The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right

E.J. Dionne Jr.

Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre -- How We Dignify the Dead

Sarah Murray

Dark Academia: How Universities Die

Peter Fleming

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

John M. Barry

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

The Reformation: A History

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

Ann Wroe

Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Émile Durkheim

History of Vampires in New England, A (Haunted America)

Thomas D'Agostino

Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual

Peter Metcalf

The Ghost: A Cultural History

Susan Owens

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

Judith Flanders