The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects

Carol Cooper

Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Sacha Coward

Church Going: A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British Isles

Andrew Ziminski

A Charm of Goldfinches and Other Collective Nouns

Matt Sewell

There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness

M. Leona Godin

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Jon Krakauer

Gender Is Really Strange

Teddy G. Goetz

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Caroline Fraser

Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year

Michael Farquhar

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Steve Brusatte

X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries

Michael Scott

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Casey Cep

When Brooklyn Was Queer

Hugh Ryan

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green

Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

Judith Flanders

Hello Sailor!: The hidden history of gay life at sea

Paul Baker

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Alexis Coe

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History

Ben Mezrich

The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

Roger Friedland

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

Lindsey Fitzharris

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

James L. Swanson

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Michael Finkel