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

CASES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Patrick H. O'Neil, Karl Fields

People Love Dead Jews

Dara Horn

Tutankhamun's Trumpet

Toby Wilkinson, David Timson

For Blood and Money

Nathan Vardi

A Fate Worse Than Hell

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

The Divide

Jason Hickel, Jonathan Cowley

The 10 Rules of Successful Nations

Ruchir Sharma

The Blessing and the Curse

Adam Kirsch

Twilight of the Gods

Ian Toll, P.J. Ochlan

Strongmen

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Taking Manhattan

Russell Shorto

The Premonition

Michael Lewis

Key to the City

Sara C. Bronin

Stiff

Mary Roach

Where Tyranny Begins

David Rohde, Eric Jason Martin

Dark Renaissance

Stephen Greenblatt

Four Lost Cities

Annalee Newitz

Essential Readings in Comparative Politics

Patrick H. O'Neil, Ronald Rogowski

The Barbarous Years

Bernard Bailyn, Henry Strozier

The Civil War

Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns

Facing Mount Kenya

Jomo Kenyatta

Anti-intellectualism in American Life

Richard Hofstadter

What Is History?

Edward Hallett Carr

The Historian's Craft

Marc Bloch, Peter Putnam