| TITLE | AUTHOR |
| Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Bound Feet and Western Dress | Pang-Mei Natasha Chang |
| Calamity Jane : The Woman and the Legend | James D. McLaird |
| Childhood on the Farm : Work, Play and Coming of Age in the Midwest | Pamela Riney-Kehrberg |
| The Children's Blizzard : January 12, 1888 | David Laskin |
| Cloister Walk | Kathleen Norris |
| A Crack in the Edge of the World : America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 | Simon Winchester |
| The Emperors of Chocolate : Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars | Joel Glen Brenner |
| The Great Match Race : When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle | John Eisenberg |
| Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| Mothers of Invention : From the Bra to the Bomb : Forgotten Women & Their Unforgettable Ideas | Ethlie Ann Vare & Greg Ptacek |
| Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History | Penny M. LeCouteur & Jay Burreson |
| Nothing to Do But Stay : My Pioneer Mother | Carrie Young |
| Outwitting History : The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books | Aaron Lansky |
| Revolutionary Mothers : Women in the Struggle for America's Independence | Carol Berkin |
| Sisterhood of Spies : the Women of the OSS | Elizabeth McIntosh |
| When the Mississippi Ran Backwards : Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes | Jay Feldman |
| Why We Buy : the Science of Shopping | Paco Underhill |
| Will in the World : How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | Stephen Greenblatt |