Society Books

1776 (2005)
by David McCullough

The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks the United States (2018)
by Don Wonnell

290: A Novel of the American Civil War (2015)
by Don Wonnell

47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster (2004)
by O. Henry Mace

Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
by William Faulkner

The African Queen (1935)
by C.S. Forester

The Age of Grief (1987)
by Jane Smiley

Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds - Survival in the Andes (2013)
by David Roberts

All the Light We Cannot See (2017)
Anthony Doerr

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (2013)
by David Roberts

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
by Michael Chabon

American Dirt (2020)
by Jeanine Cummins

American Pastoral (1997)
by Phillip Roth

Anatomy of a Murder (1958)
by Robert Traver

Another Part of the Forest (1946)
by Lillian Hellman

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base (2012)
by Annie Jacobsen

The Art of Fielding: A Novel (2011)
by Chad Harbach

Assassination Vacation (2005)
by Sarah Vowell

The Assistant (1957)
by Bernard Malamud

August: Osage County (2008)
by Tracy Letts

Barrel Fever (1994)
by David Sedaris

Beat Not the Bones (1952)
by Charlotte Jay

A Bend in the River (1979)
by V.S. Naipal

The Big Book of the Continental Op (2017)
by Dashiell Hammett

The Big Sleep (1939)
by Raymond Chandler

Birdsong (1993)
by Sebastian Faulks

The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (1998)
by Malcolm MacPherson

Black Dogs (1992)
by Ian McEwan

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932)
by Black Elk and John G. Neihardt

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy (2016)
by Heather Ann Thompson

The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (And How to Do Them) (2007)
by Peter Sagal

The Book Thief (2006)
by Markus Zuzak

Born A Crime (2016)
by Trevor Noah

The Boy Detective Fails (2006)
by Joe Meno

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin  Olympics (2013)
by Daniel James Brown

Brighton Rock (1938)
by Graham Greene

Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age (2023)
by Fred M. Kray

The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History (2002)
by David A. Vise

The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
by Lawrence Block

Burmese Days (1934)
by George Orwell

Bury Me Standing (1995)
by Isabel Fonseca

The Cage (1983)
by Kenzo Kitakata

Captain Bligh and Mister Christian: The Men and the Mutiny (1973)
by Richard Alexander Hough

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2004)
by Scott Zesch

Charlie Wilson’s War (2003)
by George Crile

The Chicago Way (2007)
by Michael Harvey

The Children of Henry VIII (1996)
by Alison Weir

The Children’s Blizzard (2004)
by David Laskin

Chicago’s Great Fire (2020)
by Carl S. Smith

Cinnamon Skin (1982)
by John G. MacDonald

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1997)
by Francisco Jimenez

The Circus Fire: A True Story (2000)
by Stewart O’Nan

Cities of the Plain (1998)
by Cormac McCarthy

Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (1997)
by Stephen E. Ambrose

City of Scoundrels (2012)
by Gary Krist

A Civil Action (1995)
by Jonathan Harr

A Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery (2004)
by Craig Johnson

Collapse (2005)
by Jared Diamond

Consequence: A Memoir (2017)
by Eric Fair

A Conspiracy of Paper (2000)
by David Liss

Corelli’s Mandolin (1994)
by Louis De Bernieres

Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life (2003)
by Toby Cecchini

County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital (2010)
by David Ansell

Cruising Paradise: Tales (1996)
by Sam Shepard

The Crying of Lot 49 (1988)
by Thomas Pynchon

Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (2020)
by Talia Lavin

Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (2005)
by Laura M. MacDonald

Cutting for Stone (2009)
by Abraham Verghese

Damascus Gate (1998)
by Robert Stone

A Dangerous Remedy (2017)
by Russell Fee

A Dangerous Season: A Sheriff Matt Callahan Mystery (2017)
by Russell Fee

Darkness at Noon (1941)
by Arthur Koestler

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (2003)
by Stephen Puleo

Dark Voyage (2004)
by Alan Furst

The Daughter of Time (1951)

by Josephine Tey

The Da Vinci Code (2003)
by Dan Brown

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015)
by Erik Larson

The Dean’s December (1982)
by Saul Bellow

Death in Summer (1998)
by William Trevor

The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (2016)
by Ethan Michaeli

Delta of Venus (1969)
by Anaïs Nin

The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be (2019)
by Thomas Lynch

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (2003)
by Erik Larson

The Devil's Highway: A True Story (2005)
by Luis Alberto Urrea

Disappearing Earth (2019)
by Julia Phillips

Disgrace (1999)
by J. M. Coetzee

Doc (2011)
by Mary Doria Russell

Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic (1995)
by George W. Hilton

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006)
by Muriel Barbery

Empire Falls (2001)
by Richard Russo

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)
by Alfred Lansing

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2006)
Cesar Aira

Eve Reviv’d, or the Fair One Stark-Naked (1684)
anonymous

Everything is Illuminated (2002)
by Jonathan Safran Foer

Every Man Dies Alone (1947)
by Hans Fallada

F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century (2007)
by Mark Levine

The Fabulous Clipjoint (1953)
by Frederic Brown

Fat City (1969)

by Leonard Gardner

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
by Hunter S. Thompson

The Finkler Question (2010)
by Howard Jacobson

Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire (1999)
by John MacLean

Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History (2002)
by Denise Gess and William Lutz

The Flame Alphabet (2012)
by Ben Marcus

Flashman in the Great Game (1975)
by George MacDonald Fraser

Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985)
by Richard Holmes

Fort Dearborn (2007)
by Jerry Crimmins & Gerald A. Danzer

The Fortress of Solitude (2003)
by Jonathan Lethem

Frankenstein (1818)
by Mary Shelley

The Fugitive Eye (1953)
by Charlotte Jay

Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life (2006)
by Ira Berkow

The Gadfly (1897)

by Ethel Lilian Voynich

Geronimo: His Own Story – The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior (1970)
by Geronimo and S. M. Barrett

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (2006)
by Steven Johnson

The Ghost of Cleopatra:  Edmonia Lewis and Her Lost Masterpiece (2019)
by John Rice and Gail Tanzer

Ghost Stories: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (2002)
by Hampton Sides

The God of Small Things (1997)
by Arundhati Roy

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992)
by Robert Olen Butler

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
by Jose Saramago

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
by John Steinbeck

The Great Atlantic Air Race (1977)
by Percy Rowe

The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and his City (2010)

by Stephen Dando-Collins

The Great Gatsby (1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Guards (2001)
by Ken Bruen

Guilt (2012)
by Ferdinand von Schirach

The Hamilton Affair (2016)
by Elizabeth Cobbs

A Handful of Dust (2012)
by Evelyn Waughn

Hannibal's Niece: A Tale of Love, Murder and Deceit in Ancient Rome (2017)
by Anthony Licata

Herzog (1964)
by Saul Bellow

HHhH: A Novel (2012)
by Laurent Binet

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (2018)

by James B. Comey

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance

Hostile Waters (1997)
by Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin & Alan White

House Made of Dawn (1969)
by N. Scott Momaday

How the Battleship Maine was Destroyed (1976)
by Hyman George Rickover

The Human Stain (2000)
by Philip Roth

The Illustrated Man (1951)
by Ray Bradbury

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)
by Rebecca Skloot

An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (2003)
by Henry Wiencek

In Cold Blood (1965)
by Truman Capote

Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man (2019)
by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic

The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath (2014)
by Michael Griesbach

In the Garden of Beasts (2011)
by Erik Larson

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of Whaleship Essex (2000)
by Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (2014)
by Hampton Sides

In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
by Tim O’Brien

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (2009)
by Neil White

Into the Wild (1998)
by Jon Krakauer

Invisible Man (1947)
by Ralph Ellison

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (2000)
by Miles Harvey

Isaac’s Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1999)

by Erik Larson

I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
by Derek Raymond

James (2024)
by Percival Everett

Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel (1969)
by Wallace Stegner

The Johnstown Flood (1968)
by David McCullough

Joyland (2013)
by Stephen King

The Killer Inside Me (1952)
by Jim Thompson

Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (2012)
by John Barylick

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2018)
by David Grann

The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch (2020)
by Harvey Miles

King Solomon’s Mines (1885)
by R. Haggard

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000)
Anthony Bourdain

The Kite Runner (2003)
Khaled Hosseini

Knowledge and Information Technology (2000)
from Partisan Review

The Known World (2003)
by Edward P. Jones

The Laughing Monsters (2014)
by Denis Johnson

The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives (2002)
by Ernest Zebrowski, Jr.

The Last Road Trip (2018)
by James Elsener

Laura Rider's Masterpiece (2009)
by Jane Hamilton

Legs (1975)
by William Kennedy

Let the Great World Spin (2009)
by Colum McCann

Liberation Day: Stories (2022)
by George Saunders

Life of Pi (2001)
by Yann Martel

The Light Between Oceans (2012)
by ML Stedman

The Likeness (2008)
by Tana French

The Living & the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996)
by Paul Hendrickson

Lolita (1955)
by Vladimir Nabokov

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006)
by Lawrence Wright

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story (2017)
by Douglas Preston

Lost Horizon (1933)
by James Hilton

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011)
by Mitchell Zuckoff

The Loved One (1948)
by Evelyn Waugh

Lucky Medicine: A Memoir of Success beyond Segregation (2023)
by Lester W. Thompson

The Maltese Falcon (1929)
by Dashiell Hammett

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter (2011)
by Mark Sea

Man Without a Gun (1999)
by Giandomenico Picco

The Man With the Golden Arm (1949)
by Nelson Algren

Marie (1912)
by H. Rider Haggard

The Martian (2011)
by Andy Weir

The Martian Chronicles (1950)
by Ray Bradbury

Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (2004)
by Alfred F. Young

Master and Commander (1970)
by Patrick O’Brian

Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (2000)
by Lennard Bickel

Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
by David Sedaris

Milosz’s ABC’s (2001)
by Czeslaw Milosz

Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America (2019)
by Christopher Wylie

Mister Wonderful: A Love Story (2011)
by Daniel Clowes

Monster (1997)
by John Gregory Dunne

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2009)
by Robert Edse

The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)
by Salman Rushdie

Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
by Jonathan Lethem

The Murder of Napoleon (1982)
by David Hapgood

My Antonia (1918)
by Willa Cather

My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
by Oyinkan Braithwaite

News of the World (2016)
by Paulette Jiles

No Other Life (1993)
by Brian Moore

Norwegian by Night (2013)
by Derek B. Miller

Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (2000)
by Stephen E. Ambrose

Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America (2009)

by Adam Cohen

Not Me (2005)

by Michael Lavigne

Now You See Him (2009)

by Eli Gottlieb

The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis (1999)

by Harry Mark Petrakis

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (2003)
various authors

The Old Gringo (1985)
by Carlos Fuentes

Old Heart (2015)
by Peter Ferry

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

by Ernest Hemingway

One Summer: America, 1927 (2013)
by Bill Bryson

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (2014)
by Annie Jacobsen

Orbital: A Novel (2023)
by Samantha Harvey

Ordinary Wolves (2004)
by Seth Kantner

The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma (1998)
by Alex Kotlowitz

Out (2003)
by Natsuo Kirin

Out Stealing Horses (2007)
by Per Petterson

The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Painter in a Savage Land (2008)
by Miles Harvey

Peace (2008)
by Richard Bausch

Pellucidar (1915)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

People of the Book (2008)
by Geraldine Brooks

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1885)
by Ulysses S. Grant

Planes (2022)
by Peter C. Baker

The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
by John Millington Synge

Playing the Moldovans at Tennis (2001)
by Tony Hawks

The Plot Against America (2004)
by Philip Roth

Poetry magazine (Dec. 1998 issue)
various authors

Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life (1986)
translated by Dennis Tedlock

The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America’s Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds (2003)
by Mike Stanton

The Promise (2021)

by Damon Galgut

Ray (1980)
by Hannah Barry

Razor Girl (2016)
by Carl Hiaasen

Red China Blues (1996)
by Jan Wong

The Red Fox (1982)
by Anthony Hyde

Reflections of Valour (2021)
by James Eisener

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009)
by Max Blumenthal

Riders of the Purple Sage (2005)
by Zane Grey

Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (1997)
by Ring Lardner and Jonathan Yardley

A Rising Man (2016)
by Abir Mukherjee

The Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1998)
by John Barry

The Road (2006)
by Cormac McCarthy

Runner in the Sun (1954)
by D’Arcy McNickle

The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002)
by Gary Shteyngart

Sabbath's Theater (1995)
by Philip Roth

San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires (2005)

by Dennis Smith

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019)
by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Searchers (1954)
by Alan LeMay

The Secret Agent (1907)
by Joseph Conrad

The Secret Hours (2023)
by Mick Herron

The Secret Scripture (2008)
by Sebastian Barry

The Sense of an Ending (2011)
by Julian Barnes

A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (2006)
by Jason Roberts

Seven Years in Tibet (1953)
by Heinrich Harrer

Shadow Country (2008)
by Peter Matthiessen

Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (2004)
by Robert Kurson

The Sheltering Sky (1949)
by Paul Bowles

Shipping News (1993)
by Annie Proulx

Ship of Gold (1987)
by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar

The Silver Swan (2008)
by Benjamin Black

Silverview (2021)

by John le Carré

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul (2007)
by Karen Abbott

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)
by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaves in the Family (1998)
by Edward Ball

Small Things Like These (2020)
by Claire Keegan

So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
by William Maxwell

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020)
by Erik Larson

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (2018)
by Ben Macintyre

Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike (2021)
by Brian Castner

Stardust: A Novel (2009)
by Joseph Kanon

Stones from the River (1994)
by Ursula Hegi

Stormy Weather (1995)
by Carl Hiaasen

Strangers on a Train (1950)
by Patricia Highsmith

Suite Française (2007)
by Irène Némirovsky

Supreme Courtship (2008)
by Christopher Buckley

The Sympathizer (2016)
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Tabloid Dreams (1996)
by Robert Olen Butler

Tales of the Tikongs (1983)
by Epeli Hau'fa

Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999)
by Daniel Stashower & Sherlock Holmes

Tenth of December: Stories (2013)
by George Saunders

The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History (1999)
by Peter Maas

The Things They Carried (1990)
by Tim O’Brien

The Third Policeman (1967)
by Fann O'Brien

Those Who Wish Me Dead (2014)
by Michael Koryta

Three Men in a Boat (2018)
by Jerome K. Jerome

The Three Musketeers (1844)
by Alexandre Dumas

Thunderstruck (2006)
by Erik Larson

The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)
by Audrey Niffenegger

Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 (2003)
by Anthony P. Hatch

Tinkers
by Paul Harding

Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison (2013)
by Michael Daly

Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1997)
by John Ehle

Treasure Island (1883)
by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1935)
by B. Traven

The Trial (1926)
by Franz Kafka

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003)
by David von Drehle

True Grit (1968)
by Charles Portis

Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre (2019)
by Randy Krehbiel

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (1870)
by Jules Verne

Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Twilight of Empire (1989)
by Allan W. Eckert

Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010)
by Laura Hillenbrand

Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinkley Firestorm of 1894 (2006)
by Daniel James Brown

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
by Isabel Wilkerson

Washington Black (2018)
by Esi Edugyan

Water Music (1980)
by T.C. Boyle

We All Fall Down
by Michael Harvey

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
by Shirley Jackson

What's the Matter with White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America (2012)
by Joan Walsh

When Nietzsche Wept (1992)
by Irvin D. Yalom

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998)
by Sebastian Barry

Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Great Divide (1995)
by Robert Michael Pyle

The White Cascade: The Greatest Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (2007)
by Gary Krist

The White Devil (1612)
by John Webster

White Noise (1984)
by Don DeLillo

The White Tiger (2008)
by Aravind Adiga

Who You've Got to Kill (2009)
by Russell Ó Fiaich

The Wide Sargasso Sea (1967)
by Jean Rhys

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997)
by Haruki Murakami

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure (2001)
by Don & Petie Kladstrup

The Wings of the Dove (1902)
by Henry James

Wise Blood (1952)

by Flannery O'Connor

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006)
by Timothy Egan

The Yacoubian Building (2004)
by Alaa Al Aswany

Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos (2010)
by Judy Pasternak

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)
by Michael Chabon