Penguin Island

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

The Revolt of the Angels

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The Gods Will Have Blood

Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

Clio

Life in the Third Reich: Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

The White Stone and Putois

Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche and Child Life in Town and Country and Our Children: Scenes from the Country and the Town

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur De Boulingrin

Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

La rÈtisserie de la Reine P_dauque

The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes

Jocasta and the Famished Cat

Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over 500,000 copies sold