The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Strange True Stories of Louisiana

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi

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

Old Creole Days

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

The Cavalier

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)

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan

The Zulu: An A-Z of Culture and Traditions

Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology

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

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

Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community