History

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

Giles Tremlett

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

Jane Mayer

Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

Chalmers Johnson

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Joby Warrick

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

Jeff Sharlet

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

Mike Lofgren

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Matt Taibbi

The Passage of Power

Robert A. Caro

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky

The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

James Gleick

Tesla: Man Out of Time

Margaret Cheney

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton

On War

Carl von Clausewitz

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius

Marc J. Seifer

Geisha, a Life

Mineko Iwasaki

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Tim Marshall

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach

The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

D.T. Max

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Joseph Alois Schumpeter