The Best of Times
Penny Vincenzi
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals
Michael Pollan
The Girl in the Green Raincoat
Laura Lippman
The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
Charles Nicholl
How the States Got Their Shapes
Mark Stein
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared M. Diamond