Nonfiction

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

Churchill: A Life

Martin Gilbert

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Vladimir Lenin

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Ernesto Che Guevara

A Fighting Chance

Elizabeth Warren

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Charles Seife

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

Fritjof Capra

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

Karen Abbott

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

Jon Lee Anderson

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It

Lawrence Lessig

The Life of Elizabeth I

Alison Weir

The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality

Chris C. Mooney

The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

Brian Cox

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson

On Immunity: An Inoculation

Eula Biss

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

Theodore Gray

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin

A Problem from Hell

Samantha Power

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

Daniel J. Boorstin

Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

Glenn Beck