Père Goriot

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Old Goriot

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

Cousin Bette

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

The Thirteen

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

Catherine de' Medici

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

The Atheist's Mass

The Zulu: An A-Z of Culture and Traditions

Sarrasine

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

A Woman at Thirty

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories

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