Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Ulysses Explained: How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce’s Modernist Vision

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)

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

Trouble in Paradise

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

Decadence: A Very Short Introduction

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

Imbibe! Updated and Revised Edition: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar

The Zulu: An A-Z of Culture and Traditions

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

Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology

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