Five Days at Memorial
by Sheri Fink | 
Gotham
by Edwin G. Burrows | 
A Different Mirror
by Ronald Takaki | 
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
by Alan Taylor | 
The Fatal Shore
by Robert Hughes | 
The Promised Land
by Nicholas Lemann | 
White Mughals
by William Dalrymple | 
Local People
by John Dittmer | 
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
by Richard Lloyd Parry | 
The Americans: The Democratic Experience
by Daniel J. Boorstin | 
Origins of the New South
by C. Vann Woodward | 
Liberty's Exiles
by Maya Jasanoff | 
Mao's Great Famine
by Frank Dikotter | 
The Other Side of the River
by Alex Kotlowitz | 
Generations of Captivity
by Ira Berlin | 
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
by Peter Godwin | 
Lose Your Mother
by Saidiya Hartman | 
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates | 
Seabiscuit
by Laura Hillenbrand | 
Wild Swans
by Jung Chang |
