The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer

A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich

A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple

Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad

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

Dear Leader: From Trusted Insider to Enemy of the State, My Escape from North Korea by Jang Jin-sung

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics by Sarah Reckhow

Free: How Today's Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing by Chris Anderson

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It by Marc Goodman

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler

How to Ruin Everything: Essays by George Watsky

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria

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

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman

Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith

Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh? by Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

This is a Book by Demetri Martin

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

When to Rob a Bank by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics by John J. Mearsheimer

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding

Yourself by David McRaney