Broadway in Black and White: The Untold Story of the American Musical

John Mauceri

Under Your Nose: The Pleasures and Politics of Smell

Dr Ally Louks

The Death of Socrates (Profiles in History)

Emily Wilson

Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

Stephen Starring Grant

They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

Mike Hixenbaugh

Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath

Rick Wartzman

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Azar Nafisi

Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South

Mike Selby

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Zahra Hankir

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Sofi Thanhauser

School Yearbook: The Untold Story of a Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife

Kate Eichhorn

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Victoria Finlay

The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft

Peter Bellerby

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

Roland Allen

Silk: A World History

Aarathi Prasad

Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures)

Lorraine Daston

How the Post Office Created America: A History

Winifred Gallagher

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

Simon Garfield

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Oliver Sacks

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

Kate Moore

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Hannah Carlson

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

Tricia Rose

The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts

Christopher de Hamel

An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing

Tim Brookes

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores

Katie Mitchell

The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability

Kristen Hogan

How Queer Bookshops Changed the World

A.J. West

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Azar Nafisi

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed