Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill (with Dan Piepenbring) is a gripping, exhaustively researched investigative work that challenges the official narrative of the 1969 Manson Family murders. Published in 2019, the book became a bestseller and one of the most discussed true-crime titles of the decade…

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green is a gripping, deeply researched, and surprisingly personal exploration of humanity’s longest and most devastating relationship with a single pathogen. Published in March 2025, the book quickly became a bestseller and one of the most talked-about nonfiction titles of the year.…

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn is one of the most influential—and controversial—works of American history ever published. First released in 1980 and updated in several editions (most recently in 2003 and with a 35th-anniversary edition in 2015), the book has sold millions of copies worldwide and remains a cornerstone of…

Lonesome Dove: A Novel by Larry McMurtry is an epic American Western masterpiece. Published in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1986 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The story is a sprawling, character-driven saga of friendship, adventure, loss, and the fading frontier in…

Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer is a sweeping, Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative (awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for History). Published in 2021, the book offers a fresh, deeply researched, and often revelatory history of Cuba that places the island’s story in constant dialogue with the United States—showing how the two nations have shaped each…

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation by William K. Klingaman is a gripping, accessible narrative history of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the early years of the Great Depression. First published in 1989 (with reprints and continued relevance into the 2020s), the book offers a vivid,…

The Action Bible: God’s Redemptive Story (Action Bible Series) is a bestselling graphic-novel adaptation of the entire Bible, created by author/illustrator Sergio Cariello and published by David C Cook. First released in 2010, it has sold millions of copies worldwide and remains one of the most popular illustrated Bibles for children, teens, and families who…

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton—A Love Story of a Founding Mother, War, and the Legacy of Alexander Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie is a sweeping, emotionally rich historical novel. Published in 2018, it tells the story of the American Revolution and the early republic through the eyes of Eliza…

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot is a sharp, irreverent, and deeply researched retelling of U.S. history centered on the Black experience. Published in 2023, the book became a New York Times bestseller for its unapologetic, humorous, and unflinching approach to a subject often sanitized or marginalized in traditional textbooks.…

One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb is a dense, exhaustively researched investigative work. Published in September 2022, this first volume (of a two-part series) traces the decades-long convergence of organized crime, U.S. intelligence agencies, and financial power structures that…