Farnsworth, Ward, The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking About Law (Chicago & London: U. of Chicago Press, 2007) (should be read by all first- and second-year law students).
Hastings, Max, Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-1945 (New York: Knopf, 2008).
Herr, Michael, Dispatches (New York: Everyman’s Library, 2009).
Smith, Tara, Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist (Cambridge, England, & New York, New York: Cambridge U. Press, 2006).
Wiggins, David, Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 2006).