Reading List: I Am Booked Up For The Next Lifetime
What I’m currently reading, and what’s up next.
Currently listing 711 books
Title |
Author |
Type |
Genre |
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| Assassination Vacation | Sarah Vowell | NF | History |
On The Shelf |
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| Are You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates | Suzanne O’Malley | NF | True Crime |
| The Devil’s Rooming House: The True Story of America’s Deadliest Female Serial Killer | M. William | NF | True Crime |
| Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge | Don Lattin | NF | True Crime |
| Linger | Maggie Stiefvater | F | Fantasy |
| Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend | Mark Collins Jenkins | NF | Parapsychology |
Upcoming |
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| 1066: Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry | Andrew Bridgeford | NF | History |
| 1215: The Year of Magna Carta | Danny Danziger and John Gillingham | NF | History |
| 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | Charles C. Mann | NF | Exploration |
| 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World | Frank McLynn | NF | History |
| 1776 | David McCullough | NF | History |
| 58 Degrees North: The Mysterious Sinking of the ARCTIC ROSE | Hugo Kugiya | NF | Maritime |
| 66 Days Adrift: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Open Sea | William Butler | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison | Allen Hornblum | NF | History |
| Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage | James P. Delgado | NF | Exploration |
| The Adventures of the Ectoplasmic Man | Daniel Stashower | F | Mystery |
| After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World | A.N. Wilson | NF | History |
| Against the Odds: Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of American Photography | Martin W. Sandler | NF | Photography |
| The Al Quaeda Reader | Raymond Ibrahim | NF | Politics |
| The Alchemy of Murder | Carol McCleary | F | Science Fiction |
| The Alchemy of Stone | Ekaterina Sedia | F | Science Fiction |
| Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow | NF | Biography |
| Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar | Edvard Radzinsky | NF | History |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | F | Drama |
| All the Men in the Sea: The Untold Story of One of the Greatest Rescues in History | Michael Krieger | NF | Maritime |
| All the Queen’s Men: The World of Elizabeth I | Peter Brimacombe | NF | History |
| Altered Carbon | Richard K. Morgan | F | Science Fiction |
| American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies | Michael W. Kauffman | NF | History |
| American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation | Jon Meacham | NF | History |
| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | F | Drama |
| Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States | Hiroshi Motomura | NF | History |
| Anathem | Neal Stephenson | F | Science Fiction |
| Android Karenina | Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters | F | Science Fiction |
| Animal Freaks | Jan Bondeson | NF | History |
| Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions | G.W. Bernard | NF | History |
| Antarctic Navigation | Elizabeth Arthur | F | Adventure |
| Antarctica | Claire Keegan | F | Short Stories |
| April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici | Lauro Martines | NF | History |
| The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold McClintock—Discoverer of the Fate of Franklin | David Murphy | NF | Exploration |
| Arctic Hell-Ship: The Voyage of HMS ENTERPRISE, 1850-1855 | Dr. William Barr | NF | Exploration |
| The Arctic in the British Imagination, 1818-1914 | Robert G. David | NF | Exploration |
| Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them | James M. Perry | NF | Military |
| The Ascent of Rum Doodle | W.E. Bowman | F | Humor |
| At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America | Philip Dray | NF | History |
| Attack on London: Disaster, Rebellion, Riot, Terror, and War | Jonathan Oates | NF | History |
| Aviation Disasters: The World’s Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950 | David Gero | NF | Aviation |
| Back in the USSA | Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman | F | Short Stories |
| The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld | Herbert Asbury | NF | History |
| Barrow’s Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers | Fergus Fleming | NF | Exploration |
| Batman & Houdini: The Devil’s Workshop | Howard Chaykin and Victor Moore | F | Graphic Novel |
| Bayard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck | Paul Collins | NF | Biography |
| Bear Attacks of the Century: True Stories of Courage and Survival | Larry Mueller and Marguerite Reiss | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality | Gordon W. Allport | NF | Psychology |
| Bee Season | Myla Goldberg | F | Drama |
| Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima | Diana Preston | NF | History |
| Beggars in Spain | Nancy Kress | F | Science Fiction |
| Belinda | Maria Edgeworth | F | Humor |
| Belly of the Beast: A POW’s Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous WWII Japanese Hell Ship ORYOKU MARU | Judith L. Pearson | NF | History |
| Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | Walter Isaacson | NF | Biography |
| Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder | Mary S. Lovell | NF | Biography |
| Bestial | Harold Schechter | NF | True Crime |
| Beyond the Limits: The Lessons Learned from a Lifetime’s Adventures | Sir Ranulph Fiennes | NF | Biography |
| Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour | Barbara W. Tuchman | NF | History |
| The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man | David Maurer | NF | True Crime |
| The Birth of the TITANIC | Michael McCaughan | NF | Maritime |
| The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe | Robert S. Gottfried | NF | Health |
| Black Thunder | Arna Wendell Bontemps | F | Drama |
| Blackout | Connie Willis | F | Science Fiction |
| Blame | Michelle Huneven | F | Drama |
| Bleak History | John Shirley | F | Science Fiction |
| Blimps & U-Boats: U.S. Navy Airships in the Battle of the Atlantic | J. Gordon Vaeth | NF | Aviation |
| Blood Stain | Peter Lalor | NF | Crime |
| The Boer War | Thomas Pakenham | NF | History |
| Bones, Rocks and Stars: The Science of When Things Happened | Chris Turney | NF | Science |
| Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend | Paul Schneider | NF | Biography |
| Book of the Dead | Muriel Rukeyser | F | Poetry |
| The Bookman | Lavie Tidhar | F | Science Fiction |
| Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives | James P. Carley | NF | History |
| Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America | James Webb | NF | History |
| Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria | Julia P. Gelardi | NF | Biography |
| Bowing to Necessities: History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 | C. Dallett Hemphill | NF | History |
| Bread and Wine | Ignazio Silone | F | Drama |
| The British Rigid Airship, 1908-1931 | Robin Higham | NF | Aviation |
| Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel | R. Angus Buchanan | NF | Biography |
| Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture | Ross King | NF | Architecture |
| Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster | John T. Alexander | NF | History |
| The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England | Maurice Howard | NF | History |
| Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I | Stephen Alford | NF | Biography |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | F | Drama |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter Miller | F | Science Fiction |
| Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945 | Frances B. Cogan | NF | History |
| Car Crashes and Other Sad Stories | Jennifer Dumas | NF | Crime |
| The Case of Cabin 13 | Sam McCarver | F | Mystery |
| The Cat Who Walks Through Walls | Robert A. Heinlein | F | Science Fiction |
| Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | F | Science Fiction |
| La Catastrophe: The Eruption of Mouth Pelee, the Worst Volcanic Disaster of the 20th Century | Alwyn Scarth | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | F | Drama |
| Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France | Leonie Frieda | NF | Biography |
| Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c. 1550-1640 | Michael C. Questier | NF | History |
| Cheerful Weather for the Wedding | Julia Strachey | F | Humor |
| Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 | Nat Brandt | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric | Veronica Buckley | NF | Biography |
| Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy | Louise W. Knight | NF | Biography |
| The City & the City | China Miéville | F | Fantasy |
| City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London | Vic Gatrell | NF | History |
| Clarissa; or, the History of A Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses That May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage | Samuel Richardson | F | Drama |
| Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World | Diana Preston | NF | History |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | F | Drama |
| A Cold Treachery: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery | Charles Todd | F | Mystery |
| The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture | Michael F. Robinson | NF | Exploration |
| The Coldest March: Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition | Susan Solomon | NF | Exploration |
| Colorado 14er Disasters: Victims of the Game | Mark Scott-Nash | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| A Colored Woman in a White World | Mary Church Terrell | NF | Biography |
| Columbine | Dave Cullen | NF | True Crime |
| Columbine: A True Crime Story | Jeff Kass | NF | True Crime |
| Coming of Age in Samoa | Margaret Mead | NF | Anthropology |
| Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control Since the Sixteenth Century | Michael Palmer | NF | Maritime |
| The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 | N.A.M. Rodger | NF | Maritime |
| The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx | NF | Politics |
| The Company: The Story of a Murderer | Arabella Edge | F | Drama |
| A Compendium of Common Knowledge, 1558-1603: Elizabethan Commonplaces for Writers, Actors & Re-enactors | Maggie Secara | NF | History |
| The Consequences of Sin | Clare Langley-Hawthorne | F | Mystery |
| Cooper’s Creek: Tragedy and Adventure in the Australian Outback | Alan Moorehead | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Court & Country: Studies in Tudor Social History | A. L. Rowse | NF | History |
| Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century | Katie Hickman | NF | History |
| Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell | F | Drama |
| Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors | Stephen E. Ambrose | NF | Biography |
| Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 | Trevor Royle | NF | History |
| The Crooked Hinge | John Dickson Carr | F | Mystery |
| The Cruel Sea | Nicholas Monsarrat | F | Adventure |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | F | Drama |
| The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things | Barry Glassner | NF | Sociology |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | F | Mystery |
| The Custodian of Paradise | Wayne Johnston | F | Drama |
| Dangerous Crossings: The First Modern Polar Expedition, 1925 | John H. Bryant and Harold N. Cones | NF | Exploration |
| Dangerous Nation: America’s Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | Robert Kagan | NF | Politics |
| Daniel Deronda | George Eliot | F | Drama |
| Danny, the Champion of the World | Roald Dahl | F | Fantasy |
| Dark Journey | Allan W. Eckert | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Dark Places | Gillian Flynn | F | Mystery |
| Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley | John Bierman | NF | Biography |
| Dark Water: Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence | Robert Clark | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, A Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town | Ron Franscell | NF | True Crime |
| Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler | F | Drama |
| A Daughter’s Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg | J.A. Guy | NF | Biography |
| The Daughters of Cain: An Inspector Morse Mystery | Colin Dexter | F | Mystery |
| Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt | Joyce A. Tyldesley | NF | History |
| The Dead of Jericho: An Inspector Morse Mystery | Colin Dexter | F | Mystery |
| The Dead Secret | Wilkie Collins | F | Mystery |
| Deadly Winter: The Life of Sir John Franklin | Martyn Beardsley | NF | Exploration |
| Death and Bright Water | James Mitchell | F | Mystery |
| Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart | Chris Skidmore | NF | History |
| Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders | William R. Drennan | NF | True Crime |
| Death of Kings: Royal Deaths in Medieval England | Michael Evans | NF | History |
| The Death of the U.S.S. THRESHER: The Story Behind History’s Deadliest Submarine Disaster | Norman Polmar | NF | Maritime |
| Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War | Gregory F. Michno | NF | History |
| Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective’s Scrapbook | Katherine Dunn | NF | Crime |
| Death, Daring, & Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks | Charles R. "Butch" Farabee, Jr. | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio | F | Drama |
| The Decline and Fall of the British Empire: 1781-1997 | Piers Brendon | NF | History |
| The Decline of Merry England | Storm Jameson | NF | History |
| Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure and Survival | Nate Hardcastle | NF | Maritime |
| The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America’s Richest Silver Mine | Gregg Olsen | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Demons of the Modern World | Malcolm McGrath | NF | True Crime |
| The Devil’s Highway | Luis Alberto Urrea | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three | Mara Leveritt | NF | True Crime |
| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | David Hume | NF | Philosophy |
| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | F | Science Fiction |
| Die for Me | Don Lasseter | NF | Crime |
| The Difference Engine | William Gibson and Bruce Sterling | F | Science Fiction |
| Digging the Trenches: The Archaeology of the Western Front | Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon | NF | Archaeology |
| Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind’s Oldest Taboo | Carole A. Travis-Henikoff | NF | History |
| Disaster at Sea: Shipwrecks, Storms, and Collisions on the Atlantic | William H. Flayhart | NF | Maritime |
| Disaster at the Colorado: Beale’s Wagon Road and the First Emigrant Party | Charles Baley | NF | History |
| Disaster at the Pole: The Crash of the Airship ITALIA—A Harrowing True Tale of Arctic Endurance and Survival | Wilbur Cross | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865 | Gene Eric Salecker | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Disaster on the Potomac: The Last Run of the Steamboat WAWASET | Alvin F. Oickle | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself | Daniel J. Boorstin | NF | Exploration |
| Dissolution | C. J. Sansom | F | Mystery |
| Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England | David Wootton | NF | History |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | F | Drama |
| Dog of the South | Charles Portis | F | Humor |
| Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II | Bruce Henderson | NF | Maritime |
| Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the TITANIC Disaster | Steven Biel | NF | Maritime |
| Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel | Douglas Botting | NF | Aviation |
| The Dream of Perpetual Motion | Dexter Palmer | F | Science Fiction |
| The Dream Stealer | Gregory Maguire | F | Fantasy |
| Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance | Barack Obama | NF | Memoir |
| Drive | James Sallis | F | Adventure |
| Drood | Dan Simmons | F | Mystery |
| Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson | Lyndsay Faye | F | Mystery |
| Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions | Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| EASTLAND: Legacy of the TITANIC | George W. Hilton | NF | Maritime |
| Edward VI: The Lost King of England | Chris Skidmore | NF | Biography |
| Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series | Eliot Asinof | NF | History |
| Eleanor of Aquitane: A Life | Alison Weir | NF | Biography |
| The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | F | Drama |
| Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics | Sarah Gristwood | NF | History |
| Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens | Jane Dunn | NF | History |
| The Elizabethan Underworld | Gamini Salgado | NF | History |
| The Emperor’s Children | Claire Messud | F | Drama |
| Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13 | Richard Farr | F | Adventure |
| Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India | Elizabeth Buettner | NF | History |
| The Encyclopedia of the Arctic | Mark Nuttall | NF | Exploration |
| Endangered Words: A Collection of Rare Gems for Book Lovers | Simon Hertnon | NF | Language |
| Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America | Kati Marton | NF | Memoir |
| England in the Age of Wycliffe | George Trevelyan | NF | History |
| English Society in the 18th Century | Roy Porter | NF | History |
| Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin | F | Poetry |
| Evelina | Frances Burney | F | Drama |
| Every Man Dies Alone | Hans Fallada | F | Drama |
| Existence | Rollo May | NF | Psychology |
| Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity | David Chapin | NF | Science |
| Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Charles Mackay | NF | Psychology |
| The Faber Book of Madness | Roy Porter (ed.) | NF | Psychology |
| Fabergé’s Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived An Empire | Toby Faber | NF | History |
| Face to Face: Polar Portraits | Huw Lewis-Jones and Martin Hartley | NF | Photography |
| Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot | Antonia Fraser | NF | History |
| False Alarm: 1913 Italian Hall Disaster and Death Certificates | P. Germain | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Fanfare for Elizabeth | Dame Edith Sitwell | NF | History |
| Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson | Peter C. Mancall | NF | Exploration |
| Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin | Ken McGoogan | NF | Exploration |
| Fear in Early Modern Society | William G. Naphy and Penny Roberts | NF | Psychology |
| A Fearsome Doubt: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery | Charles Todd | F | Mystery |
| The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella | Charlotte Lennox | F | Humor |
| The Final Solution | Michael Chabon | F | Mystery |
| Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season | Peter Nichols | NF | History |
| Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance | Ric Gillespie | NF | Aviation |
| Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness, and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World | David King | NF | Science |
| Fingersmith | Sarah Waters | F | Mystery |
| Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 | Michael Punke | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Fire at Sea: The Tragedy of the Soviet Submarine KOMSOMELETS | D.A. Romanov | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Fire that Will Not Die | Michele McBride | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor | Eamon Duffy | NF | History |
| Firmin | Sam Savage | F | Drama |
| The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary" | Linda Porter | NF | Biography |
| The Floating Lady Murder | Daniel Stashower | F | Mystery |
| Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Philip K. Dick | F | Science Fiction |
| Flyboys | James Bradley | NF | History |
| For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga | Robert Sobel | F | Fantasy |
| The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century | Edward Dolnick | NF | Art |
| The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won—and Lost | Frank Ryan, M.D. | NF | Health |
| The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy | F | Drama |
| Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World | David Roberts | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology | Kenneth Feder | NF | Archaeology |
| Free Live Free | Gene Wolfe | F | Science Fiction |
| Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism | Susan Jacoby | NF | Philosophy |
| From Hell | Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell | F | Graphic Novel |
| From Here to Eternity | James Jones | F | Drama |
| The Frozen-Water Trade | Gavin Weightman | NF | History |
| Fury Beach: The Four-Year Odyssey of Captain John Ross and the VICTORY | Ray Edinger | F | Adventure |
| Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love | Dava Sobel | NF | Science |
| Gallipoli: The End of the Myth | Robin Prior | NF | History |
| A Gambling Man: Charles II’s Restoration Game | Jenny Uglow | NF | History |
| The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld | Herbert Asbury | NF | History |
| A Garbled TITANIC | Senan Baloney | F | Humor |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Giorgio Bassani and (trans. by William Weaver) | F | Drama |
| The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu | Anthony Sattin | NF | Exploration |
| The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin’s Tragic Quest for the Northwest Passage | Andrew Lambert | NF | Exploration |
| Ghost Ships: Tales of Abandoned, Doomed, and Haunted Vessels | Angus Konstam | NF | Maritime |
| Giants in the Sky: A History of the Rigid Airship | Douglas H. Robinson | NF | Aviation |
| The Ginger Man | J. P. Donleavy | F | Drama |
| Give Me My Father’s Body: The Story of Minik, the New York Eskimo | Kenn Harper | NF | Biography |
| Gloriana: The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I | Roy Strong | NF | Art |
