The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

Roland Allen

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America

Margot Canaday

Female Husbands: A Trans History

Jen Manion

The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are

David M. Henkin

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

John U. Bacon

Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi

Kenda Mutongi

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Jing Tsu

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Zahra Hankir

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel

Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

Irene Vallejo

The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life

Johan Eklöf

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

Judith Flanders

The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe

Kate Strasdin

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

Simon Garfield

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Hannah Carlson

How the Post Office Created America: A History

Winifred Gallagher

Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

Shahnaz Habib

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Rachel E. Gross

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

Sarah Ogilvie

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

Kory Stamper

Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

Dennis Duncan

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

Lorraine Daston

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

Emma Dabiri

The Secret Lives of Color

Kassia St. Clair

Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees

Mike Shanahan

The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

Ben Coates

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Mark Kurlansky

Silk: A World History

Aarathi Prasad

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Patrik Svensson