Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures

Matt K. Matsuda

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

David Abulafia

Index, A History of the

Dennis Duncan

Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History

Cody Cassidy

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Sofi Thanhauser

Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics

Robert Gilmore

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

Emily Anthes

The Edge of the World

Michael Pye

The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

David Abulafia

A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

Judith Flanders

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

Helen Czerski

Beneath the Night

Stuart Clark

The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments

Adrian Bliss

In All Weathers

Matt Gaw

Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes

Clive Oppenheimer