Imagine Your Story: Displays and Reading Lists

Mythbusters: The Story Behind the Science

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephan Hawking

What If? by Randall Munroe

This Explains Everything by John Brockman

The Canon by Natalia Angier

Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer

Whose Story is it Anyway?: Memoirs Off the Beaten Path

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy

Mean by Myriam Gurba

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte-Taylor

Legendary Figures: Names You May Not Recognize

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland

Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos

The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero by Michael Kranish

Annie Oakley by Shirl Kasper

Mysteries of History

The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler

Amelia Earhart: The Truth At Last by Mike Campbell

Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brian Hicks

The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery by Greg King

Bermuda Triangle

News: How Does it Work?

If It Bleeds, It Leads: An Anatomy of Television News by Matthew Kerbel

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News by Bernard Goldberg

The Loudest Voice in the Room by Gabriel Sherman

Truth in Our Times by David Edward McCraw

Dark Money by Jane Mayer

The Smear by Sharyl Attkisson 

Updated: Retellings and Reimaginings

Circe by Madeline Miller

Ilium by Dan Simmons

Butterfly Lovers by Fan Dai

Longborn by Jo Baker

Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall

Macbeth by Jo Nesbo

Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

Quicotte by Salman Rushdie

Finn by Jon Clinch

Jane Austen in Boca by Paula Marantz Cohen

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

Caroline: Little House, revisited by Sarah Elizabeth Miller

Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy

The Godmother by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Wide Sargass Sea by Jean Rhys

Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill

Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman