by Timothy Snyder (Tim Duggan Books, ISBN: 9780804190114); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 14 "Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the 20th century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."

by Jen Sincero (Running Press, ISBN: 9780762447695); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: * "Sincero helps you understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to start living the kind of life you used to be jealous of."

by Candice Millard (Anchor, ISBN: 9780307948786); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 3 "Millard's thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War."

by Nancy Isenberg (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143129677); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 11 "We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation's history. With Isenberg's book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well."

by Naomi Klein (Haymarket Books, ISBN: 9781608468904); Weeks on List: 1 "Klein provides a road map to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us--one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need."

by Diane Ackerman (Norton, ISBN: 9780393354256); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 19 "The true story of zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who hid hundreds of Polish Jews during WWII, based on Antonina's diaries."

by Mary Roach (Norton, ISBN: 9780393354379); Last week: 14; Weeks on List: 2 "Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, and noise--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them."

by Adam Grant (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143128854); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 19 "Grant examines how people can champion new ideas--and how leaders can encourage originality in their organizations."

by Margot Lee Shetterly (Morrow, ISBN: 9780062363602); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 28 "The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Now a major motion picture."

by Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin, ISBN: 9780399563126); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 10 "Ackerman delivers an extraordinary story that will give readers a new appreciation for the exceptional talents of birds and let them discover what birds can reveal about our changing world."