A book on a subject I know nothing about

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On Photography

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Salt: A World History

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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Parenting Teens With Love And Logic

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

A book that won an award in 2019

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The Overstory
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Trust Exercise

National Book Award

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Celestial Bodies
Man Booker International Prize

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The Nickel Boys
Kirkus Prize

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An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)
Women's Prize for Fiction

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Idaho
International DUBLIN Literary Award

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Calculating Stars
Nebula Award and the Hugo Award

A book by or about a journalist

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Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 

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There There
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe

Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize
Winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Winner of an American Book Award

Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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In Cold Blood
The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. 

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.