Nonfiction

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

George Packer

The Fry Chronicles

Stephen Fry

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Bill Bryson

God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It

Jim Wallis

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

Stephen Kinzer

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

Giles Tremlett

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Eric Weiner

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

Jane Mayer

The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn

Alison Weir

In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

John Gribbin

Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

Chalmers Johnson

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

Joe Biden

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Joby Warrick

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson

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

Jeff Sharlet

The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us

Christopher Chabris

The Lost Boy

Dave Pelzer

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber