Nonfiction

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

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Mark Fisher

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Pamela Druckerman

The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

James Gleick

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Daniel C. Dennett

On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

Jeff Hawkins

Tesla: Man Out of Time

Margaret Cheney

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

V.S. Ramachandran

Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

J.K. Rowling

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

Open

Andre Agassi

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

Erik Larson

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Robert M. Sapolsky

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip E. Tetlock

Paula

Isabel Allende