Reviews
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Planet of Exile (1966)
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Interference (2019)
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Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China (1991)
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Rocannon's World (1966)
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Normal People (2018)
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The City of Illusions (1967)
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Taiwan Travelogue (2020)
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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire (2005)
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Life Ceremony (2019)
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The Memory Police (1994)
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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire (2022)
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Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others [2nd Edition] (2012)
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The Art of Destiny (2023) and The Art of Legend (2025)
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Notes of a Crocodile (1994)
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The Art of Prophecy (2022)
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The Valley of Fear (1915)
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On the Natural History of Destruction (1999)
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The Grace of Kings (2015)
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Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World (2026)
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The Drowning Girl: A Memoir (2012)
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Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City (2024)
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Favorite Folktales from Around the World (1986)
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King (2017)
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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
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The Romans: A 2000-Year History (2025)
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Popul Vuh: A Retelling (2020)
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The World Turned Upside Down (1972) / The Cheese and the Worms (1976)
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990/2008)
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A Brief History of Vietnam (2022)
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The Book of Imaginary Beings (1957)
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Gideon the Ninth (and also Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth) (2019, 2020, 2022)
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century (2013)
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (1994)
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Africans: The History of a Continent (Third Edition) (1995/2017)
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Monk & Robot (2022)
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Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (2017)
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A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of the Four (1890)
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters (2010)