2025:
Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya, 2 vols. (Elspeth Huxley)
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War (Ghaith Abdul-Ahad)
The Assassin’s Gate (George Packer)
Shadows on the Grass (Isak Dinesen)
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Alan Stern and David Grinspoon)
On Tyrrany (Timothy Snyder)
West with the Night (Beryl Markham)
Los Alamos: The Ranch School Years, 1917-1943 (John Wirth and Linda Aldrich)
The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Wharton and Los Alamos (Peggy Pond Church)
1984 (George Orwell)
In a Sunburned Country (Bill Bryson)
The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay (Ian Shaw)
The Explorers (Ed. Tim Flannery)
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (Abraham Flexner, Robbert Dijkgraaf)
1788 (Watkin Tench)
Inside Pine Gap (David Rosenberg)
Breaking Through: My Life in Science (Katalin Karikó)
Guns of August (Barbara W. Tuchman)
2024:
War (Bob Woodward)
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paul Watson)
On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service (Anthony Fauci)
The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House (Chris Whipple)
The Songlines (Bruce Chadwick)
The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump (Alexander Ward)
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Adam Higginbotham)
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Salman Rushdie)
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance (Mensun Bound)
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–And Themselves (Andrew Sorkin)
Hiroshima (John Hersey)
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (David Anderson)
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story (Nathan Thrall)
Bird of Passage: : Recollections of a Physicist (Rudolf Peierls)
Im Westen Nichts Neues (Erich Maria Remarque)
Joe Biden: American Dreamer (Evan Osnos)
Mit der Sonne um die Welt: Der Jahrhundertflug der SolarImpulse (Bertrand Piccard, André Borschberg)
Indigenous Continent (Pekka Hämäläinen)
2023:
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (ed. Adam Sisman)
Nellie: Letters from Africa (Elspeth Huxley)
Out in the Midday Sun (Elspeth Huxley)
The Mottled Lizard (Elspeth Huxley)
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History (Serhii Plokhy)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (David Grann)
The Flame Trees of Thika (Elspeth Huxley)
Advice to a Young Scientist (P. Medawar)
Tiohtiá:ke (Michel Jean)
Australians, vol. I (Thomas Keneally)
The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien)
Hoosiers: A New History (James H. Madison)
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (Doris Pilkington)
The Fatal Shore (Robert Hughes)
The Bastion of Liberty: Leiden University Today and Yesterday (Willem Otterspeer)
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Caroline Elkins)
The Strittmatter Years (Liz Hibbard)
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II (Antony Beevor)
2022:
Giant Telescopes: Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology (W. Patrick McCray)
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin)
Deep Work (Cal Newport)
World War Three: August 1985 (Gen. Sir John Hackett et al.)
Moving the Maasai: A Colonial Misadventure (Lotte Hughes)
A Brief History of the Netherlands (Paul State)
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Paul Watson)
The University of Notre Dame: A History (Thomas Blantz)
Notre Dame at 175: A Visual History (Charles Lamb and Elizabeth Hogan)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire (Nigel Dalziel)
The Awful German Language (Mark Twain)
109 East Palace (Jennet Conant)
2021:
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)
Red Strangers (C.S. Nicholls)
Over My Shoulder: Kenya Walkabout (Molly Ryan)
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Nicole Perlroth)
Doc: Memories from a Life in Public Service (Otis Bowen)
Peril (Bob Woodward and Robert Costa)
Passbook Number F.47927 (Muthoni Likimani)
How to Write Well (William Zinsser)
Le Cimetière des éléphants (Henry de Monfried)
Kenya Cowboy: A Police Officer’s Account of the Mau Mau Emergency (Peter Hewitt)
Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 (Robin Fleming)
The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe (Vaclav Havel et al.)
A Promised Land (Barack Obama)
The British in Mombasa, 1824-1826: Being the History of Captain Owen’s Protectorate (John Gray)
2020:
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Svetlana Alexievich)
The Hubble Wars (Eric Chaisson)
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 (Max Hastings)
A Very Stable Genius (Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker)
Al Qaeda Declares War: The African Embassy Bombings and America’s Search for Justice (Tod Hoffmann)
Reisen in Ost-Afrika: Ausgeführt in den Jahren 1837-55 (J.L. Krapf)
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (USG)
Selous Scouts: Top Secret War (Ron Reid-Daly)
‘Rhodesians Never Die’: The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia c.1970-1980 (Peter Godwin and Ian Hancock)
Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Sarah Scoles)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
Persepolis 2 (Marjane Satrapi)
Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City (C.L. Sonnichsen)
Arizona: A History (Thomas Sheridan)
Rage (Bob Woodward)
Where Law Ends : Inside the Mueller investigation (Andrew Weissman)
After the Vote (Concerned Kenyan Writers)
Hillbilly Elegy (J.D. Vance)
2019:
How Democracies Die (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt)
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die (Garrett Graff)
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (Jane Mayer)
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (David Sanger)
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (Joby Warrick)
Kenya: A History Since Independence (Charles Hornsby)
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Adam Higginbotham)
Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election (Robert Mueller et al.)
Du Harrar au Kenya (Henry de Monfreid)
The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk)
Les trésors de la mer rouge (Romain Gary)
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (George Packer)
Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies (Brian Kalt)
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Garrett Graff)
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Susan Southard)
A Warning (Anonymous)
Life on the Mississippi (Mark Twain)
2018:
The Final Days (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein)
The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, 1867-1950 (Godfrey Hodgson)
The Journals of Dan Eldon: The Journey is the Destination (Dan Eldon)
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign (Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes)
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat (Bob Woodward)
Gorbachev: His Life and Times (William Taubman)
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuctoo (Joshua Hammer)
The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War (Garrett Graff)
Fear: Trump in the White House (Bob Woodward)
Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings (Prudence Bushnell)
The Nazi Hunters (Andrew Nagorski)
Embassies Under Siege: Personal Accounts by Diplomats on the Front Line (Joseph G. Sullivan)
2017:
Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War, and Hope in a Shattered State (Mary Harper)
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider (Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb)
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (George Packer)
Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival (Jeffrey Gettleman)
The Only Woman in the Room (Eileen Pollack)
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command (Sean Naylor)
The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus (Billie Wright Dziech and Linda Weiner)
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel (Dan Ephron)
2016:
Roman Britain: A New History (Guy de la Bédoyère)
An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire (David Mattingly)
Scotland: The Story of a Nation (Magnus Magnusson)
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (John Dower)
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor (James M. Scott)
2015:
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall (Mary Elise Sarotte)
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete (Patrick Leigh Fermor)
Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1946 (various)
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest (Wade Davis)
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire (John Toland)
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Frederick Kempe)
La Balsa: The Longest Raft Voyage in History (Vital Alsar)
Impossible, Why?: Las Balsas (Vital Alsar)
The Martian (Andy Weir)
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Ari Shavit)
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors (Daniel Tudor and James Pearson)
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon (Kim Zetter)
The Particle at the End of the World: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World (Sean Carroll)
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945 (Nicholas Stargardt)
2014:
The Ice Balloon: S.A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration (Alec Wilkinson)
Letters to a Young Scientist (E.O. Wilson)
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Steve Coll)
The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid (Craig Nelson)
Twilight in the Forbidden City (Reginald Johnston)
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Svante Pääbo)
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad (Peter L. Bergen)
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (Patrick Leigh Fermor)
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease (Daniel Lieberman)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thomson)
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (Keith Lowe)
Sommer im Winter, Frühling im Herbst (Joachim Gauck)
The Fall of Berlin, 1945 (Antony Beever)
The Hunt for KSM (Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer)
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft (Thor Heyerdahl)
Among the Selkirk Glaciers, being the Account of a Rough Survey in the Rocky Mountain Regions of British Colombia (William Spotswood Green)
2013:
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Caroline Elkins)
The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 (Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan)
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours (Jules Verne)
The Google Story (David Vise and Mark Malseed)
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Thomas Ricks)
Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet’s Twin (Michael Lemonick)
The Reds and the Blacks: A Personal Adventure (William Attwood)
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (David Remnick)
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (David Remnick)
Cyber War: The Next National Security Threat and What to Do About It (Richard Clarke and Robert Knake)
The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe (Peter Godwin)
Rogue Ambassador: An African Memoir (Smith Hempstone)
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (Gordon Mathews)
The File: A Personal History (Timothy Garton Ash)
Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police (John Koehler)
Handbook of CCD Astronomy (Steve Howell)
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa (Peter Godwin)
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa (Peter Godwin)
Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia (David Remnick)
Wikileaks, War and American Diplomacy (The New York Times)
The East African Coast: Select Documents from the First to the Earlier Nineteenth Century (G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville)
Martian Summer (Andrew Kessler)
The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity (Michael Maren)
In Stahlgewittern: Ein Kriegstagebuch (Ernst Jünger)
The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa’s Famous Aristocrats (Juliet Barnes)
Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall (Andrew Meier)
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45 (Ian Kershaw)
An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist (Richard Dawkins)
The Great Revolution in Pitcairn (Mark Twain)
Luck of the Devil: The Story of Operation Valkyrie (Ian Kershaw)
Serpent in Paradise (Dea Birkett)
Lost Paradise (Kathy Marks)
2012:
Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste (Jacques Piccard)
Around the World in 20 Days: The Story of Our History-Making Balloon Flight (Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones)
Travels, Researches and Missionary Labors in Maasailand [English ver.] (J.L. Krapf)
Unbowed: A Memoir (Wangari Maathai)
Seven Years in Tibet (Heinrich Harrer)
The Hunt for Red October (Tom Clancy)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby)
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (Christoph Koch)
Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers (Jules Verne)
How to be a Kenyan (Wahome Mutahi)
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo (Michela Wrong)
The Kenya Pioneers (Errol Trzebinsky)
Birth of a Nation: The Story of a Newspaper in Kenya (Gerard Loughran)
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and the Surprising Use of American Power (David Sanger)
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011 (Daniel Branch)
A Tramp Abroad (Mark Twain)
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Victor Cha)
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden (Matt Bisonnette)
The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands (Aidan Hartley)
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam (Mark Bowden)
How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? (Abraham Loeb)
Through Masailand: A Journey of Exploration Among the Snowclad Volcanic Mountains and Strange Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa (Joseph Thomson)
Der Letzte Zeuge: Ich war Hitlers Telefonist, Kurier und Leibwächter (Rochus Misch)
Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad (David Zucchino)
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (Artemis Cooper)
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright)
Game change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (John Heilemann and Mark Halperin)
2011:
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Edwin Abbott)
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Andrew Smith)
Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey (Ralph Leighton)
A Night to Remember (Walter Lord)
The Last Days of Hitler (Hugh Trevor-Roper)
Petals of Blood (Ngugi wa Thiong’o)
The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Anil Ananthaswamy)
Titanic and the Making of James Cameron (Paula Parisi)
War (Sebastian Junger)
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space (Eugene Cernan and Donald Davis)
The Depths of Space: The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes (Mark Wolverton)
Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet (Steve Squyers)
Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery (Stephen Pyne)
102 Minutes: The Fight to Survive in the Twin Towers (Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn)
Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets (Robert Olby)
Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
The Marsh Arabs (Wilfred Thesiger)
Arabian Sands (Wilfred Thesiger)
Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook (Nicholas Thomas)
