* 5 books that didn't seem to fit onto any other list, and
* 3 addenda which will also go, retroactively, onto the "first hand accounts", "women's history" and "literary and cultural history" lists.
THE STRAGGLERS
* David P. Silverman: Ancient Egypt
* Linda Schele & David A. Freidel: A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
* Stefan Zweig: Joseph Fouché
* David Graeber: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
* Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time
THE ADDENDA
* Helen Keller: The Story of My Life
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago
* Agatha Christie: An Autobiography