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What Washington Reads

The top five hardcover nonfiction books this week at Politics and Prose bookstore:

1. Out of Order: Stories From the History of the Supreme Court by Sandra Day O’Connor

2. Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy by Emily Bazelon

3. Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice by Kevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy

4. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

5. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson

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