social sciences

• The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
• Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
• Het volk bestaat niet: Leiderschap en populisme in de mediademocratie by Dick Pels
• Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrigan
• Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normality of Hating Your Body by Courtney Martin
• A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
• Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
• Fantasyland: How America went Haywire by Kurt Andersen

historical events

• Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution by R.R. Palmer
• The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord
• Passchendaele by Lyn Macdonald
• Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell
• Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist by Patrick McGilligan
• Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
• Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
• To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw

philosophy

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Against Nature by Joris Karl Huysmans
• The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
• Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Sickness Unto Death by Sören Kierkegaard
• Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
• Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

(auto)biographies

• Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison by James Riordan and Jerry Prochnicky
• Marie-Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
• Juliana: Vorstin in een mannenwereld by Jolande Withuis
• Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations by Peter Evans
• Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones by Paul Trynka
• The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Zhisui Li
• Wasted by Marya Hornbacher