How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
by Julian Guthrie
Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
by Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R. Hendrix
All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life
by Jon Willis
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, June 10–September 25, 2016; the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 20, 2016–March 5, 2017; the de Young, San Francisco, April 1–August 6, 2017; and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, September 16, 2017–January 8, 2018
Out of My League: The Classic Account of an Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball
by George Plimpton
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
by George Plimpton
The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour
by George Plimpton
Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited
by George Plimpton
One for the Record: The Inside Story of Hank Aaron’s Chase for the Home Run Record
by George Plimpton
Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring
by George Plimpton
Open Net: A Professional Amateur in the World of Big-Time Hockey
by George Plimpton
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
by Svetlana Alexievich, translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich
John le Carré: The Biography
by Adam Sisman
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
by John le Carré
Mr. Mercedes
by Stephen King
Finders Keepers
by Stephen King
End of Watch
by Stephen King
Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt
by Beth Akers and Matthew M. Chingos
Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream
by A.J. Angulo
Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education
by William G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
by Sara Goldrick-Rab
Solving the Student Loan Crisis: Dreams, Diplomas and a Lifetime of Debt
by Cryn Johannsen
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
by Greta R. Krippner
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O’Neil
The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism
by Toby Matthiesen
Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt
by Pascal Menoret
Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril
by Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants
Force and Fanaticism: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond
by Simon Ross Valentine
Hubert Robert, 1733–1808
an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, March 9–May 30, 2016; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 26–October 2, 2016
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
by Greg Grandin
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
by Wendy Warren
From the New World: Poems 1976–2014
by Jorie Graham
The Report of the Iraq Inquiry
by a Committee of Privy Counsellors chaired by Sir John Chilcot
Not the Chilcot Report
by Peter Oborne
Broken Vows: Tony Blair: The Tragedy of Power
by Tom Bower
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
by Tim Flannery
Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century
by Daniel Oppenheimer
The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America
by Steve Fraser
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
by Thomas Frank