Fiction:

• A Separate Peace - John Knowles
• Small Country - Gael Faye
• So Long a Letter - Mariama Bå
• Troubling Love - Elena Ferrante
• A Pale View of Hill - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Frankestein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi
• Paradise Rot - Jenny Hval
• My Death - Lisa Tuttle
• Southern Reach (trilogy) - Jeff VanderMeer
• Mars (trilogy) - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Paradais - Fernanda Melchor
• Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
• Chess - Steven Zweig
• Pure Color - Sheila Heti
• Case Study - Graeme Macrae Burnet
• Fatherhood - Caleb Klaces
• água Viva - Clarice Lispector
• In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
• By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept - Elizabeth Smart
• Grand Union Stories - Zadie Smith
• The Red Laugh - Leonid Andreyev
• The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
• In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - William H. Gass
• Heaven Has No Favorites - Erich Maria Remarque
• It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over - Anne de Marcken
• All the Lovers in the Night - Mieko Kawakami
• Chlorine - Jade Song
• The Island of Last Things - Emma Sloley
• Lighthousekeeping - Jeanette Wilson

Nonfiction:

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
• Purity and Danger - Mary Douglas
• Mimesis and Alterity - Michael Taussig
• Will to Live - João Biehl
• Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin
• The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Friere
• Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag
• Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win - Jessica Valenti
• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny - Kate Manne
• Women, Race & Class - Angela Y. Davis
• Your Silence Will Not Protect You - Audre Lorde
• Men Who Hate Women - Laura Bates
• Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
• In the Dust of This Planet - Eugene Thacker
• Cyclonopedia - Reza Negarestani
• Hyperobjects - Timothy Morton

Memoir:

• Blue - Derek Jarman
• Woolgathering - Patti Smith
• M Train - Patti Smith
• Devotion - Patti Smith
• Presence - Patsy Rodenburg

Essays or Short Stories:

• Too Much and Not the Mood - Durga Chew-Bose
• No one belongs here more than you - Miranda July

Authors:

• Elena Ferrante
• Ursula Le Guin
• Joan Didion
• Yuko Tsushima
• Osamu Dazai
• Yukio Mishima
• Banana Yoshimoto
• Natsume Soseki
• Frantz Fanon
• James Baldwin