Nonfiction

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The Way Things Ought to Be

Rush Limbaugh

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

Flora Rheta Schreiber

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Azar Nafisi

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Henry David Thoreau

Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child

Bob Spitz

God's Smuggler

Brother Andrew

Danse Macabre

Stephen King

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol Anderson

The Discourses

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

The Descent of Man

Charles Darwin

Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine

Simon Singh

Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay

The Grand Design

Stephen Hawking

The Best and the Brightest

David Halberstam

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

David Frum

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

Eric R. Kandel

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman