• Elizabeth of Toro: The Odyssey of an African Princess Paperback – Elizabeth Nyabongo
• The Old Ways - Rob MacFarlane
• A Defense of Ardor: Essays - by Adam Zagajewski
• Voices from Chernobyl : The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
• Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone - Eduardo Galeano
• "Who, What Am I?": Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self
• Standard Operating Procedure - Philip Gorevich
• Notes on Thought and Vision - H.D., Paul Bowles
• Anais Nin's Lost World: Paris in Words and Pictures - Britt Arenander
• Reclaiming Conversation - Sherry Turkle

On Writing and Fiction:

• The Art of Fiction - David Lodge
• Seymour - J. D. Salinger
• On Style - Susan Sontag
• On Writing - Stephen King
• Inventing the Enemy - Umberto Eco
• Reading, Writing - Julien Gracq
• Why I Write - George Orwell
• Lectures on Literature - Vladimir Nabokov
• Reflections on Writing - Henry Miller
• Art in the Light of Conscience - Marina Tsvetaeva
• Image—Music—Text - Roland Barthes

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• Walking with the Comrades - Arundhati Roy
• Quotidiana: Essays - Patrick Madden
• The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995 - Martin Gardner
• Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn - Donald Spoto
• The Revolution of Everyday Life - Raoul Vaneigem
• The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
• The Republic of Imagination - Azar Nafisi
• Roland Barthes
• Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Letters of Frida Kahlo
• Decreation - Anne Carson
• Perfumes - Luca Turin
• Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Gender of Sound - Anne Carson
• The Uses of Anger - Audre Lorde
• The Glass Essay - Anne Carson
• Plainwater: Essays and Poetry - Anne Carson
• The Laugh of the Medusa - Helen Cixous
• The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges
• 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think - Brianna Wiest

Journalism/Non-fiction

• Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe’s Refugee Crisis - Charlotte McDonald-Gibson