Père Goriot

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Cousin Bette

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

Old Goriot

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

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

Catherine de' Medici

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

A Woman at Thirty

Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

The Atheist's Mass

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories

Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

The Marriage Contract

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories

Imbibe! Updated and Revised Edition: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar