Margot Morrell & Stepanie Capparell, Shackleton's Way

Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers

Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

Jack Welch Jack, Straight from the Gut

Richard Russo, Straight Man

Kent Haruf, Plainsong

James Gleick, Isaac Newton

Dava Sobel, Longitude

Joel Glenn Brenner, The Emperors of Chocolate. Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

Jim Collins, Good to Great.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Edmund Morgan, Benjamin Franklin

Andro Linklater, Measuring America

Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Tony Horwitz, Blue Latitudes. Boldly Going Where Captain Cook has gone Before.

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

Peter Schwartz, Inevitable Surprises. Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence

Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies

Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven

The 9/11 Report

Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

R. H. Dana, Two Years Before the Mast

Simon Mawer, Mendel's Dwarf

Donald Stokes, Pasteur's Quadrant

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat

S.D. Levitt and S.J. Dubner, Freakonomics

George Lakoff, Don't Think of an Elephant

Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy

Fred Pearce, When the Rivers Run Dry

Jonathan Alter, The Defining Moment

Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

A. Lieven and J. Hulsman, Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World

Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire