Essays

• These Precious Days - Ann Patchett

History/Politics

• U.S.
  • New England Nation - Bruce C. Daniels
  • Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky
  • The Game - George Howe Colt
  • Unspeakable - Chris Hedges
  • American Nations - Colin Woodard
  • When the Old Left Was Young - Robert Cohen
  • The Flowering of New England - Van Wyck Brooks
  • A Historical Atlas of New York City - Eric Homberger
  • The World of Washington Irving - Van Wyck Brooks
  • Prophetic City - Stephen L. Klineberg
  • The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn - Mary Rice-Defosse
• Black
  • The Children - David Halberstam
  • Lose Your Mother - Saidiya Hartman
• Latino/a/x
  • The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Jewish
  • The Destruction of the European Jews - Raul Hilberg
  • Belonging - Simon Schama
  • The Holocaust Industry - Norman Finkelstein
• Native
  • This Land Is Their Land - David J. Silverman
  • 1491 - Charles Mann

Education

• The Inequality Machine - Paul Tough
• The Privileged Poor - Anthony Abraham Jack
• Who Gets in and Why - Jeffrey J. Selingo
• Other People's Children - Lisa D Delpit
• The Teacher Wars - Dana Goldstein

Memoir/Biography

• The Romance of American Communism -Vivian Gornick
• The Barefoot Woman - Scholastique Mukasonga
• Diaries 1980-1990 - Alan Bennett
• My Father's Paradise - Ariel Sabar
• Just Kids - Patti Smith
• Still Alive - Ruth Kluger
• The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
• The Memory Monster - Yishai Sarid
• Fierce Attachments -Vivian Gornick
• Robin - David Itzkoff

Writing/Language

• The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer - Kevin Larimer
• The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth

Fantasy

• The World of Ice & Fire - George R.R. Martin

Classic Fiction

• The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
• Mara, Daughter of the Nile - Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Historical Fiction

• The Other Bennet Sister - Janice Hadlow
• She Who Became the Sun Shelley Parker-Chan

Contemporary Fiction

• Out of Nowhere - Maria Padian

YA/Children's

• All the Days Past, All the Days to Come - Mildred D. Taylor
• Blended - Sharon M. Draper
• Mapping the Bones - Jane Yolen

Graphic/Comix

• Safe Area Gorazde - Joe Sacco
• Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? - Roz Chast
• Here at Hogwarts - Lucy Knisley

Psychology

• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers - Robert M. Sapolsky
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb
• The Bucket List - Victoria Ward

Philosophy

• Ethics - Baruch Spinoza