Travel Books

Mark Miodownik

Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.

Tom Vanderbilt

Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Tania Gergel

The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.

Mark Pendergrast

The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.

David Goldblatt

A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Adam Higginbotham

The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.

Neil Price

A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.

Martin Lings

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, 2006.

Durreen Shahnaz

Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women. Broadleaf Books, 2023.

Toby Wilkinson

The Golden Age of Egyptology. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.

Kate Fazzini

Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime. St. Martin’s Press, 2019.

Timothy C. Winegard

A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator. Dutton, 2019.