What Washington Reads – Roll Call

What Washington Reads

By Roll Call Staff

Posted February 7, 2013 at 5:17pm

The top five paperback nonfiction books at Politics and Prose bookstore:

1. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander, M.D.

2. The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Robert I. Sutton

3. Zagat Washington, DC/Baltimore Restaurants by Olga Boikess, Martha Thomas, Marty Katz

4. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson

5. Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin

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