| When Breath Becomes Air |
Paul Kalanithi |
★★★★★ |
| Law's Abnegation |
Adrian Vermeule |
★★★★ |
| High Performance Browser Networking |
Ilya Grigorik |
★★★★★ |
| Zero Day: The Threat in Cyberspace |
Robert O'Harrow Jr. |
★★★ |
| Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World |
Haruki Murakami |
★★★★ |
| Paper Tigers: China's Nuclear Posture |
Jeffery Lewis |
★★★★★ |
| Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World |
Trevor Paglen |
★★★★ |
| Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right |
Angela Nagel |
★★★★ |
| The Field Study Handbook |
Jan Chipchase |
★★★★★ |
| The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century |
Adam Kirsch |
★★★ |
| The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen |
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian |
★★★★ |
| Why Wall Street Matters |
William D. Cohan |
★★ |
| Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders |
Joushua Foer |
★★★ |
| Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays |
Tom McCarthy |
★★★ |
| Outpatients |
Sasha Issenberg |
★★★★ |
| A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongmen |
Basharat Peer |
★★★★ |
| Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters |
Harold Evans |
★★★ |
| Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia |
Anne Garrels |
★★★★ |
| Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change |
Elizabeth Kolbert |
★★★ |
| Shadow Courts: The Tribunals that Rule Global Trade |
Haley Sweetland Edwards |
★★★★★ |
| Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism |
Nato Thompson |
★★★★ |
| Blind Spot |
Teju Cole |
★★★★ |
| Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia |
Alexander Cooley |
★★★★★ |
| Invisible Cities |
Italo Calvino |
★★★★ |
| Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and The Chinese Dream |
Clay Shirky |
★★★★★ |
| Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software |
Charles Petzold |
★★★ |
| Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath |
Annel Garrels |
★★★★★ |
| Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest |
Zenyenp Tufekci |
★★★★★ |
| The Song of the Dodo |
David Quammen |
★★★★ |
| Coup d'État |
Edward Luttwak |
★★★★★ |
| No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes |
Anad Gopal |
★★★★★ |
| Listening in: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age |
Susan Landau |
★★★★★ |
| Letters from Burma |
Aung San Suu Kyi |
★★★★ |
| How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read |
Pierre Bayard |
★★★★ |
| Children of Paradise: The struggle for the Soul of Iran |
Laura Secor |
★★★★★ |
| Above the Timberline |
Gregory Manchess |
★★★★ |