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

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

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