contemplative'Swans Sacrifice and Transcendence: The Oral History' by Nick Soulsby
'Heroes Of The Frontier' a novel by Dave Eggers
'Daredevils' a novel by Shawn Vestal
'Grant' a biography by Ron Chernow
'Grant: A Biography' by William S. McFeely
'Man and Superman' a play by Bernard Shaw
'Mothers and Sons' Stories by Colm Toibin
'Ever Since Darwin-Reflections In Natural History' by Stephen Jay Gould
'Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself' a biography by Ann Wroe
'History, Tales, Sketches' Washington Irving [Library of America]
'Prose and Poetry' Stephen Crane [Library of America]
'Personal Memoirs' by Ulysses S. Grant
'Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March' by Adam Zamoyski
'Off to the Side' a memoir by Jim Harrison
'The Fall Of The Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East' by Eugene Rogan
'The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I' by Niall Ferguson
'Berlin: The Twenties' by Rainer Metzger & Christian Brandstatter
'The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey To St. Helena' biography by Julia Blackburn
'The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci' Chinese History by Jonathan D. Spence
'The Dream of Scipio' fiction by Iain Pears
'The Death And Life Of The Great Lakes' by Dan Egan
'Exit West' fiction by Mohsin Hamid
'Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History And The Arts' by Clive James