Charles Haywood

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror (Victor Sebestyen)

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Steven Pinker)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris)

The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (Robert Louis Wilken)

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World (Charles C. Mann)

The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why (Richard E. Nisbett)

The Middle Ages (Johannes Fried)

The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (Niall Ferguson)

The Collapse of Complex Societies (Joseph A. Tainter)

The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America’s Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era (Clyde Prestowitz)