Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends by Jonathan Neale

Rifles: Six Years With Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban

The Making of the British Army from the English Civil War to the War on Terror by Allan Mallinson

The Soldier: A History of Courage, Sacrifice and Brotherhood by Darren Moore

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President by Taylor Branch

What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany: An Oral History by Erica A. Johnson

Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran

The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare by Brenda James and William D. Rubinstein

Laurie Lee: The Well-Loved Stranger by Valerie Grove

Glimmer: How design can transform your business, your life, and maybe even the world by Warren Berger

Mini: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield