True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink

Kory Stamper

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

Judith Flanders

The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife

Tim Birkhead

Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip

Richard Ratay

Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away

Coltan Scrivner

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun

Jane Harrington

The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America

David Baron

Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence

Sam Kelly

Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word

Megan C. Reynolds

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations

Sam Kean

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

Rebecca Romney

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

Kathleen Sheppard

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

Roland Allen

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Katherine Rundell

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay

The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments

Adrian Bliss

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Evan Friss

The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

John O’Connor

Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli (Inklings, #13)

Karl Thomas Smith

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World

Matt Alt

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Anna Bogutskaya

Weird Medieval Guys: A Bestiary of Curious Creatures from the Dark Ages

Olivia Swarthout

How to be a Victorian

Ruth Goodman

Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse

Maya Phillips

The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less

Christine Platt

Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes

Bill Peschel

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Amanda Montell

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Emily Nussbaum