Biography

• Ambition Monster: A Memoir by Jennifer Romolini
• Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell
• Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart
• Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik
• 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
• Just Kids by Patti Smith
• Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachel Wiseman
• The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
• The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
• The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
• The Women Are Up to Something by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb
• Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 by Deborah Levy
• 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
• The Years by Annie Ernaux
• 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
• Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman
• How To Live On 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
• Indistractable by Nir Eyal
• Mastery by Robert Greene
• Master of Change by Brad Stulberg
• Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
• Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
• 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
• Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
• 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
• Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
• Forgotten Women: The Leaders by Zing Tsjeng
• Girlhood by Melissa Febos
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
• Heroines by Kate Zambreno
• How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity by Jill Burke
• How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
• In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial by Mona Chollet
• 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
• Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
• 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 Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
• 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

• A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum
• Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David Van Reybrouck
• Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist) by Sarah Chaney
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
• And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy by Catherine Ashton
• Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life by Gloria Mark
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• 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
• But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
• But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
• Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
• Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together by Ian Leslie
• Cultish by Amanda Montell
• Disorder: Hard Time in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson
• Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
• Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
• Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfęmi Táíwò
• Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany
• 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
• Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
• Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
• 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 Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency by Akiko Busch
• How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• How To Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
• How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini
• How to Be You: Simone de Beauvoir and the art of authentic living by Skye Cleary
• How Westminster Works... and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt
• 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
• Inside the Political Mind by Greg Power
• May Contain Lies:How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It by Alex Edmans
• Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie
• Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
• News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
• Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard
• Politics: A Survivor's Guide, How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged by Rafael Behr
• Post-Truth by Matthew d'Ancona
• Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff
• Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winnifred Gallagher
• Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
• Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
• Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
• Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed by Will Storr
• Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
• 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
• Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
• Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli
• Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet by Tim Hwang
• Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
• Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
• The Art of Disagreeing Well: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo
• The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
• The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
• The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita A Farahany
• The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
• The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
• The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman
• The Edge of Reason by Julian Baggini
• The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
• The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk
• The Information Diet by Clay A. Johnson
• The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect by Noreena Hertz
• The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time by Richard Fisher
• 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 Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
• The Science of Hate: How prejudice becomes hate and what we can do to stop it by Matthew Williams
• The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil
• The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson
• The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel
• The Tyranny of Opinion by Russell Blackford
• The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
• Think Again: How to Reason and Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
• This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
• To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist by Evgeny Morozov
• Too Much Information by Cass Sunstein
• True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us by Danielle Lindemann
• Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-And-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi
• Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them by Ben Ansell
• You Are What You Read by Robert DiYanni

Misc.

• A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer by Elizabeth de Feydeau
• 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
• All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield
• All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
• 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
• Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong
• Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
• Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes by Shahidha Bari
• Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Harold Evans
• Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body by Caroline Vout
• France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
• 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
• In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
• Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
• Language and Manipulation in House of Cards by Sandrine Sorlin
• Learning to Look: Dispatches from the Art World by Alva Noë
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
• Modern Manners by The Gentlewoman
• On Photography by Susan Sontag
• 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
• Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
• Sofia Coppola: Forever Young by Hannah Strong
• Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure by Anna Backman Rogers
• Stoned: Jewellery, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden
• 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 Emperor Of Scent by Chandler Burr
• The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are by Alva Noë
• The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen
• The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Rigour of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton
• The Scent of Empires by Karl Schlögel
• The Secret of Scent by Luca Turin
• The Short Story of Art by Susie Hodge
• The Symposium by Plato
• The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
• Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick
• Ways of Seeing by John Berger
• William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
• Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O'Hara