History

The Abolition of Man

C. S. Lewis

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Oedipus the King

Sophocles

Hillbilly Elegy

J. D. Vance

The Residence

Kate Andersen Brower

War Storm

Victoria Aveyard

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Oscar Zeta Acosta, Hunter S. Thompson

Gideon's Trumpet

Anthony Lewis

The Harmless People

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann

The History of Sexuality

Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley

The Ink Dark Moon

Ono no Komachi, Izumi Shikibu

Hit Men

Fredric Dannen

Life's Dominion

Ronald Dworkin

A Midwife's Tale

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

A Fortunate Man

John Berger

Refuge

Terry Tempest Williams

The Evolution of Useful Things

Henry Petroski

The Murder of Helen Jewett

Patricia Cline Cohen

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

Barcelona

Robert Hughes

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

Inside the Sky

William Langewiesche

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

Aftermath: the Remnants of War

Donovan Webster

Courtroom 302

Steve Bogira

Land of Desire

William R. Leach

Les Blancs: the Collected Last Plays

Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff

Confederates in the Attic

Tony Horwitz

The Catcher Was a Spy

Nicholas Dawidoff