- 1776 — David McCullough
- A Brief History of Time — deeper Hawking: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays — Stephen Hawking
- A Brief History of Time — deeper Hawking: The Universe in a Nutshell — Stephen Hawking
- A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes — Stephen Hawking
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam — Neil Sheehan
- A Civil Action — Jonathan Harr
- A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love — Richard Dawkins
- A Dictionary of the English Language — Samuel Johnson
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century — Barbara W. Tuchman
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Dave Eggers
- A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States — Frederick Law Olmsted
- A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe
- A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains — Isabella L. Bird
- A Leg to Stand On — Oliver Sacks
- A Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States — Asa Gray
- A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race — Carl Sagan
- A People's History of the United States — Howard Zinn
- A Primer of Population Biology — E. O. Wilson
- A Red Record — Ida B. Wells
- A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles — John McPhee
- A Sense of Where You Are — John McPhee
- A Tale of a Tub — Jonathan Swift
- A Theory of Justice — John Rawls
- A Time of Gifts — Patrick Leigh Fermor
- A Treatise of Human Nature — David Hume
- A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism — James Clerk Maxwell
- A Universe from Nothing — Lawrence M. Krauss
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
- A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South — Anna Julia Cooper
- A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park — E. O. Wilson
- Actes and Monuments (Foxe's Book of Martyrs) — John Foxe
- Agnes Grey — Anne Brontë (as 'Acton Bell')
- Alcoholics Anonymous (the 'Big Book') — [Bill Wilson et al.]
- All the President's Men — Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
- American Cookery — Amelia Simmons
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson — Joseph J. Ellis
- Among Schoolchildren — Tracy Kidder
- An Account of the Foxglove — William Withering
- An American Dictionary of the English Language — Noah Webster
- An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales — Oliver Sacks
- An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist — Richard Dawkins
- An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding — John Locke
- An Essay on the Principle of Population — Thomas Robert Malthus
- An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae — Edward Jenner
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
- An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas — Stephen Jay Gould
- Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical (Gray's Anatomy) -- first American edition — Henry Gray
- Angela's Ashes: A Memoir — Frank McCourt
- Annals of the Former World — John McPhee
- Anthill: A Novel — E. O. Wilson
- Apologia Pro Vita Sua — John Henry Newman
- Arabian Sands — Wilfred Thesiger
- Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 — Elisha Kent Kane
- Assembling California — John McPhee
- Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa Yogananda
- Awakenings — Oliver Sacks
- Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Basin and Range — John McPhee
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era — James M. McPherson
- Battles and Leaders of the Civil War — Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel (editors)
- Be Here Now — Ram Dass
- Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House — Elizabeth Keckley
- Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium — Carl Sagan
- Biophilia — E. O. Wilson
- Black Boy — Richard Wright
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex — Mary Roach
- Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science — Richard Dawkins
- Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Brave Companions: Portraits in History — David McCullough
- Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science — Richard Dawkins
- Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science — Carl Sagan
- Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Dee Brown
- Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water — Marc Reisner
- Candide, ou l'Optimisme — Voltaire
- Cape Cod — Henry David Thoreau
- Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production — Karl Marx
- Capitalism and Freedom — Milton Friedman
- Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys — Michael Collins
- Chaos: Making a New Science — James Gleick
- Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Climbing Mount Improbable — Richard Dawkins
- Clotel; or, The President's Daughter — William Wells Brown
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World — Mark Kurlansky
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed — Jared Diamond
- Comet — Carl Sagan
- Coming into the Country — deeper McPhee: Annals of the Former World — John McPhee
- Coming of Age in Samoa — Margaret Mead
- Commentaries on the Laws of England — William Blackstone
- Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families — J. Anthony Lukas
- Common Sense — Thomas Paine
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater — Thomas De Quincey
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge — E. O. Wilson
- Contact: A Novel — Carl Sagan
- Cosmos — Carl Sagan
- Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Critik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason) — Immanuel Kant
- Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet — Stephen Jay Gould
- Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism — Matthew Arnold
- D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Darwinism — Alfred Russel Wallace
- De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem — Andreas Vesalius
- De la démocratie en Amérique (Democracy in America) — Alexis de Tocqueville
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium — Nicolaus Copernicus
- Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son — Charles Dickens
- Democracy in America (De la démocratie en Amérique) — Alexis de Tocqueville
- Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo — Galileo Galilei
- Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation) — Arthur Schopenhauer
- Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould
- Discours de la méthode — René Descartes
- Dispatches — Michael Herr
- Dispatches — deeper Vietnam: Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (memoir) — Tim O'Brien
- Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha) — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process — John McPhee
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance — Barack Obama
- Du contrat social — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — Hannah Arendt
- Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould
- Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952 (Volume 1) — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Eisenhower: The President (Volume 2) — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Eleanor and Franklin — Joseph P. Lash
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1, 1884-1933 — Blanche Wiesen Cook
- Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II — John W. Dower
- Encounters with the Archdruid — John McPhee
- Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers — Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (editors)
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage — Alfred Lansing
- English Traits — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Eothen; or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East — Alexander William Kinglake
- Essais / The Essayes (Florio translation) — Michel de Montaigne
- Essays in Criticism — Matthew Arnold
- Essays: Second Series — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ethica (first printed in B.d.S. Opera Posthuma) — Baruch Spinoza
- Ethica (in Opera Posthuma) — Baruch Spinoza
- Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home — Emily Post
- Evelina — Frances Burney
- Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould
- Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales — Oliver Sacks
- Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature — Thomas Henry Huxley
- Excursions — Henry David Thoreau
- Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus — William Harvey
- Experimental Researches in Electricity — Michael Faraday
- Experiments and Observations on Electricity — Benjamin Franklin
- Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 — Fridtjof Nansen
- Fast Food Nation — Eric Schlosser
- Fathers and Sons (Ottsy i deti) — Ivan Turgenev
- Faust. Eine Tragödie (Part One) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors — Stephen Jay Gould
- First Principles — Herbert Spencer
- Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution — Richard Dawkins
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation — Joseph J. Ellis
- From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin — E. O. Wilson
- Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin — Stephen Jay Gould
- Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law — Mary Roach
- Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence — Erik H. Erikson
- Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process — E. O. Wilson
- Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies — E. O. Wilson
- Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman — James Gleick
- George Washington (biography) — Douglas Southall Freeman
- Germinal — Émile Zola
- Gift from the Sea — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Giving Good Weight — John McPhee
- Grant — Ron Chernow
- Gratitude — Oliver Sacks
- Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War — Mary Roach
- Gulag: A History — Anne Applebaum
- Gulliver's Travels (Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World) — Jonathan Swift
- Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal — Mary Roach
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid — Douglas R. Hofstadter
- H Is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald
- Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life — E. O. Wilson
- Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Hallucinations — Oliver Sacks
- Hard Times. For These Times — Charles Dickens
- Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion — John Tyndall
- Heirs of General Practice — John McPhee
- Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould
- Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences — Francis Galton
- Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan — Herbert P. Bix
- Hiroshima — John Hersey
- Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des Moralitez (Perrault's fairy tales / Mother Goose) — Charles Perrault
- History of Plymouth Plantation — William Bradford
- History of the Conquest of Mexico — William H. Prescott
- History of the Conquest of Peru — William H. Prescott
- How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa — Henry M. Stanley
- How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York — Jacob A. Riis
- How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould
- If This Is a Man (US: Survival in Auschwitz; Se questo è un uomo) — Primo Levi
- Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem — Sutton E. Griggs
- In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences — Truman Capote
- In Darkest Africa — Henry M. Stanley
- In Search of Nature — E. O. Wilson
- In Suspect Terrain — John McPhee
- In the Shadow of Man — Jane van Lawick-Goodall
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet Jacobs
- Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan — John L. Stephens
- Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land — John L. Stephens
- Insectivorous Plants — Charles Darwin
- Intelligent Life in the Universe — Carl Sagan
- Into the Wild — Jon Krakauer
- Into Thin Air — Jon Krakauer
- Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted — Frances E.W. Harper
- Irons in the Fire — John McPhee
- John Adams — David McCullough
- Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (The Voyage of the Beagle) — Charles Darwin
- Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile — John Hanning Speke
- Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration — E. O. Wilson
- Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World — E. O. Wilson
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly — Anthony Bourdain
- Kon-Tiki (Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen) — Thor Heyerdahl
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse — John McPhee
- Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals — Louis Agassiz
- Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony — Lewis Thomas
- Le Guide Culinaire — Auguste Escoffier
- Le Père Goriot — Honoré de Balzac
- Le Rouge et le Noir — Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
- Learning from Las Vegas — Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour
- Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms — Stephen Jay Gould
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men — James Agee and Walker Evans
