One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

John M. Barry

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

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

John Kelly

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan