History and Travel

Design from the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago

Africa, Mideast, and Asia

Chasing the Sea by Tom Bissell

Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux

King Tut, including The Murder of Tutankhamen by Bob Brier

Germany

Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner

Father / Land by Frederick Kempe

United States and Mexico

The Gold Coast and the Slum by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Marina and Cortés, including Malinche's Conquest by Anna Lanyon

Recollections of the Early Republic ed. by Joyce Appleby