Great Plains:
Prairie Fever by Peter Pagnamenta
1960s:
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
Park Service:
The Big Burn by Tim Egan
Immigration
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Dear America; Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
Garfield/Medical:
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Miller
Women:
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Rare Books:
The Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It by Travis McDade
Historic Preservation:
The Politics of Historic Districts, A Primer for Grassroots Preservation by Bill Schmickle
The Past and Future City How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities by Stephanie Meeks
Testing:
The Big Test; the Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicolas Lemann
Civil War:
April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik
Grant's Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysess S. Grant by Chris Macowski
Institutions
The State Boys Rellion by Michael D'Antonio
Food
Restaurant Republic; The Rise of Public Dining in Boston by Kelly Erby
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Cole
Something in the Oven; Reinventing Dinner in the 1950s America by Laura Shapiro
The Food of a Younger Land; a Portrait of American Food from the Lost WPA Files by Mark Kurlansky
Hometown Appetites: The STory of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate by Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris
Asia
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret
Hardware
The Antique Doorknob by Maud Eastwood
150 Years of Builder's Hardware: Forms, Use and Lore by Maud Eastwood
Decorative Hardware: Interior Designing with Knobs, Handles, Latches, Locks, Hinges, and Other Hardware by Liz Gordon and Terri Hartman
Antique Hardware Price Guide by H. Weber Wilson
Highways
Motoring: the Highway Experience in America by John A Jakle and Keith A. Sculle
Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers who Created the American Superhighways by Earl Swift
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt
Medicine/Mental Health:
The Great Pretender by Susannah Caahalan
Menninger
The Menninger Story by Walker Winslow
Menninger; The Family and the Clinic by Lawrence Friedman
Days of My Life by Flo Menninger
Newspapers
Personal History by Katherine Graham
The Best Powers That Be by David Halbersham
