A short list from the Christian Science Monitor:
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and the Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
- Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
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