The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

by John M. Barry

The Art of Parmigianino

Catalog of the exhibition by David Franklin, with an essay by David Ekserdjian

The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership

by Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography

by Fred Kaplan

Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years

by Karen Lystra

Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation

by Thomas W. Laqueur

Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake

by Carol Loeb Shloss

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

by John D'Emilio

Time On Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

edited and with an introduction by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise

Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life

by Caroline Moorehead

The Patron: A Life of Salman Schocken, 1877–1959

by Anthony David

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia

by Laurence Kelly

The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia

by Richard Pipes

Lost Splendour:The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin

by Prince Felix Youssoupoff, translated from the French by Ann Green and Nicholas Katkoff

Shakespeare for All Time

by Stanley Wells

Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist

by Lukas Erne

The Age of Shakespeare

by Frank Kermode

Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life: A Radical Guide to Shakespearean Tragedy

by Fintan O'Toole

After Shakespeare: Writing Inspired by the World's Greatest Author

edited by John Gross

Genesis

by Jim Crace

The Dominion of the Dead

by Robert Pogue Harrison

The Passion of the Christ

a film directed by Mel Gibson

Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II

by Jason Berry and Gerald Renner