Bestsellers & Award Winners

1. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

   Mary Roach

   The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.More

2. Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice

   Kevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy

   This unforgettable narrative follows the astonishing career and epic manhunt for Whitey Bulger—a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction.More

3. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

   Stephen Greenblatt

   Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 
   Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionMore

4. Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

   Jim Holt

   2012 New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year
   Slate.com 2012 Staff Pick
   
   In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times.More

5. The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

   Joseph E. Stiglitz

   A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.More

6. End This Depression Now!

   Paul Krugman

   A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman.More

7. The Forgotten Waltz: A Novel

   Anne Enright

   2012 Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Literature
   
   "This stunning novel by a Booker Prize winner . . . Offers up its brilliance by way of astonishingly effective storytelling."—Booklist, starred reviewMore

8. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

   Eric Foner

   “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston GlobeMore

9. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

   Nicholas Carr

   Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, SlateMore

10. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

    Michael Lewis

    The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity FairMore

11. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

    Brian Greene

    The international bestseller that inspired a major Nova special and sparked a new understanding of the universe, now with a new preface and epilogue.More

12. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    Annette Gordon-Reed

    Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerMore

13. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

    Sebastian Junger

    There is nothing imaginary about Junger's book; it is all terrifyingly, awesomely real.--Los Angeles TimesMore

14. The History of Love: A Novel

    Nicole Krauss

    ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. 

    A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother’s loneliness.
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15. Beowulf

    Seamus Heaney

    Bilingual Edition

    New York Times bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award.More