Nonfiction

The Day the World Came to Town

Jim DeFede, Ray Porter

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

John Gray

Mere Christianity

C. S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris

The Problem of Pain

C. S. Lewis

Just Kids

Patti Smith

All About Love

bell hooks

The China Price

Alexandra Harney, Karen White

Gang Leader for a Day

Sudhir Venkatesh

On the Grand Trunk Road

Steve Coll

Playing the Enemy

John Carlin

Your Money or Your Life

Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez

Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba

Tom Gjelten

Food Rules

Michael Pollan

The Principles of Uncertainty

Maira Kalman

Street Gang

Michael Davis

The Hindus

Wendy Doniger, Amy Landon

The Third Reich at War

Richard J. Evans

Lords of Finance

Liaquat Ahamed

The Big Rich

Bryan Burrough

Collapse

Jared Diamond

Stones Into Schools

Greg Mortenson

Too Big to Fail

William Hughes, Andrew Ross Sorkin

Getting to Yes

Roger Fisher, William L. Ury

The Poisoner's Handbook

Deborah Blum

Repeat Until Rich

Josh Axelrad

One L

Scott Turow

More Money Than God

Sebastian Mallaby

Washington

Ron Chernow, illustrated

Killer Stuff and Tons of Money

Maureen Stanton

On China

Henry Kissinger