Having finished Connie Willis' Nebula-winning time travel opus, Blackout and All Clear, it seems to me that All Clear corrects Blackout's foibles, and makes them both worth reading.

In Connie Willis' Blackout, an otherwise ho-hum time travel story is saved by a vivid portrait of the Londoners who carried on during The Blitz -- Nazi Germany's bombing campaign of Great Britain in the early days of World War II.

Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts provides a unique perspective to a well known story: the rise of Hitler, Nazi Germany and WW II: that of the U.S. ambassador in Berlin in 1933.

There are many revelations in Area 51: an Uncensored History about U.S. nuclear testing and overhead surveillance technology, among others. So it's a shame that everyone gets caught up in the rather dubious Roswell claim the book makes.