• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan
• The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better by Tyler Cowen
• Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Heller
• In The Plex by Stephen Levy (about Google)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory Zuckerman
• “The Use of Knowledge in Society” by F. A. Hayek
• The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism by David Friedman (son of Milton Friedman)

I enjoyed all of them–or else I wouldn’t have finished reading them.