The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive & the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher M. Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin

Separated: Inside An American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nine Irish Lives: The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America edited by Mark Bailey

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal, Chris Fussell (Contributor), Tantum Collins (Contributor), David Silverman (Contributor)

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Edison by Edmund Morris

Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in their Efforts for Freedom by William Still

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

To Be A Slave by Julius Lester

The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton

Angela Merkel: The Authorized Biography by Stefan Kornelius

"I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice by Joe Starita

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough

The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders

Truman by David McCullough

The Course of Human Events by David McCullough

The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl