Non-Fiction

Peter Ackroyd
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
Wilkie Collins: A Brief Life
Poe: A Life Cut Short

Rick Beyer
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told

Deborah Blum
The Poisoner's Handbook
Ghost Hunters

Hayley Campbell
The Art of Neil Gaiman

Susan Casey
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

Agatha Christie
An Autobiography

Alexa Coehlo and Simon Quellen Field
Why is Milk White? and 200 Other Curious Chemistry Questions

Elaine Cohen
Super-Duper Cupcakes

David Crabb
Bad Kid

Roald Dahl
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Delish
A Home-Baked Christmas

Charlotte Dematons (and Jesse Goossens)
Holland
A Thousand Things About Holland

Ken Denmead
The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun

Chris Welles Feder
In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles

Cooper's Pack
Travel Guide to Seattle

Thomas Fink
The Man's Book

Neil Gaiman
The View from the Cheap Seats

Matthew Goodman
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World


Jesse Goossens
Right to Play

Helene Hanff
84, Charing Cross Road
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

Duffy and Elizabeth Laul Healy
Sea Voices

Richard Holmes
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft and Detection

Peter Hook
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

Marilyn Johnson
The Dead Beat

Diana Wynne Jones
Reflections: On the Magic of Writing

Chris Korrow
The Organic Bug Book

Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City

Molly Lefebure
Murder on the Home Front

Heather Lende
Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer

Jonathan Litton and Thomas Flintham
Mesmerizing Math

Sam Maggs
The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy

Patrick McNamara
Conan Doyle's Wallet: The Secrets Within

Andy Miller
The Year of Reading Dangerously

Gina Misiroglu
The Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents), Second Edition

Morrissey
Autobiography

Nathan Myhrvold
Modernist Cuisine

National Geographic
Encyclopedia of Animals

Claire Nouvian
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

Nick Offerman
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver's Great Britain

Patton Oswalt
Silver Screen Fiend

Gwyneth Paltrow
My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family and Togetherness

Simon Pegg
Nerd Do Well

Diane Phillips
Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever

Amy Poehler
Yes Please

Dan Reeder
Papier-Mâché Monsters

Mary Roach
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

John Rogers
This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City

Penelope Rowlands/Various
Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on The City of Light

Elizabeth Rusch
Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World

Rob Sachs
What Would Rob Do?

Chloe Schama
Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, A Trial, and A Self-Made Woman

Harold Schechter
The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century

Stephen Schochet
Hollywood Stories

Smithsonian Institution
Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife

Rebecca Solnit and Mona Caron
A California Bestiary

Tom Standage
An Edible History of Humanity

Daniel Stashower
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and The Invention of Murder

Amy Stewart
Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Kate Summerscale
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace

Marije Tolman and Jesse Goossens
Jumping Penguins

Various
The Moment
Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from The American Museum of Natural History Library

Jo Walton
What Makes This Book Great

Peter Watkins and Jonathan Stockland
Winged Wonders: A Celebration of Birds in Human History

Simon Winchester
Atlantic

David Wolman
Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling