- Land, how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world, Simon Winchester
- The men who united the States, America's explorers, inventors, eccentrics, and mavericks, and the creation of one nation, indivisible, Simon Winchester
- Pacific, silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers, Simon Winchester
- When the earth shakes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis, Simon Winchester
- When the sky breaks, hurricanes, tornadoes, and the worst weather in the world, Simon Winchester
- The perfectionists, how precision engineers created the modern world, Simon Winchester