- The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
- The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman
- America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder by Bret Stephens
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
- Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
- The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte
- The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present by David Runciman
- Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President by Vladimir Putin
- The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
- Cosby: His Life and Times by Mark Whitaker
- Higher Education in the Digital Age by William Bowen
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
- The Limits of Partnership by Angela Stent
- The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942 by Nigel Hamilton
- Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama by Stephen Sestanovich
- The Steps Across the Water by Adam Gopnik
- Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Timothy Geithner
- The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression by Daniel Drezner
- The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack Goldsmith
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex by Shane Harris
- World Order by Henry Kissinger
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
- China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei
- The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge
- The Intel Trinity by Michael Malone
- Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn
- The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942 by Nigel Hamilton
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- The Rule of Nobody by Philip K. Howard
- The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson
- Stringer by Anjan Sundaram
- The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
