Daphne Carr, Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine. 33 1/3 Series. Continuum, 192pp., $15 paper.

Helen Smith, An Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 448pp., $35 cloth.

Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years, Harvard University Press, 374pp., $30 cloth.

David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.

Margaret Macmillan, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 2002.

James J. Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth. New York: Penguin, 2005

Robert Gerwarth, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.

David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America. New York: Viking, 2005.

Sir George Otto Trevelyan, The American Revolution, 14 volumes, Longmans, Green, 1880-1914, volumes 1 and 2 republished as The Early History of Charles James Fox, 1 volume, Harper, 1880, volumes 5-10 republished as The American Revolution, 4 volumes, Longmans, Green, 1899-1912, volumes 13-14 republished as George the Third and Charles Fox, the Concluding Part of the American Revolution, 2 volumes, Longmans, Green, 1912, 1914.

Henry Lee. Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1812. Revised version, Washington: P. Force, 1827; New edition, with a life of the author by Robert E. Lee, New York: University Publishing Company, 1869.

Richard Brookhiser. John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court. Basic Books, 324pp., $30 cloth

Alexander Bevilacqua, The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 360pp., $22 paper.