Biography

• Dior by Dior
• Girl Interrupted By Susanna Kaysen
• Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
• Innovators by Walter Isaacson
• It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
• Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• On The Front Line by Marie Colvin
• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong by David Walsh
• The Taliban Shuffle by Kim Barker
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

Productivity

• A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in the Age of Overload by Cal Newport
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Expert: Understanding the Past to Mastery by Roger Kneebone
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman
• How To Live On 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
• Mastery by Robert Greene
• The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• The Deadline Effect by Christopher Cox

Feminism

• 12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere by Jeanette Winterson
• Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Difficult Women by Helen Lewis
• Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
• Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
• Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies) by Scarlett Curtis
• Forgotten Women: The Leaders by Zing Tsjeng
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
• How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
• In Praise of Difficult Women by Karen Karbo
• Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
• Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit
• Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession by Marcia Trahan
• Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates
• Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored In An Economy Built For Men by Katrine Marçal
• Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
• Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
• Rise Up Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes by Dr Diane Atkinson
• Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust by Eimear McBride
• The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it by Mary Ann Sigehart
• The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women by Linda Scott
• The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
• The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss
• Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
• Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
• Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman
• Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

Religion/Belief

• Against All Gods by A. C. Grayling
• Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church by Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
• Sex, Priests, and Power by A.W. Richard Stipe
• Supersense: The Brain Science of Belief by Bruce Hood
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Them by Jon Ronson

Social Sciences

• Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David Van Reybrouck
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
• Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News by Rob Brotherton
• Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Chris Ball
• Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
• Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together by Ian Leslie
• Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
• Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It by Azeem Azhar
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling
• Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most by Steven Johnson
• Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
• How To Be a Liberal by Ian Dunt
• How To Be Right... in a world gone wrong by James O'Brien
• How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• How To Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
• Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
• Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet--And Why We're Following by Gabrielle Bluestone
• Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it by Matthew d'Ancona
• News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
• Post-Truth by Matthew d'Ancona
• Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
• Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future by Lucie Greene
• Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy by James Williams
• Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli
• Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
• Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
• The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
• The Edge of Reason by Julian Baggini
• The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
• The Information Diet by Clay A. Johnson
• The March of Unreason by Dick Taverne
• The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O'Conner & James Owen Weatherall
• The Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything by Bobby Duffy
• The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it by Matthew Williams
• The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel
• The Tyranny of Opinion by Russell Blackford
• Think Again: How to Reason and Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
• This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
• Too Much Information by Cass Sunstein
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Misc.

• A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian by Rae Nudson
• Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths by Helen Morales
• Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary G. Garrard
• Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Selection by Corey Brettschneider
• Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes by Shahidha Bari
• Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Harold Evans
• Great Thinkers by The School of Life
• Heroines by Kate Zambreno
• How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
• How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
• Language and Manipulation in House of Cards by Sandrine Sorlin
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Farnam Street
• The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry, and Biology by Farnam Street
• The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics by Farnam Street
• Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
• Modern Manners by The Gentlewoman
• Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
• Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
• Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley
• Skincare by Caroline Hirons
• Skincare Decoded by Victoria Fu & Gloria Lu
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
• Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
• The Art of Thinking by Epictetus
• The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
• The Artemisia Files: Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People edited by Mieke Bal
• The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance by Catherine Fletcher
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr
• The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Secret of Scent by Luca Turin
• The Short Story of Art by Susie Hodge
• The Symposium by Plato
• Ways of Seeing by John Berger
• Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O'Hara