Engineering
- Makers —Cory Doctorow
- Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food —Jeff Potter
- Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas —Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird
Law
- The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics —Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty —Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society —Dave Grossman
Medicine
- In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
—Qanta A. Ahmed - God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine—Victoria Sweet
- White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine —Carl Elliot
Fashion Technology
- Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us —Rachelle Bergstein
- Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (Metropolitan Museum of Art) —Andrew Bolton, Solve Sundsbo (photographer), Tim Blanks (contributor), Susannah Frankel (contributor)
- House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival —Deborah Ball
Architecture
- Le Corbusier Talks with Students —Le Corbusier
- Architecture: Form, Space, and Order —Francis D.K. Ching
- The Architecture of Happiness —Alain de Botton
Mass Communication
- War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film —Marc DiPaolo
- We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People —Dan Gillmor
- The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-67 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1) —Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley (editor), William J. Kennedy (foreword)