“There is a great river and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey FitzharrisKillers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age by Tom Holland
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
Say Nothing: A True History of Memory and Murder in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism by Toby Matthiesen
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders by Dennis Rasmussen
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend
