Book recommendations

Nonfiction

• The Accidental President / A. J. Baime
• Autobiography / John Stuart Mill
• Blood in the Machine / Brian Merchant
• Brunelleschi’s Dome / Ross King
• Caste / Isabel Wilkerson
• The Coming of the Third Reich / Richard J. Evans
• Dark Money / Jane Mayer
• Destiny of the Republic / Candice Millard
• The Dawn of Everything / David Graeber & David Wengrow
• The Dream Machine / M. Mitchell Waldrop
• Eden’s Outcasts / John Matteson
• Extra Life / Steven Johnson
• The Fabric of Civilization / Virginia Postrel
• Founding Brothers / Joseph J. Ellis
• How Big Things Get Done / Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner
• How Infrastructure Works / Deb Chachra
• How the Word Is Passed / Clint Smith
• The Idea Factory / Jon Gertner
• An Immense World / Ed Yong
• Indigenous Continent / Pekka Hämäläinen
• In the Garden of Beasts / Erik Larson
• In Praise of Slowness / Carl Honoré
• Inventing the Renaissance / Ada Palmer
• The Invention of Nature / Andrea Wulf
• Leadership / Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Let’s Talk about Race and Priesthood / W. Paul Reeve
• Longitude / Dana Sobel
• Material World / Ed Conway
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass
• The Notebook / Roland Allen
• The Path to Power / Robert Caro
• The Perfectionists / Simon Winchester
• The Power Broker / Robert Caro
• The River of Doubt / Candice Millard
• The Sixth Extinction / Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Small and the Mighty / Sharon McMahon
• The Splendid and the Vile / Erik Larson
• Supreme Inequality / Adam Cohen
• This Changes Everything / Naomi Klein
• Twelve Years a Slave / Solomon Northup
• The Wager / David Grann
• Ways of Being / James Bridle
• Why Nations Fail / Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
• A Wicked War / Amy S. Greenberg

Fiction

• The Enchanted April / Elizabeth von Arnim
• Gilead / Marilynne Robinson
• Middlemarch / George Eliot
• Moby-Dick / Herman Melville
• Sense and Sensibility / Jane Austen
• War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy