Africa Books
Stories of Life, Leadership, and Legacy on the African Continent
Twice as Hard
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Uncommon Grounds
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
The Games
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
The Children of Ash and Elm
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
A World Beneath the Sands
The Golden Age of Egyptology. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
The Mosquito
A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator. Dutton, 2019.
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Currency, 2012.
Will in the World
How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
About Time
A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks. W. W. Norton & Company. 2021.
How to Love Animals
How to Love Animals: in a Human–Shaped World. Viking. 2021.
Dress Codes
How the Laws of Fashion Made History. Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Cowboys and Indies
The Epic History of the Record Industry. Thomas Dunne Books, 2014.
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