The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, Allen C. Guelzo
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaacson
From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America, James Longstreet
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog, Chad Orzel
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Doris Kearns Goodwin.
The Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, A. L. Long
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties, Noel Riley Fitch.
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, Jon Meacham.
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway.
Revolutionary Summer, by Joseph J. Ellis.
