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IN THEIR ENTIRETY
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PRE-1990

A New True Book Series -by- Various Authors

A Wrinkle in Time -by- Madeleine L'Engle

"Dang! I Know Ya'll Didn't Touch My Friggin' Beef Again, Dang!": 1001 Pre-Polished 80's Slogans -by- Yar & Qotile

The Call of the Wild -by- Jack London

The Way Things Work -by- David Macaulay

Orzowei (White Boy) -by- Alberto Manzi

1990

Get that Stank Booty Out My Face: My Career and Other Things I Regret -by- Sir Mix-A-Lot

1991

Catcher in the Rye -by- J. D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird -by- Harper Lee

A Separate Peace -by- John Knowles

Fahrenheit 451 -by- Ray Bradbury

Book of the Cat -by- Michael Wright

The Scarlet Letter -by- Nathaniel Hawthorne

1992

The Outsiders (novel) -by- S. E. Hinton

The Red Badge of Courage -by- Stephen Crane

Various Short Stories -by- Edgar Allan Poe

Gateway (novel) -by- Frederik Pohl

1993

Tess of the d'Urbervilles -by- Thomas Hardy ...uuuggghhhh...

The Canterbury Tales -by- Geoffrey Chaucer ...aaawwwghgh...

Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea -by- Steven Callahan

Yeager: an Autobiography -by- Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos

How the Other Half Lives -by- Jacob Riis

1994

Nightfighter -by- Rawnsley

that aircraft ground school book in ROTC

Catch-22 -by- Joseph Heller

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -by- Ken Kesey

Jg 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe -by- Donald L. Caldwell

The Art of War -by- Sun Tzu -translated by- Thomas Cleary

Bat Bomb: World War II's Other Secret Weapon -by- Jack Couffer

Beyond Numeracy -by- John Allen Paulos

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage -by- Carl Sagan

1995

For the Love of Children's Tales -by- M. Jackson

1996

Just So Stories -by- Rudyard Kipling

1997

Johnny Got His Gun -by- Dalton Trumbo

1998

SNAFU: Great American Military Disasters -by- Geoffrey Regan

Air Combat Aces -by- ?

The Deltiod Pumpkin Seed -by- John McPhee

1999

Dynamics of Flight: Stability and Control, 3rd ed. -by- Bernard Etkin, Lloyd Duff Reid

Seven Experiments that Could Change the World -by- Rupert Sheldrake

2000

Hiroshima -by- John Hersey

Anthem -by- Ayn Rand

River Out of Eden -by- Richard Dawkins

A History of Mathematics -by- Carl Boyer, Isaac Asimov

e: the Story of a Number -by- Eli Maor

2001

How to Fly and Fight in the F/A-18 Hornet -by- David Isby

Pilots Manual for Lockheed P-38 Lightning -by- U.S. Army, Lockheed

Sex and Rockets -by- John Carter

War at the Top of the World -by- Eric Margolis

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -by- J. K. Rowling

2002

Get a Grip on Evolution -by- David Burnie

Get a Grip on Genetics -by- Martin Brookes

The Right Stuff -by- Tom Wolfe

Bird Flight -by- Robert Burton (naturalist)

A Bond with the Wild: a Celebration of American Falconry -by- Kenn Filkins

Bird Flight -by- Gordon C. Aymar (1935)

Isaac Asimov Himself Reads 5 Complete Stories -by- Isaac Asimov (audio)

The Lost World -by- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (audio)

The Little Prince -by- Antoine de Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry

Digital Biology -by- Peter J. Bentley

An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms -by- Melanie Mitchell

Jonathan Livingston Seagull -by- Richard Bach

2003

Timeline (novel) -by- Michael Crichton

Maverick: the Personal War of a Vietnam Cobra Pilot -by- Dennis Marvicsin, Jerold A. Greenfield

Animal Observation and Tracking -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

Wilderness Survival -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

The Tracker -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

The Search -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

Texas ACO Training Manual -edited by- Pamela J. Wilson

2004

Case Files of the Tracker -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

The Continuum Concept -by- Jean Liedloff

Grandfather -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

Awakening Spirits -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

Angels and Demons -by- Dan Brown (audio)

The Way of the Scout -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

City and Suburban Survival -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

Walden -by- Henry David Thoreau

Custer's Fall: the Native American Side of the Story -by- David Miller

Black Elk Speaks -by- Black Elk, John Neihardt

Living With the Earth -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

The Forgotten Wilderness -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

Meditations -by- Marcus Aurelius

The Meaning of It All -by- Richard Feynman

2005

The Vision -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

Journey to Ixtlan -by- Carlos Castaneda

The Old West: the Great Chiefs -by- Benjamin Capps

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -by- Mark Haddon

The Pine Barrens -by- John McPhee

The Gentle Tasaday -by- John Nance

Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source -by- The Onion

Shooter: the Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper -by- Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, Donald Davis

Marine Sniper -by- Charles Henderson

Hunting Badger -by- Tony Hillerman

Get a Grip on Philosophy -by- Neil Turnbull

Chocolate: a Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light -by- Mort Rosenblum

Animals in Translation -by- Temple Grandin

A Guide to Night Sounds -by- Lang Elliott (with audio)

American Indian Myths and Legends -by- Richard Erdoes, Alfonso Ortiz

Spy Dust -by- Antonio Mendez & Jonna Mendez, Bruce Henderson

Art of Disguise -by- MacInaugh

Master of Disguise -by- Antonio Mendez,

How to Open Locks with Improvised Tools -by- Hans Conkel

Rogue Warrior -by- Richard Marcinko, John Weisman

The C Programming Language (book), 2nd Ed. -by- Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie

God Told Me to Ruin All His Shizzle -by- George W. Bush

2006

Collapse -by- Jared Diamond

Encounters with the Archdruid -by- John McPhee

Ishi in Two Worlds -by- Theodora Kroeber

Plants of the Gods -by- Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann & Christian Ratsch

The Soul of the Indian -by- Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman)

Indian Scout Talks -by- Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman)

The Quest -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

From Jesus to Christianity -by- L. Michael White

2007

Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province -by- William W. Dunmire & Gail D. Tierney

The Journey -by- Tom Brown, Jr.

Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners -by- William W. Dunmire & Gail D. Tierney

Some People Are Indians -by- George A. Boyce

Tracker -by- Joel Hardin

Images of America: Towns of the Sandia Mountains -by- Mike Smith

Robbing the Bees -by- Holley Bishop

Letters from the Hive -by-  Stephen Buchmann

The Power of Silence -by- Carlos Castaneda

The Teachings of Don Juan -by- Carlos Castaneda

Facing the Frozen Ocean -by- Bear Grylls

2008

Letters to a Young Teacher -by- Jonathan Kozol

Museum -by- Danny Danziger

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau -by- Susan Cheever

Walden: an annotated edition -by- Henry David Thoreau; foreword and notes by Walter Harding

Civil Disobedience -by- Henry David Thoreau

The Serpent and The Rainbow -by- Wade Davis

A 16th Century Galleon -by- Richard Humble & Mark Bergin

Spice -by- Jack Turner

The Wild Within -by- Paul Rezendes

The Hummingbird's Daughter -by- Luis Alberto Urrea

The Motorcycle Diaries -by- Che Guevara

Child of the Jungle -by- Sabine Kuegler

Meeting the Medicine Men -by- Charles Langley

The Assassins: a radical sect in Islam -by- Bernard Lewis

Alamut -by- Vladimir Bartol

Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts -by- Gary Paul Nabhan

Desert Solitaire -by- Edward Abbey

Not Much Fun: the lost poems of Dorothy Parker -by- Stuart Y. Silverstein

2009

Santeria -by- Miguel A. De La Torre

A Thousand Splendid Suns -by- Khaled Hosseini (audio)

(numerous short stories) -by- Clarice Lispector

One Hundred Years of Solitude -by- Gabriel García Márquez

Como Agua para Chocolate -by- Laura Esquivel

True Believer -by- Nicholas Sparks

At First Sight -by- Nicholas Sparks

2010

Cities of Gold: a Journey Across the American Southwest -by- Douglas Preston

Dear John -by- Nicholas Sparks

The Last Song -by- Nicholas Sparks

The Lucky One -by- Nicholas Sparks

Wicked Plants -by- Amy Stewart

1491 -by- Charles C. Mann

Martin & Meditations on the South Valley -by- Jimmy Santiago Baca

A Place to Stand -by- Jimmy Santiago Baca

Alburquerque -by- Rudolfo Anaya

2011

The Wheel of Time -by- Carlos Castaneda

An Object of Beauty -by- Steve Martin (Kindle for Android)

The Last Lecture -by- Randy Pausch

Safe Haven -by- Nicholas Sparks (read by Dick Estell)

Fast Food Nation -by- Eric Schlosser

Mockingbird -by- Kathryn Erskine

Finding Jefferson -by- Alan Dershowitz

North & South -by- John Jakes

The Illustrated Man -by- Ray Bradbury

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -by- Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played with Fire -by- Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest -by- Stieg Larsson

Danny, the Champion of the World -by- Roald Dahl

Scarpetta's Winter Table -by- Patricia Cornwell

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West -by- Gregory Maguire

2012

Pygmalion -by- George Bernard Shaw

The Brothers Karamazov -by- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Lorax -by- Dr. Seuss (yup, all by myself ;p)

A Painted House -by- John Grisham

The Best of Me -by- Nicholas Sparks

The Litigators -by- John Grisham

Made in America: an informal history of the English language in the U.S. -by- Bill Bryson

The King of Torts -by- John Grisham

Savage Beauty: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay -by- Nancy Milford

War Dances -by- Sherman Alexie

The Prophet -by- Kahlil Gibran

Different Seasons -by- Stephen King

Fifty Shades of Grey -by- E. L. James

The Racketeer -by- John Grisham

2013

Nation -by- Terry Pratchett

The Four Agreements -by- Miguel Angel Ruiz

Water for Elephants -by- Sara Gruen

Memoirs of a Geisha -by- Arthur Golden

The Red Tent -by- Anita Diamant

Eat, Pray, Love -by- Elizabeth Gilbert

2014

Mutant Message Down Under -by- Marlo Morgan

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari -by- Robin Sharma

Dry -by- Augusten Burroughs

Middlesex -by- Jeffrey Eugenides

The Devil in the White City -by- Erik Larson

If on a winter's night a traveler -by- Italo Calvino

Into Thin Air -by- Jon Krakauer

Spy -by- David Wise

Rant -by- Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted -by- Chuck Palahniuk

Choke -by- Chuck Palahniuk

South of No North -by- Charles Bukowski

Stories of Your Life and Others -by- Ted Chiang

No Country for Old Men -by- Cormac McCarthy

Post Office -by- Charles Bukowski

The Most Human Human -by- Brian Christian

2015

The Botany of Desire -by- Michael Pollan

The Great Courses: The Story of Human Language -by- John McWhorter

Ender's Game -by- Orson Scott Card

The Art of Tracking, The Origin of Science -by- Louis Liebenberg

The World Until Yesterday -by- Jared Diamond

The Crash of TWA Flight 260 -by- Charles M. Williams

Into that Forest -by- Louis Nowra

Desert Puma: Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation of an Enduring Carnivore -by- Kenneth A. Logan and Linda L. Sweanor

White Boy -by- Alberto Manzi

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind -by- Yuval Harari

Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body -by- Armand Marie Leroi

The Great Courses: History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration -by- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

My First Summer in the Sierras -by- John Muir

The Wright Brothers -by- David McCullough

Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World -by- Catherine McKinley

Cleopatra: A Life -by- Stacy Schiff

The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World -by- Dr Robert Garland

Foundations of Eastern Civilization -by- Craig Benjamin

The Decisive Battles of World History -by- Gregory Aldrete

1776 -by- David McCullough

The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes -by- Kenneth W. Harl

Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution -by- Peter C. Mancall

Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations -by- Kenneth W. Harl

The Rise and Fall of the British Empire -by- Patrick Allitt

Saturn Run -by- John Sandford and Ctein

Living History: Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds -by- Dr Robert Garland

2016

Master's of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers -by- Andrew R. Wilson

Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed -by- Edwin Barnhart

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World -by- Jack Weatherford

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -by- Lewis Carroll

Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science -by- Steven Gimbel

Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time -by- Sean M. Carroll

The Fever of 1721 -by- Stephen Coss

Famous Romans -by- J. Rufus Fears

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us -by- Daniel Pink

The Iliad -translated by- Robert Fitzgerald

Life Lessons from the Great Myths -by- J. Rufus Fears

History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach -by- Gregory Aldrete

Lost Worlds of South America -by- Edwin Barnhart

On Intelligence -by- Jeff Hawkins

History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective -by- Gregory Aldrete

Rome and the Barbarians -by- Kenneth W. Harl

A History of Eastern Europe -by- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies -by- Robert Allison

The African Experience From Lucy to  Mandela -by- Kenneth Vickery

A Brief History of Fighting Ships -by- David Davies

Turning Points in Middle Eastern History -by- Eamonn Gearon

The United States and the Middle East: 1914 to  9/11 -by- Salim Yaqub

A People's History of the United States -by- Howard Zinn

Alexander Hamilton -by- Ron Chernow

Naked Money -by- Charles Wheelan

An Economic History of the World since 1400 -by- Donald J. Harreld

Genghis Khan and the Quest for God -by- Jack Weatherford

The Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions -by- Jay L. Garfield

Fighter Pilot -by- Robin Olds

Gates of Europe: a History of Ukraine -by- Serhii Plokhii

2017

History of Science: 1700 to 1900 -by- Frederick Gregory

Mind-Body Philosophy -by- Patrick Grim

Privacy, Property, and Free Speech: Law and the Constitution in the 21st Century -by- Jeffrey Rosen

Food: A Cultural Culinary History -by- Ken Albala

Thinking about Cybersecurity -by- Paul Rosenzweig

Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History -by- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous -by- Gabriella Coleman

The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science -by- Marcus du Sautoy

The Music of the Primes -by- Marcus du Sautoy

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity -by- Carlo Rovelli

The Snow Leopard -by- Peter Matthiessen

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics -by- Carlo Rovelli

The Quark and the Jaguar -by- Murray Gell-Mann

A History of India -by- Michael H. Fisher

At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails -by- Sarah Bakewell

No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life -by- Robert C. Solomon

Biology and Human Behavior -by- Robert Sapolsky

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: a Guide and Commentary -by- Monika M. Langer

The Americas in the Revolutionary Era -by- Marshall Eakin

The Fire Next Time -by- James Baldwin

The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Ed. -by- Daniel N. Robinson

Phenomenology of Perception -by- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers -by- Deborah Heiligman

The American Civil War -by- Gary W. Gallagher

Hypatia: mathematician, inventor, and philosopher -by- Sandra Donovan

Philosophy: Who Needs It -by- Ayn Rand

Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement -by- Ashton Nichols

The Vikings -by- Kenneth W. Harl

Exploring Metaphysics -by- David Kyle Johnson

The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World -by- Margaret Cavendish

Idea Makers -by- Stephen Wolfram

2018

How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain -by- Lisa Feldman Barrett

Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries -by- Alan Charles Kors

The Physicist and the  Philosopher -by- Jimena Canales

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Books I & II) -by- John Locke

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat -by- Oliver Sacks

Our Senses: An Immersive Experience -by- Rob DeSalle

Why Buddhism is True -by- Robert Wright

Buddhism -by- Malcolm David Eckel

Zen in the Art of Archery -by- Eugen Herrigel

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself -by- Sean M. Carroll

The Order of Time -by- Carlo Rovelli

How to Change Your Mind -by- Michael Pollan

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness -by- Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Metaphysical Club -by- Louis Menand

Understanding Japan: A Cultural History -by- Mark Ravina

On the Origin of Species -by- Charles Darwin

Ancient Civilizations of North America -by- Edwin Barnhart

The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad -by- Joyce Salisbury

Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition -by- Grant Hardy

The Geography of Morals -by- Owen Flanagan

The Monk and the  Philosopher -by- Matthieu Ricard

The Fruitful Darkness -by- Joan Halifax

Athenian Democracy -by- Dr Robert Garland

Zen Action / Zen Person -by- Thomas P. Kasulis

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind -by- Shunryu Suzuki

The Celtic World - by- Jennifer Paxton

Great World Religions: Islam -by- John Louis Esposito

The Years of Rice and Salt -by- Kim Stanley Robinson

The Spell of the Sensuous -by- David Abram

The Philosophy of Humor -by- Steven Gimbel

Web of Debt -by- Ellen Hodgson Brown

Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany -by- Catherine Kleier

2019

The Science of Information -by- Benjamin Schumacher

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism -by- Jin Y. Park and Gereon Kopf

Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryōkan -by- Kazuaki Tanahashi

The Remarkable Science of Ancient Astronomy -by- Bradley Schaefer

How Colors Affect You -by- William Lidwell

Philosophy of Mind: Brains, Consciousness, and Thinking Machines -by- Patrick Grim

Code Name: Lise -by- Larry Loftis

Shinto: the Way Home -by- Thomas P. Kasulis

Understanding the Inventions that Changed the World -by- W. Bernard Carlson

Zen Training -by- Katsuki Sekida

Language Families of the World -by- John McWhorter

The Alchemy of Air -by- Thomas Hager

Understanding Complexity -by- Scott E. Page

Biography of John Locke -by- Roger Woolhouse

Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are -by- Kevin J. Mitchell

Star Maker -by- Olaf Stapledon

The Quantum and the  Lotus -by- Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan

The Strange Order of Things -by- Antonio Damasio

Nothing, Very Short Introductions -by- Frank Close

Buddha, Very Short Introductions -by- Michael Carrithers

Atheism, Very Short Introductions -by- Julian Baggini

The Development of European Civilization -by- Kenneth R. Bartlett

Cosmological Koans -by- Anthony Aguirre

What Darwin Didn't Know: the Modern Science of Evolution -by- Scott E. Solomon

Persepolis -by- Marjane Satrapi

An Introduction to Number Theory -by- Edward B. Burger

Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals -by- Joyce Salisbury

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking -by- Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry -by- Mario Livio

The Drop -by- Dennis Lehane

Years that Changed History: 1215 -by- Dorsey Armstrong

African Samurai -by- Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard

Samurai in 100 Objects -by- Stephen Turnbull

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics -by- Christopher Benfey

Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic -by- Matthew Stewart

Consciousness and the Brain -by- Stanislas Dehaene

Something Deeply Hidden -by- Sean M. Carroll

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan -by- Herbert P. Bix

The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha -by- Mikael Adolphson

Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change -by- Jared Diamond

Seven Years in Tibet -by- Heinrich Harrer

Destiny Disrupted -by- Tamim Ansary

The Moon: A History for the Future -by- Oliver Morton

Religions of the East -by- Stephen Prothero

Astronomy: Earth, Sky, and Planets -by- James B. Kaler

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World -by- Jennifer Tobin

The Case Against Reality -by- Donald D. Hoffman

Blood and Thunder -by- Hampton Sides

Artificial Intelligence -by- Melanie Mitchell

The Modern Intellectual Tradition: from Descartes to Derrida -by- Lawrence Cahoone

The Fifth Season -by- N. K. Jemisin

Seeing Eye to I: Understanding Visual Perception -by- Rolf Nelson

2020

Underland: a deep time journey -by- Robert Macfarlane

Impossible: Physics Beyond the Edge -by- Benjamin Schumacher

The Philosopher's Toolkit -by- Patrick Grim

Hearing, Tasting, Touching: Understanding the World Through Our Senses -by- Rolf Nelson

The Invention of Nature -by- Andrea Wulf

Origins of Life -by- Robert Hazen

Sea People -by- Christina Thompson

Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception -by- Peter M. Vishton

Caffeine -by- Michael Pollan

The Girl with Seven Names -by- Hyeonseo Lee

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood -by- James Gleick

In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations that Changed the World -by- Ian Stewart

Darwin's Dangerous Idea -by- Daniel Dennett

The Falcon Thief -by- Joshua Hammer

The Biology of Birds -by- John Kricher

Mutiny on the Bounty -by- Peter FitzSimons

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way -by- John Edward Huth

The Map of Knowledge (The Almagest, Euclid's Elements, and Galen) -by- Violet Moller

