Asian History
India before Europe by Cynthia Talbot and Catherine B. Asher
Shanghai: China’s Gateway to Modernity by Marie-Claire Bergère
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China (History of Imperial China) by Dieter Kuhn
Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai by Marcia Ristaino
The United States and China: Into the Twenty-first Century by Michael Schaller
Australian History
Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 by Richard Broome
Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists by Vivien Johnson
Once Upon a Time in Papunya by Vivien Johnson
Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History (Studies in War and Genocide) edited by A. Dirk Moses
Language History
Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the English Language by Robert Claiborne
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
Memoir
The Alexiad (Penguin Classics) by Anna Comnena
How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed by Slevanka Drakulic
Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh by Joyce A. Tyldesley