Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

Richard Lloyd Parry

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Kate Moore

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

Betty Medsger

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

Zora Neale Hurston

Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

Nick Tabor

The Great Train Robbery

Michael Crichton

The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

Hubert Wolf

Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy

Judith C. Brown

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

A Very English Scandal

John Preston

The Lunatic Express: An Entertainment in Imperialism.

Charles Miller

The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942

Henrietta Harrison

The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph

Scott Ellsworth

Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man

Jonathan D. Spence

The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History

Robert Darnton

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

Robert Darnton

A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders

Craig Harline

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

Natalie Zemon Davis

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap İlyas Mahalle (Soci Econ Hist Mid East (Dis))

Cem Behar

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks