History

The Day the World Came to Town

Jim DeFede, Ray Porter

Understanding Comics

Scott McCloud

Hillbilly Elegy

J. D. Vance

The Residence

Kate Andersen Brower

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

Michelle McNamara, Gabra Zackman

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

Shifting Sands

Judith Scheele

Bloody Crowns

Michael Livingston

Coyote America

Dan Flores

Chernobyl

Serhii Plokhy

The Fabric of Civilization

Virginia Postrel

The Rule of Laws

Fernanda Pirie

Mad in America

Robert Whitaker

The Broken Heart of America

Walter Johnson

More Everything Forever

Adam Becker, Greg Tremblay

The Middle Kingdoms

John Curless, Martyn Rady

The Romans

Edward J. Watts

A New World Begins

Jeremy Popkin, Jeremy D. Popkin

Music

Ted Gioia, Jamie Renell

The Habsburgs

Martyn Rady, Simon Boughey

Stalin's War

Sean McMeekin, Kevin Stillwell

Talking Pictures

Ann Hornaday

The End of Everything

Victor Davis Hanson

Dominion

Tom Holland

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius, Robin Waterfield

Game of Queens

Sarah Gristwood

Uncommon Grounds

Mark Pendergrast

The First Cell

Azra Raza

Why Nothing Works

Marc J. Dunkelman

The Dictator's Handbook

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith