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Novels & Memoirs

  • Sun House, by David James Duncan

  • Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein

  • The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

  • If We Were Villains, by M.L. Rio

  • The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles

  • A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles

  • Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus

  • 1984, by George Orwell

  • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

  • Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

  • Ordinary People, by Judith Guest

  • Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

  • The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

  • A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

  • Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

  • Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

  • The Secret History, by Donna Tartt

Health & Science

  • Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To, by David A. Sinclair

  • Gut Feelings: The Microbiome & Our Health, by Alessio Fasano & Susie Flaherty

  • Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon

  • I Contain Multitudes, by Ed Yong

  • 10% Human, by Alanna Colleen

  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor

  • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, by Anna Lembke

  • The Comfort Crisis, by Michael Easter

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • Fungi: A Very Short Introduction, by Nicholas P. Money

  • Outlive, by Peter Attia

  • This is Your Brain on Birth Control, by Sarah Hill

  • How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, by Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • It’s All in Your Mouth: Biological Dentistry & the Surprising Impact of Oral Health on Whole Body Wellness, by Dominik Nischwitz

  • Love’s Executioner, by Irvin D. Yalom

Outdoors

  • Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer

  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by John Krakauer

  • Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain, by Bruce Tremper

  • Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills

  • Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, & Spirit, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

  • Fox & I, by Catherine Raven

Novels

  • Harry Potter: The Complete Collection, by J.K. Rowling

  • The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell

  • 1984, by George Orwell

  • Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

  • Animal Farm, by George Orwell

  • The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey

  • Fear & Loathing in Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson

  • The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • The Old Man & the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

  • Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

  • The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller

  • Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

  • Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner

  • One Day, by David Nicholls

  • The Overstory, by Richard Powers

  • Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver

  • Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens

  • Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng

  • Normal People, by Sally Rooney

  • Headshot, by Rita Bullwinkel

  • The Idiot, by Elif Batuman

  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

  • Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver

  • In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

  • Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang

  • Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel

  • Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen

  • The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

  • The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath

  • Daisy Jones & the Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  • The Adult, by Bronwyn Fischer

  • And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie

  • The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich

  • Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami

  • Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

  • Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

  • Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Emmuska Orczy

  • Severance, by Ling Ma

  • Fresh Water for Flowers, by Valerie Perrin

  • Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn

  • Hang the Moon, by Jeannette Walls

  • White Noise, by Don DeLillo

  • Deep Cuts, by Holly Brickley

Memoirs

  • I’m Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy

  • The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance

  • Educated, by Tara Westover

  • The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

  • The Philosopher and the Wolf, by Mark Rowlands

  • Novelist as a Vocation, by Haruki Murakami

  • Drinking Games, by Sarah Levy

  • The Tell, by Amy Griffin

  • Becoming Myself, by Irvin D. Yalom

Philosophy

  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions, by Stephen Hawking

  • Man’s Search For Meaning, by Viktor Frankl

  • Why? The Purpose of the Universe, by Philip Goff

  • Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, by Hector Garcia Puigcerver

  • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing & Life, by Anne Lamott

Psychology

  • In an Unspoken Voice, by Peter A. Levine

  • The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel

  • Cultish, by Amanda Montell

  • The Myth of Normal, by Gabor Mate

  • No Bad Parts, by Richard C. Schwartz

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb

  • Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life, by Christie Tate

  • The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk

  • An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks

Science

  • Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women’s Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives - Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer, by Avrum Bluming and Carol Tavris

  • Your Brain on Art, by Ivy Ross & Susan Magsamen

  • Microbiomes: A Very Short Introduction, by Angela E. Douglas

  • Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, by Frans de Waal

  • Why We Dream, by Alice Robb

  • Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake

  • How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan

  • Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • Healing Adaptogens, by Tero Isokauppila & Danielle Ryan Broida

  • Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains, by Bethany Brookshire

Spirituality

  • The Surrender Experiment, by Michael A. Singer

  • Finding Your Own North Star, by Martha Beck

  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being, by Rick Rubin

  • You Are the Universe, by Deepak Chopra & Menas C. Kafatos

  • Radical Acceptance, by Tara Brach

Short Stories and Essay Collections

  • Slow Days, Fast Company, by Eve Babitz

  • The Wood at Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke

  • The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green

  • Bliss Montage, by Ling Ma

  • The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami