Tenth of December
George Saunders
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Dharma bums
Jack Kerouac
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
Michael Pollan
A Briefer History of Time
Stephen W. Hawking
Armageddon In Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
Made in America Display Piece
Bill Bryson
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Simon Schama
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman & Andrew Postman