At the risk of repeating titles others have said
(non-Fiction)
"The Case For Democracy"
Natan Sharansky
"The Universal Hunger For Liberty"
Michael Novak
"Occidentalism"
The West in the eyes of it's enemies
Ian Burma & Avishai (note this is a very small densely packed book)
"In The Red Zone"
Steven Vincent
(History...etc)
"Gorgon"
paleontology, obsession, and the greatest catastrophe in the history of the world
Peter D Ward
"The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians
J.B. Bury
"Barbarians and Romans"
Justine D R Pehrson.
(Fiction)
"The Fabulous Small Jews"
Joseph Epstein
ANYTHING by Tim Powers, or S M Stirling
Another one that I may have neglected to mention earlier is Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography.
One of the better takes on our 16th president that has been published within the past year.