Non-fiction Literature, Poetry, Journals

• Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, by Walter Benjamin
• Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, by Karyn Z. Spoles
• A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, by Roland Barthes
• Mythologies, by Roland Barthes
• The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich
• Montaigne: Essays by Michel de Montaigne
• The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

Art Theory/History

• Ways of Seeing by John Berger
• Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
• The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics & the Concept of Art (Paul Carus Lecture) by Arthur C. Danto
• The Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh
• Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light by Leonard Shlain
• Theory of Colours by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Philosophy

• Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant
• Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, by René Descartes
• Phenomenology of Perception, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger
• Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality by John R. Perry

Gendered Worlds, Feminism, Sexuality

• Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype ( Colección "Librinos" ), by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Backlash, by Susan Faludi
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, by Judith Butler
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
• Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier

Science, Geology and Astronomy

• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
• The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

History and Culture/Anthropology

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
• The Periodic Table by Primo Levi