Oliver Sacks This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic, which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive...

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the WorldA.J. JacobsPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious,...

AJ JacobsA New York Times bestseller in hardcover, a chronicle of A.J. Jacob’s mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind—from his brain to his fingertips to...

A Collector's Collection: Humorous & Uplifting Stories Told by One of Today's Top Fund-RaisersRabbi Chaim OrangeFor the past thirty-five years, Rabbi Chaim orange has traveled the world as an unofficial...

Ahuva Gray   When people looked at Delores Gray, they saw a dynamic corporate executive, a devoted African-American minister, an American success story. But there was another side to this...

Philippe Sands   A uniquely personal exploration of the origins of international law, centring on the Nuremberg Trials, the city of Lviv and a secret family historyWhen he receives an...

Joan DidionFirst published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses...

Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi's autobiography Sathiya Sodhani is one book which guides you as to what is right and wrong. Most importantly, the author should have experienced all these. The original...

Jane GloverTold through the prism of the women in Mozart's life, this biography focuses initially on his precocious childhood and relationship with his mother, sister and the Weber sisters, one...

Sophia AmorusoIn the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called "Lean In for misfits," Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the...

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World Lucette Lagnado “Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an...

Jennifer WorthWhen 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies...