- Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies - Ann Hornaday
- "Before you write any review," David told me, "ask yourself three questions: 'What was the artist trying to achieve?' 'Did they achieve it?' And 'Was it worth doing?'"
- Mischka's War: A Story of Survival from War-torn-Europe to New York - Sheila Fitzpatrick
- "Not that I'm saying he was wrong, but the judgement was axiomatic rather than derived from observation."
- Lauras - E.G. Vodolazkin
- Bryan Caplan - The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money. Via Tyler Cowen
- Jean M. Twenge - iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us. Via Tyler Cowen?
- James C. Scott - Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States . Via Tyler Cowen
- Judith Rich Harris - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
- Gerard Schwarz with Maxine Frost - BEHIND THE BATON: An American Icon Talks Music. Fanfare
- Bruno Maçães - The Dawn of Eurasia. Tyler Cowen
- Rob Sheffield - Dreaming the Beatles
- Alfred Hitchcock, James Naremore - North by Northwest
- Dai Houying - Stones in the Wall. Wikipedia
- Chan Koonchung - The Fat Years
- Brooke Erin Duffy - (not) getting paid to do what you love: gender, social media, and aspirational work
- Bernard Bailyn - The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction
- Adam Alter - Irresistable: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. Screed?
- How Bluegrass Destroyed My Life. John Fahey. This is somewhat fictitious and maybe even fantastical.
- Recent American Opera: A Production Guide. Rebecca Hodell Kornick. Old reference book with interesting data.
- When a Billion Chinese Jump. Jonathan Watts. Amazon
- The Great Gatsby.