20 books
A humorist returns with more wry takes on contemporary life.
The chief operating officer of Facebook urges women to pursue their careers without ambivalence.
A neurosurgeon recounts his near death experience during a coma from bacterial meningitis.
A celebration of braising, baking, grilling and fermenting.
An account of the life-changing 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. Originally published in 2012 and a 2014 movie.
A former member of the Navy SEALs describes his subsequent career finding, training and supplying working dogs to the U.S. military.
What happened to a teacher from Oklahoma during nine minutes of unconsciousness.
A doctor explores what makes America great.
America’s new covert wars, fought by secret commandos.
The comedian recalls her oldest daughter, who died in 2002.
A member of the Navy Seals who has the most career sniper kills in United States military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.
The founder of Re/Max recounts his ordeal with a staph infection that left him paralyzed.
Introverts — approximately one-third of the population — are undervalued in American society.
The promise and peril of the continuing information and technology revolution for people, nations and business.
The Times’s national security correspondent describes how the lines between the C.I.A. and the American military have been blurred.
A science writer’s pilgrimage down the digestive tract; by the author of “Stiff,” “Spook,” “Bonk” and “Packing for Mars.”
Behind the scenes at the A&E show “Duck Dynasty.”
When we can and cannot trust our intuitions in making business and personal decisions.
The experience of a mother whose three daughters were killed when her sister-in-law drove the wrong way down the Taconic Parkway.
An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Read by Edward Herrmann. 13 hours, 56 minutes unabridged.