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

A First-rate Madness

Nassir Ghaemi, S. Nassir Ghaemi

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

Jack's Book

Barry Gifford, Lawrence Lee

The Quest

Daniel Yergin

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

Lincoln Speeches

Abraham Lincoln, Allen C. Guelzo

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker, Arthur Morey

The Idea Factory

Jon Gertner

Tinderbox

Craig Timberg, Daniel Halperin

Private Empire

Malcolm Hillgartner, Steve Coll

Why Read Moby-dick?

Nathaniel Philbrick

There Was a Country

Chinua Achebe

A Thousand Mornings

Mary Oliver

The Patriarch

David Nasaw

The Generals

Thomas E. Ricks

Mastery

Robert Greene

The Secret Rooms

Catherine Bailey

Bunker Hill

Nathaniel Philbrick

The Boys in the Boat

Daniel James Brown

On Reading the Grapes of Wrath

Susan Shillinglaw

Difficult Men

Brett Martin

Expecting Better

Emily Oster

Jane Austen's England

Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins

Command and Control

Eric Schlosser, Scott Brick