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The Soul of a Tree: A Master Woodworkers Reflections by George Nakashima

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg

World Without End by Ken Follett

Killing Che: A Novel by Chuck Pfarrer

Bridge of Sighs: A Novel by Richard Russo

Petropolis by Anya Ulinich

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst

Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock ‘n’ Roller’s 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict by Alice Cooper

Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

The American Vitruvius: An Architects’ Handbook of Civic Art by Werner Hegemann, Elbert Peets, and Thomas Myers

The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun

The American Home Front: 1941-1942 by Alistair Cooke

Ellsworth on Woodturning: How a Master Creates Bowls, Pots, and Vessels by David Ellsworth

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco

Do-it-yourself Picture Framing by Vivian Kistler

Railroad Operation and Railway Signaling by Edmund J. Phillips Jr.

Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Into the Wild by John Krakauer

Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use by Christopher Schwarz

Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford

On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman

The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel by Alan Furst

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat by Rick Atkinson

Deconstructing Product Design: Exploring the Form, Function, Usability, Sustainability, and Commercial Success of 100 Amazing Products by William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive (Railroads Past and Present) by J. Parker Lamb

In the Kitchen: A Novel by Monica Ali

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Rudomin Hautzig

Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee

Great Tales from English History (Vol. 3): Captain Cook, Samuel Johnson, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, Edward the Abdicator, and More by Robert Lacey

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan

The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 by Paul Fussell

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich

Cleopatra: A Biography by Michael Grant

The Shipping News: A Novel by Annie Proulx

The Balkans: A Short History by Mark Mazower

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg