Devil in the White City by Erik Larson: Story of the Chicago World's Fair of 1892 and a serial killer stalking female fairgoers
Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof: Life in the post-World War I world and how the Chicago White Sox were paid by gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann: Osage Nation reservation in Oklahoma, money, murder and birth of the FBI
Hard Times by Studs Terkel: Oral history of the Great Depression
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand: Tale of sports and redemption set during the Great Depression
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose: World War II story of Easy Company, 101st Airborne during World War II
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand: A former Olympic athlete and his hard times during World War II
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides: Story of the amazing rescue of American POWs in the Philippines during World War II
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe: Story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts
October Sky by Homer Hickam: Autobiography of a NASA scientist and his rough childhood in coal country
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote: Classic crime story about a murder in Kansas
The Fifties by David Halberstam: Comprehensive history of the 1950s
I Was Right on Time by Buck O'Neil: Life in segregated America as told by a baseball lifer
Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley: Civil Rights History
Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi: History of gangsters in Las Vegas and the city's transition to corporate ownership
The Fight by Norman Mailer: Tale of the boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali that took place in Zaire in 1974. Also a social history of the civil rights movement
Heaven is a Playground by Rick Telander: A journalist moves to Brooklyn to and learns of playground basketball and New York City life in the 1970s.
Loose Balls by Terry Pluto: Oral History of the American Basketball Association, a rival league to the NBA between 1967-1975.
The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam: About the NBA in the 1970s and a social history of the US in the 1970s.
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell: Stories about important assassinations in American history
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin: Story of the 2008 Wall Street crisis