| God’s Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe | Amir D. Aczel | NF | Science |
| God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot | Alice Hogge | NF | History |
| God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible | Adam Nicolson | NF | History |
| Goodnight Mr. Tom | Michelle Magorian | F | Drama |
| The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion | Matt Taibbi | NF | Politics |
| Great Exploration Hoaxes | David Roberts | NF | Exploration |
| The Greatest Disaster Stories Ever Told: Seventeen Harrowing Tales | Lamar Underwood | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| Guide for Anchoresses | Ancrene Wisse | NF | Religion |
| Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps | Anne Applebaum | NF | History |
| The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman | NF | History |
| Ha’penny | Jo Walton | F | Science Fiction |
| Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World | Douglas Hunter | NF | Exploration |
| Halsey’s Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue | Bob Drury | NF | Maritime |
| Hard Times | Charles Dickens | F | Drama |
| Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery | Michael Bliss | NF | Biography |
| The Hate Factory: A First-Hand Account of the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico | Georgelle Hirliman | NF | True Crime |
| The Haunted Hotel | Wilkie Collins | F | Mystery |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | F | Adventure |
| The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene | F | Drama |
| Henry VII | Gladys Temperly | NF | Biography |
| Henry VIII: Man and Monarch | David Starkey | NF | Biography |
| A High Wind in Jamaica | Richard Hughes | F | Drama |
| Historical Atlas of the Arctic | Derek Hayes | NF | Exploration |
| The History of Love | Nicole Krauss | F | Drama |
| The History of Shipwrecks | Angus Konstam | NF | Maritime |
| A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans | Jeffrey Burton Russell | NF | Occult |
| Homer & Langley | E.L. Doctorow | F | Drama |
| Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon | Lisa Jardine | NF | Biography |
| Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans | Malachi Martin | NF | Occult |
| Houdini & Conan Doyle: The Story of a Strange Friendship | Bernard M.L. Ernst and Hereward Carrington | NF | Biography |
| Houdini and the Seance Murders | Christopher Farran | F | Mystery |
| The Houdini Girl | Martyn Bedford | F | Mystery |
| Houdini’s Last Illusion | Steve Saville | F | Mystery |
| Houdini: A Mind in Chains | Bernard C. Meyer | NF | Biography |
| Houdini: A Musical | Muriel Rukeyser | F | Drama |
| Houdini: A Pictorial Biography | Milbourne Christopher | NF | Biography |
| Houdini: The Man from Beyond | Brian Haberlin and Jeff Phillips | F | Graphic Novel |
| A House for Mr. Biswas | V. S. Naipaul | F | Drama |
| The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall | Christopher Hibbert | NF | History |
| How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything In It | Arthur Herman | NF | History |
| I, Claudius | Robert Graves | F | Drama |
| The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness | Brian Payton | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Icefields | Thomas Wharton | F | Fantasy |
| Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free | Charles P. Pierce | NF | Sociology |
| Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya | Caroline Elkins | NF | History |
| In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind | Eric R. Kandel | NF | Psychology |
| In the Rogue Blood | James Carlos Blake | F | Drama |
| Infernal Devices: A Mad Victorian Fantasy | K.W. Jeter | F | Science Fiction |
| The Inferno | Dante | F | Poetry |
| Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone | Martin Dugard | NF | Exploration |
| The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates | Peter T. Leeson | NF | History |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | F | Drama |
| The Invisible Mountain | Carolina De Robertis | F | Drama |
| The Iron Dream | Norman Spinrad | F | Science Fiction |
| It | Stephen King | F | Horror |
| Ivan the Terrible | Isabel de Madariaga | NF | History |
| Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell | Stewart Evans | NF | Crime |
| The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution | Deborah E. Harkness | NF | History |
| The Jewel That Was Ours: An Inspector Morse Mystery | Colin Dexter | F | Mystery |
| Josephine: A Life of the Empress | Carolly Erickson | NF | Biography |
| Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess | Alison Weir | NF | History |
| Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr | Linda Porter | NF | Biography |
| The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant | Dan Savage | NF | Memoir |
| The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara | F | Drama |
| Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death | Roger Moorhouse | NF | History |
| Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War | Nicholas J. Saunders | NF | Archaeology |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling | F | Adventure |
| King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa | Adam Hochschild | NF | History |
| Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science | John Henry | NF | Science |
| Kraken | China Miéville | F | Fantasy |
| Lady Franklin’s Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession, and the Remaking of Arctic History | Ken McGoogan | NF | Exploration |
| A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca | Andre Resendez | NF | Exploration |
| The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration | Sir Clements Robert Markham | NF | Exploration |
| Last Bus to Woodstock: An Inspector Morse Mystery | Colin Dexter | F | Mystery |
| The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic | Lawrence Millman and Edward Beauclerk Maurice | NF | Exploration |
| The Last Girl | Stephan Collishaw | F | Drama |
| The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic | Robert McGhee | NF | Exploration |
| The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television | Evan I. Schwartz | NF | Biography |
| Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster | Melissa Fay Greene | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain’s Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery | Martin Dugard | NF | Exploration |
| Laying the Music to Rest | Dean Wesley Smith | F | Science Fiction |
| Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Greatest Disaster in Modern Sailing History | Nick Ward | NF | Maritime |
| Leningrad: State of Siege | Michael Jones | NF | History |
| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | F | Drama |
| The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: ’The Most Happy’ | E.W. Ives | NF | Biography |
| A Life in Pieces | Blake Eskin | NF | History |
| The Life of Thomas More | Peter Ackroyd | NF | Biography |
| Little Bee | Chris Cleave | F | Drama |
| Little Boy Lost | Marghanita Laski | F | Drama |
| The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | F | Drama |
| Living Dangerously | Sir Ranulph Fiennes | NF | Biography |
| Locating Privacy in Tudor London | Lena Cowen Orlin | NF | History |
| The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books | Thomas Wharton | F | Humor |
| A Long Shadow: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery | Charles Todd | F | Mystery |
| The Longest Journey | E. M. Forster | F | Drama |
| Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time | Dava Sobel | NF | Science |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | F | Drama |
| The Loss of the TITANIC | Lawrence Beesley | NF | Maritime |
| The Loss of the TITANIC: 1912 | Tim Coates | NF | Maritime |
| The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler’s Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster | Marc Songini | NF | Maritime |
| The Lost Language of Cranes | David Leavitt | F | Drama |
| Lost Warships: An Archaeological Tour of War at Sea | James P. Delgado | NF | Maritime |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez | F | Drama |
| The Love Pirate and the Bandit’s Son: Murder, Sin, and Scandal in the Shadow of Jesse James | Laura James | NF | True Crime |
| Loving | Henry Green | F | Drama |
| The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil | Philip Zimbardo | NF | Psychology |
| The Mabinogion | Anonymous | F | Drama |
| Machine Gun Kelly’s Last Stand | Stanley Hamilton | NF | True Crime |
| Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason | Michel Foucault | NF | Psychology |
| The Magicians | Lev Grossman | F | Fantasy |
| Mainliner Denver: The Bombing of Flight 629 | Andrew J. Field | NF | Aviation |
| The Making of the Elizabethan Navy 1540-1590: From the Solent to the Armada | David Loades | NF | History |
| The Making of the Tudor Dynasty | Ralph A. Griffiths and Roger S. Thomas | NF | History |
| The Mammoth Book of Storms, Shipwrecks, and Sea Disasters: Over 70 First-Hand Accounts of Peril on the High Seas, from St. Paul’s Shipwreck to the PRESTIGE Disaster | Richard Russell Lawrence | NF | Maritime |
| Man and Memory: Breakthroughs in the Science of the Human Mind | D.S. Halacy, Jr. | NF | Psychology |
| Man and Wife | Wilkie Collins | F | Mystery |
| The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | F | Science Fiction |
| The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage | Anthony Brandt | NF | Exploration |
| The Man Who Killed Houdini | Don Bell | NF | Biography |
| The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Black, Franklin’s Lieutenant | Peter Steele | NF | Exploration |
| The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon | Robert Whitaker | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership | Hazel Pierce | NF | Biography |
| Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots | Patricia Hill Buchanan | NF | Biography |
| Mary Barton | Elizabeth Gaskell | F | Drama |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | F | Fantasy |
| Matty Groves | Deborah Grabien | F | Mystery |
| The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 | T. A. Critchley and P. D. James | NF | True Crime |
| The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester | NF | Literature |
| Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts | Ulric Neisser | NF | Psychology |
| The Memory of Eva Ryker | Donald A. Stanwood | F | Mystery |
| The Merchant of Death | June Dixon and Donald Monat | F | Mystery |
| Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling | Ross King | NF | Art |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt | NF | True Crime |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | F | Mystery |
| The Millionth Chance: The Story of the R101 | James Leasor | NF | Aviation |
| Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life | Steven Johnson | NF | Psychology |
| Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack | Tom Nagorski | NF | History |
| Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt | Nina Burleigh | NF | History |
| The Mists of Avalon | Marion Zimmer Bradley | F | Fantasy |
| Moments of Terror: The Story of Antarctic Aviation | David Burke | NF | Aviation |
| Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1906 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History | Davitt McAteer | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Monster of Florence | Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi | NF | True Crime |
| The Mount | Carol Emshwiller | F | Science Fiction |
| Mr. Timothy | Louis Bayard | F | Mystery |
| Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body | Armand Marie Leroi | NF | Health |
| My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter | Anna R. Beer | NF | Biography |
| My Life with Bonnie & Clyde | Blanche Caldwell Barrow | NF | Biography |
| The Myrtles Plantation: The True Story of America’s Most Haunted House | Frances Kermeen | NF | History |
| Mythago Wood | Robert Holdstock | F | Fantasy |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | F | Drama |
| Nature’s Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything | Doug Macdougall | NF | Science |
| The Navigator of New York | Wayne Johnston | F | Drama |
| Near Death on the High Seas: True Stories of Disaster and Survival | Cecil Kuhne (ed.) | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797 | John Sugden | NF | Biography |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | F | Science Fiction |
| New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan | Jill Lepore | NF | History |
| The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey | Mary Luke | NF | Biography |
| No Name | Wilkie Collins | F | Drama |
| No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II | Doris Kearns Goodwin | NF | History |
| The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I | John Adamson | NF | History |
| Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall | Kazuo Ishiguro | F | Short Stories |
| North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | F | Drama |
| North with Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames | John Wilson | F | Drama |
| The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis | Lucy Jago | NF | Science |
| Not One Step Back: History’s Great Sieges | Martin Windrow | NF | History |
| Noughts and Crosses | Malorie Blackman | F | Drama |
| Nuclear Afternoon: True Stories of Atomic Disasters | Clyde Burleson | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within | Stephen Fry | NF | Poetry |
| The Odyssey of C.H. Lightoller | Patrick Stenson | NF | Biography |
| The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer | David Waines | NF | Exploration |
| Of Virtue Rare: Margaret Beaufort, Matriarch of the House of Tudor | Linda Simon | NF | Biography |
| Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration | Fergus Fleming | NF | Exploration |
| The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | F | Drama |
| The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | NF | Food |
| On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society | Lt. Col. Dave Grossman | NF | Psychology |
| On War | Carl von Clausewitz | NF | Military |
| One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal | Alice Dormurat Dreger | NF | Health |
| Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s | Frederick Lewis Allen | NF | History |
| The Ordeal of Elizabeth Vaughan: A Wartime Diary of the Philippines | Elizabeth Vaughan | NF | Memoir |
| The Other Lands (Book II of the Acacia Trilogy) | David Anthony Durham | F | Fantasy |
| Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | F | Drama |
| The Outfit: The Role of Chicago’s Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America | Gus Russo | NF | History |
| The Outlander | Gil Adamson | F | Drama |
| Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster | T. J. English | NF | True Crime |
| The Pale Blue Eye | Louis Bayard | F | Mystery |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | F | Poetry |
| Papillon | Henri Charriere | NF | True Crime |
