The Last Lion -- William Manchester

Washington -- Ron Chernow

Spencer's Mountain -- Earl Hamner

The Years of Lyndon Johnson:  Master of the Senate -- Robert Caro

KGB:  The Inside Story -- Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky

Virgin Soil Upturned -- Mikhail Sholokhov

Reconstruction -- Eric Foner

The Slave Trade -- Hugh Thomas

The Forge of Christendom -- Tom Holland

The Normans in Sicily -- John Julius Norwich

The Diaries of John Quincy Adams -- John Quincy Adams

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations -- David Landes

The Pursuit of Victory:  The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson -- Roger Knight

Confessions -- St. Augustine

Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Why Nations Fail -- Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Democracy in America -- Alexis de Tocqueville

Doctor Zhivago -- Boris Pasternak

Unsettled:  What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn't, and Why it Matters -- Steven Koonin

Energy and Civilization -- Vaclav Smil

Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen

Grant -- Ron Chernow

The Last King of America -- Andrew Roberts

The River Where America Began -- Bob Deans

The Life of Elizabeth I -- Alice Weir

Persian Fire -- Tom Holland

Jefferson and Montecello -- Jack McLaughlin

The Odyssey -- Homer

The War that Made the Roman Empire -- Barry Strauss

Persians:  the Age of Great Kings -- Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Battle Cry of Freedom -- James McPherson 

Short Stories -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Years of Lyndon Johnson:  Means of Ascent -- Robert Caro

Manhattan Transfer --- John Dos Passos

Macbeth -- William Shakespeare

Pillar of Fire -- Taylor Branch

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant -- U.S. Grant

Republic -- Plato

O Pioneers! -- Willa Cather

Writings & Drawings -- James Thurber

Reveries of the Solitary Walker -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Osman's Dream:  The History of the Ottoman Empire -- Caroline Finkel

Our First Civil War:  Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution -- H.W. Brands

In Praise of Slowness -- Carl Honore

Meditations -- Marcus Aurelius

The Bonfire of the Vanities -- Tom Wolfe

he Dred Scott Case -- Don E. Fehrenbacher

The Eagle Against the Sun -- Ronald Spector

The Lincoln Highway -- Amor Towles

Custer's Trials -- T.J. Stiles

Alexander I:  The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon -- Marie-Pierre Rey

All the King's Men -- Robert Penn Warren

Margaret Thatcher:  Herself Alone -- Charles Moore

Writings -- James Madison

Empire of Liberty -- Gordon S. Wood

The Obstacle is the Way -- Ryan Holiday

The Leopard -- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Baseball Book of Why -- John McCollister

The Years of Lyndon Johnson:  The Path to Power -- Robert Caro

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories -- Norman Maclean

James Madison --Ralph Ketcham

Fight Club -- Chuck Palahniuk

Abraham Lincoln:  A Life -- Michael Burlingame

Visitors to Monticello -- Merrill D. Peterson

Ramayana -- R.K. Narayan

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans -- Plutarch

The Great Arab Conquests -- Hugh Kennedy

Robert Kennedy and His Times -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The Alexiad -- Anna Komnene

Powers and Thrones -- Dan Jones

Infinite Jest -- David Foster Wallace

The Daily Stoic -- Ryan Holiday

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- Edward Gibbon

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas -- Carmen Lamas

Margaret Thatcher -- at her Zenith:  In London, Washington and Moscow -- Charles Moore

In Defense of Thomas Jefferson:  The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal -- William G. Hyland, Jr.

The Enlightenment -- Ritchie Robertson

The Price of Peace:  Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes -- Zachary D. Carter

Napoleon -- Andrew Roberts

1177 B.C. -- the Year Civilization Collapsed -- Eric H. Cline

Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain -- George Saunders

John Quincy Adams -- James Traub

My Dearest Friend:  the Letters on John and Abigail Adams -- John and Abigail Adams