GENERAL BIOGRAPHIES

• Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
• Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas, Donna M. Lucey
• The Autobiography of Malcom X
• Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
• The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness by Patrick Wright
• Ornament and Silence by Kennedy Fraser
• The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris

MEMOIRS

• The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation by Fanny Howe
• Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• The Recovering, Leslie Jamison
• The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
• London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes
• Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
• By the Iowa Sea by Joe Blair
• Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon
• Few Eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson
• Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles
• People Who Led to My Plays by Adrienne Kennedy
• Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara by Joe LeSueur
• Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi
• Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
• Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik

RUSSIA / USSR

• Into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
• The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
• An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
• Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam
• Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
• The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker
• When They Come For Us We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckerman
• Where the Jews Aren't by Masha Gessen
• Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
• Lenin’s Tomb by David Remnick
• Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya Von Bremzen
• Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson

HOCKEY

• We Breed Lions by Rick Westhead
• The Russian Five: A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage by Keith Gave
• Breakaway: From Behind the Iron Curtain to the NHL by Tal Pinchevsky
• Cold-Cocked: On Hockey by Lorna Jackson
• Hockey: Challenging Canada’s Game – Au-delà Du Sport National
• Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing by Ada Limon and Shann Ray
• Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard by John Branch
• Puckstruck: Distracted, Delighted and Distressed by Canada's Hockey Obsession by Stephen Smith
• Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport by Nathan Kalman-Lamb
• Men at Play: A Working Understanding of Professional Hockey by Michael A. Robidoux

SPORTS (GENERAL)

• Among the Thugs, Bill Buford
• The Summer Game, Roger Angell
• Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum

PHILOSOPHY / THEORY

• A Dialogue on Love by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
• Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai
• Love's Work by Gillian Rose
• Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno
• Ordinary Affects by Kathleen Stewart
• Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman
• Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
• Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster
• Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said
• Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
• Deceit, Desire, and the Novel by René Girard
• Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox
• The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward
• Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant

ANTARCTICA

• South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby
• On the Ice by Gretchen Legler
• Ice Bound by Jerri Nielsen
• The Endurance by Alfred Lansing
• The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration by Sarah Moss

THEATER AND MOVIES

• Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940 by Wendy Smith
• A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical by Stacy Wolf
• Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City by Elizabeth Wollen

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

• All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen
• The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood by Diana McLellan
• The Celluloid Closet : Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
• West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein
• Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis
• City of Angels by Christa Wolf

THE CIVIL WAR, SLAVERY, AND RECONSTRUCTION

• Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts by Elise Lemire
• The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South by Bruce Levine
• I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
• John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds
• Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson
• Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois

LABOR HISTORY

• Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
• On the Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union by Daisy Pitkin
• A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
• Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960 by Eric Leif Davin
• Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945 by Elizabeth Faue
• Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America by Allen Dieterich-Ward
• And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline and Fall of the American Steel Industry by John Hoerr
• Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America by Tracy Neumann

HEALTHCARE

• The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy by Kimberly J. Morgan and Andrea Louise Campbell
• Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System by Christy Ford Chapin
• Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform by Richard (Buz) Cooper, MD

U.S. IMPERIALISM

• The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal
• The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
• The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
• Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman
• Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America by J. Patrice McSherry

FOOD AND COOKING

• Cook as You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook by Ruby Tandoh
• The Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner
• French Cooking for One by Michele Roberts

GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN STUDIES

• How to Kill A City by P. E. Moskowitz
• The Flatness and Other Landscapes by Michael Martone
• Geography Of Nowhere: The Rise And Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
• Midwest Futures by Phil Christman
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
• The Battle of Lincoln Park by Daniel Kay Hertz
• Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar

WAR (GENERAL)

• The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
• London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes (Persephone Books)
• Dispatches by Michael Herr

CHRISTIANITY

• Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace by Jeff Gundy
• The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
• Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear by Michael J. O'Loughlin
• The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left by William O'Rourke

JUDAISM / JEWISH STUDIES

• The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
• Suffering as Identity: The Jewish Paradigm by Esther Benbassa
• Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
• Open­ing Doors: The Unlike­ly Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America by Hasia R. Diner
• Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America, edited by Jonathan Karp

PALESTINE

• Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

RACE

• Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
• Whorled by Ed Bok Lee
• The History of White People by Nell Irvin
• How the Irish Became White, Noel Ignatiav
• Frantz Fanon
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

TECHNOLOGY AND ITS IMPACTS

• Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
• Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago

20th CENTURY AMERICA

• The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Margot Canaday
• The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left by Landon R.Y. Storrs
• In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Alice Kessler-Harris
• Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Melinda Cooper
• Red Scare by Clay Risen
• Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas by A. G. Mojtabai
• Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America by Lawrence W. Levine
• Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

• Debt by David Graeber
• Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell

ABOLITIONIST AND ANTI-CAPITALIST FUTURES

• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together by Dean Spade

SPIRITUALITY

• Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore