Père Goriot

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Old Goriot

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

Cousin Bette

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

The Thirteen

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

Catherine de' Medici

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

The Atheist's Mass

The Zulu: An A-Z of Culture and Traditions

Sarrasine

Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology

A Woman at Thirty

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

The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories

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