The Splendor Before the Dark by Margaret George
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Indians in Minnesota by the League of Women Voters of Minnesota
Home to War: a History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement by Gerald Nicosia
Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
The Dinosaur Hunters by Deborah Cadbury
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill
The Library of Light and Shadow by M.J. Rose
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Uprising by Dean Urdahl
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880-1918 by Patricia O'Toole
Mary Surratt: An American Tragedy by Elizabeth Steger Trindal
The Lost City of Z: a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
People of the Fire by Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
The Coffee Trader by David Liss
A.P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General by William Woods Hassler
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler