AP Language: War, Violence & Crime

Escape from Camp 14: one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West by Blaine Harden

Gang Leader for a Day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Orange Is the New Black: my year in a women's prison by Piper Kerman

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard

What Was Asked of Us: an oral history of the Iraq War by the soldiers who fought it by Bobby Muller (Contribution by); Trish Wood

4,000 Days: my life and survival in a Bangkok prison by Warren Fellows

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi by Mitchell Zuckoff; Annex Security Team (As told to)

The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World by Nancy Jo Sales

Bringing down the House: the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions by Ben Mezrich

No Choirboy: murder, violence, and teenagers on death row by Susan Kuklin

Operation Family Secrets: how a mobster's son and the FBI brought down Chicago's murderous crime family by Frank Calabrese; Kent Zimmerman; Paul Pompian; Keith Zimmerman

Reefer Madness: sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the American black market by Eric Schlosser

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

War by Sebastian Junger

Columbine by Dave Cullen

The Devil in the White City: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson

In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote

Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Missoula: rape and the justice system in a college town by Jon Krakauer

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor