Shelf

The Bookseller at the End of the World

Ruth Shaw

Leonardo Da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

A study of the life of one of the greatest thinkers

Krieg

Steve Lyons

The Founding

Dan Abnett

A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus

We Are What We Eat

Alice Waters

A slow-food manifesto that reads as a critique of convenience culture generally.

Chip Wars

Chris Miller

The race to design and manufacture semiconductor microchips

Material World

Ed Conway

Six materials that make the modern world; the copper chapter is the best thing I've read on the subject.