American

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Unknown author

Once Upon a Town

Bob Greene

Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun

Rhoda Blumberg

Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure!

Jeff Brown

Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook

Alice L. Waters

Chain of Command

Seymour M. Hersh

Fiasco

Thomas E. Ricks

Behind the Scenes

Elizabeth Keckley

The Mayflower Papers

Various, Nathaniel Philbrick

America's Bank

Roger Lowenstein

Imbeciles

Adam Cohen

An American Sickness

Elisabeth Rosenthal

The Potlikker Papers

John T. Edge

In the Hurricane's Eye

Nathaniel Philbrick

Fallen Founder

Nancy Isenberg

The Slave Ship

Marcus Rediker

Street Gang

Michael Davis

Junkyard Dogs

Craig Johnson

Washington

Ron Chernow, illustrated

Killer Stuff and Tons of Money

Maureen Stanton

The Kid

Sapphire, Penguin Audio

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

The Idea Factory

Jon Gertner

The Generals

Thomas E. Ricks

Bunker Hill

Nathaniel Philbrick

On Reading the Grapes of Wrath

Susan Shillinglaw

Embattled Rebel

James M. McPherson

The Deluge

Adam Tooze

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Museum of the Americas

J. Michael Martinez