Père Goriot

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Cousin Bette

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Old Goriot

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

The Atheist's Mass

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

A Woman at Thirty

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)

The Marriage Contract

Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons

Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

Catherine de' Medici

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

The Black Sheep

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