| 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup | 20 | 4% |
| 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston | 17 | 3% |
| A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer | 10 | 2% |
| A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich | 17 | 3% |
| A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith | 5 | 1% |
| As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes | 13 | 2% |
| Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan | 14 | 2% |
| City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple | 7 | 1% |
| Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad | 3 | 1% |
| David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell | 8 | 1% |
| Dear Leader: From Trusted Insider to Enemy of the State, My Escape from North Korea by Jang Jin-sung | 12 | 2% |
| Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis | 8 | 1% |
| Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 9 | 2% |
| Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics by Sarah Reckhow | 8 | 1% |
| Free: How Today's Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing by Chris Anderson | 5 | 1% |
| Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It by Marc Goodman | 10 | 2% |
| Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford | 12 | 2% |
| Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Auletta | 9 | 2% |
| Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham | 13 | 2% |
| How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler | 20 | 4% |
| How to Ruin Everything: Essays by George Watsky | 14 | 2% |
| I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai | 21 | 4% |
| I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong | 11 | 2% |
| In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria | 5 | 1% |
| In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson | 8 | 1% |
| Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford | 6 | 1% |
| Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman | 9 | 2% |
| Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts | 8 | 1% |
| No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan | 11 | 2% |
| One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith | 7 | 1% |
| Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh? by Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves | 13 | 2% |
| Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal | 8 | 1% |
| Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom | 10 | 2% |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari | 9 | 2% |
| So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson | 13 | 2% |
| The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll | 7 | 1% |
| The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson | 17 | 3% |
| The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank | 13 | 2% |
| The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir | 7 | 1% |
| The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe | 4 | 1% |
| The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie KondÅ | 10 | 2% |
| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert | 8 | 1% |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn | 5 | 1% |
| The Wright Brothers by David McCullough | 7 | 1% |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | 16 | 3% |
| This is a Book by Demetri Martin | 9 | 2% |
| Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin | 4 | 1% |
| Thunderstruck by Erik Larson | 5 | 1% |
| Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell | 10 | 2% |
| What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell | 8 | 1% |
| When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi | 7 | 1% |
| When to Rob a Bank by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner | 11 | 2% |
| Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics by John J. Mearsheimer | 12 | 2% |
| Yes Please by Amy Poehler | 15 | 3% |
| You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney | 21 | 4% |