This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: How Information and Books Survive the Test of Time, and How They Change
About Writing Books
Culture
History
- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
- How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
- A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
Philosophy, Epistemology
- The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick
Science
- The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón