History

Alexis Coe

A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.

Howard Means

10,000 Years of Swimming. Hachette Books. 2020.

Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.

Ha-Joon Chang

The User’s Guide. Pelican, 2014.

Adam Rutherford

The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.

Thomas E. Ricks

What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. Harper, 2020.

Viktor Emil Frankl

Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.

Victoria Finlay

A Natural History of the Palette. Random House, 2003.

John David Turner, William Quinn

A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Nikil Saval

A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.

Charles Fishman, Brian Grazer, Margot Lee Shetterly

The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.

Evan Osnos

Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. Vintage, 2015.