1. Beloved by Toni Morrison
2. Butcher's Crossing by John Edward Williams
3. Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John
Geiger
4. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
5. A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Hundred Years edited by 
Marshall W. Baldwin
6. Augustus by John Edward Williams
7. History of Rome by Michael Grant
8. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James