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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Walter Isaacson; Simon & Schuster)

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Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said (Timothy Brennan; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election (Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Yang Jisheng; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present (John Ghazvinian; Knopf)

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Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World (Joby Warrick; Doubleday)

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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? (Michael J. Sandel; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake (Sarah Chayes; Knopf)

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To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq (Robert Draper; Penguin Press)

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The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain (Mark Salter; Simon & Schuster)

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The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Eric Cervini; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (David A. Bell; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (Peter Baker and Susan Glasser; Doubleday)

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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China (Jonathan Kaufman; Viking)

 

Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office (Susan Hennessy and Benjamin Wittes; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

 

Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America (Fergus M. Bordewich; Knopf)

 

The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle (Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Saskia Hamilton; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

 

In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, A Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth (Jack Goldsmith; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

 

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright (Paul Hendrickson; Knopf)

 

A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion (Tom Segev; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

 

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide (Tony Horwitz; Penguin Press)

 

The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light (Jean Edward Smith; Simon & Schuster)

 

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt; Penguin Press)

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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet (Claire L. Evans; Portfolio)

 

Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House (Joshua Zeitz; Viking)

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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit (Chris Matthews; Simon & Schuster)

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What Happened (Hillary Clinton; Simon & Schuster)

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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency (Joshua Green; Penguin Press)

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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom (Thomas E. Ricks; Penguin Press)

 

The Blood of Emmett Till (Timothy B. Tyson; Simon & Schuster)

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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine (William Rosen; Viking)

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