In no particular order:
A City So Grand, Stephen Puleo (Nonfiction; a history of Boston from 1850-1900) The Technologists, Matthew Pearl (Fiction; mystery thriller set in post-Civil War Boston) Service and Style, Jan Whitaker (Nonfiction; a history of United States department stores) Into That Silent Sea, Francis French and Colin Burgess (Nonfiction, history of the early U.S. and Russian space programs) The Wilder Life, Wendy McClure (Nonfiction; a woman's search for self through the "Little House" books) Our Glorious Century, Reader’s Digest Books (Nonfiction; coffee-table, lavishly illustrated book about the 20th century) The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin (Nonfiction; one woman's search for the definition and origin of happiness) The Shanghai Moon, S. J. Rozan (Fiction; mystery about a missing valuable necklace which disappeared during World War II) The Vertigo Years, Philipp Blom (Nonfiction; Europe between 1900-1914) The Ninth Daughter, Barbara Hamilton (Fiction; historical mystery involving Abigail Adams) The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris (Nonfiction; first in Morris' three-book biography) Walking English, David Crystal (Nonfiction; Crystal's odyssey across Great Britain in search of the English language)Honorable mentions:
A Renegade History of the United States, Thaddeus Russell (Nonfiction; history from a different perspective) Robert A. Heinlein, volume 1, William H. Patterson Jr (Nonfiction; first part of Heinlein bio) Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City, Michelle Nevius and James Nevius (Nonfiction; a street-by-street travelogue/history of NYC) A Bitter Truth, Charles Todd (Fiction; #3 in the Bess Crawford series set during WWI)
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