When prize is what you want (or what you keep running into), start here.
Operation Paperclip
Annie Jacobsen
No Ordinary Time
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Small Things Like These (oprah's Book Club)
Claire Keegan
Gulag
Anne Applebaum
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Raising Hare
Chloe Dalton
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Die My Love
Ariana Harwicz, Carolina Orloff
