Books I want to read: How the States Got Their Shapes

By Mark Stein and published by Collins, this 352-page cartographic tour of America seeks to answer through history why states received their boundaries.

Books I want to read: True Tales from the Annals of Crime & Rascality

This book is a collection of non-fiction crime stories from The New Yorker magazine by St. Clair McKelway. It is 339 pages in length and comes in a hardcover.