The Library Book
A 1986 fire destroyed 400,000 books at the Los Angeles Central Library. Who set it and why? Susan Orlean investigates the unsolved mystery while celebrating libraries and the people who run them.
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
The true story of how a libertarian programmer built a billion-dollar Dark Web drug empire from his bedroom and the federal agents racing to unmask him.
The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine
How a handful of unlikely misfits bet against Wall Street's biggest bubble and won billions when the 2008 housing market collapsed.
Into the Wild
A young man abandons everything after college, renames himself Alexander Supertramp, and ventures into Alaska's wilderness where he dies alone in an abandoned bus. What drove him to this fate?
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Olympic runner Louis Zamperini survives a plane crash, 47 days adrift at sea, and brutal years in Japanese POW camps. A harrowing true story of endurance, hope, and spiritual transformation.
In Cold Blood
A groundbreaking true crime masterpiece that reconstructs the 1959 Kansas murders of a farm family and the hunt for their killers, blending journalism with literary art.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
A true tale of ambition and terror: architect Daniel Burnham races to build the 1893 Chicago World's Fair while serial killer H.H. Holmes lures victims to his hotel of horrors.