| The Denial of Death (June 9, 2024) | by Ernest Becker |
| Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself --
While the Rest of Us Die (January 9, 2024) | by Garrett M. Graff |
| Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (February 19, 2023) | by Jared
Diamond |
| Shuttle Down (December 11, 2019) | by Lee Correy |
| Dancer (July 19, 2019) | by Robert K. Godwin |
| Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III, a Wargame Scenario (November 11, 2018) | by William B. Scott, Michael J. Coumatos, and William J. Birnes |
| Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascas Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (January 29, 2018) | by Eric Schlosser |
| Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was
Brought to Justice (July 21, 2017) | by Ronald J. Olive |
| The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (April 30, 2017) | by Daniel Yergin |
| Out of Character: Surprising truths about the Liar, Cheat,
Sinner (and Saint) lurking in all of us (April 30, 2014) | by David
DeSteno and Piercarlo Valdesolo |
| The Art of War (November 16, 2012) | by Sun Tzu |
| How the States Got Their Shapes (September 3, 2012) | by Mark Stein |
| The Mind of the Market (February 27, 2012) | by Michael Shermer |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma (August 8, 2011) | by Michael Pollan |
| The Wizards of Langley (March 27, 2011) | by Jeffrey
T. Richelson |
| The End of Oil (August 22, 2010) | by Paul Roberts |
| In the Shadow of Man (May 26, 2010) | by Jane Goodall |
| The Black Swan (August 14, 2009) | by Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (December 8, 2008) | by Thomas Kuhn |
| Achieving Umami (June 10, 2008) | by Josh Conley |
| 1984 (October 31, 2007) | by George Orwell |
| Thread of the Silkworm (May 1, 2007) | by Iris Chang |
| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (December 9, 2006) | by Jared Diamond |
| Where the Action Is: Memoirs of a U. S. Communist (December 20, 2005) | by Jack Kling |
| Ender's Game (December 7, 2005) | by Orson Scott Card |
| Lolita (October 15, 2005) | by Vladimir Nabokov |
| The Lexus and the Olive Tree (September 23, 2005) | by Thomas L. Friedman |
| Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships (July 23, 2005) | by Diane Vaughan |
| The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency (June 12, 2005) | by Philip H. Melanson and Peter F. Stevens |
| Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (March 14, 2005) | by Richard Rhodes |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (January 28, 2005) | by Jared Diamond |
| An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey
(November 7, 2004) | by Robert Meeropol (son of Ethel & Julius
Rosenberg) |
| The "God" Part of the Brain (October 5, 2004) | by
Matthew Alper |
| The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and
Deviance at NASA (September 8, 2004)
| by Diane Vaughan |
| Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia (April 12, 2004)
| by Louise Brown |
| The Problems of Philosophy (March 17, 2004) | by Bertrand
Russell |
| The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (December 2, 2003) |
by Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith |
| Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to
the Challenge (November 2, 2003) | by Alan M. Dershowitz |
| I Love You, Goodbye (August 15, 2003) | by Arlene C.
Stein |
| Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy (January 10, 2003) | by Robert
Chadwell Williams |
| Letters to my Son (January 3, 2003) | by Kent
Nerburn |
| The Meaning of Life (December 15, 2002) | by Bradley
Trevor Greive |
| Down to a Sunless Sea (October 18, 2002) | by David
Graham |
| The Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel
(May 14, 2002) | by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht |
| The World Set Free (November 19, 2001) | by H. G.
Wells |
| The End of the World That Was: Six Lives in the Atomic Age
(October 20, 2001) | by Peter Goldman |
| Israel and the Bomb (September 27, 2001) | by Avner
Cohen |
| Memoirs of a Geisha (August 13, 2001) | by Arthur
Golden |
| The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (July 20, 2001) | by Stephen Jay Gould |
| The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (September 7, 2000) | by Iris Chang |
| Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (August 9, 2000) | by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson |
| Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (June 5, 2000) | by Eleanor Coerr |
| The Meaning of it All, Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist (June 5, 2000) | by Richard P. Feynman |
| The Cold War, an International History 1947-1991 (May 18, 2000) | by S. J. Ball |
| Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons (January 13, 2000) | by Lawrence Badash |
| The Making of the Atomic Bomb (December 28, 1999) | by
Richard Rhodes |
| Atlas Shrugged (October 9, 1999, FINALLY!!) | by Ayn Rand |
| You Gotta Have Wa (September 7, 1999) | by Robert
Whiting |
| Falling Leaves (August 30, 1999) | by Adeline Yen
Mah |
| Crime and Punishment (August 5, 1999) | by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Wisdom of the Body [a.k.a. How We Live] (May 23, 1999) | by Sherwin
Nuland |
| Notes from Underground (February 26, 1999) | by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (February 5, 1999) | by Jared Diamond |
| Sperm Wars -- The Evolutionary Logic of Love and Lust (January
25, 1999) | by Robin Baker |
| Silicon Snake Oil (December 27, 1998) | by
Clifford Stoll |
| Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff
(December 17, 1998) | by Richard Carlson |
| Bicycle Days (August 7, 1998) | by
John Burnham Schwartz |
| Hiroshima (August 1, 1998) | by John Hershey |
| Audrey Hepburn's Neck (June 5, 1998) | by Alan
Brown |
| Japanese Sense of Self (May 25, 1998) | by Nancy R.
Rosenberger |
| Dave Barry Does Japan (May 7, 1998) | by Dave Barry |
| The Fountainhead (May 2, 1998) | by Ayn Rand |
| The Moral Animal (March 19, 1998) | by Robert Wright |
| The Thermodynamics of Pizza & other Essays on Science &
Everyday Life (January 3, 1998) | by Harold J. Morowitz |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (November 18, 1997) | by Robert
M. Pirsig |
| In Search of Schrodinger's Cat (September 14, 1997) | by John
Gribbin |
| To Engineer is Human (August 27, 1997) | by Henry
Petroski |
| Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order (July 30, 1997) | by George Johnson |
| Prisoner's Dilemma (June 29, 1997) | by William Poundstone |
| The Double Helix (June 3, 1997) | by James D. Watson |
| Longitude (1997) | by Dava Sobel |
| Broca's Brain (1997) | by Carl Sagan |
| Fermat's Last Theorem (Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient
Mathematical Problem) (1997) | by Amir D. Aczel |
| Feynman's Lost Lecture (1996-1997) | by David & Judith Goodstein |
| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1996-1997) | by Douglas Adams |
| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1996-1997) | by Douglas Adams |
| Life, the Universe, and Everything (1996-1997) | by Douglas Adams |
| So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1996-1997) | by Douglas Adams |
| Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (1996-1997) | by Douglas Adams |
| The Selfish Gene (Fall 1996) | by Richard Dawkins |
| Teach Yourself Astronomy (1996) | by Patrick Moore |
| Practical Astronomy With Your calculator (1996) | by Peter Duffett-Smith |
| Earthquakes (1995-1996) | by Bruce A. Bolt |
| The End of Evolution (1995-1996) | by Peter Ward |
| Dead Men Do Tell Tales | by William R. Maples and Michael Browning |
| The History of Pi (Summer of 1995) | by Petr Beckmann |
| How We Die (Summer of 1995) | by Sherwin Nuland |
| Brief History of Time | by Steven Hawking |
| Chaos | by James Gleick |
| Genius | by James Gleick |
| What Do You Care What Other People Think? | by Richard Feynman |
| Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman | by Richard Feynman |
| The Cat Who Went to Paris | by Peter Gethers |
| Flatland - a Romance of Many Dimensions (Summer 1994) | by Edwin Abbott |
| The Jungle (1994) | by Upton Sinclair |
| The Bridges of Madison County (1993-1994) | by Robert James Waller |
| From Takeoff to Landing: Everything you
wanted to know about airplanes but had no one to ask (1993) | by Ed
Sternstein and Todd Gold |
| How to Lie with Statistics (1993) | by Darrell Huff |
| Wonderful Life (Fall 1991) | by Stephen J. Gould |
| Catcher in the Rye (1989-1990) | by J. D. Salinger |
| Brave New World (1988-1989) | by Aldous Huxley |
| The Bluest Eye | by Toni Morrison |
| Animal Farm | by Toni George Orwell |
| Tom Sawyer | by Mark Twain |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | by Jules Verne |