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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Hunter S. Thompson
FAL
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin
YIF
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
CIT
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoğlu
WNF
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Simon Singh
TCB
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
TMO
The Way of Zen
Alan W. Watts
TWO
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Geraldine Brooks
NPO
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Will Durant
TSO
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt
EIJ
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
TDA
The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam
TBA
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
TPE
Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag
RTP
Escape from Freedom
Erich Fromm
EFF
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari
CTS
The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
T3S
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley
TRO
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Octavio Paz
TLO
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
TOO
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Eric Hoffer
TTB
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
UPT
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Unknown
TGR
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Jonah Goldberg
LFT
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman
TMO
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
TEO
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Rebecca Solnit
HIT
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Unknown
TSO
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt
IFT
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
Matt Taibbi
ICP
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
Kent Nerburn
NWN
This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness
T.R. Fehrenbach
TKO
The Pentagon's Brain
Annie Jacobsen
TPB
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
Leonard Mlodinow
TUT
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Charles Eisenstein
SEM
Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
Unknown
SCB
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama
DFM
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama
TAO
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
TSO
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
RLI
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
BFA
Truman
David McCullough
T
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
AH
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Blaine Harden
EFC
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Hunter S. Thompson
HAA
Decision Points
George W. Bush
DP
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
TSW
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
KLG
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
TWO
No Logo
Naomi Klein
NL
The Analects
Confucius
TA
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
BEB
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
GGA
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
C
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson
DWT
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
TEO
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
T4L
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis
FBA
Assassination Vacation
Sarah Vowell
AV
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
FBT
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Bill Bryson
TMT
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
EPA
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
DAP
Orientalism
Edward W. Said
O
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
DTF
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
PAH
A History of Reading
Alberto Manguel
AHO
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Mark Steyn
AAT
Our Oriental Heritage
Will Durant
OOH
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
TPA
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell
LST
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Eric Metaxas
BPM
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Lawrence Wright
GCS
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson
TIH
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough
TGJ
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
TAO
Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng
LAD
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King
DIT
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Suki Kim
WYT
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Stephen E. Ambrose
BOB
One Summer: America, 1927
Bill Bryson
OSA
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
TSH
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
TAO
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Rick Atkinson
AAA
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson
OFB
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
William L. Shirer
BDT
Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)
Heinrich Harrer
SYI
I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years
Victor Klemperer
IWB
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault
MAC
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
ABH
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
SAB
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Richard Preston
THZ
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
Reza Aslan
NGB
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Steve Silberman
NTL
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
TDO
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Stephen E. Ambrose
UCT
The Path to Power
Robert A. Caro
TPT
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
STC
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Harold G. Moore
WWS
How Music Works
David Byrne
HMW
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Unknown
HHO
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
TAO
The Sufis
Idries Shah
TS
All But My Life: A Memoir
Gerda Weissmann Klein
ABM
Son of Hamas
Mosab Hassan Yousef
SOH
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Luke Harding
TSF
History of the Russian Revolution
Leon Trotsky
HOT
The White Album
Joan Didion
TWA
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges
WIA
Religion and Science
Bertrand Russell
RAS
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Unknown
FBT
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Thomas King
TII
The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World
W. Cleon Skousen
T5Y
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
TOO
The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw
TGG
The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom
TCO
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.
LFT
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Jay Winik
A1T
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Terence McKenna
FOT
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Richard Kluger
SJT
Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300
Unknown
CHT
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand
SAA
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Unknown
NED
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder
RNA
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James Gleick
GTL
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
TWW
War
Sebastian Junger
W
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Evan Wright
GKD
The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine
TAO
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Haruki Murakami
UTT
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Rick Atkinson
TDO
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin
TPT
History and Utopia
Emil M. Cioran
HAU
The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle
Kent Nerburn
TWO
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre
AZA
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt
WIT
The Conquest of Gaul
Gaius Julius Caesar
TCO
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Alistair Urquhart
TFH
Black Hawk Down
Mark Bowden
BHD
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
DDI
Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
Lynne Olson
COL
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Unknown
OBA
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Izzeldin Abuelaish
ISN
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Maziar Bahari
TTC
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
Richard Ben Cramer
WIT
The Shock of the New
Robert Hughes
TSO
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil
PKM
The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin
TS
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Sam Kean
TVT
The Fifties
David Halberstam
TF
Strength to Love
Martin Luther King Jr.
STL
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
Friedrich Nietzsche
OTU
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Unknown
BTC
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
TAO
1000 Years of Annoying the French
Stephen Clarke
1YO
Genesis
Eduardo Galeano
G
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Miklós Nyiszli
AAD
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
TCF
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
Robert Lacey
ITK
Days and Nights of Love and War
Eduardo Galeano
DAN
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Way of Zen
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Best and the Brightest
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Regarding the Pain of Others
Escape from Freedom
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
The 33 Strategies of War
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
The End of History and the Last Man
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Ill Fares the Land
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness
The Pentagon's Brain
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Story of My Life
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Truman
Alexander Hamilton
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Decision Points
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
King Leopold's Ghost
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
No Logo
The Analects
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Cosmos
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The 48 Laws of Power
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Assassination Vacation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Orientalism
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
A History of Reading
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Our Oriental Heritage
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life and Death in Shanghai
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
One Summer: America, 1927
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)
I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
A Brief History of Time
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
The Path to Power
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
How Music Works
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
The Ascent of Man
The Sufis
All But My Life: A Memoir
Son of Hamas
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
History of the Russian Revolution
The White Album
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Religion and Science
From Beirut to Jerusalem
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Greatest Generation
The Closing of the American Mind
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
The World Without Us
War
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
The Age of Reason
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
History and Utopia
The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
The Conquest of Gaul
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Black Hawk Down
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
The Shock of the New
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
The Songlines
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Fifties
Strength to Love
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
1000 Years of Annoying the French
Genesis
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
The Case for God
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
Days and Nights of Love and War