by Timothy Snyder (Crown, ISBN: 9780804190114); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: * "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 Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, ISBN: 9781571313560); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: * "Drawing on her life as an Indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices."

by bell hooks (Morrow, ISBN: 9780060959470); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: * "All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering."

by Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, ISBN: 9780062397348); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 24 "Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of--and in the words of--America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers."

by Yuval Noah Harari (Random House Trade Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780593734230); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 2 "From the bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world."

by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin, ISBN: 9780143127741); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: * "van der Kolk transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing."

by David Grann (Vintage, ISBN: 9780307742490); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 31 "The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by David Grann, one of our greatest nonfiction writers."

by Michael Finkel (Vintage, ISBN: 9781984898456); Last week: 11; Weeks on List: * "This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost."

by Rashid Khalidi (Metropolitan Books, ISBN: 9781250787651); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: * "A history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history."

by Anne Applebaum (Vintage, ISBN: 9780593471203); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 5 "From Pulitzer-prize winning, bestselling author, Anne Applebaum, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them."