Charles Haywood

Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Lawrence Wright)

Lord of All the Dead (Javier Cercas)

Mine Were of Trouble (Peter Kemp)

The Apple and the Arrow (Mary and Conrad Buff)

The Decadent Society: How We Became a Victim of Our Own Success (Ross Douthat)

Great Society: A New History (Amity Shlaes)

The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (G. W. Bowersock)

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Graham Allison)

The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America (Hannah Nordhaus)