| Parade’s End | Ford Madox Ford | F | Drama |
| The Paradiso | Dante | F | Poetry |
| Paris Between Empires, 1814-1852: Monarchy and Revolution | Philip Mansel | NF | History |
| A Passage to India | E. M. Forster | F | Drama |
| The Passerby | Thomas Ray Crowel | F | Mystery |
| Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing and the World of Natural Alchemy | Mark Stavish | NF | Parapsychology |
| The Patriot Witch | Charles Coleman Finlay | F | Fantasy |
| Pavane | Keith Roberts | F | Science Fiction |
| The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution | Alex Storozynski | NF | Biography |
| Pendulum: Leon Foucalt and the Triumph of Science | Amir D. Aczel | NF | Science |
| Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson | Paula Byrne | NF | Biography |
| The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England | Ann Wroe | NF | Biography |
| Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism | Geoffrey R. Stone | NF | Politics |
| Personal Memoirs | Ulysses S. Grant | NF | Biography |
| A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York | Timothy J. Gilfoyle | NF | Biography |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | F | Drama |
| The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion That Shook Henry VIII’s Throne | Geoffrey Moorhouse | NF | History |
| Pilot Error: The Anatomy of a Plane Crash | Phaedra Hise | NF | Aviation |
| A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier | Diana Preston | NF | Biography |
| Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates | Charles Johnson | NF | History |
| Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences | Geoffrey Hawthorn | NF | History |
| Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | F | Drama |
| Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians | Gertrude Himmelfarb | NF | History |
| The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore | John Robert Hutchinson | NF | History |
| The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester | NF | Literature |
| Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America | Jay Parini | NF | Literature |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | F | Poetry |
| The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber | NF | Sociology |
| Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 | Bryan Burrough | NF | True Crime |
| Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England | Alison Weir | NF | Biography |
| Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart | John Guy | NF | History |
| The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I | Benjamin Woolley | NF | Biography |
| The Queen’s Slave Trader: John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Souls | Nick Hazlewood | NF | History |
| Quicksilver | Neal Stephenson | F | Drama |
| Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole | Ross D. E. MacPhee | NF | Exploration |
| Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott’s Antarctic Quest | Sir Ranulph Fiennes | NF | Exploration |
| A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton | Mary S. Lovell | NF | Biography |
| Raise the TITANIC | Clive Cussler | F | Adventure |
| The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum | Lawrence Rothfield | NF | History |
| The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt | Brian Fagan | NF | Archaeology |
| The Reformation: A History | Diarmaid MacCulloch | NF | Religion |
| Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the MONITOR and the MERRIMACK | James L. Nelson | NF | Maritime |
| A Reliable Wife | Robert Goolrick | F | Drama |
| The Rescue of Captain Scott | Don Aldridge | NF | Exploration |
| Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen’s Ghost Ship | Martin Sandler | NF | Exploration |
| Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, from Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women’s Rights | Liza Picard | NF | History |
| The Return of the Soldier | Rebecca West | F | Drama |
| The Return to Nature: A Defence of the Vegetable Regimen | John Frank Newton | NF | Health |
| Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law in Henry VIII’s England | Maria Hayward | NF | History |
| The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World | Amir D. Aczel | NF | Science |
| The Riddle of the Third Mile: An Inspector Morse Mystery | Colin Dexter | F | Mystery |
| The Ride: A Shocking Murder and a Bereaved Father’s Journey from Rage to Redemption | Brian MacQuarrie | NF | True Crime |
| Ring of Ice: True Tales of Adventure, Exploration, and Arctic Life | Peter Stark | NF | Exploration |
| Ringworld | Larry Niven | F | Science Fiction |
| The Rise and Fall of the British Empire | Lawrence James | NF | History |
| The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany | William L. Shirer | NF | History |
| The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant | Pamela Horn | NF | History |
| The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey | Candice Millard | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| Robert’s Rules of Order | Henry M. Robert | NF | Law |
| Romola | George Eliot | F | Drama |
| Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes | Bertram Fields | NF | History |
| The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 1460-1547 | Simon Thurley | NF | Architecture |
| Ruth | Elizabeth Gaskell | F | Drama |
| Safe Return Doubtful: The Heroic Age of Polar Exploration | John Maxtone-Graham | NF | Exploration |
| The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 | N.A.M. Rodger | NF | Maritime |
| Sailing Alone Around the Room | Billy Collins | F | Poetry |
| Say You’re One of Them | Uwem Akpan | F | Drama |
| A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | F | Science Fiction |
| Science and the Canadian Arctic | Trevor H. Levere | NF | Exploration |
| Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | F | Humor |
| Scotland: The Story of a Nation | Magnus Magnusson | NF | History |
| Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy in the Extreme South | David Crane | NF | Biography |
| The Scottish Enlightenment: The Historical Age of the Historical Nation | Alexander Broadie | NF | History |
| Search the Dark: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery | Charles Todd | F | Mystery |
| Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind and the Past | Daniel E. Schacter | NF | Psychology |
| The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 | Sue Townsend | F | Humor |
| Service of All the Dead: An Inspector Morse Mystery | Colin Dexter | F | Mystery |
| Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality | Christopher Ryan | NF | Psychology |
| Shackleton | Roland Huntford | NF | Biography |
| The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls | John R. King | F | Mystery |
| Shadows & Lies | Marjorie Eccles | F | Mystery |
| Shenandoah Saga | Thom Hook | NF | Aviation |
| Sherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini in the Adventure of the Pandora Plague | Lee A. Matthias | F | Mystery |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright | Val Andrews | F | Mystery |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula | Stephen Seitz | F | Mystery |
| Sherlock Holmes and the TITANIC Tragedy: A Case to Remember | William Seil | F | Mystery |
| The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World’s Greatest Detective | Ransom Riggs | NF | Science |
| Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles | Pierre Bayard and (trans. by Charlotte Mandell) | NF | Literature |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Game’s Afoot | David Stuart Davies (ed.) | F | Short Stories |
| The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown: The SEA VENTURE Castaways and the Fate of America | Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith | NF | History |
| Shipwreck: A Saga of Sea Tragedy and Sunken Treasure | David Horner | NF | Maritime |
| Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters Along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004 | Donald G. Shomette | NF | Maritime |
| The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn: An Inspector Morse Mystery | Colin Dexter | F | Mystery |
| Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea | Frank Delaney | NF | Maritime |
| A Simple Story | Elizabeth Inchbald | F | Drama |
| Sir Francis Drake: The Queen’s Pirate | Harry Kelsey | NF | Biography |
| The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy | Leanda de Lisle | NF | Biography |
| Sky Ships: A History of the Airship in the United States Navy | William F. Althoff | NF | Aviation |
| Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London | Seth Koven | NF | History |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | F | Science Fiction |
| So Terrible a Storm: A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior | Curt Brown | NF | Maritime |
| Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow | F | Science Fiction |
| Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies | Edward D. Berkowitz | NF | History |
| Song of Kali | Dan Simmons | F | Fantasy |
| Sorcerer’s Son | Phyllis Eisenstein | F | Fantasy |
| The South Pole: An Historical Reader | Anthony Brandt | NF | Exploration |
| Spandau: The Secret Diaries | Albert Speer | NF | Memoir |
| The Speedwell Voyage: A Tale of Piracy and Mutiny in the Eighteenth Century | Kenneth Poolman | NF | Maritime |
| Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini | Tom Lalicki | NF | Biography |
| Splendour and Squalor: The Disgrace and Disintegration of Three Aristocratic Dynasties | Marcus Scriven | NF | History |
| The Spy Who Came In from the Cold | John le Carré | F | Mystery |
| SS ATLANTIC: The White Star Line’s First Disaster at Sea | Greg Cochkanoff and Bob Chaulk | NF | Maritime |
| The State Boys Rebellion | Michael D’Antonion | NF | History |
| Staying Alive! 117 Days Adrift—The Incredible Saga of a Courageous Couple Who Outwitted Death at Sea for a Longer Period Than Any Humans Before | Maurice Bailey | NF | Disaster & Survival |
| Staying Alive: The Psychology of Human Survival | Roger N. Walsh | NF | Psychology |
| Stealing Lincoln’s Body | Thomas J. Craughwell | NF | History |
| The Stories of Eva Luna | Isabelle Allende | F | Drama |
| The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | F | Drama |
| The Story of Punishment: A Record of Man’s Inhumanity to Man | Harry Barnes | NF | History |
| The Story of the TITANIC: As Told By Its Survivors | Lawrence Beesley | NF | Maritime |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus | F | Drama |
| Strangers Among Us | David C. Woodman | NF | Exploration |
| The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 | Eamon Duffy | NF | History |
| Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things | Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee | NF | Psychology |
| Submarine Disasters | David Miller | NF | Maritime |
| The SULTANA Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster | Jerry O’Potter | NF | Maritime |
| The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York | Matthew Goodman | NF | History |
| The Sunken Treasure: A Miss Danforth Mystery | Marian J.A. Jackson | F | Mystery |
| The Sunless Countries | Karl Schroeder | F | Science Fiction |
| Superluminal | Vonda N. McIntyre | F | Science Fiction |
| Surrender & Survival: The Experience of American POWs in the Pacific 1941-1945 | E. Bartlett Kerr | NF | History |
| Swordspoint | Ellen Kushner | F | Fantasy |
| Sylvia’s Lovers | Elizabeth Gaskell | F | Drama |
| Taj Mahal: A Love Affair at the Heart of the Moghul Empire | Diana Preston | NF | History |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | F | Drama |
| The Tankship Tromedy: The Impending Disasters in Tankers | Jack Devanney | NF | Maritime |
| Ten Degrees of Reckoning: A True Story of the Will to Survive | Hester Rumberg | NF | Disaster & Survival |
| A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn—The Last Great Battle of the American West | James Donovan | NF | History |
| The Texas City Disaster, 1947 | Hugh W. Stephens | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London | R. Michael Gordon | NF | Crime |
| The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939 | Robert Graves | NF | History |
| " They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance | Anthony S. Pitch | NF | History |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | F | Mystery |
| This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald | F | Drama |
| Thomas Cranmer: A Life | Diarmaid MacCulloch | NF | History |
| The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCollough | F | Drama |
| The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Philip K. Dick | F | Science Fiction |
| Tigana | Guy Gavriel Kay | F | Fantasy |
| Till Human Voices Wake Us | Mark Budz | F | Science Fiction |
| The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | F | Drama |
| The Tin Princess | Philip Pullman | F | Fantasy |
| Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 | Anthony P. Hatch | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| TITANIC | Paul Brooke | F | Drama |
| The TITANIC Reader | John Wilson Foster | NF | Maritime |
| The TITANIC Story: Hard Choices, Dangerous Decisions | Stephen Cox | NF | Maritime |
| TITANIC: A Night Remembered | Stephani Barczewski | NF | Maritime |
| TITANIC: The Ship That Never Sank? | Robin Gardiner | NF | Maritime |
| Titanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose | Steven Biel | NF | History |
| To Ride the Storm: The Story of the Airship R101 | Sir Peter G. Masefield | NF | Aviation |
| To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World | Arthur Herman | NF | Maritime |
| Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell | F | Drama |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | F | Humor |
| The Tomorrow Connection | T.E. Bethancourt | F | Science Fiction |
| Tooth and Claw | Jo Walton | F | Fantasy |
| Total Oblivion, More or Less | Alan DeNiro | F | Science Fiction |
| Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams | Rich Cohen | NF | History |
| Towelhead | Alicia Erian | F | Drama |
| Tragedies of American History: 13 Stories of Human Error and Natural Disaster | Ace Collins | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Tragic History of the Sea | C.R. Boxer (ed.) | NF | Maritime |
| Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | F | Drama |
| Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships | Stephen Fox | NF | Maritime |
| Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine DIsaster | Karen Tintori | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the CALEDONIA’s Final Voyage | Jeremy Seal | NF | Maritime |
| Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia | Lacey Baldwin Smith | NF | History |
| The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America’s Greatest Tornado Disaster | Peter S. Felknor | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | F | Drama |
| Troubador’s Song: The Capture, Imprisonment and Ransom of Richard the Lionheart | David Boyle | NF | History |
| Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860 | Paul F. Paskoff | NF | History |
| True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa | Michael Finkel | NF | True Crime |
| Truman | David McCullough | NF | Biography |
| Tudor Costume and Fashion | Herbert Norris | NF | History |
| The Tudor Housewife | Alison Sim | NF | History |
| Tudor Ireland: Crown, Community, and the Conflict of Cultures, 1470-1603 | Steven G. Ellis | NF | History |
| A Tudor Tapestry: Men, Women, and Society in Reformation England | Derek Wilson | NF | History |
| Twisted Triangle: A Famous Crime Writer, A Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husband’s Violent Revenge | Caitlin Rother | NF | True Crime |
| Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North | Jean Malaurie | NF | Exploration |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | F | Mystery |
| Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels | Hella Winston | NF | Religion |
| Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost | James E. Oberg | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne | Derek Wilson | NF | History |
| Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West | Stephen E. Ambrose | NF | History |
| Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 | Daniel James Brown | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Under Enemy Colors | S. Thomas Russell | NF | Maritime |
| Under Sail in the Frozen North: The Log of the 1926 British Arctic Expedition | Frank Arthur Worsley | NF | Exploration |
| Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates | David Cordingly | NF | Maritime |
| Under the Dome | Stephen King | F | Horror |
| Under the Net | Iris Murdoch | F | Mystery |
| Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets | Stephen Smith | NF | History |
| Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land | Nina Burleigh | NF | Archaeology |
| A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq | Fernando Baez | NF | History |
| The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag | Robert A. Heinlein | F | Science Fiction |
| Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa | R.A. Scotti | NF | True Crime |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | F | Drama |
| Victorian Sensation: Or, the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain | Michael Diamond | NF | History |
| Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 | Marilyn B. Young | NF | History |
| Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals | Niall Ferguson (ed.) | NF | History |
| Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions | Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| The Voyage of the NARWHAL | Andrea Barrett | F | Drama |
| The Voyage of the Vizcaína: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus’s Last Ship | Klaus Brinkbäumer | NF | Maritime |
| The Wapshot Chronicle | John Cheever | F | Mystery |
| War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America’s First Frontier | John F. Ross | NF | Biography |
| War Without Mercy: Rage and Power in the Pacific War | John W. Dower | NF | History |
| Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions | Lisa Randall | NF | Science |
| The Wars of the Roses | Alison Weir | NF | History |
| Wartime Passenger Ship Disasters | David Williams | NF | Maritime |
| The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 | Donald R. Morris | NF | History |
| Washington’s Crossing | David Hackett Fischer | NF | History |
| The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | F | Mystery |
| Watchers of Time: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery | Charles Todd | F | Mystery |
| Wave Cry | Alexander Fullerton | F | Drama |
| We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals | Gillian Gill | NF | Biography |
| We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda | Philip Gourevitch | NF | History |
| Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer | Chauncey Loomis | NF | Biography |
| Wench | Dolen Perkins-Valdez | F | Drama |
| The Wench is Dead: An Inspector Morse Mystery | Colin Dexter | F | Mystery |
| What If?: The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been | Robert Cowley (ed.) | NF | History |
| What Might Have Been: Imaginary History from Twelve Leading Historians | Andrew Roberts | F | History |
| What Really Sank the TITANIC: New Forensic Discoveries | Jennifer Hooper McCarty and Tim Foecke | NF | Maritime |
| When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust | Arthur L. Caplan | NF | History |
| When Technology Fails: Significant Technological Disasters, Accidents, and Failures of the Twentieth Century | Neil Schlager (ed.) | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| When We Were Orphans | Kazuo Ishiguro | F | Drama |
| Where Men Win Glory | Jon Krakauer | NF | Biography |
| The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis | Thomas Dormandy | NF | Health |
| White Hurricane: A Great Lakes November Gale and America’s Deadliest Maritime Disaster | David G. BRown | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters | Peter F. Langman | NF | Psychology |
| Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | Gregory Maguire | F | Fantasy |
| Wilderness and the American Mind | Roderick Frazi Nash | NF | History |
| The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | F | Science Fiction |
| Wings of Fire: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery | Charles Todd | F | Mystery |
| Wings of Ice: The Mystery of the Polar Air Race | Jeff Maynard | NF | Aviation |
| Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs, and Disease: An Anthropological Study of the European Witch-Hunts | H. Sidky | NF | History |
| Women and Children Last: The Burning of the Emigrant Ship COSPATRICK | Charles R. Clark | NF | Disaster / Survival |
| The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders | Marshall Browne | F | Mystery |
| The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy | N.A.M. Rodger | NF | Maritime |
| The World of the Celts | Simon James | NF | History |
| The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution | Christopher Hill | NF | History |
| World War One: A Short History | Norman Stone | NF | History |
| Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination | Lee Ben Clarke | NF | Disaster & Survival |
| The Worst Journey in the World | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | NF | Memoir |
| The Wreck of the WILLIAM BROWN: A True Tale of Overcrowded Lifeboats and Murder at Sea | Tom Koch | NF | Maritime |
| The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day | Bella Bathurst | NF | Maritime |
| Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against the Iroquois | Glenn F. Williams | NF | History |
| Year of the Horse | Justin Allen | F | Fantasy |
| Young Men & Fire | Norman Maclean | NF | Disaster/Survival |
| The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the German Naval Airship Division, 1912-1918 | Douglas H. Robinson | NF | Aviation |
| Zeppelin! A Battle for Air Supremacy in World War I | Raymond Laurence Rimell | NF | Aviation |
| Zeppelins Over England | Treutsch von Buttlar-Brandenfels | NF | Aviation |
| Zeppelins: Rigid Airships, 1893-1940 | Peter W. Brooks | NF | Aviation |
| The Zulu War | Angus McBride | NF | History |
| The Zulu War: A Pictorial History | Michael Barthorp | NF | History |
See Also
Fresh Offerings: New & Updated
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