INTO THIN AIR by Jon Krakauer
Not everyone who plans to climb Mt. Everest survives.

THE INTIMATE LIVES OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS by Thomas Fleming
Happy times and sad: a less public view of Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Madison, Adams, and Jefferson.

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
Fiery love between an ambulance driver and a beautiful nurse in the midst of World War 1.

MEMOIRS by Tennessee Williams
America’s Shakespeare tells his story.

IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote
The murder of a husband and wife, and two of their children; a “non-fiction novel,” according to the author.