I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History: ( control the past )
Margaret O'Mara, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America: ( slight )
Karen L. Cox, Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South: ( true crime )
Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems: ( what it says on the tin )

Cecilia Aragon & Katie Davis, Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring: ( big data )
Linda E. Fisher & Judith Fox, The Foreclosure Echo: How the Hardest Hit Have Been Left Out of the Economic Recovery: ( so much to be angry about )

Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist: ( behavior first, belief after )

David I. Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe: ( willing helpers )

Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence: ( religion's not so murderous )


Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts: ( prehistory as history )

Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam: ( tragedy )

David Grann, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: ( highly committed people )

Kristin L. Hoganson, The Heartland: An American History:( heartland as interchange )

Gary Krist, Empire of Sin: ( New Orleans )

David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI: ( slow motion genocide )