* stands for notable, ** are seminal
A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN* Virginia Woolf |
Having and Being Had Eula Biss |
Hope In The Dark Rebecca Solnit |
Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays Eula Biss |
On Evil Terry Eagleton |
Poetries and Sciences* I. A. Richards |
Science and Human Values* Jacob Bronowski |
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World* Hyde, Lewis |
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible* Charles Eisenstein |
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics: Revised Edition Mark Lilla |
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve* Stephen Greenblatt |
Thin Places: Essays from In Between Jordan Kisner |
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain* Maryanne Wolf |
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition* Charles Eisenstein |
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know Malcolm Gladwell |
The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self Charles Eisenstein |
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century James Howard Kunstler |
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind** Jaynes, Julian |
The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong David Orr |
Underland: A Deep Time Journey Robert Macfarlane |
A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction Michael J. Ryan |
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives Matt Richtel |
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande |
Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less James Hamblin |
Entropy: God’s Dice Game Oded Kafri and Hava Kafri |
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest Suzanne Simard |
Permaculture for the Rest of Us: Abundant Living on Less than an Acre Jenni Blackmore |
The Gene: An Intimate History Siddhartha Mukherjee |
The Sacred Depths of Nature Ursula Goodenough |
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring with the World’s Last True Explorers* Richard Preston |
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society* Kathleen McAuliffe |
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The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down Jonathan Gottschall |
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles Steven Pressfield |
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution Derrick Jensen |
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books Ursula K. Le Guin |
Debt: The First 5,000 Years* David Graeber |
Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran Medea Benjamin |
Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples Erica Lagalisse |
Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder Christian Parenti |
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity* David Graeber and David Wengrow |
These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore |
This America: The Case for the Nation Jill Lepore |
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In Love With the World Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche |
Prayers of the Cosmos: Reflections on the Original Meaning of Jesus’s Words* Neil Douglas-Klotz |
Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World Sharon Salzberg |
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Bright Green Lies Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert |
Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward James Howard Kunstler |
Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action Matthew Fox and Skylar Wilson and Jennifer Berit Listug |
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Elizabeth Kolbert |
Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World Michael C. Ruppert |
Creating a World That Works for All Sharif M Abdullah |
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America* Nancy MacLean |
Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard |
Females: A Concern Andrea Long Chu |
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies Edward O. Wilson |
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J. D. Vance |
How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate Andrew J. Hoffman |
How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi |
How to blow up a pipeline Andreas Malm |
How to Read the Constitution–and Why Kim Wehle |
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy* Adam Jentleson |
PANdemIC!: Covid-19 Shakes the World Slavoj ?i?ek |
Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics Michael Walzer |
Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World RABBI Michael Lerner |
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution John Paul Stevens |
Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism Sharyl Attkisson |
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks. Steven Johnson |
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics Mark Lilla |
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart Alicia Garza |
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt |
The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene Jamie Allinson and China Miéville and Richard Seymour and Rosie Warren |
The Truth Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks Bruce Bartlett |
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells |
Theories of International Politics and Zombies Daniel W. Drezner |
Trump and a Post-Truth World Ken Wilber |
Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West John Ralston Saul |
What Is Populism?: Jan-Werner Müller |
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Robin DiAngelo |
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America: Nancy Isenberg |
Born to Run Bruce Springsteen |
Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover |
Lab Girl Hope Jahren |
Ongoingness: the End of a Diary Sarah Manguso |
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi |
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Afterglow: A Dog Memoir Eileen Myles |
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Anthony Doerr |
Beatrice and Virgil Yann Martel |
Commonwealth: Ann Patchett |
Dictation: A Quartet Cynthia Ozick |
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories William H. Gass |
Middlemarch* George Eliot |
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf |
My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One Elena Ferrante |
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Parable of the Sower* Octavia E. Butler |
Seven Taoist Masters: A Folk Novel of China Unknown Author |
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel |
Stoner: A Novel* John Williams |
Stranger in a Strange Land** Robert A. Heinlein |
The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing |
The Fifth Sacred Thing* Starhawk |
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Richard Flanagan |
The Man in My Basement* Walter Mosley |
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson |
The Overstory: A Novel Richard Powers |
The Passion Jeanette Winterson |
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Elisabeth Tova Bailey |
The Spectator Bird Wallace Stegner |
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Viet Thanh Nguyen |
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson |
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