History.

1776 David McCullough A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance William Manchester Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden Chickenhawk Robert Mason First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance Annie Jacobsen Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies Jared Diamond Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific: A Young Marine's Stirring Account of Combat in World War II Robert Leckie How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century Frank Dikotter The Great Depression: A Diary James Ledbetter, Daniel B. Roth The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History John M. Barry The Lessons of History Will Durant, Ariel Durant The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden Robert O'Neill The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan