- A disposition to be rich, how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States, Geoffrey C. Ward
- The scorpion's gate, Richard A. Clarke
- America's bank, the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve, Roger Lowenstein
- The big burn, Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America, Timothy Egan
- Spook country, a novel, William Gibson