Summer World: A Season of Bounty | Bernd Heinrich
Shadows: Unlocking their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time | Roberto Casati
Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places | John R. Stilgoe
The Natural History of the Rich | Richard Conniff
The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
Fifty Days of Solitude | Doris Grumbach
Hell Creek, Montana: America’s Key to the Prehistoric Past | Lowell Dingus
Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr
Fat Land | Greg Critser
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else | David Cay Johnston
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense | David Cay Johnston
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life | Adam Gopnik
Passing Strange | Martha A. Sandweiss
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamon
Window Seat | Gregory Dicum
Suburban Safari | Hannah Holmes
Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight | William Langewiesche
How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry | Edward Hirsch
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester
Living to Tell the Tale |Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince | Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez | edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada
Lincoln | Richard J. Carwardine
Mornings on Horseback | David McCullough
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | Edmund Morris
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop | Lewis Buzbee
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil | John Ghazvinian
William Least Heat Moon
The Happiness Hypothesis: finding modern truth in ancient wisdom | Jonathan Haidt
Avoid Boring People : lessons from a life in science | James D. Watson
The Good Heart : a Buddhist perspective on the teachings of Jesus | His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Den of Thieves | James B. Stewart
The Stranger Beside Me | Ann Rule
Epidemic: the rot of American culture, absentee and permissive parenting, and the resultant plague of joyless, selfish children | Robert Shaw
Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer | A. J. Liebling
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science | Natalie Angier
The Winter Vegetarian: A Warm and Versatile Bounty | Darra Goldstein
Your Money or Your Life
Up in the old hotel : and other stories | Joseph Mitchell
Conversation: A History of a Declining Art | Stephen Miller
The wrecking crew : how conservatives rule / Thomas Frank
Great American Hypocrites : toppling the big myths of Republican politics / Glenn Greenwald
Love by the Glass: Tasting Notes from a Marriage | Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher
Here is New York | E.B. White
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story | Lee Kuan Yew
Consider the Lobster | David Foster Wallace
Grayson | Lynne Cox
The Language of Mathematics | Keith Devlin
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper | John Allen Paulos
Innumeracy | John Allen Paulos
The Zookeeper’s Wife | Diane Ackerman
True Compass | Ted Kennedy
Open | Andre Agassi
The Writing Life | Annie Dillard
Emerson: The Mind on Fire | Robert D. Richardson