- G.H. Hardy,
A Mathematician's Apology
- A. Michael Noll,
Memories: A Personal History of Bell Telephone Laboratories
- Ezra Vogel,
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- James Salter,
Solo Faces
- J. Glenn Gray,
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle
- Ian T. Brown,
A New Conception of War: John Boyd, the U.S. Marines, and Maneuver Warfare
- Kameron Hurley,
The Light Brigade
- Keith Gessen,
Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
- Graham Greene,
The Quiet American
- Tracy Kidder,
The Soul of a New Machine, reread
- Fred Brooks,
The Mythical Man-Month
- bell hooks,
The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
- Stephen Platt,
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
- Kim Stanley Robinson,
Red Mars
- Leo Tolstoy,
War and Peace, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- Thomas Rid,
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
- Cathal Nolan,
The Allure of Battle
- Tim Krabbé,
The Rider
- Jonathan Vaughters,
One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels
- Robert P. Colwell,
The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips
- William T. Sherman,
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, By Himself
- Andy Grove,
Only the Paranoid Survive