead / A Life by Jane Howard, Simon & Schuster, 1984 [March 2016]
• Margaret Sanger / A Life of Passion, Hill & Wang, 2011 [February 2019]
• Marshalling Justice / The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall by Michael G. Long, HarperCollins, 2011 [July 2016]
• Martin Luther / The Christian Between God and Death by Richard Marius, Harvard University Press, 1999 [August 2011]
• Mass Killers / Inside the Minds of Men Who Murder by David J. Krajicek, Arcturus, 2020 [April 2022]
• Mayflower / A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick, Penguin Books, 2006 [May 2016]
• Melville / A Biography by Laurie Robertson-Lorant, University of Massachusetts Press, 1996 [April 2022]
• Mellon / An American Life by David Cannadine, Vintage Books, 2006 [April 2025]
• Memory Babe / A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac by Gerald Nicosia, Penguin Books, 1983 [June 2012]
• Mencken / The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, Oxford University Press, 2005 [October 2016]
• Michael Jackson / The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 1958-2009 by J. Randy Taraborelli, Grand Central Publishing, 2010 [April 2020]
• Michael Jordan / The Life by Roland Lazenby, Back Bay Books, 2014 [December 2019]
• Michelangelo by Howard Hibbard, Westview Press, 1974 [November 2014]
• Milton / Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot by Anna Beer, Bloomsbury Press, 2008 [December 2016]
• Milwaukee Braves / Heroes and Heartbreak by William Povletich, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2009 [February 2021]
• Mirror of the Arab World / Lebanon in Conflict by Sandra Mackey, W.W. Norton, 2008 [January 2011]
• Miss Anne in Harlem / The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan, HarperCollins, 2013 [January 2017]
• Missionary Capitalist / Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela by Darlene Rivas, University of North Carolina Press, 2002 [July 2022]
• Mormon Polygamy / A History by Richard S. Van Wagoner, Signature Books, 1989 [August 2015]
• Mozart by Marcia Davenport, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932 [August 2012]
• Mr. Capone by Robert J, Schoenberg, HarperCollins, 1992 [March 2022]
• Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain / A Biography by Justin Kaplan, Simon & Schuster, 1966 [March 2016]
• Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Mallon, Pantheon Books, 2002 [November 2021]
• Nagasaki / The Massacre of the Innocent and the Unknowing by Craig Collie, Allen & Unwin, 2011 [March 2018]
• Namath / A Biography by Mark Kriegel, Penguin Books, 2004 [January 2024]
• Name, Rank and Serial Number / Exploiting Korean War POWs at Home and Abroad by Charles S. Young, Oxford University Press, 2014 [April 2021]
• Napoleon / A Life by Andrew Roberts, Pilgrim Books, 2014 [March 2019]
• National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, 2012 [January 2024]
• Niagara / A History of the Falls by Pierre Berton, Kodansha America, 1992 [August 2022]
• Nice Work If You Can Get It / My Life in Rhythm and Rhyme by Michael Feinstein, Hyperion, 1995 [May 2019]
• Night Train / The Sonny Liston Story by Nick Tosches, Penguin Books, 2000 [October 2021]
• Nightingales / The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill, Random House, 2004 [December 2015]
• No Beast So Fierce / The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History by Dane Huckelbridge, William Morrow, 2019 [February 2023]
• No Easy Day / The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL by “Mark Owen” (Matthew Bissonnette), New American Library, 2012 [December 2017]
• No Man Knows My History / The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie, Vintage Books, 1945 [February 2014]
• Noel & Cole / The Sophisticates by Stephen Citron, Oxford University Press, 1992 [December 2019]
• Not Pretty Enough / The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown by Gerri Hirshey, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016 [October 2016]
• Nothing to Envy / Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick, Spiegel & Grau, 2009 [April 2010]
• Now Pitching, Bob Feller by Bob Feller, Birch Lane Press, 1990 [November 2022]
• Obsessive Genius / The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith, Atlas Books, 2005 [April 2023]
• October 1964 by David Halberstam, Fawcett Books, 1994 [June 2011]
• Odessa / Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King, 2011 [July 2017]
• Okinawa / The History of an Island People by George H. Kerr, Tuttle Publishing, 1958 [September 2022]
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Wordsworth, 1992 (originally published in 1838) [March 2026]
• On China by Henry Kissinger, 2011, Penguin Books [September 2021]
• On the Map / A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield, Gotham Books, 2013 [June 2020]
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser, HarperCollins, 1976 [November 2015]
• One Man’s America / A Journalist’s Search for the Heart of His Country by Henry Grunwald, Doubleday, 1997 [July 2025]
• One Summer / America 1927 by Bill Bryson, Anchor Books, 2013 [May 2023]
• Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann, Vintage Books, 1987 [April 2015]
• Oswald’s Tale / An American Mystery by Norman Mailer, Random House, 1995 [December 2021]
• Oxford & Cambridge / An Uncommon History by Peter Sager, Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 2003 [May 2015]
• Over the Edge of the World / Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen, HarperCollins, 2003 [February 2012]
• Pacific / Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires by Simon Winchester, HarperCollins, 2015 [September 2025]
• Paddy’s Lament / Ireland 1846-1847 / Prelude to Hatred by Thomas Gallagher, Harcourt Brace, 1982 [August 2023]
• Paid For / My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran,W.W. Norton, 2013 [November 2021]
• Paris / The Secret History by Andrew Hussey, Bloomsbury, 2006 [January 2020]
• Paris 1919 / Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan, Random House, 2001 [May 2019]
• Park Chung-Hee / From Poverty to Power by Chong-Sik Lee, Kyung-Hee University Press, 2012 [November 2014]
• Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi, W.W. Norton & Co., 2007 [February 2015]
• Parting the Waters / America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch, Simon & Schuster, 1988 [August 2016]
• Passionate Liberator / Theodore Dwight Weld & the Dilemma of Reform by Robert H. Abzug, Oxford University Press, 1980 [November 2023]
• Passionate Nation / The Epic History of Texas by James L. Haley, Free Press, 2006 [April 2018]
• Passionate Nomad / The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Random House, 1999 [April 2019]
• Pathfinder / John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire by Tom Chaffin, Hill and Wang, 2002 [December 2022]
• Patriotic Fire / Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans by Winston Groom, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 [January 2023]
• Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes, Mariner Books, 1942 [March 2026]
• Pearl Buck in China / Journey to The Good Earth by Hilary Spurling, Simon & Schuster, 2010 [February 2019]
• Percy Greene and the Jackson Advocate / The Life and Times of a Radical Conservative Black Newspaperman, 1897-1977 by Julius E. Thompson, McFarland Press, 1994 [May 2014]
• Philippines, Francis Doral, ed., Insight Guides, 2008 [December 2024]
• Pink Triangle / The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, Blood Moon, 2014 [August 2020]
• Pistol / The Life of Pete Maravich by Mark Kriegel, Free Press, 2007 [March 2016]
• Playing for Keeps / Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam, Broadway Books, 1999 [October 2013]
• Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma by Camilla Townsend, Hill and Wang, 2004 [January 2016]
• Pol Pot / Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short, Henry Holt & Company, 2004 [March 2017]
• Pop Goes Korea / Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music and Internet Culture by Mark James Russell, Stone Bridge Press, 2008 [November 2010]
• Pops / A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout, Houghton Mifflin, 2009 [June 2012]
• Prague Winter / A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright, Harper Perennial, 2012 [February 2024]
• Presidential Wives / An Anecdotal History by Paul F. Boller, Jr., Oxford University Press, 1988 [June 2016]
• Prince Henry “The Navigator” / A Life by Peter Russell, Yale University Press, 2001 [September 2020]
• Press Box Red / The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports by Irwin Silber, Temple University Press, 2003 [January 2010]
• Punching Out / One Year in a Closing Auto Plant by Paul Clemens, Anchor Books, 2011 [January 2013]
• Puttin’ on the Ritz / Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache by Peter J. Levinson, 2009 [April 2013]
• Queen of Ice, Queen of Shadows / The Unsuspected Life of Sonja Henie by Raymond Strait and Leif Henie, Scarborough House, 1985 [November 2016]
• Quisling / A Study in Treachery by Hans Frederik Dahl, Cambridge University Press, 1999 [September 2017]
• Raffles and the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendenning, Profile Books, 2012 [November 2024]
• Ralph McGill / A Biography by Barbara Barksdale Clowse, Mercer University Press, 1998 [June 2018]
• Ready, Steady, Go! / The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London by Shawn Levy, Doubleday, 2002 [June 2013]
• Red / A Biography of Red Smith by Ira Berkow, Times Books, 1986 [February 2019]
• Red Famine / Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum, Anchor Books, 2017 [September 2023]
• Redemption / The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 [April 2014]
• Rembrandt / A Life by Charles L. Mee Jr., New Word City, 2016 [November 2019]
• Remembering Denny by Calvin Trillin, Warner Books, 1993 [October 2021]
• Rereading Sex / Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002 [January 2019]
• Richmond’s Unhealed History by Benjamin Campbell, Brandywine Publishers, 2012 [January 2016]
• Rimbaud / A Biography by Graham Robb, W.W. Norton, 2000 [December 2022]
• Ring / A Biography of Ring Lardner by Jonathan Yardley, Random House, 1977 [October 2013]
• Rising Tide / The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry, Simon & Schuster, 1997 [July 2015]
• Robert E. Lee / A Biography by Emory M. Thomas, W.W. Norton, 1995 [September 2018]
• Robert Morris / Financier of the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye, Simon & Schuster, 2010 [January 2021]
• Rogers Hornsby / A Biography by Charles Alexander, Henry Holt and Company, 1995 [December 2019]
• Roll, Jordan, Roll / The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese, Vintage Books, 1972 [April 2016]
• Rome 1960 / The Olympics that Stirred the World by David Maraniss, Simon & Schuster, 2008 [September 2011]
• Romania by Debbie Stowe, Kuperard, 2008 [August 2017]
• Romania / Borderland of Europe by Lucian Boia, Reaktion Books, 2001 [August 2017]
• Russia / A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith, Overlook Press, 2011 [November 2015]
• Sacred Sexuality by A.T. Mann and Jane Lyle, Element Books, 1995 [August 2014]
• Sacred Trash / The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, Schocken Books, 2011 [September 2020]
• Samuel Johnson / The Struggle by Jeffrey Meyers, Basic Books, 2008 [January 2012]
• Samuel Pepys / The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin, Vintage Books, 2002 [January 2015]
• San Antonio Rose / The Life and Music of Bob Wills by Charles R. Townsend, University of Illinois Press, 1976 [August 2017]
• Sandy Koufax / A Lefty’s Legacy by Jane Leavy, HarperCollins, 2002 [August 2013]
• Sapiens: The 13.8-Billion-Year Scientific Odyssey by Song Manho and Ahn Jungho, 2021 [August 2024]
• Satch, Dizzy and Rapid Robert / The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson by Timothy M. Gay, Simon & Schuster, 2010 [April 2012]
• Satchel / The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye, Random House, 2009 [April 2012]
• Saudi, Inc. / The Arabian Kingdom’s Pursuit of Profit and Power by Ellen R. Wald, Pegasus Books, 2018 [September 2019]
• Scalp Dance / Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879 by Thomas Goodrich, Stackpole Books, 1997 [May 2020]
• Schlesinger / The Imperial Historian by Richard Aldous, W.W. Norton, 2017 [September 2023]
• Seoul Under Japanese Aggression (1910-1945) by City History Compilation Committee of Seoul, 2002 [November 2020]
• Servants / A Downstairs History of Britain from the 19th Century to Modern Times by Lucy Lethbridge, W. W. Norton, 2013 [September 2018]
• 17 Carnations / The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-up in History by Andrew Morton, Grand Central Publishing, 2015 [January 2026]
• Sex among Allies / Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations by Katharine H.S. Moon, Columbia University Press, 1997 [February 2020]
• Sex among the Rabble / An Intimate History of Gender & Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 by Clare A. Lyons, University of North Carolina Press, 2006 [December 2018]
• Sex and Punishment / Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz, Counterpoint Press, 2012 [September 2014]
• Sex The Measure of All Things / A Biography of Alfred C. Kinsey by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Chatto & Windus, 1998 [December 2012]
• Sex with Kings / Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge by Eleanor Herman, HarperCollins, 2004 [March 2013]
• Sex with the Queen / Nine Hundred Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers and Passionate Politics by Eleanor Herman, HarperCollins, 2006 [March 2013]
• Sgt. York / His Life, Legend & Legacy by John Perry, Broadman & Holman, 1997 [August 2018]
• Shade of the Raintree / The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Viking, 1994 [February 2020]
• Shadow / Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward, Touchstone Books, 1999 [September 2025]
• Shakespeare by Bill Bryson, Harper Press, 2007 [May 2023]
• Shanghai / China’s Gateway to Modernity by Marie-Claire Bergere, Stanford University Press, 2009 [November 2014]
• Shanghai Gone / Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity by Qin Shao, Rowman & Littlefield, 2013 [January 2015]
• Shanghai 1937 / Stalingrad on the Yangtze by Peter Harmsen, Casemate Publishers, 2013 [February 2015]
• She Captains / Heroines and Hellions of the Sea by Joan Druett, Touchstone, 2000 [March 2024]
• Sherman’s March by Burke Davis, Random House, 1980 [July 2020]
• Ship of Miracles / 14,000 Lives and One Miraculous Voyage by Bill Gilbert, Triumph Books, 2000 [April 2023]
• Show Your Work by Austin Kleon, Workman Publishing, 2014 [January 2019]
• Shuffling to Ignominy / The Tragedy of Stepin Fetchit by Champ Clark, Universe Books, 2005 [April 2012]
• Siege / Trump Under Fire by Michael Wolff, Henry Holt & Co., 2019 [November 2023]
• Sitting in Darkness / Americans in the Philippines by David Haward Bain, Houghton Mifflin, 1984 [June 2024]
• Skeletons on the Zahara / A True Story of Survival by Dean King, Back Bay Books, 2004 [September 2015]
• Slavery / A World History by Milton Meltzer, Da Capo Press, 1993 [November 2010]
• Slavery in the Arab World by Murray Gordon, New Amsterdam Books, 1989 [January 2011]
• Sleeping with the Enemy / Coco Chanel’s Secret War by Hal Vaughan, Vintage Books, 2011 [August 2019]
• Slick / The Silver & Black Life of Al Davis by Mark Ribowsky, Macmillan, 1991 [February 2022]
• Smoky Joe Wood / The Biography of a Baseball Legend by Gerald C. Wood, University of Nebraska Press, 2013 [February 2020]
• Sojourner Truth / A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter, W.W Norton & Co., 1996 [June 2018]
• Sons of Liberty / The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye, Simon & Schuster, 2006 [August 2022]
• Sound and Fury / Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship by Dave Kindred, Free Press, 2006 [November 2022]
• South Korea by Robert Nilsen, Moon Handbooks, 2003 [October 2008]
• Spalding’s World Tour / The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe and Made It America’s Game by Mark Lamster, PublicAffairs, 2006 [October 2018]
• Stagolee Shot Billy by Cecil Brown, Harvard University Press, 2003 [April 2018]
• Stalin’s Apologist / Walter Duranty: The New York Times’s Man in Moscow by S.J. Taylor, Oxford University Press, 1990 [September 2019]
• Stan the Man / The Life and Times of Stan Musial by Wayne Stewart, Triumph Books, 2010 [August 2022]
• Star of the Morning / The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope by Kirsten Ellis, HarperCollins, 2008 [July 2020]
• Steel Drivin’ Man / John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson, Oxford University Press, 2006 [January 2014]
• Stepin Fetchit / The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry by Mel Watkins, Pantheon Books, 2005 [May 2012]
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 2011 [September 2024]
• Stevie Ray Vaughan / Caught in the Crossfire by Joe Nick Patoski and Bill Crawford, Little, Brown, 1993 [May 2015]
• Sticky Fingers / The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe Hagan, Alfred Knopf, 2017 [October 2019]
• Straight on Till Morning / The Life of Beryl Markham by Mary S. Lovell, W.W. Norton, 1987 [May 2023]
• Strong Inside / Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South by Andrew Maraniss, Vanderbilt University Press, 2014 [July 2019]
• Sucker Punch / The Hard Left Hook that Dazed Ali and Killed King’s Dream by Jack Cashill, Nelson Current, 2006 [October 2017]
• Sweetness / The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton by Jeff Pearlman, Gotham Books, 2011 [January 2022]
• Taboo / Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk about It by Jon Entine, Public Affairs, 2000 [October 2014]
• Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, edited by N.J. Dawood, Penguin, 1954 [March 2014]
• Taj Mahal / Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire, by Diana and Michael Preston, Walker & Company, 2006 [May 2014]
• Ted Williams / The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville, Doubleday Press, 2004 [September 2016]
• Ten-Gallon War / The NFL’s Cowboys, the AFL’s Texans and the Feud for Dallas’s Pro Football Future by John Eisenberg, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 [September 2014]
• Tennessee Williams / Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr, W.W. Norton, 2014 [September 2019]
• 10 Million Tigers by David Ritchie, Nulbom Publishers, 2002 [January 2009]
• 10 Books that Screwed Up the World / And 5 Others that Didn’t Help by Benjamin Wiker, Regnery Publishing, 2008 [May 2023]
• Texas / A Bicentennial History by Joe B. Frantz, W.W. Norton, 1976 [January 2021]
• Texas / A Compact History by Archie P. McDonald, State House Press, 2007 [August 2010]
• Texas Gulag / The Chain Gang Years 1875-1925 by Gary Moore, Republic of Texas Press, 2002 [March 2011]
• Texas High School Hotshots / The Stars Before They Were Stars by Alan Burton, Republic of Texas Press, 2003 [June 2014]
• Thaddeus Stevens / Scourge of the South by Fawn M. Brodie, W.W. Norton, 1959 [January 2019]
• Thayer’s Life of Beethoven, edited by Elliot Forbes, Princeton University Press, 1967 [November 2016]
• The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time / Ranking Sports’ Most Notorious Fixes, Cover-ups and Scandals by Elliott Kalb, Skyhorse Publishing, 2009 [July 2020]
• The 100 / A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History by Michael Hart, Simon & Schuster, 1978 [February 2024]
• The Adventures of Ibn Battuta / A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century by Ross E. Dunn, University of California Press, 1986 [April 2011]
• The Age of the Gladiators / Savagery & Spectacle in Ancient Rome by Rupert Matthews, Arcturus Publishing, 2003 [December 2011]
• The Austerity Olympics / When the Games Came to London in 1948 by Janie Hampton, Aurum Press, 2008 [April 2022]
• The Barbarian Conversion / From Paganism to Christianity by Richard Fletcher, University of California Press, 1997 [June 2011]
• The Baseball Codes / Beanballs, Sign-Stealing and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime by Jason Turbow, Pantheon, 2010 [January 2019]
• The Berlin Wall / 13 August 1961 – 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006 [December 2015]
• The Best American Sports Writing (2011), edited by Jean Leavy, Mariner Press, 2011 [January 2025]
• The Best American Sports Writing (2012), edited by Michael Wilbon, Mariner Press, 2012 [October 2024]
• The Best American Sports Writing (2013), edited by J.R. Moehringer, Mariner Press, 2013 [February 2025]
• The Best American Sports Writing of the [20th] Century, edited by David Halberstam, Houghton Mifflin, 1999 [August 2018]
• The Best I Recall / A Memoir by Gary Cartwright, University of Texas Press, 2015 [May 2022]
• The Best of Baseball Digest, edited by John Kuester, Ivan R. Dee, 2006 [July 2021]
• The Big O / My Life, My Times, My Game by Oscar Robertson, University of Nebraska Press, 2003 [December 2021]
• The Black Prince of Baseball / Hal Chase and the Mythology of the Game by Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella, Sport Media Publishing, 2004 [February 2022]
• The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013 [May 2017]
• The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead, Harper & Row, 1962 [June 2021]
• The Body / A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson, Penguin Books, 2019 [September 2021]
• The Book of Basketball / The NBA According to the Sports Guy by Bill Simmons, Ballentine Books, 2009 [October 2016]
• The Book of Unusual Knowledge, Publications International Ltd., 2012 [September 2025]
• The Borgias / The Hidden History by G.J. Meyer, Bantam Books, 2013 [December 2018]
• The Bounty / The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander, Penguin Books, 2003 [October 2011]
• The Bowery / The Strange History of New York’s Oldest Street by Stephen Paul DeVillo, Skyhorse Publishing, 2017 [September 2020]
• The Bund Shanghai / China Faces West by Peter Hibbard, Odyssey Books, 2007 [January 2015]
• The Cambridge Guide to English Literature by Michael Stapleton, Cambridge University Press, 1983 [August 2024]
• The Children’s Crusade / Medieval History, Modern Mythistory by Gary Dickson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 [August 2020]
• The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock & Roll by Preston Lauterbach, W.W. Norton, 2011 [June 2016]
• The Cold War’s Killing Fields / Rethinking the Long Peace by Paul Thomas Chamberlin, HarperCollins, 2018 [February 2025]
• The Coldest Winter / America and the Korean War by David Halberstam, Hyperion, 2007 [January 2013]
• The Comfort Women / Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War by George Hicks, W.W. Norton & Co., 1994 [July 2015]
• The Complete Pyramids / Solving the Ancient Mysteries by Mark Lehner, Thames and Hudson, 1997 [March 2020]
• The Condor Years / How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents by John Dinges, New Press, 2004 [January 2025]
• The Crime of the Century / Richard Speck and the Murders that Shocked a Nation by Dennis L. Breo and William J. Martin, Skyhorse Publishing, 1993 [February 2022]
• The Cultural Revolution / A People’s History by Frank Dikötter, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016 [September 2022]
• The Curse of Beauty / The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America’s First Supermodel by James Bone, Regan Arts, 2016 [June 2022]
• The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh, Back Bay Books, 1997 [August 2016]
• The Day John Died by Christopher Andersen, William Morrow, 2000 [March 2024]
• The Days Grow Short / The Life and Music of Kurt Weill by Ronald Sanders, 1980 [July 2019]
• The Detroit Almanac / 300 Years of Life in the Motor City by Peter Gavrilovich and Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 2000 [December 2012]
• The Demon-Haunted World / Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, Ballantine Books, 1996 [October 2015]
• The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell, Profile Books, 2017 [January 2022]
• The Dig Tree / The Extraordinary Story of the Ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition by Sarah Murgatroyd, Bloomsbury 2002 [October 2022]
• The Downtown Jews / Portraits of an Immigrant Generation by Ronald Sanders, Barnes & Noble, 1969 [June 2019]
• The Echoing Green / The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World by Joshua Prager, Vintage Books, 2006 [July 2013]
• The Eleventh Day / The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, Ballentine Books, 2011 [May 2018]
• The Emperor of All Maladies / A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Scribner, 2010 [September 2021]
• The Eye to the World / An Integrated History of Thoughts by Song Manho, Ahn Jungho, Hong Gibin and Lee Eunsu, Bada Publishing, 2025
• The Fall of Shanghai by Noel Barber, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979 [December 2014]
• The Fatal Shore / The Epic of Australia’s Founding by Robert Hughes, Vintage, 1986 [June 2012]
• The Fate of Africa / A History of Fifty Years of Independence by Martin Meredith, Public Affairs, 2005 [February 2017]
• The First American / The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands, Anchor Books, 2000 [March 2012]
• The First Filipino / A Biography of Jose Rizal by Leon Ma. Guerrero, Guerrero Publishing, 2012 [March 2015]
• The First Four Minutes by Roger Bannister, Sutton Publishing, 1955 [March 2015]
• The First Tycoon / The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles, Vintage Books, 2009 [March 2018]
• The Forgotten 500 / The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II by Gregory A. Freeman, NAL Caliber, 2007 [March 2023]
• The Forgotten History of America / Little-Known Conflicts of Lasting Importance from the Earliest Colonists to the Eve of Revolution by Cormac O’Brien, Crestline, 2008 [November 2020]
• The Franchise / A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine by Michael MacCambridge, Hyperion, 1997 [May 2012]
• The Game Changers / Abner Haynes, Leon King and the Fall of Major College Football’s Color Barrier in Texas by Jeff Miller, Sports Publishing, 2016 [July 2018]
• The General / Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved by Jonathan Fenby, Skyhorse Publishing, 2012 [May 2017]
• The Giants of the Polo Grounds / The Glorious Times of Baseball’s New York Giants by Noel Hynd, Red Cat Tales Publishing, 2018 [March 2022]
• The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual / A History of Terror in the Name of God by Jonathan Kirsch, HarperCollins, 2008 [September 2011]
• The Grand Slam / Bobby Jones, America and the Story of Golf by Mark Frost, Hyperion, 2004 [June 2018]
• The Great Divide / Nature and Human Nature in the Old World and the New by Peter Watson, HarperCollins, 2012 [October 2025]
• The Great Betrayal / The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II by Audrie Girdner and Anne Loftis, Macmillan, 1969 [April 2025]
• The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot / The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom by Blaine Harden, Viking Press, 2015 [September 2023]
• The Great North Korean Famine / Famine, Politics and Foreign Policy by Andrew S. Natsios, United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001 [October 2022]
• The Great Successor / The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield, PublicAffairs, 2019 [January 2022]
• The Great Wall / China Against the World, 1000 BC-2000 AD by Julia Lovell, Grove Press, 2006 [March 2020]
• The Great Wall / From Beginning to End by Michael Yamashita and William Lindesay, Sterling Publishing, 2007 [March 2020]
• The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Frank Rich, Penguin Books, 2006 [May 2024]
• The Happy Isles of Oceania / Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux, Mariner Books, 1992 [June 2025]
• The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion, Jonathan Z. Smith and William Scott Green, eds., HarperCollins, 1995 [January 2026]
• The Hidden People of North Korea / Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom by Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009 [July 2010]
• The Hidden White House / Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence by Robert Klara, Thomas Dunne Books, 2013 [November 2022]
• The History of Torture by Brian Innes, Amber Books, 1998 [November 2017]
• The Impossible State / North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha, HarperCollins, 2012 [January 2018]
• The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People by Irving Wallace et al., Feral House, 2001 edition [June 2017]
• The Invention of Nature / Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf, Alfred A. Knopf, 2015 [October 2020]
• The Kennedy Women/ The Triumph and Tragedy of America’s First Family by Laurence Leamer, Bantam Books, 1994 [September 2024]
• The Kids Got It Right / How the Texas All-Stars Kicked Down Racial Walls by Jim Dent, Thomas Dunne Books, 2013 [November 2013]
• The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park, Yearling, 2002 [January 2009]
• The Korean War / No Victors, No Vanquished by Stanley Sandler, UCL Press, 1999 [September 2012]
• The Lance and the Shield / The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert M. Utley, Ballantine Books, 1993 [February 2016]
• The Last Boy / Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood by Jane Leavy, HarperCollins, 2010 [November 2013]
• The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie, Simon & Schuster, 2007 [June 2020]
• The Last Empress / Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula, 2009 [June 2016]
• The Life & Legend of Leadbelly by Charles Wolfe and Kip Lornell, HarperCollins, 1992 [January 2012]
• The Long Recessional / The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 [June 2017]
• The Looming Tower / Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright, Alfred A.Knopf, 2006 [July 2016
• The Lost City of Z / A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann, Simon & Schuster, 2009 [August 2013]
• The Lost Executioner / A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields by Nic Dunlop, Walker & Co., 2005 [April 2017]
• The Making of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy / Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame by Ruth Richardson, Oxford University Press, 2008 [November 2022]
• The Making of the First Korean President / Syngman Rhee’s Quest for Independence 1875-1948 by Young Ick Lew, University of Hawaii Press, 2014 [October 2022]
• The Man Who Loved China / The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester, HarperCollins, 2008 [March 2021]
• The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White / A Portrait of Justice Byron R. White by Dennis J. Hutchinson, Free Press, 1998 [May 2018]
• The Man Who Outshone the Sun King / A Life of Gleaming Opulence & Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV by Charles Drazin, Da Capo Press, 2008 [November 2020]
• The Man Who Saved the Union / Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H.W. Brands, Anchor, 2013 [December 2018]
• The Marquis de Sade / A Life by Neil Schaeffer, Harvard University Press, 1999 [September 2015]
• The Mecca Mystery / Probing the Black Hole at the Heart of Muslim History by Peter Townsend, 2016 [February 2022]
• The Metaphysical Club / A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001 [June 2025]
• The Milwaukee Braves / A Baseball Eulogy by Bob Buege, Douglas American Sports Publications, 1988 [April 2018]
• The Mustangs by J. Frank Dobie, Castle Books, 1952 [March 2023]
• The Nelson Touch / The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson by Terry Coleman, Oxford University Press, 2002 [July 2023]
• The New Koreans / The Business, History and People of South Korea by Michael Breen, Penguin Random House, 2017 [December 2017]
• The New York Times Book of Sports Legends, Joseph J. Vecchione, editor, Random House, 1991 [February 2022]
• The Obits 2012 / New York Times, Workman Publishing Company, 2012 [November 2017]
• The Ohio River by John Ed Pearce, University Press of Kentucky, 1989 [June 2022]
• The Oracle / Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets by William J. Broad, Penguin Press, 2006 [May 2018]
• The Origins of Sex / A History of the First Sexual Revolution by Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Oxford University Press, 2012 [June 2015]
• The Other Half / The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America by Tom Buk-Swienty, W.W. Norton, 2008 [February 2013]
• The Other Hollywood / The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne, HarperCollins, 2005 [December 2021]
• The Ottoman Centuries / The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire by Patrick Balfour, a.k.a. “Lord Kinross,” HarperCollins, 1977 [February 2026]
• The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style by Bryan A. Garner, Oxford University Press, 2000 [May 2015]
• The Paper / The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune by Richard Kluger, Vintage Books, 1986 [October 2024]
• The Park and the People / A History of Central Park by Roy Rozenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, Cornell University Press, 1992 [September 2022]
• The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King, Penguin Books, 2003 [September 2014]
• The People’s Artist / Prokofiev’s Soviet Years by Simon Morrison, Oxford University Press, 2009 [January 2022]
• The People’s Republic of Amnesia / Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim, Oxford University Press, 2014 [February 2016]
• The People’s Tycoon / Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 [December 2017]
• The Perfect Mile / Three Athletes, One Goal and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb, Mariner Books, 2004 [February 2015]
• The Pessimist’s Guide to History by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner, Avon Books, 1992 [January 2026]
• The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago / The Complete Cultural Handbook by David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson, St. Martin’s, 2000 [January 2016]
• The Pirate Hunter / The True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks, Hyperion, 2002 [July 2023]
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer, Regnery Publishing, 2005 [October 2010]
• The Power Broker / Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro, Alfred A. Knopf, 1974 [July 2021]
• The Prehistory of Sex / Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture by Timothy Taylor, Bantam Books, 1996 [November 2017]
• The Presidents Club / Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, Simon & Schuster, 2012 [June 2024]
• The Prize / The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin, Free Press, 1991 [March 2021]
• The Private Life of Chairman Mao / The Inside Story of the Man who Made Modern China by Zhisui Li, Random House, 1994 [September 2012]
• The Producer/ John Hammond and the Soul of American Music by Dunstan Prial, Picador, 2007 [February 2018]
• The Profiteers / Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World by Sally Denton, Simon & Schuster, 2016 [January 2020]
• The Promise of the Grand Canyon / John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West by John F. Ross, Viking Press, 2018 [October 2020]
• The Quartermaster / Montgomery C. Meigs / Lincoln’s General / Master Builder of the Union Army by Robert O’Harrow, Jr., Simon & Schuster, 2016 [February 2021]
• The Queen’s Slave Trader / John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I and the Trafficking in Human Souls by Nick Hazlewood, William Morrow, 2004 [October 2022]
• The Quest for the True Cross by Carsten Peter Thiede and Matthew d’Ancona, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000 [September 2022]
• The Race Beat / The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 [April 2014]
• The Radium Girls / The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore, Sourcebooks, 2017 [January 2021]
• The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, Penguin Books, 1997 [January 2015]
• The Real All Americans by Sally Jenkins, Broadway Books, 2007 [June 2024]
• The Remarkable Life of William Beebe, Explorer and Naturalist by Carol Grant Gould, Island Press, 2004 [June 2018]
• The Rise and Fall of Alexandria / Birthplace of the Modern World by Justin Pollard and Howard Reid, Penguin Books, 2006 [October 2014, April 2023]
• The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1994 [April 2020]
• The Rivalry / Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and the Golden Age of Basketball by John Taylor, Ballentine Books, 2005 [October 2014]
• The Road from the Past / Traveling through History in France by Ina Caro, Harcourt Brace, 1994 [November 2015]
• The Siege of Mecca / The 1979 Uprising at Islam’s Holiest Shrine by Yaroslav Trofimov, Anchor Books, 2007 [August 2020]
• The Silk Road / A New History by Valerie Hansen, Oxford University Press, 2012 [March 2014]
• The Silk Roads / A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan, Vintage Books, 2015 [November 2025]
• The Sinatra Files / The Secret FBI Dossier by Tom Kuntz and Phil Kuntz, Three Rivers Press, 2000 [September 2014]
• The Smartest Guys in the Room / The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, Portfolio Press, 2003 [September 2013]
• The Spartans / The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge, Vintage Books, 2002 [August 2015]
• The Steal / A Cultural History of Shoplifting by Rachel Shteir, Penguin Books, 2011 [November 2021]
• The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich, Phaedon, 2006 [June 2020]
• The Story of English by Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil and William Cran, Penguin Books, 1986 [June 2015]
• The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon, updated by John Merriman, W.W. Norton, 1921 [August 2021]
• The Strange Death of Europe / Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray, Bloomsbury, 2017 [August 2021]
• The Sun by Steele Hill and Michael Carlowicz, Henry Abrams Books, 2006 [July 2014]
• The Sun’s Heartbeat and Other Stories from the Life of the Star that Powers Our Planet by Bob Berman, Back Bay Books, 2011 [August 2014]
• The Talented Miss Highsmith / The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar, St. Martin’s Press, 2009 [November 2016]
• The Templars / The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades by Piers Paul Read, Da Capo Press, 1999 [January 2024]
• The Thief-Taker Hangings / How Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard Captivated London and Created the Celebrity Criminal by Aaron Skirboll, Lyons Press, 2014 [April 2021]
• “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else” / A History of the Armenian Genocide by Ronald Grigor Suny, Princeton University Press, 2015 [January 2023]
• The Tango Wars / The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of “Latin” America During World War II by Mary Jo McConahay, St. Martin’s Press, 2018 [April 2023]
• The Tragedy of Liberation / A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikötter, Bloomsbury Press, 2013 [February 2015]
• The Two Koreas / A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer, Perseus Books, 1997 [April 2017]
• The Ty Cobb Scrapbook by Marc Okkonen, Sterling Publishing, 2001 [April 2021]
• The Union Jack / The Story of the British Flag by Nick Groom, Atlantic Books, 2006 [May 2025]
• The United States and the Division of Korea, 1945 by Won-Sul Lee, Kyung Hee University Press, 1982 [July 2009]
• The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Random House, 1985 [June 2021]
• The Village / 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues / A History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh, HarperCollins, 2013 [December 2019]
• The Washing of the Spears / The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation by Donald R. Morris, Simon & Schuster, 1965 [May 2013]
• The Witches / Salem, 1692 / A History by Stacy Schiff, Little & Brown, 2015 [July 2020]
• The Wizard of Waxahachie / Paul Richards and the End of Baseball as We Knew It by Warren Corbett, SMU Press, 2009 [July 2022]
• The World of Tattoo / An Illustrated History by Maarten Hesselt van Dinter, KIT Publishers, 2005 [November 2019]
• The World that Made New Orleans / From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette, Lawrence Hill Books, 2008 [September 2015]
• The Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach, edited by Raymond Erickson, Amadeus Press, 2009 [June 2017]
• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, 2015 [May 2020]
• Things that Matter / Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics by Charles Krauthammer, Crown Forum, 2013 [November 2020]
• This is Paradise! / My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang, Abacus, 2005 [February 2010]
• Thomas Paine / Enlightenment, Revolution and the Birth of Modern Nations by Craig Nelson, Penguin Books, 2006 [January 2016]
• Thomas Wolfe / An Illustrated Biography, Ted Mitchell (ed.), Pegasus Books, 2006 [March 2022]
• Through a Land of Extremes / The Littledales of Central Asia by Elizabeth and Nicholas Clinch, Mountaineer Books, 2011 [November 2018]
• Timbuktu / The Sahara’s Fabled City of Gold by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, Walker & Co., 2007 [March 2018]
• Timothy Leary / A Biography by Robert Greenfield, Harcourt Inc., 2006 [November 2012]
• Toronto / Biography of a City by Allan Levine, Douglas & McIntyre, 2014 [March 2017]
• Tree of Rivers / The Story of the Amazon by John Hemming, Thames and Hudson, 2008 [September 2013]
• Triumph of Justice / The Final Judgment on the Simpson Saga by Daniel Petrocelli, Crown Publishers, 1998 [January 2022]
• Troubled Tiger / Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea by Mark L. Clifford, East Gate, 1998 [May 2021]
• Trump Revealed / The Definitive Biography of the 45th President by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, Scribner, 2016 [March 2020]
• Turn Right at Machu Picchu / Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams, Plume, 2011 [October 2013]
• Ty and the Babe / Baseball’s Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship by Tom Stanton, Thomas Dunne Books, 2007 [March 2011]
• Ty Cobb / A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen, Simon & Schuster, 2015 [March 2019]
• Tyburn / London’s Fatal Tree by Alan Brooke and David Brandon, Sutton Publishing, 2004 [July 2019]
• Tycoon’s War / How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America’s Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins, DaCapo Press, 2008 [March 2021]
• Typee / A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville, Penguin Classics, 1844 [May 2021]
• Unbound / Women on China’s Long March by Dean King, Back Bay Books, 2010 [June 2013]
• Uncovering Soviet Disasters / Exploring the Limits of Glasnost by James E. Oberg, Robert Hale Ltd., 1988 [January 2025]
• Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader / North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin, Thomas Dunne Books, 2004 [April 2010]
• Unforgivable Blackness / The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward, Vintage Books, 2004 [February 2010]
• Unlikely Allies / How a Merchant, a Playwright and a Spy Saved the American Revolution by Joel Richard Paul, Riverhead Books, 2009 [March 2026]
• Universal Man / The Lives of John Maynard Keynes by Richard Davenport-Hines, Basic Books, 2015 [August 2015]
• Up from History / The Life of Booker T. Washington by Robert J. Norrell, Harvard University Press, 2009 [August 2019]
• Van Gogh / The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Random House, 2011 [July 2017]
• Venice / A New History by Thomas F. Madden, Penguin Books, 2012 [August 2014]
• Vietnam / Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton, Yale University Press, 2010 [July 2022]
• Viet Nam / A History from Earliest Times to the Present by Ben Kiernan, Oxford University Press, 2017 [May 2020]
• Virgins of Venice / Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent by Mary Laven, Penguin Books, 2002 [September 2011]
• Voltaire / A Life by Ian Davidson, Pegasus Books, 2010 [July 2017]
• Walt Whitman / A Life by Justin Kaplan, Simon & Schuster, 1980 [September 2015]
• Walter Johnson / Baseball’s Big Train by Henry W. Thomas, Phenom Press, 1995 [February 2012]
• Waltzing Matilda / The Secret History of Australia’s Favourite Song by Dennis O’Keeffe, Allen & Unwin, 2012 [September 2016]
• Waltzing with a Dictator / The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy by Raymond Bonner, Vintage Books, 1987 [January 2024]
• Washington / A History of Our National City by Tom Lewis, Basic Books, 2015 [March 2017]
• Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer, Oxford University Press, 2004 [April 2019]
• Watching the English / The Hidden Rules of English Behavior by Kate Fox, Hodder Stoughton, 2004 [February 2024]
• Waterman / The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku by David Davis, University of Nebraska Press, 2015 [August 2017]
• W.E.B. Du Bois / Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis, Henry Holt and Company, 1993 [May 2014]
• W.E.B. Du Bois / The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis, Henry Holt and Company, 2000 [June 2014]
• W.J. Cash / Southern Prophet by Joseph L. Morrison, Alfred A. Knopf, 1967 [February 2020]
• We Band of Angels / The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman, Pocket Books, 1999 [January 2019]
• Wear and Tear / The Threads of My Life by Tracy Tynan, Scribner, 2016 [December 2020]
• West by West / My Charmed, Tormented Life by Jerry West, Back Bay Books, 2011 [October 2021]
• Western Architecture / From Ancient Greece to the Present by Ian Sutton, Thames and Hudson, 1999 [January 2025]
• When Blanche Met Brando / The Scandalous Story of “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Sam Staggs, St. Martin’s, 2005 [March 2025]
• When Nothing Else Matters / Michael Jordan’s Last Comeback by Michael Leahy, Simon & Schuster, 2004 [December 2021]
• When the Earth Was Flat / All the Bits of Science We Got Wrong by Graeme Donald, Michael O’Mara Books, 2012 [July 2024]
• When the Mississippi Ran Backwards / Empire, Intrigue, Murder and the New Madrid Earthquakes by Jay Feldman, Free Press, 2005 [March 2021]
• Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn / The Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta by Gary Pomerantz, Scribner, 1996 [October 2015]
• White Gold / The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa’s One Million European Slaves by Giles Milton, Hodder & Stoughton, 2004 [July 2015]
• White Metropolis / Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001 by Michael Phillips, University of Texas Press, 2006 [February 2013]
• White Trash / The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg, Penguin Books, 2016 [October 2021]
• White Women, Black Men / Illicit Sex in the 19th-Century South by Martha Hodes, Yale University Press, 1997 [February 2013]
• Why the Germans Do It Better / Notes from a Grown-up Country by John Kampfner, Atlantic Books, 2020 [September 2023]
• Why War Came in Korea by Robert T. Oliver, Fordham University Press, 1950 [April 2021]
• Who Wrote What When?, ed. Nicola Chalton, Simon & Schuster, 1999 [May 2023]
• Wild Bill Donovan / The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller, Free Press, 2011 [December 2024]
• Wild Man / The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg by Tom Wells, St. Martin’s Press, 2001 [December 2022]
• Wild Planet! / 1,001 Extraordinary Events for the Inspired Traveler by Tom Clynes, Invisible Ink Press, 1995 [November 2012]
• Wild Swans / Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, Touchstone Books, 1991 [November 2018]
• William Faulkner of Oxford, edited by James W. Webb and A. Wigfall Green, LSU Press, 1965 [March 2015]
• Willie Nelson / An Epic Life by Joe Nick Patoski, Back Bay Books, 2008 [March 2019]
• Wilt, 1962 / The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era by Gary M. Pomerantz, Three Rivers Press, 2005 [December 2013]
• Without You, There Is No Us / Undercover among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim, Broadway Books, 2014 [December 2021]
• Wizard / The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla by Marc J. Seifer, Citadel Press, 1998 [November 2014]
• Wonder Girl / The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias by Don Van Natta, Little Brown, 2011 [February 2020]
• Wooden / A Coach’s Life by Seth Davis, Henry Holt, 2014 [April 2022]
• Words about Music / A Treasury of Writings by John Amis and Michael Rose, Paragon House, 1989 [March 2024]
• Worse than Slavery / Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice by David M. Oshinsky, Free Press, 1996 [December 2016]
• Writing About Your Life by William Zinsser, Marlowe & Co., 2004 [August 2015]
• Writing to Learn by William Zinsser, Harper & Row, 1988 [November 2015]
• You Know Me Al / A Busher’s Letters by Ring Lardner, George H. Doran Company, 1916 [October 2013]
• You Must Change Your Life / The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett, W.W. Norton & Co., 2016 [July 2022]
• Zora Neale Hurston / A Life in Letters, edited by Carla Kaplan, Doubleday, 2002 [May 2018]
2 Comments
One letter at a time. On the “A” list I’ve read the Mrs. Mick book, the volumes on Dempsey, April 1865, Oppenheimer, and the work about Flight 93. From digesting this quartet, my faith in Mr. Pennington’s taste in reading still rates as an A+.
More later….
Dex, it seems like we are among the very few who do this….
Add Comment