Père Goriot

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Old Goriot

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

Cousin Bette

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

The Thirteen

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

Catherine de' Medici

The Zulu: An A-Z of Culture and Traditions

The Atheist's Mass

Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology

Sarrasine

The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes

A Woman at Thirty

Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over 500,000 copies sold

The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories

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