Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

John McWhorter

How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel

Brian Clegg

Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

Jack Ashby

The History of Money: A Story of Humanity

David McWilliams

Squirrel: How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World

Nancy F. Castaldo

Craftland: In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades

James Fox

The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction―and a Search for Relief

Tom Zeller Jr.

Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World

Brian Clegg

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Victoria Finlay

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

Marisa Meltzer

Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle

Natan Last

The Pickled City: A Biography of New York Pickles

Paul van Ravestein

The Encyclopedia of Ugly Fashion: Hilarious Introspective of History’s Worst Fashion Trends

Karolina Żebrowska

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Zahra Hankir

The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

Paulina Bren

Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

Danielle Friedman

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life

A.J. Jacobs

Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It

Larry Olmsted

A Boob's Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me...and You

Leslie Lehr

The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

Sarah Stodola

Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism

Daphné B.

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

Dennis Duncan

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

Laura Kaplan

100 Animals That Can F*cking End You

Mamadou Ndiaye

All the Living and the Dead

Hayley Campbell

Butts: A Backstory

Heather Radke

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Alexandra Lange