Anyway, in no particular order, here are some interesting volumes:

Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife, Francine Prose. This is of some interest to the writers among us in that this book demonstrates that Anne Frank was a serious writer, that she rewrote and polished her famous "diary," with an apparent eye to publication. It wasn't, say, a found work of art.

No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864, Richard Slotkin. There's a semi-famous unfinished and unpublished novel by C. M. Kornbluth concerning this battle of the Civil War---I first heard of the battle by reading a commentary by Frederik Pohl about said novel. This is the most detailed account I have yet found of the battle itself.

1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon, David Pietrusza. It would seem Theodore White's The Making of the President: 1960 didn't scratch the surface of what went on in the election year of 1960...anybody with an interest in politics should pick this one up.

Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism, James Piereson. I've recommended this before, I think, but it's newly-out-in-paperback...before you groan, "Oh, not another book about the assassination of JFK," I'll add that this deals with a whole other area affected by the assassination...raising some ideas about the event you may not have taken notice of.

Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century, Barry Mazor. This covers a lot of territory...and not just country music.

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicker: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective, Kate Summerscale. A true-crime mystery that shocked Victorian England...proposes a possible and plausible solution, though, like any ancient true-crime story, it's impossible to know what really happened.