History
- Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder
- The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
- Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll
- Titanic's Last Secrets
- Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
- Murder, Interrupted
- Donuts: An American Passion
- Ansel Adams: Our National Parks
- One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
- Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
- King Arthur
- The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
- The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
- My Place