- Letters to a Young Scientist — E. O. Wilson
- Levels of the Game — John McPhee
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
- Lincoln — David Herbert Donald
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America — Garry Wills
- Lindbergh — A. Scott Berg
- Little Dorrit — Charles Dickens
- Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela
- Longitude — Dava Sobel
- Longitude — deeper Sobel: Galileo's Daughter — Dava Sobel
- Looking for a Ship — John McPhee
- Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon; or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life — Louisa Picquet (as told to Hiram Mattison)
- Lyrical Ballads — William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lyrics of Lowly Life — Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
- Majors and Minors — Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Man's Search for Meaning (orig. Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager) — Viktor E. Frankl
- Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (The Communist Manifesto) — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Mansfield Park — Jane Austen
- Mary Chesnut's Civil War — C. Vann Woodward (editor)
- Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3) — Robert A. Caro
- Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 2) — Robert A. Caro
- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Roman Emperor, His Meditations concerning Himselfe) — Marcus Aurelius (trans. Meric Casaubon)
- Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) — John Cleland
- Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman — William Tecumseh Sherman
- Memoirs of Samuel Pepys (the Diary, first publication) — Samuel Pepys (ed. Lord Braybrooke)
- Micrographia — Robert Hooke
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil — John Berendt
- Migraine: Evolution of a Common Disorder — Oliver Sacks
- Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa — David Livingstone
- Modern Painters, Volume I — John Ruskin
- Moll Flanders (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) — Daniel Defoe
- Mornings on Horseback — David McCullough
- Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio) — William Shakespeare
- Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record — Carl Sagan
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain — Oliver Sacks
- My Bondage and My Freedom — Frederick Douglass
- My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places — Mary Roach
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth — Sojourner Truth
- Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself — Henry Bibb
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Frederick Douglass
- Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, of Nantucket — Owen Chase
- Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 — Charles Wilkes
- Natural Experiments of History — Jared Diamond
- Naturalist — E. O. Wilson
- Never Cry Wolf — Farley Mowat
- Night (Un di Velt Hot Geshvign / La Nuit) — Elie Wiesel
- Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973-1990 (Volume 3) — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962 (Volume 1) — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972 (Volume 2) — Stephen E. Ambrose
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II — Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion — Jane Austen
- Notes from China — Barbara W. Tuchman
- Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Novum Organum — Francis Bacon
- Oak and Ivy — Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Oaxaca Journal — Oliver Sacks
- On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen — Harold McGee
- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History — Thomas Carlyle
- On Human Nature — Edward O. Wilson
- On Liberty — John Stuart Mill
- On Photography — Susan Sontag
- On the Mode of Communication of Cholera — John Snow
- On the Move: A Life — Oliver Sacks
- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection — Charles Darwin
- On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation — David Ricardo
- On War (Vom Kriege) — Carl von Clausewitz
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny — Stephen Jay Gould
- Opticks — Isaac Newton
- Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light — Isaac Newton
- Oranges — John McPhee
- Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave — Aphra Behn
- Our Mutual Friend — Charles Dickens
- Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black — Harriet E. Wilson
- Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide — Richard Dawkins
- Outliers: The Story of Success — Malcolm Gladwell
- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void — Mary Roach
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space — Carl Sagan
- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded — Samuel Richardson
- Paradise Lost — John Milton
- Paradise Regain'd ... to which is added Samson Agonistes — John Milton
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 — Taylor Branch
- Past and Present — Thomas Carlyle
- Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War — Edmund Wilson
- Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Pensées — Blaise Pascal
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Ulysses S. Grant
- Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah — Richard F. Burton
- Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus — E. O. Wilson
- Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica — Isaac Newton
- Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding) — David Hume
- Phänomenologie des Geistes (Phenomenology of Spirit) — G.W.F. Hegel
- Pieces of the Frame — John McPhee
- Planets — Carl Sagan
- Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral — Phillis Wheatley
- Poems, by J.D. With Elegies on the Authors Death — John Donne
- Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (the Kilmarnock Burns) — Robert Burns
- Practicing History: Selected Essays — Barbara W. Tuchman
- Principles of Geology — Charles Lyell
- Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy — John Stuart Mill
- Profiles in Courage — John F. Kennedy
- Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind — E. O. Wilson
- Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown — Stephen Jay Gould
- R.E. Lee: A Biography — Douglas Southall Freeman
- Redburn: His First Voyage — Herman Melville
- Reflections on the Revolution in France — Edmund Burke
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie) — Albert Einstein
- Religio Medici — Sir Thomas Browne
- Replaceable You: The Curious History of Bodily Parts and Repairs — Mary Roach
- Representative Men: Seven Lectures — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Repurposing the Wunderkammer — Sean Miller
- Resistance to Civil Government ('Civil Disobedience,' in Aesthetic Papers) — Henry David Thoreau
- Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Rising from the Plains — John McPhee
- River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life — Richard Dawkins
- Robert's Rules of Order (Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies) — Henry M. Robert
- Robinson Crusoe (The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) — Daniel Defoe
- Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life — Stephen Jay Gould
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family — Alex Haley
- Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery — William Craft and Ellen Craft
- Sailing Alone Around the World — Joshua Slocum
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
- Sartor Resartus — Thomas Carlyle
- Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist — Richard Dawkins
- Scouting for Boys — Robert Baden-Powell
- Security Analysis — Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd
- Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf — Oliver Sacks
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom — T. E. Lawrence
- Seven Years in Tibet (Sieben Jahre in Tibet) — Heinrich Harrer
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are — Carl Sagan
- Sidereus Nuncius — Galileo Galilei
- Silent Spring — Rachel Carson
- Silk Parachute — John McPhee
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II — Douglas A. Blackmon
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem — Joan Didion
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem — deeper Didion: The White Album — Joan Didion
- Sociobiology: The New Synthesis — Edward O. Wilson
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience — William Blake
- Soul on Ice — Eldridge Cleaver
- South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition — Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases — Ida B. Wells
- Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife — Mary Roach
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers — Mary Roach
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 — Barbara W. Tuchman
- Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern) — Ernst Jünger
- Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story — Martin Luther King Jr.
- Studies in the History of the Renaissance — Walter Pater
- Success and Dominance in Ecosystems: The Case of the Social Insects — E. O. Wilson
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character — Richard P. Feynman with Ralph Leighton
- Table of Contents — John McPhee
- Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 — John McPhee
- Tales from the Ant World — E. O. Wilson
- Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters — Annie Dillard
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Tent Life in Siberia, and Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes in Kamtchatka and Northern Asia — George Kennan
- The Affluent Society — John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Age of Jackson — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources — Samuel White Baker
- The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book — Alice B. Toklas
- The American Language — H. L. Mencken
- The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For — David McCullough
- The Anatomy of Melancholy — Robert Burton
- The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution — Richard Dawkins
- The Ants — Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin) — Benjamin Franklin
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X with Alex Haley
- The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time — Jonathan Weiner
- The Best and the Brightest — David Halberstam
- The Bible and the Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour — Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Biophilia Hypothesis — E. O. Wilson
- The Birds of America (octavo edition) — John James Audubon
- The Blind Watchmaker — Richard Dawkins
- The Book of Household Management — Isabella Beeton
- The Book of Mormon — [Joseph Smith Jr., as translator]
- The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book — Fannie Merritt Farmer
- The Brothers Karamazov (Brat'ya Karamazovy) — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Captive Mind (Zniewolony umysł) — Czesław Miłosz
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches — Mark Twain
- The Chemical History of a Candle — Michael Faraday
- The Civil War: A Narrative (Vol. 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville) — Shelby Foote
- The Coming of the War, 1914 — Bernadotte E. Schmitt
- The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Conduct of Life — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Control of Nature — John McPhee
- The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective — Carl Sagan
- The Cotton Kingdom — Frederick Law Olmsted
- The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 — Gordon S. Wood
- The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth — E. O. Wilson
- The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home — Charles Dickens
- The Crofter and the Laird — John McPhee
- The Curve of Binding Energy — John McPhee
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
- The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed — John McPhee
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark — Carl Sagan
- The Denial of Death — Ernest Becker
- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex — Charles Darwin
- The Devil in the White City — Erik Larson
- The Devil in the White City — deeper Larson: In the Garden of Beasts — Erik Larson
- The Diary of a Young Girl (Het Achterhuis) — Anne Frank
- The Diversity of Life — Edward O. Wilson
- The Double Helix — James D. Watson
- The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence — Carl Sagan
- The Edge of the Sea — Rachel Carson
- The Education of Henry Adams — Henry Adams
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory — Brian Greene
- The Elements of Style — William Strunk Jr.
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer — Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals — Charles Darwin
- The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selection — Richard Dawkins
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality — Brian Greene
- The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser
- The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties — Mark E. Neely Jr.
- The Federalist — Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
- The Federalist: A Collection of Essays — Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
- The Female Eunuch — Germaine Greer
- The Feminine Mystique — Betty Friedan
- The Fertilisation of Orchids — Charles Darwin
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 vols.) — Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
- The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin
- The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution — Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould
- The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms — Charles Darwin
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe (published anonymously)
- The Founding Fish — John McPhee
- The Founding of New England — James Truslow Adams
- The French Revolution: A History — Thomas Carlyle
- The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington — James W.C. Pennington
- The Future of Life — E. O. Wilson
- The Future of the American Negro — Booker T. Washington
- The Garies and Their Friends — Frank J. Webb
- The Gastronomical Me — M. F. K. Fisher
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money — John Maynard Keynes
- The Genetic Book of the Dead — Richard Dawkins
- The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man — Charles Lyell
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir — Jeannette Walls
- The God Delusion — Richard Dawkins
- The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two — Studs Terkel
- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge — David McCullough
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris — David McCullough
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution — Richard Dawkins
- The Guns of August — Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism — Tina Rosenberg
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain — Charles Dickens
- The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield — John McPhee
- The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities — Stephen Jay Gould
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family — Annette Gordon-Reed
- The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes — John Gerard
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell
- The History of England from the Accession of James II — Thomas Babington Macaulay
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — Henry Fielding
- The Holy Bible (King James Version, 'He' Bible) — [translators appointed by King James I]
- The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story — Richard Preston
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution — Bernard Bailyn
- The Immense Journey — Loren Eiseley
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot
- The Insect Societies — E. O. Wilson
- The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano — Olaudah Equiano
- The Interpretation of Dreams — Sigmund Freud
- The Island of the Colorblind — Oliver Sacks
- The John McPhee Reader — John McPhee
- The Johnstown Flood — David McCullough
- The Labyrinth of Solitude (El laberinto de la soledad) — Octavio Paz
- The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration — Richard F. Burton
- The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct — E. O. Wilson
- The Liars' Club: A Memoir — Mary Karr
- The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society — Lionel Trilling
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman — Laurence Sterne
- The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself — Josiah Henson
- The Life of Samuel Johnson — James Boswell
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher — Lewis Thomas
- The Living Mountain — Nan Shepherd
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 — Lawrence Wright
- The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould
- The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True — Richard Dawkins
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb — Richard Rhodes
- The Malay Archipelago — Alfred Russel Wallace
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales — Oliver Sacks
- The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam — Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Meaning of Human Existence — E. O. Wilson
- The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher — Lewis Thomas
- The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America — Louis Menand
- The Mind of the South — W. J. Cash
- The Mind's Eye — Oliver Sacks
- The Mismeasure of Man — Stephen Jay Gould
- The Mountains of California — John Muir
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Charles Dickens
- The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne — Gilbert White
- The Naturalist on the River Amazons — Henry Walter Bates
- The Night Country — Loren Eiseley
- The Old Red Sandstone — Hugh Miller
- The Open Society and Its Enemies — Karl Popper
- The Origins of Creativity — E. O. Wilson
- The Origins of Totalitarianism — Hannah Arendt
- The Other America: Poverty in the United States — Michael Harrington
- The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod — Henry Beston
- The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History — Stephen Jay Gould
- The Patch — John McPhee
- The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 — David McCullough
- The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1) — Robert A. Caro
- The Peregrine — J. A. Baker
- The Periodic Table — Primo Levi
- The Physiology of Taste (Physiologie du goût) — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- The Pilgrim's Progress — John Bunyan
- The Pine Barrens — John McPhee
- The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West — David McCullough
- The Power Broker — adjacent landmark biography: Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
- The Power Broker — see deeper note (Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate) — Robert A. Caro
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York — Robert A. Caro
- The Power of Positive Thinking — Norman Vincent Peale
- The Prince (Il Principe) — Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Prince of Abissinia (Rasselas) — Samuel Johnson
- The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation — Richard Hakluyt
- The Principles and Practice of Medicine — William Osler
- The Principles of Psychology — William James
- The Promise of American Life — Herbert Croly
- The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 — Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Radicalism of the American Revolution — Gordon S. Wood
- The Ransom of Russian Art — John McPhee
- The Rape of the Lock — Alexander Pope
- The Right Stuff — Tom Wolfe
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William L. Shirer
- The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History — John Lothrop Motley
- The River of Consciousness — Oliver Sacks
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey — Candice Millard
- The Road to Serfdom — F. A. Hayek
- The Sea Around Us — Rachel Carson
- The Second John McPhee Reader — John McPhee
- The Second Sex (Le Deuxième Sexe) — Simone de Beauvoir
- The Second World War (6 vols) — Winston S. Churchill
- The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
- The Seven Lamps of Architecture — John Ruskin
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History — Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Snow Leopard — Peter Matthiessen
- The Social Conquest of Earth — E. O. Wilson
- The Soul of a New Machine — Tracy Kidder
- The Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Stones of Venice — John Ruskin
- The Story of Art — E. H. Gombrich
- The Strange Career of Jim Crow — C. Vann Woodward
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory — Stephen Jay Gould
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas S. Kuhn
- The Subjection of Women — John Stuart Mill
- The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies — E. O. Wilson
- The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower — Stephen E. Ambrose
- The Survival of the Bark Canoe — John McPhee
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern — Stephen Greenblatt
- The Swiss Family Robinson (Der Schweizerische Robinson) — Johann David Wyss (ed. Johann Rudolf Wyss)
- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge — Carlos Castaneda
- The Theory of Island Biogeography — E. O. Wilson
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments — Adam Smith
- The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal — Jared Diamond
- The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
- The Tipping Point — deeper Gladwell: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Malcolm Gladwell
- The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 — Rhys Isaac
- The Tree Where Man Was Born — Peter Matthiessen
- The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Charles Darwin
- The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God — Carl Sagan
- The Vicar of Wakefield — Oliver Goldsmith
- The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys—The Men of World War II — Stephen E. Ambrose
- The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America — John James Audubon and John Bachman
- The Voyage of the Beagle (Journal of Researches) — Charles Darwin
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration — Isabel Wilkerson
- The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany — Stephen E. Ambrose
- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (the Kelmscott Chaucer) — Geoffrey Chaucer (designed by William Morris; illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones)
- The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? — Jared Diamond
- The Worst Hard Time — Timothy Egan
- The Worst Journey in the World — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- The Wright Brothers — David McCullough
- The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion
- The Years (Les Années) — Annie Ernaux
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate — Robert A. Caro
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent — Robert A. Caro
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power — Robert A. Caro
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power — Robert A. Caro
- The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher — Lewis Thomas
- The Zimmermann Telegram — Barbara W. Tuchman
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
- Through the Dark Continent: or, The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean — Henry M. Stanley
- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None — Friedrich Nietzsche (trans. Alexander Tille)
- Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time — Stephen Jay Gould
- To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Travels in Arabia Deserta — Charles M. Doughty
- Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 — Mungo Park
- Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons — Mary H. Kingsley
- Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 — James Bruce
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Truman — David McCullough
- Twelve Years a Slave — Solomon Northup
- Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman — Austin Steward
- Unbeaten Tracks in Japan — Isabella L. Bird
- Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood — Oliver Sacks
- Uncommon Carriers — John McPhee
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith — Jon Krakauer
- Under the Sea-Wind — Rachel Carson
- Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile — Ralph Nader
- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder — Richard Dawkins
- Up from Slavery: An Autobiography — Booker T. Washington
- Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis — Jared Diamond
- Upton and the Army — Stephen E. Ambrose
- Utilitarianism — John Stuart Mill
- Utopia — Thomas More
- Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation — Robert Chambers (published anonymously)
- Vom Kriege (On War) — Carl von Clausewitz
- Voyages (the official accounts of the three voyages) — Captain James Cook (with Hawkesworth, and King)
- Wake-Robin — John Burroughs
- Washington: A Life — Ron Chernow
- Ways of Seeing — John Berger
- West with the Night — Beryl Markham
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 — Daniel Walker Howe
- White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War — Herman Melville
- Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality — Jared Diamond
- Why We Can't Wait — Martin Luther King Jr.
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail — Cheryl Strayed
- Wimbledon: A Celebration — John McPhee
- Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes) — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Woman in the Nineteenth Century — Margaret Fuller
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History — Stephen Jay Gould
- Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day... — Studs Terkel
- Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing — Robert A. Caro
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values — Robert M. Pirsig
- Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life — Erasmus Darwin
- Émile, ou De l'éducation — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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