Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
Harold McGee
Shadows
John Saul
How to Be Alone
Jonathan Franzen
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, From Fire to Freud
Peter Watson
Plagues and Peoples
William Hardy McNeill
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond