The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric Foner
(this was a re-read; even better than the first time I read it)
Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
Matthew Pinsker
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy
Julia Ioffe
The Land and Its People: Essays
David Sedaris