Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil

How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang

The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by Ross Douthat

Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein

The Premonition by Michael Lewis

The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Finding Jack Dyer by Tony Hardy

The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith

Asabiyyah: What Ibn Khaldun, the Islamic Father of Social Science, Can Teach Us about the World Today by Ed West

The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein

Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson

Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo

Dune by Frank Herbert

A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick

After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard