Oracle Bones – Peter Hessler

The Guns at Last Light – Rick Atkinson

Gideon’s Spies – Gordon Thomas

A Prison Diary – Jeffrey Archer

“Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!” – Richard P. Feynman

Sunday Money – Jeff MacGregor

Discover Your Inner Economist – Tyler Cowen

Out of the Blue – Richard Bernstein

Einstein’s God Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit – Krista Tippett

The Billionaire’s Vinegar – Benjamin Wallace

Talent is Overrated – Geoff Colvin

The Dancing Wu Li Masters – Gary Zukav

Firehouse – David Halberstam

The Word of Truth – Dale Moody

French Lessons – Peter Mayle

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg

Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins

Mocking Jay – Suzanne Collins

Best Food Writing 2006 – Holly Hughes

It Must’ve Been Something I Ate – Jeffrey Steingarten

Tasting Pleasure – Jancis Robinson

Wild – Cheryl Strayed

Fermat’s Last Theorem – Simon Singh

Command and Control – Eric Schlosser

The Orchid Thief – Susan Orlean

Floating City – Sudhir Venkatesh

Leveraging the Universe – Mike Dooley

The New New Thing – Michael Lewis

The Swerve – Stephen Greenblatt

The Book of Vice – Peter Sagal

The Monstrosity of Christ – Slavoj Zizek and John Milbank, Edited Creston Davis

From a Whisper to a Scream – Charles de Lint

The Book of the City Ladies – Christine de Pizan

Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957-1969 – Edited Ann Charters

Crazy Horse – Larry McMurtry

The Imaginary Indian – Daniel Francis

In Bad Taste? – Dr. Massimo Francesco Marcone

Turning the Tables – Steven A. Shaw

The Code Book – Simon Singh

Best Food Writing 2005 – Edited by Holly Hughes

Fork it Over – Alan Richman

The Devil’s Picnic – Taras Grescoe

Castles Made of Sound – Larry Hicock

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – Philip Pullman

D-Day – Stephen E. Ambrose

Waiting – Debra Ginsberg

Julie & Julia – Julie Powell

Magnificent Desolation – Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham

Bottomfeeder – Taras Grescoe

The Sound of No Hands Clapping – Toby Young

Service Included – Phoebe Damrosch

The Subtle art of not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson

Think Like a Freak – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Flags of our Fathers – James Bradley and Ron Powers

Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen – Gordon Ramsay

Garlic and Sapphires – Ruth Reichl

Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser

The Man Who Ate Everything – Jeffrey Steingarten

The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford

A Brief History of Science – Thomas Crump

The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry – Kathleen Flinn

Between Meals – A.J. Liebling

Religious Traditions of the World – James F. Lewis and William G. Travis

Playing to the Edge – Michael V. Hayden

The Way of the Knife – Mark Mazzetti

The Seeds of Time – John Wyndham

The Secret – Rhonda Byrne

Last Chance to Eat – Gina Mallet

Power Money Fame Sex – Gretchen Craft Rubin

The Chomsky Reader – Edited by James Peck

The Savage Girl – Alex Shakar

The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton