Dr. Elena Marsh

The third volume of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson follows his Senate career from 1949 to 1958 — covering his rise to Majority Leader and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first since Reconstruction.

The definitive life of J. Robert Oppenheimer — the theoretical physicist who directed the Manhattan Project, witnessed the first atomic detonation at Trinity, and was subsequently destroyed by the McCarthyite security apparatus he had helped to empower. Twenty-five years in the making, it won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

The deeply personal memoir of the former First Lady of the United States — from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to the White House and beyond.

The memoir of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, born in apartheid South Africa to a Black mother and white father — an act that was literally a crime under apartheid law.

The definitive account of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty behind OxyContin, and their role in creating and perpetuating the opioid crisis.

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's harrowing account of surviving Auschwitz forms the foundation of logotherapy — the idea that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of meaning. One of the most important psychological texts of the 20th century.

The book that taught America to cook French — Julia Child's comprehensive, demystifying guide to classical French technique for the home cook, with 524 recipes.

The private philosophical notebook of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius — written for himself, never intended for publication — containing his Stoic practice across twelve books of thought.

Elie Wiesel's memoir of his experiences as a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy deported from Sighet, Transylvania to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. One of the foundational documents of Holocaust testimony — a first-person account of the camps, the death marches, and the systematic destruction of faith, family, and identity.

Part memoir, part writing guide, Stephen King reflects on his life, his near-fatal accident, and the craft principles that have made him one of the most productive writers in American literature.

James Beard Award-winning chef Samin Nosrat teaches the four fundamental elements that make food delicious — salt, fat, acid, and heat — and how to use them to cook confidently without recipes.

The story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, told through the abduction and murder of Jean McConville and the lives of IRA members Dolours Price and Gerry Adams.

The diary kept by a Jewish teenager hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands — the most widely read personal account of the Holocaust.

The comprehensive reference guide to flavor pairings and culinary creativity — which ingredients work together and why, used by professional chefs worldwide.

J. Kenji López-Alt's landmark culinary science book explains the science behind everyday cooking and provides hundreds of recipes built on tested, proven techniques.

The first volume of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson traces his origins in the Texas Hill Country through his early political career and first campaign for the Senate — a portrait of consuming ambition and political genius.

Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, the unelected master planner who shaped New York City for four decades and accumulated more power than any other American in the 20th century.

The epic story of the Great Migration — the decades-long exodus of six million Black Americans from the Jim Crow South to the cities of the North and West.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, one of America's most consequential and underestimated presidents.

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at 36 confronts the questions he spent his career preparing to face — and writes a book about mortality, meaning, and what makes a life worth living.

The definitive biography of Alexander Hamilton — orphan immigrant, Revolutionary War hero, first Secretary of the Treasury, and the Founding Father who built the American financial system.

Stephen Ambrose follows Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division from training through D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and the fall of Hitler's Eagle's Nest.

The memoir of Navy SEAL and ultramarathon runner David Goggins — from a traumatic childhood and an overweight, unfulfilled existence to becoming one of the world's elite endurance athletes.

A searing analysis of America's unspoken caste system, comparing it to India's caste system and Nazi Germany's racial hierarchy to illuminate the structural foundations of inequality.