The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Eric Weiner

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Michael Pollan

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Columbine

Dave Cullen

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

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

Erik Larson

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Malcolm Gladwell

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Christopher Ryan

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe