Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Svetlana Alexievich

Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

Bill Schutt

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (Bloomsbury Sigma)

Helen Scales

Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

Camper English

Blood, Sweat and Tears: A History of Bodily Fluids

Ruben Verwaal

Vital Organs: A History of the World's Most Famous Body Parts

Suzie Edge

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

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

Caitlin Doughty

Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Emily Nussbaum

Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

Cecelia Watson

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

Timothy C. Winegard

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

Giulia Enders

Drinking Water: A History

James Salzman

Books: A Living History

Martyn Lyons

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Hannah Carlson

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks

Keith Houston

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

Randy Shilts

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

Jamie Loftus

Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy

Hallie Lieberman

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

John Kelly

A Curious History of Sex

Kate Lister

The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads

Ammon Shea

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

William Alexander

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

John Green

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Mallory O'Meara