• Understanding women in 19th century England
• History’s villains and their surprising reputations
• Nonfiction about lots of things at once
• Historical fantasy with twists on Arthurian legend
• To understand the history of Shakespeare's theatre
• Jane Austen
• The gods and world of Norse mythology
• Understanding the Vikings
• That tell us why we read and write
• Rome in the third century
• Chaos and disorder
• Latin American culture and politics in the 1960s-70s
• The reigns of James VI of Scotland and I of England
• To enjoy Shakespeare in the twenty-first century
• What makes a city great, especially Paris
• The subterranean of cities
• Dante and his religious world
• American intellectual history