Faith and the Founding Fathers -by- Adam Jortner

Exhalation: Stories -by- Ted Chiang

Language and the Mind -by- Spencer Kelly

The Book of Tea -by- Okakura Kakuzō

Batavia -by- Peter FitzSimons

Brief History of Indonesia -by- Tim Hannigan

The Idea of the Brain: the Past and Future of Neuroscience -by- Matthew Cobb

The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics -by- Steven Gimbel

Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely -by- Andrew S. Curran

How Music and Mathematics Relate -by- David Kung

No Easy Day -by- Mark Owen

War and World History -by- Jonathan P. Roth

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -by- David Mitchell

History of Bourbon -by- Ken Albala

Music and the Brain -by- Aniruddh Patel

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution -by- Lee Smolin

The Story of Music -by- Howard Goodall

The Mongol Empire -by- Craig Benjamin

A History of the Samurai -by- Jonathan Lopez-Vera

The Last Samurai: the Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori -by- Mark Ravina

Stranger in the Shogun's City -by- Amy Stanley

The First Samurai -by- Karl Friday

The Real History of Secret Societies -by- Richard B. Spence

Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World -by- Amir Alexander

Shōgun -by- James Clavell

Black Dragon River -by- Dominic Ziegler

Survival Mentality: The Psychology of Staying Alive -by- Nancy Zarse

The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan -by- James Scott

Deep -by- James Nestor

Shinto and Japanese New Religions -by- H. Byron Earhart

European Thought and Culture in the 20th Century -by- Lloyd S. Kramer

Guns, Germs, and Steel -by- Jared Diamond

The WEIRDest People in the World -by- Joseph Henrich

The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam -by- Peter Crawford

The Book of Five Rings -by- Miyamoto Musashi -translated by- Kenji Tokitsu

Born a Crime -by- Trevor Noah

Unsung Heroes of World War II: Europe -by- Lynne Olson

Consciousness, Very Short Introductions -by- Susan Blackmore

Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain -by- David Eagleman

The Brain from Inside Out -by- György Buzsáki

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain -by- Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Plague -by- Albert Camus

Brave Genius: A Scientist, a  Philosopher, and ... -by- Sean B. Carroll

A Tale for the Time Being -by- Ruth Ozeki

2021

Old Path White Clouds -by- Thich Nhat Hanh

The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master -by- Peter Levitt, Kazuaki Tanahashi

Real Zen for Real Life -by- Bret W. Davis

The Monkey and the Monk -by- Anthony C. Yu

Daoism Explained -by- Hans-Georg Moeller

The Black Hole War -by- Leonard Susskind

There are Places in the World Where Rules are Less Important than Kindness -by- Carlo Rovelli

Target Tokyo -by- James M. Scott

The War that Killed Achilles -by- Caroline Alexander

Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History -by- Sandra Benjamin

Flight 232 -by- Laurence Gonzales

The Spontaneous Brain -by- Georg Northoff

The Pagan World: Ancient Religions Before Christianity -by- Hans-Friedrich Mueller

A Thousand Ships: A Novel -by- Natalie Haynes

Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness -by- Philip Goff

Number Theory, Very Short Introductions -by- Robin Wilson

What is Life? -by- Paul Nurse

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence -by- Jeff Hawkins

The Hidden Spring -by- Mark Solms

History of Science: Antiquity to 1700 -by- Lawrence M. Principe

2034: A Novel of the Next World War -by- James G. Stavridis, Elliot Ackerman

Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire -by- Roger Crowley

Powerful Women Who Ruled the Ancient World -by- Kara Cooney

The Philosopher Queens: The Lives and Legacies of Philosophy's Unsung Women -by- Rebecca Buxton

Sophie's World -by- Jostein Gaarder

In Search of an Empire -by- Laurence Bergreen

Longitude -by- Dava Sobel

Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind -by- Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Great Revolutions of Modern History -by- Lynne Ann Hartnett

The Human Cosmos -by- Jo Marchant

What Einstein Got Wrong -by- Dan Hooper

Helgoland -by- Carlo Rovelli

Philosophy of Physics, Very Short Introductions -by- David Wallace

Kokoro -by- Natsume Sōseki

Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius -by- Robert Andre LaFleur

The Real History of Pirates -by- Manushag Powell

Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention -by- Ben Wilson

Unlocking the Hidden History of DNA -by- Sam Kean

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives -by- Christopher Harding

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World -by- Matt Alt

This Is Your Mind on Plants -by- Michael Pollan

A Most Remarkable Creature -by- Jonathan Meiburg

Think Like a Stoic -by- Massimo Pigliucci

Brainscapes -by- Rebecca Schwarzlose

Blindsight -by- Peter Watts

A Wild Sheep Chase -by- Haruki Murakami

On Desperate Ground -by- Hampton Sides

Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History -by- Bruce Cumings

The Disappearing Spoon -by- Sam Kean

Ghosts of the Tsunami -by- Richard Lloyd Parry

The Higgs Boson -by- Sean M. Carroll

Generals and Geniuses: A History of the Manhattan Project -by- Edward G. Lengel

Liquid Rules -by- Mark Miodownik

A Land so Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca -by- Andrés Reséndez

The Book of Yōkai -by- Michael Dylan Foster

Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants -by- John Drury Clark

Stuff Matters -by- Mark Miodownik

Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard -by- William Lanouette

The Periodic Table, Very Short Introductions -by- Eric Scerri

The Iliad of Homer -by- Elizabeth Vandiver

The Story of Earth -by- Robert Hazen

The Book of Form and Emptiness -by- Ruth Ozeki

Shape -by- Jordan Ellenberg

The Rise of Modern Japan -by- Mark Ravina

The Middle East in the 20th Century -by- Eamonn Gearon

Chemistry and Our Universe -by- Ron B. Davis

Great Battles of the Ancient World -by- Garrett G. Fagan

2022

Introduction to Greek Philosophy -by- David Roochnik

The Age of Pericles -by- Jeremy McInerney

Theories of Knowledge -by- Joseph Shieber

Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science -by- Aubrey Clayton

Locke, Very Short Introductions -by- John Dunn

Philosophy of Science -by- Jeffrey Kasser

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness -by- Anil Seth

Lost in Math -by- Sabine Hossenfelder

The Philosophical Baby -by- Alison Gopnik

The Infidel and the  Professor -by- Dennis Rasmussen

Journey to the Edge of Reason -by- Stephen Budiansky

The KLF -by- John Higgs

Conquest of the Americas -by- Marshall Eakin

Pandora's Jar -by- Natalie Haynes

Quantum Steampunk -by- Nicole Yunger Halpern

The Boundless Sea -by- David Abulafia

Memoirs of a Kamikaze -by- Kazuo Odachi

The Long 19th Century -by- Robert I. Weiner

River of the Gods -by- Candice Millard

War in the Modern World -by- David R. Stone

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion -by- Yukio Mishima

Continental Philosophy, Very Short Introductions -by- Simon Critchley

The Fall and Rise of China -by- Richard Baum

Existential Physics -by- Sabine Hossenfelder

Democracy and its Alternatives -by- Ethan Hollander

The Battle of Midway -by- Craig Symonds

The Mind of a Bee -by- Lars Chittka

The Medieval Legacy -by- Carol Symes

A Girl's Guide to Missiles -by- Karen Piper

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion -by- Sean M. Carroll

The Vietnam War -by- John C. McManus

The Continental Philosophy Reader -edited by- Richard Kearney and Mara Rainwater

Klara and the Sun -by- Kazuo Ishiguro

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field -by- Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon

Combat Crew -by- John Comer

How to Stand Up to a Dictator -by- Maria Ressa

Rocket Men -by- Robert Kurson

Perception: How Our  Bodies Shape Our Minds -by- Dennis Proffitt, Drake Baer

2023

Beyond Concepts -by- Ruth Millikan

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music -by- Robert Greenberg

Mustang Ace -by- Robert Goebel

Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane that Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly -by- David Fairbank White, Margaret Stanback White

18 Miles -by- Christopher Dewdney

Mosquito Men -by- David Price

Assassin's Creed: Renaissance -by- Oliver Bowden

The Artist, The Philosopher, and  The Warrior -by- Paul Strathern

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) -by- Katie Mack

Anaximander: And the Birth of Science -by- Carlo Rovelli

Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology -by- Charlotte Mykura

The Night Portrait: A Novel of WWII & Da Vinci's Italy -by- Laura Morelli

The Alps: a Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond -by- Stephen O'Shea

No Parachute -by- Arthur Gould Lee

Fight Among the Clouds -by- James P. Busha

Race of Aces -by- John R. Bruning

The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight -by- Winston Groom

An Immense World -by- Ed Yong

Scotland Forever! The Scots Greys at The Battle of Waterloo -by- Iain Gale

A History of Japan -by- R. H. P. Mason and J. G. Caiger

Beyond Infinity -by- Eugenia Cheng

Flying Camelot -by- Michael W. Hankins

The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives -by- Naoíse Mac Sweeney

A Memory Called Empire -by- Arkady Martine

Hideyoshi -by- Mary Elizabeth Berry

Japanese Death Poems -by- Yoel Hoffmann

Tales of Old Japan -by- A.B. Mitford

Walking the Kiso Road -by- William Scott Wilson

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration -by- Peter Turchin

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689 -by- Jonathan Healey

Rashōmon and In a Grove -by- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Unbroken -by- Laura Hillenbrand

Something Like an Autobiography -by- Akira Kurosawa

Einstein and the Quantum -by- A. Douglas Stone

The Enemy Harassed -by- Jim Stempel

How the Spanish Civil War became Europe's Battlefield -by- Pamela Radcliff

The Lady and the Monk -by- Pico Iyer

Autumn Light -by- Pico Iyer

The Wager -by- David Grann

Elixir -by- Theresa Levitt

We Are Electric -by- Sally Adee

Music as a Mirror of History -by- Robert Greenberg

Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai -by- Katsu Kokichi -translated by- Teruko Craig

History of the United States Navy -by- Craig Symonds

American Gun -by- Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson

White Holes -by- Carlo Rovelli

Samurai Rising -by- Pamela S. Turner

Operation Vengeance -by- Dan "Two Dogs" Hampton

Lady Snowblood (vol 1) -by- Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura

The Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies -by- D. C. Holtom

I've Been Thinking -by- Daniel Dennett

The Other Great Game -by- Sheila Miyoshi Jager

Dragon Palace -by- Hiromi Kawakami

2024

The Last Yakuza -by- Jake Adelstein

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution -by- Cat Bohannon

Midnight in Broad Daylight -by- Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

The River of Doubt -by- Candice Millard

Perception, Very Short Introductions -by- Brian Rogers

Complexity, Very Short Introductions -by- John Henry Holland

1Q84 -by- Haruki Murakami

Why? The Purpose of the Universe -by-  Philip Goff

Divine Might -by- Natalie Haynes

Modern Greece: A Captivating Guide -by- Captivating History

Extremely Hardcore -by- Zoe Schiffer

Baa Baa Black Sheep -by- Pappy Boyington

The Brain, Very Short Introductions -by- Michael O'Shea

The Roman Republic, Very Short Introductions -by- David M. Gwynn

1066: The Year that Changed Eveything -by- Jennifer Paxton

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War -by- Nathaniel Philbrick

F-35, The Inside Story of the Lightning II -by- Tom Burbage, Betsy Clark, Adrian Pitman

Intelligence, Very Short Introductions -by- Ian Deary

The Art of War -by- Andrew R. Wilson

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America -by- Louis Menand

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder -by- Salman Rushdie

The Body has a Mind of Its Own -by- Sandra Blakeslee

When Animals Dream -by- David Peña-Guzmán

The Killing Ground: a Biography of Thermopylae -by- Myke Cole, Michael Livingston

Wine from These Grapes -by- Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Gentleman from Japan -by- Thomas Lockley

History of Japan: A Captivating Guide -by- Captivating History

Beowulf -translated by- Seamus Heaney

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields -by- Sean M. Carroll

Skunk Works -by- Ben Rich

Taiko -by- Eiji Yoshikawa

Galileo and the Science Deniers -by- Mario Livio

Black Snow -by- James M. Scott