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

Andrew J. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: ( our dumb century )
Charles L. Chavis Jr., The Silent Shore: ( lynching in Maryland ) 
Tabitha Carvan, This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends on It: ( In praise of joy )
Alex Cummings, Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
( Good story )
Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: ( autism and feminism )

Stephen Kinzer, The Brothers: ( The Dulles brothers and the damage they did )
Charles L. Marohn Jr., Confessions of a Recovering Engineer:( Don't build roads or transit to solve poverty )
Wayne E. Lee, David L. Preston, David Silbey, Anthony E. Carlson, The Other Face of Battle: ( Americans fighting people who don't agree on what's a defeat )
Priya Satia, Time’s Monster: How History Makes History: ( intellectual history of British history )
Jay Wexler, Holy Hullaballoos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars: ( local color )
Jane Addams, 20 Years at Hull House: ( autobiography of a reformer )
Francesca Coppa, Vidding: A History: ( she put me there )

Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake: ( history of an object when there is no written history )