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A Decimated Family and the Battle to End Dementia with Robert Kolker
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for August 2026
The Hindenburg Disaster with Catherine Grace Katz
A KGB Defector in Post-Revolution Iran with Ben Macintyre
The Brutality of the American Revolution with Mark Edward Lender
Family and Legacy with Tom Junod
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) with Matthew Wolfe
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for August 2026
The Women Flyers of World War II with Becky Aikman
Carlos the Jackal with Joby Warrick
Surviving the Syrian Revolution with Loubna Mrie
The Atomic Bombs with James M. Scott
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for July 2026
Richard Pryor and a Terrible Word with Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
The Weather Underground with Zayd Ayers Dohrn
An Innocent Man on Death Row with Pamela Colloff
The L.A. Wildfires of 2025 with Jonathan Vigliotti
The U.S. Constitutional Convention with Lawrence Goldstone
The American Revolution with Rick Atkinson
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for June 2026
A Spokane Serial Killer with Gregg Olsen
The Presidents and Their Money with Megan Gorman
Plymouth, Jamestown, and the Two Ships with David Reynolds
The Depression of 1873 with Liaquat Ahamed
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for May 2026
The Black Death with Thomas Asbridge
The Rise and Fall of Emanuel Nobel with Douglas Brunt
Marathons and the Worldwide Running Boom with Martin Dugard
Athens and Sparta with Adrian Goldsworthy
The Syrian Revolution with Anand Gopal
The Doomed Journey of Francisco Coronado with Peter Stark
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for April 2026
The Women of the Stuart Restoration Court with Breeze Barrington
The Supreme Court with Sarah Isgur
Rasputin with Antony Beevor
A Mysterious London Death with Patrick Radden Keefe
The British Crown and Slavery with Brooke Newman
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for March 2026
The Seven Daughters of Maria Theresa with Veronica Buckley
The Pursuit of Professional Wrestling Glory with Alison Lyn Miller and Hollywood Hunter James
Hawai'i, Family, and Legacy with Sara Kehaulani Goo
Larry Bird at Indiana State University with Keith O'Brien
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for February 2026
Ruby Ridge with Chris Jennings
The Most Prolific Female Serial Killer in History, Elizabeth Bathory, with Shelley Puhak
The Bernie Goetz Case with Elliot Williams
American Sports Gambling With Danny Funt
Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors with Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Books I Don't Want You To Miss for January 2026
The Search for a Sunken Spanish Galleon with Julian Sancton
Thomas Paine and the American Revolution with Jack Kelly
Charlotte Brontë's Legacy With Graham Watson
St. Joan of Arc with Helen Castor
The History of Whiskey with Noah Rothbaum
James VI and I with Gareth Russell
The History and Future of the Wind with Simon Winchester
The Life of Joan Crawford with Scott Eyman
NASA's Gemini Space Program With Jeffrey Kluger
Elizabeth I, James I, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty With Tracy Borman
Teddy Roosevelt with Bret Baier
The Exoneration Fight of Leo Schofield With Pulitzer Prize Winner Gilbert King
The Zorg, The Slave Ship That Ignited Abolition with Siddharth Kara
The Trial of Al Qaeda Terrorist Spin Ghul with Jake Tapper
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with John Bacon
Deadwood with Peter Cozzens
The Special Counsel Cases of Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Biden, and Trump with Elie Honig
1999 with Ross Benes
"Pirate" Captain William Kidd with Samuel Marquis
The World War II Women of the Italian Resistance with Suzanne Cope
Catholic Saints and Canonization with Kate Sidley
Saint Thomas More with Joanne Paul
The Iranian Revolution with Scott Anderson
Argentina's Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo Who Fought to Find Their Lost Grandchildren with Haley Cohen Gilliland
Amelia Earhart and Her Husband George Putnam with Laurie Gwen Shapiro
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the People Overlooked in Civil War History with Scott Ellsworth
The Murders of the London Blitz with Amy Helen Bell and Roosevelt to Roosevelt with Stan Haynes
The Roosevelt Brothers' Search for the Elusive Giant Panda with Nathalia Holt
The Viking Age and the Lives of Everyday Norsemen with Eleanor Barraclough
The Greatest Monsters of History Including Vampires, Rougarou, Dragons, and Even Godzilla with Nick Jubber
Ted Bundy, the Rise of Serial Killers, Pacific Northwest Life, and the Lead Crime Hypothesis with Pulitzer Prize Winner Caroline Fraser
English Kings, Their Favorites, and the Upheaval of the 14th Century with Helen Carr
The Battle of the Atlantic and the Heist of a German U-Boat with Alexander Rose
Midway Island and the World War II Battle That Changed the Pacific Theater with Martin Dugard
World War II Art Spy Rose Valland with Michelle Young
WWII Era Serial Killer Reg Christie and (Maybe?) the Execution of an Innocent Man with Kate Summerscale
The Publishing World and How to Be More Grateful About the Little Things with Todd Doughty
When Women Took Over the American Fashion on Fifth Avenue in 1900s New York City with Julie Satow
How New Amsterdam Became New York with Russell Shorto
The True Crime Case of Dr. Crippen with Hallie Rubenhold
Life in Video Games with Mike Drucker
Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and the Deadliest Accident in American Professional Sports with Eric Vickrey
World War II Nazi POWs in America with William Geroux
China and its People with NPR Correspondent Emily Feng
San Francisco's Turbulent History and an Unbelievable Gilded-Age Murder with Gary Krist
The History of Ancient Rome with Gareth Harney
Rebel Empresses Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France with Nancy Goldstone
The First Airshow in American History with Richard Goodrich
Japan, Writing Biographies, Personal Loss, Family, and How the Little Things are What You Remember with Pulitzer Prize Winner Megan Mashall
New York City Place Names and How They Got Them Like Major Deegan, Outerbridge, and Hutchinson with Rebecca Bratspies
Airships in the Arctic, Roald Amundsen, and a Rescue at the Top of the World with Buddy Levy