THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE
By Bessel van der Kolk
Publisher: Penguin • ISBN: 9780143127741
How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.
HILLBILLY ELEGY
By J.D. Vance
Publisher: Harper • ISBN: 9780062300553
The Yale Law School graduate and 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood.
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Publisher: Milkweed Editions • ISBN: 9781571313560
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.
ON TYRANNY
By Timothy Snyder
Publisher: Crown • ISBN: 9780804190114
Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.
CASTE
By Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher: Random House • ISBN: 9780593230275
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines aspects of caste systems across civilizations and reveals a rigid hierarchy in America today.
CHAOS
By Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring
Publisher: Back Bay • ISBN: 9780316477543
A reassessment of events surrounding the murders committed by Charles Manson’s followers.
SPARE
By Prince Harry
Publisher: Random House • ISBN: 9780593593820
The Duke of Sussex details his struggles with the royal family, loss of his mother, service in the British Army and marriage to Meghan Markle.
THE TRUTHS WE HOLD
By Kamala Harris
Publisher: Penguin • ISBN: 9780525560739
A memoir by the daughter of immigrants who is currently serving as the 49th vice president and is the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nominee.
WHY NATIONS FAIL
By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Publisher: Crown Currency • ISBN: 9780307719225
How political and economic institutions lead to economic success or failure; by two winners of the 2024 Nobel in economic science.
SAPIENS
By Yuval Noah Harari
Publisher: Harper Perennial • ISBN: 9780062316110
How Homo sapiens became Earth’s dominant species.
GHOSTS OF HONOLULU
By Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr
Publisher: Harper Select • ISBN: 9781400337040
The story of a Japanese American naval intelligence agent, a Japanese spy and events in Hawaii before the start of World War II.
THE ART THIEF
By Michael Finkel
Publisher: Vintage • ISBN: 9781984898456
The author of “The Stranger in the Woods” tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole art more than 200 times for the sake of admiring it.
THE BACKYARD BIRD CHRONICLES
By Amy Tan
Publisher: Knopf • ISBN: 9780593536131
Essays and drawings by the author of “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Bonesetter's Daughter,” which depict a search for peace through birding.
ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD
By Patrick Bringley
Publisher: Simon & Schuster • ISBN: 9781982163310
Bringley describes the decade he spent working as a guard in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
By bell hooks
Publisher: Morrow • ISBN: 9780060959470
The late feminist icon explores the causes of a polarized society and the meaning of love.